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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
"Royal Blue Jacket, " Steel Sculpture
"Royal Blue Jacket, " Steel Sculpture

"Royal Blue Jacket, " Steel Sculpture

By Gordon Chandler

Located in Chicago, IL

Upon discovering a weathered steel drum that had been warped to resemble the sleeve of a garment, artist Gordon Chandler was inspired to embark on a series of kimono sculptures forme...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern More Art

Materials

Steel

Ex Libris - Gtibor - Mid 20th Century

Ex Libris - Gtibor - Mid 20th Century

Located in Roma, IT

Ex Libris - Gtibor is a Modern Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Woodcut print on paper.  The work is glued on a cardboard. Good conditions. Hand-signed on the lower.

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

Located in New York, NY

Woodcut printed in black on tan wove paper, 1953. Signed by the artist and dated in pencil, lower right.

Category

1950s Modern More Art

Materials

Woodcut

Vintage Copper Palm Leaf Wall Sconce
Vintage Copper Palm Leaf Wall Sconce

Vintage Copper Palm Leaf Wall Sconce

Located in Palm Beach, FL

Chic mid century palm leaf sculptural wall sconce handcrafted in copper with three layers of leaves tied with a brass wrap, by Mario Villa, New Orleans.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern More Art

Materials

Copper

Gravures - Correspondence by Mario Prassinos - 1961

Gravures - Correspondence by Mario Prassinos - 1961

Located in Roma, IT

Gravures is a set of letters between Mario Prassinos and Nesto Jacometti, written in French, in 1961, and composed of 6 items, perfectly readable and in excellent conditions, except...

Category

1960s Modern More Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Large Metal Elephant Wall Sculpture
Large Metal Elephant Wall Sculpture

Large Metal Elephant Wall Sculpture

Located in Palm Beach, FL

Bold one of a kind elephant wall sculpture hand crafted in metals with a stylized assemblage form decorated with paint in eccentric colorful floral designs.

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Metal

Luigi Broggini Catalogued Italian Bronze Sculpture
Luigi Broggini Catalogued Italian Bronze Sculpture

Luigi Broggini Catalogued Italian Bronze Sculpture

By Luigi Broggini

Located in Roma, IT

Important bronze sculpture by Luigi Broggini “Dancer” Datable to the from the early 1940s. It is part of the series of Dancers created by the sculptor Broggini in the 1930s. The wo...

Category

1940s Modern More Art

Materials

Bronze

Travel notes  2007. Paper, pastel, 19x27 cm
Travel notes  2007. Paper, pastel, 19x27 cm

Travel notes 2007. Paper, pastel, 19x27 cm

By Georgs Barkans

Located in Riga, LV

Travel notes 2007. Paper, pastel, 19x27 cm The focal point of the artwork is a colorful cityscape, reflecting the artist's impressions and experiences of a particular place during ...

Category

Early 2000s Modern More Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel

The vision of St. John  Paper, pastel, 16x23 cm
The vision of St. John  Paper, pastel, 16x23 cm

The vision of St. John Paper, pastel, 16x23 cm

By Georgs Barkans

Located in Riga, LV

The vision of St. John Paper, pastel, 16x23 cm It presents a colorful cityscape on a dark background, the use of pastels allows for the creation of vibrant colors and a dynamic com...

Category

Early 2000s Modern More Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Peintre et sa toile avec modèle assis

Peintre et sa toile avec modèle assis

By Pablo Picasso

Located in OPOLE, PL

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Peintre et sa toile avec modèle assis Etching and aquatint from 1965. The edition of 33/50. Dimensions of work: 39 x 51.5 cm. Hand signed. Publisher:...

Category

1960s Modern More Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Alan Wallwork Vessel Vase Pottery Sculpture TOTEM White Brown Terracotta
Alan Wallwork Vessel Vase Pottery Sculpture TOTEM White Brown Terracotta

Alan Wallwork Vessel Vase Pottery Sculpture TOTEM White Brown Terracotta

Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire

Alan Wallwork (1931-2019): Organic landscape sculptural vessel, 1960-1965 -Exhibiting the articulated, inventive, organic qualities & tactility of Wallwork’s early oeuvre for which he is best known - This sculptural landscape vessel has been handmade by coiling, slabbing and shaping the clay. The totemic form and pitted and pierced surfaces draw on the abstract landscape and tactility of elements in nature. matte glazes and oxides have been skillfully used to enhance the rich textures of the surfaces and the organic aesthetic. - Wallwork is one of the great individualists in British pottery, developing an archetypal language that echoed some of the wider artistic obsessions of that period, what the art critic Herbert Read called the “postwar ferment” of sculptural activity. - This piece was made during 1960-1965, the time that Wallwork was sharing a studio in Greenwich with Bernard Rooke and comes from a private collection along with a waterscape vase by Rooke and a bottle by Robert Fournier...

Category

1960s Modern More Art

Materials

Ceramic

Fruits
Fruits

Fruits

By Grant Wood

Located in New York, NY

Lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor, 1939. Edition of 250. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right margin. The sheet with full margins. Published by Associated Ameri...

Category

1930s Modern More Art

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

“Le Barbu” (A.R. 217). Ceramic Stamped Madoura Plein Feu, Edition Picasso
“Le Barbu” (A.R. 217). Ceramic Stamped Madoura Plein Feu, Edition Picasso

“Le Barbu” (A.R. 217). Ceramic Stamped Madoura Plein Feu, Edition Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Madrid, ES

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) LE BARBU (A.R. 217) stamped and marked 'Edition Picasso/Madoura Plein Feu/Edition Picasso/Madoura' (underneath) white earthenware ceramic pitcher, partially engraved, with colored engobe and glaze Height: 12¾ in. (31.5 cm.) Conceived in 1953 and executed in an edition of 500 LITERATURE: - Ramié, Alain: Picasso, Catalogue of the Edited...

Category

1950s Modern More Art

Materials

Ceramic

Nude Couple Embracing
Nude Couple Embracing

Nude Couple Embracing

Located in Milford, NH

A fine modernist solid wooden sculpture of a nude couple embracing in the manner of Rodin by South African artist Herman Wald (1906-1970). Wald was born...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Wood, Paint

Balcon - Wool Tapestry - circa 1960s
Balcon - Wool Tapestry - circa 1960s

Balcon - Wool Tapestry - circa 1960s

By Jean Lurçat

Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA

Signed lower left Titled and signed verso on label Tapisserie d’Aubusson, édit par Edgar Ponthieu This item is in our New York City warehouse and can be viewed by appointment.

Category

20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Tapestry, Wool

Generation Gap
Generation Gap

Generation Gap

By Caroline Durieux

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Generation Gap" c1978 is an original Cliche Verre on paper by noted New Orleans artist Caroline Spellman Wogan Durieux, 1896-1989. It is hand signed, titled, dated and inscribed artist proof in pencil by the artist. The image size is 8.75 x 11.75 inches, sheet size is 10.75 x 13.65 inches. It is in excellent condition, two small pieces of hanging tape from previous framing remaining on the back. About the artist: As a Southern female satirist, Caroline Spellman Wogan Durieux was a rare phenomenon in the early twentieth century. Today, she is highly regarded for her stinging lithographs that touch on human foibles as well as some of the important issues of her day. Born to a family of Creole descent in New Orleans, young Caroline was precocious; she began drawing at age four and completed a portfolio of watercolors depicting her city by the time she was twelve. She took lessons from Mary Butler, a member of the art faculty at Sophie Newcomb College, and, beginning in 1912, matriculated at the school full-time, where her instructors included Ellsworth Woodward, chair of the art department. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in design in 1916 and one in education in 1917. Awarded a scholarship by the New Orleans Art Association, Durieux pursued further coursework at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1918 to 1920. Years later, she was encouraged to try lithography by Carl Zigrosser, an expert curator of prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, who became her mentor. With her husband Pierre Durieux—an importer of Latin American goods and later the chief representative of General Motors for South America—Caroline Durieux spent time in Cuba during the early 1920s. The couple moved in 1926 to Mexico City, where she met the great muralist Diego Rivera and became involved in the local art community. Following a short interval in New York City, Durieux went back to Mexico in 1931 and enrolled at the Academy of San Carlos (now the National University of Mexico) to study lithography. She returned to New Orleans seven years later and was hired to teach at her alma mater, Newcomb College, from 1938 to 1943. Starting in 1939, Durieux served as the director of Louisiana’s Works Progress Administration program, and her division was the only one in the state not to practice racial discrimination. This was a matter she felt strongly about, stating: “I had a feeling that an artist is an artist and it doesn’t make any difference what color he or she is.” From 1943 until her retirement in 1964, Durieux was a member of the faculty at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Durieux’s forte was lithography, a technique popular in the mid-nineteenth century and long associated with social commentary, and her prints proved no exception. Her work in the 1930s and 1940s coincided with a rise in art that dealt with poverty, racism, and totalitarianism. She often presented stereotyped social climbers...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Other Medium

Modernist Portrait of a Woman
Modernist Portrait of a Woman

Modernist Portrait of a Woman

By Margaret Keane

Located in Milford, NH

A fine modernist portrait of a woman by American artist Margaret Hawkins Keane (1927-2022). Keane was born in Nashville,TN, and attributes her deep respect for the Bible and inspirations of her artwork to the relationship with her grandmother. In the 1960’s, while married to her second husband Walter, she was forced to paint and sell under his name, but during their divorce proceedings, she was able to prove that the paintings were actually done by her and the court determined that she was able to paint under her own name again. She became known for painting women and children with large black sad eyes...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Women at the Window - Mosaic by Massimo Campigli - 1947

Women at the Window - Mosaic by Massimo Campigli - 1947

Located in Roma, IT

Mosaic on cement panel. Exhibitions: - "Massimo Campigli - Mediterraneità e Modernità", Darmstadt 2003, ed. Mazzotta, Klaus Wolbert, n. 218, p. 333 (full page).   - "Il Tempo dell...

Category

1940s Modern More Art

Materials

Mosaic

Miroir

Miroir

By Mithé Espelt 1

Located in PARIS, FR

Sublime mirror by French ceramist Mithé Espelt measuring 26 x 21.5 x 1 cm

Category

20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Earthenware

Art Decò Lenci Style Modern Italian Ceramic and Mosaic
Art Decò Lenci Style Modern Italian Ceramic and Mosaic

Art Decò Lenci Style Modern Italian Ceramic and Mosaic

Located in Roma, IT

Lenci Style Modern Italian Ceramic and Mosaic Beautiful multicolored sculpture attributed to the Lenci factory Faenza ceramic mosaic Moving inscription with dedication on the back in Italian “In the uncertain moments of your life, always turn to her; you will be heard. Memory Pina” 19\2\1941 Original white lacquered wooden frame. This artwork, never before on the market, comes from an important European private collection Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Sabrina Egidi official Expert in Italian furniture for the Chamber of Commerce of Rome and for the Rome Civil Courts. Our company has been present on this platform for many years, with numerous sales made and just as many excellent reviews received that you can under our Furniture account. Lenci doll...

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Mid-20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Mosaic

Untitled, Acrylic on Paper by Indian Modern Artist Ram Kumar "In Stock"
Untitled, Acrylic on Paper by Indian Modern Artist Ram Kumar "In Stock"

Untitled, Acrylic on Paper by Indian Modern Artist Ram Kumar "In Stock"

By Ram Kumar

Located in Kolkata, West Bengal

Ram Kumar - Untitled Acrylic on Paper 9.5 x 12.5 inches, 2014 (Framed & Delivered) Born in 1924 in Simla, Ram Kumar was among India’s leading modernists. In the early 1930s, whilst ...

Category

2010s Modern More Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Jackie Kennedy; streetphotography; ca. 1970
Jackie Kennedy; streetphotography; ca. 1970

Jackie Kennedy; streetphotography; ca. 1970

By Ron Galella

Located in Cologne, DE

Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American socialite, writer, and photographer who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of P...

Category

1970s Modern More Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Jackie Kennedy, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960
Jackie Kennedy, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960

Jackie Kennedy, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960

Located in Cologne, DE

Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American socialite, writer, and photographer who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of P...

Category

1960s Modern More Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Esposizione Internazionale di Belle Arti - Giappone - 1911

Esposizione Internazionale di Belle Arti - Giappone - 1911

Located in Roma, IT

Roma MCMXI. Esposizione Internazionale di Belle Arti. Giappone.  Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Fine Arts, held in Rome in 1911, dedicated to Japanese art. Includes the...

Category

1910s Modern More Art

Materials

Paper

Picasso (A Collection of Books and Articles)
Picasso (A Collection of Books and Articles)

Picasso (A Collection of Books and Articles)

By (after) Pablo Picasso

Located in New York, NY

Collection of Picasso Books and Magazines featuring Picasso (Life Special Double Issue) and magazine articles from the sixties. Portrait of Picasso Roland Penrose 1957 Museum of Modern Art, New York Picasso in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art William Rubin 1984 Museum of Modern Art, New York The Sculptor's Studio: Etchings by Picasso Pablo Picasso and W. S. Lieberman 1952 Museum of Modern Art, New York Life 1968 Time, Inc Life Vol. 65 No. 26 December 27 1968 Special Double Issue The Sculpture Of Picasso Roland Penrose 1967 Museum of Modern Art, New York Pablo Picasso William Rubin 1980 Museum of Modern Art, New York Understanding Picasso, a Study of His Styles and Development Helen F. Mackenzie 1940 University of Chicago Press Picasso Picasso 1968 Editions Beyeler Bale The Private World of Pablo Picasso David Douglas Duncan...

Category

Early 20th Century Modern More Art

Gran Cavaliere
Gran Cavaliere

Gran Cavaliere

By Marino Marini

Located in New York, NY

Color etching and aquatint, 1978. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right margin. Numbered XXVII/L in pencil, lower left margin. Published by ZWR, London. Sheet size: 46.38 x...

Category

1970s Modern More Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint, Color

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