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Cubist Paintings

CUBIST STYLE

Inspired by the nontraditional ways Postimpressionists like Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat depicted the world, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pioneered an even more abstract style in which reality was fragmented into flat, geometric forms. Cubism majorly influenced 20th-century Western art as it radically broke with the adherence to composition and linear perspectives that dated back to the Renaissance. Its watershed moments are considered Picasso’s 1907 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, in which nude figures are fractured into angular shapes, and Georges Braque’s 1908 painting show, which prompted a critic to describe his visual reductions as “cubes.”

Although Cubism was a revolutionary art movement for European culture, it was informed by African masks and other tribal art. Its artists, which included Fernand Léger, Alexander Archipenko, Marcel Duchamp, Juan Gris and Jean Metzinger, experimented with compressing space and playing with the tension between solid and void forms in their work. While their subjects were often conventional, such as still lifes, nudes and landscapes, they were distorted without any illusion of realism.

Cubist art evolved through different distinct phases. In Analytic Cubism, from 1908 to 1912, figures or objects were “analyzed” into pieces that were reassembled in paintings and sculptures, as if presenting the same subject matter from many perspectives at once. The palette was usually monochromatic and muted, giving attention to the overlapping planes. Synthetic Cubism, dating from 1912 to 1914, moved to brighter colors and a further flattening of images. This unmooring from formal ideas of art would shape numerous styles that followed, from Dada to Surrealism.

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Style: Cubist
PRINCESA
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by the artist. Canvas is stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers...
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2010s Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Togetherness II - Original Abstract Figurative Cubism Beige Black Line Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Croatian artist Bernard Simunovic plays with color, form, and minimalist lines in his abstract figurative cubist works, analyzing the sculptural capa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Abstract Cubist Portrait - Limited Edition Textured Canvas Print 45x45 "-HFC 12
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Introducing "Abstract Cubist Portrait - HFC 12" - Limited Edition Textured Canvas Print Experience the fusion of abstract brilliance with "Abstract Cubist Portrait - HFC 12," a capt...
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2010s Cubist Paintings

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Giclée, Acrylic, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Archival Ink, Mixed ...

Young musicians oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Musicians Artist: Bernat Sanjuán i Tarré (Barcelona, 1915 – Deià, Mallorca, 1979) Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 36.2 x 25.6 in Support: Canvas Framing: Unframed Period:...
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1950s Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950's French Cubist Still Life Oil Painting Jugs & Ornaments Large Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Still Life Composition French School, mid 20th century oil on canvas, framed framed: 22 x 26 inches canvas: 18 x 21.5 inches provenance: private collection, Paris condition: v...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Bathing Nudes, 20th Century Signed French Painting, Cubist Inspired
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed lower left Circa 1930 Image size: 41 x 34 inches (104 x 86 cm) Framed
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1930s Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abella Fruits Vertical original still life Cubist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Abella original still life cubist acrylic painting Juan Jose Abella Rubio was born in Estercuel, a hamlet anchored in the Teruel mining basin in March 1944. In his painting the oche...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Wood, Oil

Still life with mask oil on canvas painting cubism
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Bernat Sanjuan Tarre (1915-1979) - Still life with mask - Oil on canvas Oil measurements 50x65 cm. Frame measurements 71x86 cm.
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1970s Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Touchdown, Early Football Player being tacked
Located in Miami, FL
Provenance: Illustration House, New York, Framed in a simple and modest metal frame. This is a brillant post-Cubist work by Dutch-American illustrator Charles Verschuuren...
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1920s Cubist Paintings

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Gouache

Abstract Walking Figure
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Chris Ritter (1906-1976). Walking Figure, ca. 1960. Watercolor on rag paper, sheet measures 15.5 x 22 inches. Sheet is loose and unmounted. Unframed. Estate stamps500 on verso....
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Watercolor, Rag Paper

"The Loop II" Abstract Figurative Painting 39" x 39" inch by Tasneem El-Meshad
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Loop II" Abstract Figurative Painting 39" x 39" inch by Tasneem El-Meshad Acrylic on Canvas Academy of Fine Arts Cairo graduate Tasneem El Meshad describes her art, as “a refl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Refreshing Gradient, Green and Orange Urban Landscape, Geometric Architecture
Located in Barcelona, ES
In this series, Perrine explores the profound relationship between light and color, both essential elements in her artistic expression. Without light, there would be no colors, and i...
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2010s Cubist Paintings

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Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Paper

Circus Backstage (At Play), Cubist Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Circus Backstage (At Play) (70) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 18.5 in. x 30 in. (46.99 cm x 76.2 cm)
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1960s Cubist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Cubist Female Nude Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Nude Woman, 1966. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures 9.5 x 13.5 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Excellent condition. Born in Newark, New...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Watercolor

Midcentury Modern Mixed Media Painting on Canvas Art shape colors 21-40-0
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas Artwork: Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digital original hand painting, printed on canvas, then hand p...
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2010s Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Cubist Forest, Signed Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Cubist Forest (34) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: 1960 Oil on Board, signed Size: 19.5 in. x 25 in. (49.53 cm x 63.5 cm) Frame Size: 24 x 29 inches
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1960s Cubist Paintings

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Oil, Board

L'Interesse - Original Figurative Cubist Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In his abstract figurative work, internationally collected artist Alessandro Siviglia deconstructs everyday objects, landscapes, and human subjects into colorful geometric shapes in ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Coffee Doll - original portrait woman colour still life painting cubism modern
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. This original cubist artwork by Borja Guijarro presents an att...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Pencil

Construction Scene Industrial Cityscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Construction Scene, 1935. Gouache on cardboard, panel measures 9 x 11 inches; 19 x 21 inches framed. Signed, dated lower c...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Watercolor

Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Cubist Abstraction Signed and dated lower right Watercolor, charcoal and gouache on paper, 1922 Provenance: Estate of the Artist Schroeder, Romero & Sh...
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1920s Cubist Paintings

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Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache

Mid 20th-Century French Oil Painting Cubist Portrait of Nude Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Model by Therese Hummel (French, 1911-1999) oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 14 x 10.75 inches Provenance: private collection of this artists work, Paris Condition: sound and go...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Oil

20th Century French Cubist Painting Purple Abstract Woman Playing Violin
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed & dated 1981 original gouache painting on thick paper/ card - double sided image (cat verso) unframed condition: very good and sound; th...
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20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Gouache

Abstract Composition
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Chris Ritter (1906-1976). Abstract Composition ca. 1960. Watercolor on rag paper, sheet measures 17.5 x 22 inches. Sheet is loose and unmounted. Unframed. Estate stamps500 on v...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Watercolor, Rag Paper

Colorist Still Life Post-Cubist Oil Painting by A. Rigollot
Located in Atlanta, GA
Impressive post-cubist and colorist still life oil on board painting by A. Rigollot (France, 20th Century). Colorist painting is characterized by intense color use, which becomes the...
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1960s Cubist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Promenade à Eze by Grégoire Mathias – Diachronic Cubist Seaside Composition
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Promenade à Eze Acrylic on canvas 65 x 54 cm A vibrant Diachronic Cubist vision of the Riviera, capturing shifting impressions of a promenade through the hilltop village of Eze. In...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Minéral, Animal, Végétal
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated ‘Ozenfant 1917’ (lower right) Price excl. VAT
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1910s Cubist Paintings

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Oil

Woman with Jug-original figurative cubism still life painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Step into the vibrant world of Borja Guijarro's "Woman with Ju...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Abella Original-- PAINTING
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Juan Jose Abella Rubio was born in Estercuel, a hamlet anchored in the Teruel mining basin in March 1944. In his painting the ocher and reddish colors of his first environment are w...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Wood, Oil

Progress
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PASCAL JARRION "PROGRESS" OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED 2024 36 X 30 INCHES _____________________________________________________________ __________ Pascal Jarrion was born in Perpigna...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

GEORGES DAYEZ Etretat (Sailboats Along the French Coast) Cubist 1956 oil canvas
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Georges Dayez , born on July 29 , 1907 In Paris where he died in 1991 , is a French painter , engraver and lithographer of the new Ecole de Paris whose works have been regularly exhibited with those of non-figurative painters. Georges Dayez is the eldest son of the editor Jules Dayez, a native of the North and a son of a peasant, who in 1905 had taken over a small-size engraving studio in Paris rue des Marais, printing in particular gravure reproductions of eighteenth- century images E century. His mother, Marie Brard, was born in Neuilly in a Norman family of Bayeux . After the birth of a second son, the family settled in Vaires-sur-Marne in 1909 where Georges Dayez attended the communal school from 1913 , took refuge for two months in Bayeux in 1914 , in Tinténiac ( Brittany ) In 1918 . In 1919 Georges Dayez obtained his certificate of studies and spent his holidays in Vicq , in the mining country of the north of Valenciennes , with his grandfather, the spectacle of the destruction caused by the war impressively him, then returns to the college of Meaux . In 1924 , after spending the first part of the baccalaureate, he stopped studying to start painting, and studied phototypy and intaglio and lithography in his father's studio. He attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière at Montparnasse and the Julian Academy in Saint - Germain - des - Prés , as well as the evening drawing courses of the City of Paris, which Adam also followed. In 1926 he was accepted as a "free pupil" in the studio of Lucien Simon at the Ecole des Beaux Arts . From 1927, he made his military service, assigned to Nanterre then to the Aeronautics Directorate of Paris, and painted in 1928 , on a permission, Le Pont du Pouliguen and Le Croisic...
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1950s Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Table With Aperol & Fruits-original cubism still life painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Step into a world of vibrant colours and geometric forms with ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Rider and Two Horses in front of a House
Located in London, GB
BELA KADAR 1877-1956 Budapest 1877-1956 (Hungarian) Title: Rider and Two Horses in front of a House Technique: Original Hand Signed Tempera Painting on paper Image size: 58 x 83 cm / 22.8 x 32.6 in Additional Information: The work is hand signed "Kadar Bela...
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Early 20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Tempera

Visite de l'Atelier by Grégoire Mathias – Modern Cubist Studio Scene
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Visite de l'Atelier (Visit of the Artist's Studio) Acrylic on Canvas 50 x 39.5 cm Dynamic modern cubist painting by Greg Mathias depicting an abstracted studio visit, using muted be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Abella Fruit Original Still-life Cubist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Abella original still life cubist acrylic painting Juan Jose Abella Rubio was born in Estercuel, a hamlet anchored in the Teruel mining basin in March 1944. In his painting the oche...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Wood, Oil

Man Cubist Portrait - Limited Edition Textured Canvas Print 45x45 "
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
"Man Cubist Portrait - Limited Edition Textured Canvas Print" Step into the mesmerizing world of "Man Cubist Portrait," a limited edition textured canvas print that redefines artist...
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2010s Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, C...

Je T'aime-original abstract cubism figurative portrait painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. This original cubist artwork by Borja Guijarro presents an att...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil

Ecole de Paris 1960's Cubist Oil Painting Abstract Composition of Shapes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Parisian School, circa 1960's Title: cubist composition of shapes and patterns. Medium: oil painting on board, framed and inscribed verso. Size: framed: 14 ...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Oil

Composición cubista - 1976
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra va firmada por el artista en la parte trasera y fechada del año 1976 El estado de conservación es bueno Se presenta enmarcada la obra Medidas de la obra: 70 cm. de altura ...
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1970s Cubist Paintings

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Oil

Mother and Child, Cubist Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mother and Child (3) by John F. Leonard, American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 44 in. x 29 in. (111.76 cm x 73.66 cm)
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1960s Cubist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Portrait of a Girl
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Girl', gouache and crayon on fine paper (1966), by Raymond Debiève (1931 - 2011). Here the artist paints a young girl with blond hair in his post-cubist style. Clearly...
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1960s Cubist Paintings

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Paper, Crayon, Gouache

Very Large Mid Century French Cubist Abstract Oil Painting - Color & Shapes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century Title:cubist / abstract composition Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed. canvas: 23.75 x 47.25 inches Provenance: private...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Tarleton Golf Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Tarleton Landscape 1967. 9 x 12 inches. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Excellent condition. Born in...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Suzanne Benton, Caught in the Dark Waters of Life, 2024, oil, Spiritualism
Located in Darien, CT
In this ninth decade of life, and as a working artist for nearly70 years, Suzanne Benton has become interested in the concept of Late Style as described by the literary theorist Edward Said. “Each of us can supply evidence of late works, which crown a lifetime of aesthetic endeavor,” Matisse had it with his renowned paper cuts. While nearly blind, Monet created the water lily paintings as his final legacy to the history of art.  Benton's Late Style arrived as a surprise during the Covid pandemic. The resultant aloneness from sheltering in place brought her to an uncanny level of solitude that only painting could voice. She reached for the purest of colors, and entered a celebratory world to create the Neo-Transcendental paintings titled All About Color. The disappeared narrative came as a surprise. It had been the mainstay of the masks and mask tale performances, monoprints and paintings. This time though, the artist needed to bring a vibrancy to canvas, and to make tangible this sense of sheer essence that had pressed into her inner self in that time of stillness. Well educated in color by John Ferren, the abstract expressionist painter who’d taught the year’s color study at Queen College. The sensitivity developed further through four lengthy art-working journeys to India, starting in 1976-77, continuing with a 1992-1993 Fulbright, and additional South Asia residencies in 1995, and 2011. Those and others in Africa brought an ever more attuned palette to decades of monoprints with Chine collé that featured imagery from world culture, as well as her Americana of 19th and 20th century women writers, educators, suffragists, and feminists. These Late Style artworks explore the cosmic realm. Its deceptive simplicity reminds Benton of Buffie Johnson’s late work. She, an early celebrator of Great Goddess imagery turned to circles in her latter years. similarly, Benton had drawn on rich Goddess imagery since the 1970’s...
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2010s Cubist Paintings

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Oil, Board, Gesso, Birch

"Engine"
Located in Astoria, NY
Harry Morningstern (American, XX), "Engine", Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, label to verso, painted wood frame. Image: 13.25" H x 22.5" W; frame: 16.5" H x 25.5" W. Provenance: F...
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20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cubist Renaissance Woman - Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted portrait of a renaissance era woman by Sonia Gichner (20th Century). This piece is painted with splashes of bright colors, contrasting nicely with skin tones and black lin...
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1980s Cubist Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Oil

Mid 20th-Century French Oil Riverside Scene with Figures Rowing and Stone Bridge
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Riverside Scene signed by Therese Hummel (French, 1911-1999) oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 13 x 18 inches Provenance: private collection of this artists work, Paris Condition: so...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Oil

Abstract Cactus, Sculptured Totem 3D Shapes in Green, Purple, Pink on Beige
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Abstract Cactus" is an acrylic painting from Ryan Rivadeneyra's series of imagined modernist sculptures. In this series, Rivadeneyra explores the possibilities of colorful sculptura...
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2010s Cubist Paintings

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Oil

Spirit
By William Y. Cooper
Located in Buffalo, NY
"Spirit" a bold and thoughtful cubist oil on canvas was painted in December of 2001 by African American artist William (Bill) Cooper. William Y. Cooper was a writer, painter, muralist, illustrator, and art teacher. He moved to Western New York in 1954 from Birmingham, Alabama, to pursue work, and Buffalo has been his home ever since. In 1975, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University at Buffalo; he was also a state certified art teacher. Cooper woked primarily in oils and acrylics, but also creates drawings on paper. He has painted several commissioned murals and has had more than fifteen one-man shows in Western New York and Ghana, West Africa, and has participated in more than twenty-five group exhibitions since he began his professional career in 1969. His paintings and drawings address both his African heritage and his experience as an American through symbolism and metaphor. He observes, “I am an Afrocentric artist. My worldview is rooted in an African frame of reference and a deep, abiding sense of the creator from whence I draw my inspiration, strength, and a sense of who I am. The use of symbols allows me to explore literal ideas.” Among Cooper’s published works are two children’s books, 77 Jackson Street, Rear and Nakai and the Red Shoes, and a novel for adults, The Mopane Tree. Cooper founded the Afrocentric Artists’ Collective and ran the organization from 1979 to 1981. In 2013 he was designated a “Living Legacy” artist by the Burchfield Penney Arts Center, the latest in a series of honors which has also included awards from the Arts Council of Buffalo & Erie County, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Alpha Kappa Alpha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tugboat WPA era painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Tugboat, 1939, 9 x 11.25 inches. Ink on paper. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Excellent condition. Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1911, Joe Kardo...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Ink

20th Century French Cubist Abstract Still Life Objects Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Raymond Guidot (1934–2021) oil painting on board, unframed board: 13.75 x 10.5 inches stamped verso condition: very good provenance: from a large private collection of this artists w...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Oil

Abella Original-Oil canvas- PAINTING
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Juan Jose Abella Rubio was born in Estercuel, a hamlet anchored in the Teruel mining basin in March 1944. In his painting the ocher and reddish colors of his first environment are w...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Oil, Wood

Abstract Composition
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Chris Ritter (1906-1976). Abstract Composition ca. 1960. Watercolor on rag paper, sheet measures 17.5 x 22 inches. Sheet is loose and unmounted. Unframed. Estate stamps500 on v...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Watercolor, Rag Paper

Antique American Impressionist New York Cityscape Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist oil painting by Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011). Oil on board. Housed in a nice giltwood impressionist frame. Signed.
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1960s Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1960's French Abstract Cubist Oil Painting Amazing Colors & Shapes Large Scale
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Abstract Composition French school, circa 1960's period oil on board, unframed board: 29 x 22 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound con...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Oil

Cubist Portrait of Gabriele Varese (in Italian uniform), 1919
Located in Stockholm, SE
Dick Beer (b. London 1893 - d. Stockholm 1938) Portrait of Gabriele Varese (in Italian uniform), 1919 oil on canvas mounted on panel 116 x 90 cm stamp signature Exhibited: Solo exhibition, Stockholm, Nov-Dec 1917; The Royal Academy Stockholm 1973; Åmells Konsthandel – En internationell kubist, Stockholm & London 2008 Hälsinglands Museum 2011 Millesgården – Dick Beer – Impressionist & Kubist, 2012 Provenance: Within the family Beer until today Dick Beer was born in 1893 in London as Richard Beer, the youngest of five brothers. His father, John Beer (1853-1906), was a watercolourist who was born in Stockholm and had left Sweden at the age of 17. John Beer instructed his sons in drawing and painting, among other things. A number of sketchbooks bear testimony to the boys’ talent. Dick Beer’s parents died in 1906 and 1907. Barely 15 years old, Beer arrived in Sweden as an orphan. First he lived with relatives and finally he ended up at Reverend Laurell in Västergötland. Dick Beer began his artistic studies at the Althin School of Painting in Stockholm in 1908 and continued at the Royal Academy of Arts in the autumn of 1910, but in September 1912 he broke off his studies and travelled to Paris. He rented a studio and enrolled at the Colarossi and Grande Chaumière academies. In the summer of 1913, Dick Beer travelled to Pont-Aven in Bretagne in order to paint. In September the same year, he held his first solo exhibition in Stockholm which he gave the French title Exposition des tableaux de Bretagne et autour de Paris. The exhibition proved a success. Many of the paintings were executed in a light palette in a style inspired by the impressionists. In 1914, Dick Beer undertook an extensive study trip to Italy, Tunis, Morocco and Spain, which resulted in canvases overflowing with colours and light. When the French army mobilised, he volunteered and was enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. In 1915 Dick Beer sustained severe head injuries in a grenade attack, which resulted in deafness and a nervous condition that would plague him for the rest of his life. Two of his brothers died the following year, fighting for the English army. Dick Beer was hospitalised and convalesced at Château de Rochefort. Here he started painting again, in an impressionist style, a painting dominated by blue and green hues. In 1918, Dick Beer married Ruth Öhrling, a dentist, and their son John was born later in the year. During this time, Beer began experimenting with cubist painting and created several large compositions, including the painting “The Arab Café”. In the years that followed, Dick Beer was based in Paris, where he often moved house. He was instructed by André Lhote, who encouraged his students to work freely in the studio and provided them with individual critique. Beer often travelled to Bretagne or Provence. His artist friends came from all over Europe and included Amedeo Modigliani. Dick Beer exhibited fairly regularly in Paris between 1919 and 1934 and made a name for himself in French artist circles. In the summers, Ruth regularly rented a house in the countryside, often at Lake Mälaren. She kept a large house with many models and friends and there was a lot of painting and discussions. In 1933, the couple divorced but Ruth still loved Dick and continued to support him financially for the rest of his life. Dick Beer also exhibited in Sweden, albeit irregularly due to his failing health. In the 1920s and 1930s, Beer continued to pursue an expressionist painting with intense colours and unexpected perspectives, but eventually he veered towards more naturalistic forms, including a large number of nudes. He also painted several portraits of artists, politicians and writers. In 1938, Dick Beer sojourned in Arles. The budding photographer Christer Strömholm...
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1910s Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Panel

Vibrant Mid-Century Abstract Geometric Composition Bold Color Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Geometric Composition by René GUINAND (French, 1892-1983), signed oil on canvas, in a wooden frame - left side missing Framed: 26 x 32 inches Canvas : 25.5 x 31.5 inches Inscribed ve...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Oil

Abstract Modernist Floral Still Life Geometric Oil Painting Soft Pastel Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Floral Abstract Still LIfe by René GUINAND (French, 1892-1983), signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 21.5 x 29 inches Provenance: private collection of the artists work, Normandy, ...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Oil

French 1960's Cubist Abstract Painting Musicians in Band Playing Colorful Image
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Musical Band French Cubist artist, indistinctly signed and dated 1962 watercolour on artist paper, unframed Painting: 15 x 22 inches Provenance: Private collection, France Condi...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

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Watercolor

Cubist paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Cubist paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Borja Guijarro, Maurice Green, Fernando Fernandez, and Jessica Rice. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Cubist paintings, so small editions measuring 1.5 inches across are also available. Prices for paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1 and tops out at $263,300, while the average work sells for $2,343.

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