Modern Paintings
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
Color: Brown
Antique American School Modern Abstract Expressionist Framed Early Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 22L x 28H.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Rabbis Dancing in Jerusalem, Judaica, Mixed Media Painting
By Moshe Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Moshe Katz (Romanian Israeli), 1937- an Israeli citizen, studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, as well as at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.
Although not an expo...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Israeli Folk Art Oil Painting Arab Pogrom Massacre Disturbing
Located in Surfside, FL
Yitzchak Roman, Israeli Folk Artist Painting and sculpture, born in Safed, 1913, known for his naive depictions of Jewish life and biblical scenes...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Chiaroscuro Landscape, Oil on Canvas Painting by Francois Gentilini
Located in Atlanta, GA
This beautiful oil-on-canvas painting was created by Francois Gentilini (1930 -). This is a small-scale oil painting by the well-listed French Modern painter Francois Gentilini. The ...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Female Cornish artist, Walter Sickert pupil, Cubist portrait of man in interior
Located in Harkstead, GB
A really stylish portrait of a young man relaxing in an interior, painted in a unique, almost cubist style and wonderful texture to the brushwork.
Garlick Barnes ( 1891-1987)
A man reading in an interior
Signed
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches without frame
29 x 24½ inches with frame
Barnes raised four children before turning her full attention to art. She studied at the Sidney Cooper School of Art, Canterbury, and at Heatherley's. In 1936 Garlick became a pupil of Walter Richard SICKERT...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
vagabonds oil on board painting modernism art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil measures 70x50 cm.
Frame measures 83x63 cm.
Painter of landscapes and figures, in whose characterization he deepens psychologically capturing the character, Albert
Roca has won...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American School Framed Artist Studio Nude Woman Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior scene with a nude woman oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 22L x 26H.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Transection w/ Architectural Forms, Geometrical Figurative Abstract Acrylic
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Transection with Architectural Forms, c. 1980s
Acrylic and graphite on board
12 x 20 inches
A surrealist mid-century figural abstract ...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
Maze, 20th Century Geometric Figurative Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Maze, 1982
Acrylic on cardboard
Signed and dated upper right
7 x 9.5 inches
A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting.
Clar...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
1980's Oil on Canvas Impressionistic Beach Scene Painting, Framed & Signed
Located in Plainview, NY
This is an oil on canvas painting depicting a group of people, seaside. The gilt frame is finely hand carved.
The piece is from the 1980s and is signed
Dimensions:
Framed 18" H, ...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Way of the Cross - XIII - Oil Painting - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Way of the Cross - XIII is an old master artwork realized in the 17th century by an Anonymous artist.
Mixed colored oil on copper.
Titled on the low...
Category
17th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Framed Modern Kitchen Still Life Fruit Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 16L x 20H.
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Russian Modern Still life Bouquet of flowers Early 20th century Oil painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed, monogram: Pavel Aleksandrovich Shillingovsky (1881 - 1942). Russian artist, master of graphics, representative of modern and neoclassical. He rarely painted with oil paints, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
American School, Abstract Untitled
Located in New Orleans, LA
American School, Artist Unknown
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American School Modernist Fruit Still Life Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed still life oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 12L x 9H.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract Landscape', California WPA, Corcoran, Whitney, AIC, GGIE, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, 'Graham' for Ellwood Graham (American, 1911-2007) and painted circa 1985; additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'View Study'.
This early California Modernist ...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Framed Cityscape Oil Painting - City Views
Located in Bristol, GB
CITY VIEWS
Size: 42 x 49.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A mid century Swedish cityscape painted in oil onto board.
Distinct and expressive brushstrokes convey the energy and hustle and bustle of the city. Rich, earthy, and textured colours in deep reds, blues and greens have been applied swiftly, creating a sense of depth and space in the picture. The artist has probably painted this ‘en plein air’ (outdoors), and so has captured the dynamism of the view before him/her.
The painted is housed a very complementary light wood mid century frame...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Esteban Vicente “Sagapoback” Oil on Canvas
Located in Newport Beach, CA
“Sagapoback”, a beautiful oil on canvas color field painting by American artist Esteban Vicente (1903-2001). He was born in Turégano, Spain and was one of the first generation of New...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint, Canvas
Ask the Sticks ( subject matter: music, Drums, drumming. drummers)
Located in Lafayette, LA
this 2016 painting depicts Muti-colored imagery of drums drumming and drummers. this is an unframed artwork, It is old on canvas on wood. the imagery is layered and complex much lig...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Swamp house on Fire ( Earth tone colors)
Located in Lafayette, LA
This middle-period work by Francis X Pavy is oil on canvas stretched on pine stretchers. The Burning house is a Recurring theme in Pavy's work. The work has primarily earth tones, b...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting, Signed
Located in Plainview, NY
An elegant vintage impressionist oil on canvas painting signed by artist Tasica -1977. The painting features a street scene in the...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ponte Neuf (The Old Bridge)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Oil on panel, 14 ½ x 18 inches unframed, 22 x 25 ½ inches framed, inscribed “painted by David McCosh Property of Edward b. Rowan” and numbered “8” verso
Exhibited:
The First Exhibit of the Iowa Artist...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
City Streets (British Street scene architectural landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Rene Beckley. City Streets, 1965. Oil on artist board, 16 x 20 inches; 18 x 22 inches framed. Signed and dated lower right.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
1990 Untitled Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas Illustrator Bill Shields
Located in Arp, TX
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010
Untitled
1990
Oil on canvas
60"x48" artist framed
Signed lower right
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010
He was born in san Franc...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Polish Modernist Village landscape in the Snow Oil Painting
By Bronislaw Linke
Located in Surfside, FL
Bronisław Wojciech Linke, (born 23 April 1906 in Tartu, Estonia, died 6 October 1962 in Warsaw, Poland), was a painter and graphic artist noted for his metaphorical realism in his depiction of human destructiveness.
He was born into the Polish community in Estonia, the son of a notary, Juliusz Ferdynand Linke and Maria, née Starorypińska. In 1919 the family were 'repatriated' to Poland and settled in Kalisz, a town destroyed in 1914.
He began his art studies in the Bydgoszcz School of Industrial Art 1922–1923. He spent the next two years in the Kraków Art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
American Modernist Nude Female Cubist Portrait Framed Original Drawing
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist nude signed drawing. Pencil on paper. Unsigned. Framed. Image size, 9L x 12H.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist American Judaica Painting Rabbis in Conversation
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting, Nussbaum portrays Rabbi in lively conversation outside the synagogue in a sketch-like manner without focusing on any specific details. The vibrant colors used in th...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Flower Still Life
By Adrian Dornbush
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Oil on canvas, 24 ½ x 19 ½ inches unframed, 32 x 27 inches framed, signed and inscribed “Adrian Dornbush/ Flower Still Life” verso, a remnant of exhibition label verso, stamped “1454” verso, original frame
Exhibited:
i) Midwestern Artist’s Exhibition Representative Work from Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska & Colorado, Kansas City Art Institute, February 1 to March 2, 1931, no. 34 (see catalog with a listing of work with this title); and ii) Special Display and Sale of Late Oil Paintings Produced by Cedar Rapids Own Artists from the Little Gallery, at Newman’s Department Store, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 1932 (see [Advertisement], The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), March 15, 1932 – listing a work with this title, together with paintings by fourteen other artists, including Grant Wood, Marvin Cone...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
PERSONAGGI - Olio su masonite, Nicola Gambedotti, 1970
By Nicola Gambedotti
Located in Napoli, IT
Nicola Gambedotti, è stato un pittore e incisore figurativo di ricerca, considerato uno dei massimi esperti nell’utilizzo della tecnica ad acrilico bulinato. Le sue opere figurano in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
River Forest Landscape Oil Painting by 20th Century Post War Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of River Forest Landscape in Ireland by 20th Century Post War Irish Artist, Tobias Everet Spence
Art measures 20 x 16 inches
Frame measures inches 24 x 20 inches
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American School Modernist Surreal Cityscape Landscape Signed Regional Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nice modernist American school painting. Oil and watercolor and gouache on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 18L x 23H.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Helene Sardeau (The Artist’s Wife)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Fresco, 20 x 16 inches unframed, 22 x 18 inch...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Mixed Media
Antique American Modernist Street Scene Vintage Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school modernist cityscape painting. Oil on canvas, wrapped to board. No signature found.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Interior, Oil Painting, Scene Through Window
By Jennifer Presant
Located in Surfside, FL
Education
2002 – MFA; cum laude, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
1993 – BFA; Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1992 – Lorenzo Di Medici Institute, Florence, Italy
Select Gallery Exhibitions
Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
Eden Rock Gallery, St Barthelemy, F.W.I
Blank Space Gallery, New York, NY
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
Quidley & Company, Boston, MA
Zolla Lieberman Gallery...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Still life - Oil Painting by Giordano Becciani - Mid-20th Century
By Giordano Becciani
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a modern artwork realized by Giordano Becciani in the Mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Includes frame.
The artwork is hand signed on the lower margin.
...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
Modernist Abstract Cast Paper Sculpture Textile Collage Wall Hanging
By Hea Sook Yoo
Located in Surfside, FL
Hea-Sook Yoo, artist, internationally renowned female artist, has her paintings hanging inresidences, businesses and art galleries on three continents over three decades.Ms. Yoo is c...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Mixed Media
Smoking a pipe and drinking wine (1893) - Henri Hebert Swiss school
Located in Geneva, CH
Henri A. Hebert was born in Geneva in the 19th century. Genre painter and son of Jules Hebert both belonging to the Swiss school. The Geneva museum prese...
Category
1890s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tu Es Seul, Toi Aussi?
Located in Detroit, MI
Ink on paper, 2022.
Piece is matted.
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Ink
Maybe A Dream
Located in Detroit, MI
Ink on paper, 2022.
Piece is matted.
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Ink
Jean-Pierre Cassigneul "Sur La Plage" Oil on Canvas
Located in Newport Beach, CA
"Sur la Plage" signed Jean-Pierre Cassigneul. Framed oil on canvas. Canvas 32" h x 23.5" w. Frame is hand carved and gilded. Cassigneul is a French painter known for his serene portr...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled" Abstract by Todd and Fitch
Located in Newport Beach, CA
An energetic abstract by Nicolas Todd (1969) and Damien Fitch (1964), a duo of French artists, that have been working together since the beginning of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Paper
Russian Modernist Сityscape Venetian Motive early 20th century Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed lower left: Vasily (Wilhelm) Filippovich Levi (1878 - 1954). The uncommon view of Venice was depicted by gifted artist in even more modernism manner than his other works of same period. IMO this one worth special acceptance being very rare and highly desired masterwork. The scorching sun gilds the sparkling expanse of the canal with its rays. At this hour the city is empty. Calm waves gently lap against the keel of the gondola. The artist perfectly transferred to the canvas the atmospheric idyll and romantic magic of old Venice. Oil painting on wood, signed, framed.
Size app.: 47 x 64 cm (roughly 18.5 x 25.2 in) and beautiful antique frame ca 64.5 x 81 cm (roughly 25.4 x 31.9 in). Very Good condition, ready to hang condition, age wear (just minor wear to frame finish). Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 3.2 kg is going to measure some 5 kg packed for shipment.
V. F. Levi - lawyer, collector, and also an artist. He spent his childhood in Riga, studied at the Alexander Gymnasium. He graduated from the 1st Kharkov Gymnasium (1899) and the Faculty of Law of Kharkov University. In 1916 he moved to Terijoki, built a house there and decided to devote himself to art. In 1918, on the advice of I. I. Brodsky, he showed his works to I. E. Repin and received his approval. After some time, he became Repin's confidant: during 1919-1930, he organized more than 50 Repin exhibitions in Helsinki, Prague, The Hague, Hamburg, Nice, Cannes and other European cities. In 1930-1939 he lived in Paris. In 1930 he participated in the Exhibition of Paintings by Russian Masters...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Wood Panel
A Foregone Conclusion large colorful triptych-like seafood still life lobster
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This triptych-like lobster still life is only one of four paintings in this format by the artist. It is not a true triptych, as it is one large single canvas with three distinct imag...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Love Me Tender, Love Me Sweet
Located in Detroit, MI
Ink on paper, 2022.
Piece is matted.
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Ink
Tomorrow's Shadow
Located in Detroit, MI
Ink on paper, 2022.
Piece is matted.
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Ink
Et Si Le Jour Ne Se Leuiat Pas?
Located in Detroit, MI
Ink on paper, 2022.
Piece is matted.
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Ink
Untitled
Located in Detroit, MI
Ink on paper, 2022.
Piece is matted.
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Ink
Royal Academy Series-3, Pen & Ink on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-3
Pen & Ink on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size)
1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition)
Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta.
Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque.
Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
We Will Not Talk About It
Located in Detroit, MI
Ink on paper, 2022.
Piece is matted.
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Ink
They Only Wake Up At Night
Located in Detroit, MI
Ink on paper, 2022.
Piece is matted.
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Ink
'Mother and Child with Rainbow Pinwheel', Paris, Rome, New York, AIC, Chicago
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Cabaniss' for Larry Cabaniss (American-Italian, 1926-2007) and painted circa 1975; additionally signed, verso, 'Cabaniss'.
Born in...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New York City Tenement Family Modernist WPA Era Oil Painting Wolins
Located in Surfside, FL
Subject: American Family
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
In this painting, Joseph Wolins uses vibrant and complimentary colors and broken brushwork.
Joseph Wo...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1980s Still Life with Flowers Oil on Canvas Case Framed Painting
Located in Plainview, NY
This is an oil on canvas painting depicting a still life with flowers. The piece was made in the 1980s.
Framed: 21.5"H 18"W 1"D
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers
Located in Genève, GE
Work on a paper that is mounted on a canvas
Golden wooden frame
50 x 61 x 4.5 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Oil Painting Of Cartoony Camouflage Tank in Illustration Style
Located in Surfside, FL
Seymour Chwast (born August 18, 1931) is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.
Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint, Board
accordionist with pipe oil on board painting modernism art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Albert Roca (1945) - accordionist with pipe oil on board painting
Medidas óleo 47x34 cm.
Medidas marco 62x48 cm.
Painter of landscapes and figures, in who...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Bouquet of flowers by WALY - Oil on canvas 53x44 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas without frame
few points of restoration
Swiss artist of the 20th century
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Woman with Red Hair on a Green Background in Acrylic
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Woman with Brown Hair on a Red Background in Acrylic on Artist's Board
Portrait of a woman in the style of Amedeo Modigliani by an unknown artist (20th century). The w...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Illustration Board
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