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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
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Mid-Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Suburban Serenade, Framed
Located in Bristol, GB
SUBURBAN SERENADE Size: 46 x 59 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas An uplifting modernist composition, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1951. The artwork portrays a suburban l...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Paris City Scene, Portrait Oil Painting WPA Era 1940s
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: French Paris Scene Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: United States The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subver...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Les Pierrots by André Braunecker - Oil on paper 50x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil paint on paper with glass and frame. Signed and certified by the artist.
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Street Scene Oil Painting - Houses at Sunset, Framed
Located in Bristol, GB
HOUSES AT SUNSET Size: 44 x 62 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A stunning mid century modernist oil landscape painting depicting rows of houses at sunset. The rooftops of the ho...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Stormy Waters Study - frog and leaf
Located in Lafayette, LA
This is a unique 8"x10" oil on canvas color study by Francis X Pavy. it is framed. the images depicts a frog and a leaf.
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Oil

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...
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1920s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pen

"Where Are You ?", with Bridge Pyramid Shape & the Mona Lisa Figurative Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
"Where are you?", at a place where there are an arched bridge, a pyramid-shaped glass building and a portrait of the Mona Lisa. The lady in the painting asks or is asked in the phone...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

'Young Venetian Woman', Paris, Post Impressionist Figural, La Veneziana
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Janus' for Ian Janus (Dutch-Italian, born 1919) and painted circa 1955. A study of a beautiful young woman shown posed in the foreground with a distant evening ...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Vintage Signed Texas Female Modernist Abstract Cow Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist cow abstract still life oil painting by Jeanette Welty Chelf (1929 - 2021). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Karl Priebe Antique American Modernist Black Woman Portrait Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nice modernist portrait by Karl Priebe (1914 - 1976). Oil and gouache on board. Nicely framed. Image size, 7.5L x 8.5H
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1920s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Polish French Mid Century Modern Abstract Venice Gondola Canal Scene
Located in Surfside, FL
Biography: Abram (Abraham) Krol was born January 22, 1919, in Pabianice (Lodz), Poland. Krol went to France in 1938 to study civil engineering at the University of Caen. In 1939 at...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nude with Lace, Pastel Study Painting by Pio Santini
Located in Atlanta, GA
This charming pastel painting on paper was designed by Pio Santini (1908-1986) and named: nude with lace. The artist's signature, Santini, can be found in the bottom left corner of the artwork. Lovely romantic composition with a nude young lady kneeling and holding a piece of white lace. Flamboyant magenta red drape background. The painting remains in its original frame, which features delicately carved wood, a gesso finish, an off-white wood liner, and glass protection. The piece is in good condition but has a dark stain and some small chips on the edges of the original wood frame. Measurements: With frame: 22.75 in. wide (58 cm) x 26 in. high (66 cm) Opening view: 14.50 in. wide (36.5 cm) x 17.75 in. (45 cm). Artist Biography: Pio Santini (1908-1986) Pio Santini was born on April 17, 1908, close to Rome, in Tivoli, Italy. He showed a precocious and pronounced artistic taste and gifts, to begin with, drawing and painting. From his childhood drawings, as early as 5 or 6 years old, he was gifted and had a technique above the average. As early as 1933, Pio Santini moved to Paris, in the Montparnasse district, also known as The Artists Area, where he settled in his first Parisian studio. He is recognized as a member of the Academy of Paris, a significant art movement in the first half of the 20th century, alongside Amedeo Modigliani and other Italian artists. While attending the classes of the Estienne School for further training in plastic art, Pio Santini started to attract attention in various Parisian Salons (particularly the Winter Salon, the Independents Salon, and the French Artists Salon) and to find a place in the Parisian universe of painting, as is shown in the press of the time. The Second World War, which pitted his country of birth against his adopted nation, created conflicting emotions in him. During this time, the concept of a united and reconciled Europe took root in his mind. In a way, he played a part in the resuming cultural exchanges between France and Italy by founding the association The Romans in Paris after the war, and especially by creating and animating the Villa D’Este Prize for about ten years, rewarding each year a French artist or writer by offering, a one month stay at the Villa, in Tivoli. Later, the Montparnasse Prize would reward Italian artists in Paris, in the same way. While devoting himself to painting, he worked as an art illustrator for edition and press and left us a rich but unrecognized work from this period. In the early 1960s, Pio Santini decided, imperiously and bravely, to live on his painting. A member of the Society of Independent Artists since 1934, he then actively participated in numerous collective exhibitions in France and abroad. He regularly exhibited in Parisian Salons, most of which he was a member: the Independents Salon, the Autumn Salon, the Winter Salon, the National Salon of the Fine Arts, and the Comparison Salon. A regular participant in the prestigious Salon des Artistes Français, he was often rewarded: Great Price of the Salon in 1970, then in 1974, a gold medal in 1971, and Prize-winner of the Ernest Marché Prize in 1974. Pio Santini lived his last years in his house in Garches, near Paris. He worked there until the last moment and died of illness at the age of 78. Keeping himself a part of the avant-garde of contemporary art, Pio Santini developed a personal work of formal coherence very steadily. He is a two-time artist, one of the beginnings of his career, the Thirties, and the other one, his rebirth, the Sixties, when the artist can again devote himself to painting. Between these two periods, the Second World War badly hit the pictorial growth of Pio Santini. However, everything had started under the best auspices for the young painter whose desire to devote himself to painting is evident in his self-portrait of 1928 as a manifesto. In the 1930s, following the revolutions of cubism, abstraction, and surrealism, figurative and sensual...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Board

Through the woods by Roger Descombes - Oil on canvas 77x78 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Landscape Beach Town Oil on Canvas Painting Signed by Artist Austin
Located in Plainview, NY
A stunning oil on canvas painting portraying a panoramic view of a town by the beach. The painting is finely framed in a decorative gilt frame and is signed by the artist Austin. D...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life Flower Bouquet Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Plainview, NY
A beautiful large still life flowers bouquet oil on canvas painting in the style of Michele Antonio Rapos (Turin 1733-1819) The piece of art features a dark deep green background and earthy toned colors. The frame is made of wood and painted in a antiqued copper color...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Old Man Walking in Nature
Located in Westport, CT
Nancy Lasar’s work is described as “drawing with light”, “condensed energy and flow”, “calm and crazy”, and “organized chaos”. The lines in Lasar’s works that are electrifying. They ...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Muslin, Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Graphite, Acrylic

The Demogogue
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Demagogue or Tale in a Tub, 1952, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches, signed, titled, and dated verso About the Painting The Demagogue is an iconic Bendor Mark painting from the prime of his post-war period. Beginning early in his career, Mark was fascinated with depictions of the human figure and their capacity to tell stories of the world around him. Mark was a keen observer of his times and in The Demagogue we see Mark’s portrayal of a faithless politician holding up a “V” for victory sign as he appeals to the wanton desires and prejudices of the masses. Below the demagogue is a swirl of humanity representing the common man who is being pushed down by the powerful, while the robed figure of liberty with her scales of justice held high is brushed aside. Behind the demagogue, Mark places two other powerful supporting institutions which were often co-opted by the world’s dictators, the Church and the Military. Mark was an internationalist, so it is difficult to know exactly which demagogue inspired him to create this work, but in 1952 there were many to choose from. Whether depicting Argentina’s Peron (the demagogue and the women to the right resemble Juan and Eva Peron), Spain’s Franco or the United States’ homegrown fear mongers like Joseph McCarthy, Mark tells a universal story that unfolded in dramatic fashion during the post-war period as nations and their peoples grappled with authoritarianism and anti-democratic impulses. Stylistically, The Demagogue draws on the elements which make Mark’s work from this period immediately recognizable, a saturated palette, a closely packed and frenetic composition, exaggerated figuration and stylized facial features. But, above all, we see Mark’s ability to tell the stories of the rich and powerful and their ability to oppress. Like Mark’s work in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art (The Hourglass - 1950-51) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Execution – 1940), The Demagogue pulls no punches, as the artist lays bare the threats to freedom and basic human rights. About the Artist Bendor Mark was an American modernist and social realist painter. Born as Bernard Marcus on June 5, 1912, in Brooklyn, New York, Mark trained at The Cooper Union during the 1920s where he studied with William Brantley van Ingen and became a prize-winning artist with a focus on painting the human figure. After his time at Cooper, Mark continued to live in New York and worked as a commercial artist and textile designer in addition to his pursuit of a career in painting. Like many Depression Era artists, Mark engaged with social progressives and in 1934, he joined the Artist’s Union which had the goal of advancing artists’ position as “worker.” Mark’s painting, Restaurant, which is now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, appeared in the February 1936 edition of the Union’s publication, Art Front, as part of a review of an exhibition at ACA Gallery in New York. Mark worked on the Federal Art Project and by the mid- to late-1930s, began a series of paintings exploring the working conditions and hazards of the mining industry. Mark believed that miners were “in the forefront of the struggle for emancipation” and that the mere “struggle for existence is like moving mountains.” He became passionate about the Spanish Civil War and painted sympathetic images in support of the Spanish Republic. Mark was a premature anti-fascist and throughout his career painted works critical of dictators and other oppressors. During the late 1930s, Mark entered mural competitions with designs influenced by the Mexican muralists, taught adult art education in Queens, New York, and was an instructor at the WPA’s Queensboro Art Center. He was so committed to socially progressive art that by 1934, he had changed his name to Bendor Mark, in part, to distinguish his social realist paintings from his earlier work. During World War II, Mark worked as an artist for military contractors. After the war, he was employed as a graphic artist and in the printing industry before moving to Southern California in 1948, where he returned to a fine art practice the following year with politically and socially charged images which reflected his view of the shortcomings of the post-War period, the continued threat of fascism, and the international tensions of the Cold War. As the mood of the country shifted towards the right during the McCarthy Era and the art world’s attention focused on abstraction at the expense of figuration, Mark’s career as a painter suffered. From the 1950s through the 1980s, Mark continued to depict the events that shaped the world around him, often employing a highly stylized approach characterized by dynamic multi-figure compositions, a subtle muted palette, and exaggerated expressive features. A review of Mark’s oeuvre suggests that few people escaped Mark’s attention. He painted presidents, prime ministers, royalty, evangelists, musicians, and dictators (and their henchman), along with miners, farm workers, the urban poor, protesters, the unemployed and dispossessed. He laid bare the arrogance, cruelty, and hypocrisy of the world’s elites. Mark noted, “A work of art cannot be fully appreciated or wholly understood without considering the socio-political and cultural ambience that gave it birth.” He continued, “I have the ability to foresee the direction of social and political events while they are actually taking place.” He was not himself a direct political activist, however. Although Mark commented, “It’s a misconception to separate art from the social aspect of life,” he viewed artists as being neutral. According to Mark, “An apolitical attitude reflects the fact that the artist is passive. . . An artist never affects society; he merely reflects it.” In addition to the Mexican Muralists, Mark was influenced by the old masters Rembrandt, Michelangelo, and Masaccio, as well as the more modern master, Van Gogh. Mark’s writings directly acknowledge these influences and archival material from his estate includes magazine articles, pamphlets and transparencies related to these artists. Mark also collected materials related to several of his social realist contemporaries, including Reginald Marsh, Ben Shahn, Leonard Baskin, and Raphael Soyer, who was Mark’s good friend. For years, Soyer sent Mark holiday cards and Soyer inscribed a message of friendship on a self-portrait he gifted to Mark in the 1970s, all of which are still held in the collection of Mark’s family. From the late 1920s through the mid-1950s, Mark’s work was well received. His paintings won prizes and were accepted into major juried exhibitions including at the Brooklyn Museum, the New York World’s Fair and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He gained national recognition for paintings depicting the oppressed and the common worker. Despite the decline in popularity of representational art during the 1950s and 1960s, Mark stayed true to his interest in depicting the human figure and by the last two decades of his life, his work underwent a reassessment as curators included Mark’s paintings in exhibitions showcasing the role of labor in art during the Depression Era. This recognition continued in recent years when Mark was honored by having his work included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s ground-breaking exhibition, Vida Americana, which explored the pioneering role that the Mexican muralists played in the development of modern American art during the inter-war period. The influence of Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco on Mark is unmistakable and his paintings from the 1950s (and beyond) sit comfortably in dialogue with other Los Angeles artists who continued to paint in the social realist tradition long after the mainstream art world had moved toward abstraction. Mark’s concern for underserved Brown and Black communities was shared with artists such as Charles White and his ally, Edward Biberman...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Still Life - Oil Painting by Claude Deschamps - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Still Life is a painting realized by Claude Deschamps in the 1970s Oil painting on cardboard canvas. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions....
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Coral Flowers - Oil Paint by Elena Mardashova - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Original oil painting on canvas, realized by Elena Mardashova in 2023. Perfect condition.
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Antique American School Signed Framed Modernist Nature Abstract Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 5.5L x 7.5H.
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Trees at Bloom
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Trees at Bloom, 1939, oil on canvas, 32 x 24 inches, signed lower right About the Painting Trees at Bloom was painted when Clarence Holbrook Carter lived in Pittsburgh and served as an instructor in the Department of Painting and Design at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University), a position he held from 1938 through 1944. It depicts a thick forest at the base of distance hills just outside the city. During his tenure in Pittsburgh, Carter was deeply influenced by not only the industrial might of the steel mills and iron forges of the city, but also the beauty of the surrounding landscape. As Frank Anderson Trapp noted in his book on the artist, for Carter “the terrain itself had its own special vitality, with its craggy, wooded hills threaded with ravine and watercourses . . . . the signs of industrial blight that were unalleviated in some parts of the country were there relieved by the geological variety of the parent landscape, and by the irrepressible presence of its natural growth, which softened the whole.” Trapp continues, “in his scenes of rural situations, Carter had a special gift for rendering those elements convincingly.” With the profusion of flowering trees which diffuse the light and the red cardinals darting from one branch to another, Trees at Bloom portrays the “irrepressible presence of nature” that Trapp describes. About the Artist Together with Charles Burchfield, Clarence Holbrook Carter was Ohio’s premiere American Scene painter and later an innovative magic realist. The son of a no-nonsense public-school administrator, Carter was born in 1904 outside of Portsmouth, Ohio, a small town in the heart of the Ohio River...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mother and Child -- 1949
Located in Washington, DC
Bryon Browne was an important American modernist painter. Signed upper right; signed, dated and situated 'New York' on reverse
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA
Located in New York, NY
House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Mixing Mortar 12 1/2 X 14 3/4 inche...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Gouache, Board

'The Water Carriers', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Académie des Beaux-Arts, New York
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'J. P. Serrier' for Jean Pierre Serrier (French, 1934-1989) and dated 1966 Jean-Pierre Serrier was born in Montparnasse and attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts ...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Masonite, Oil

Large Modernist Paris Street Scene Wine Shop Montmartre Cafe Ladies Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 32 x 26 image 22 x 16 Charles Levier (1920-2004) He was born in 1920 of a French father and American mother in Corsica. He held a fascination with color and form that led him...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Lithograph

Magdalene College, Cambridge III painting by Margaret Souttar
Located in London, GB
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Harmony in Minor Key
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower right: Luigi Lucioni 1973
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Still Life', Paris, Académie Julian, Salon des Indépendants, Salon d'Automne
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Bertalan' for Albert Bertalan (Hungarian, 1899-1956) and dated 1929. Displayed in a period, birds-eye maple frame; frame size: 26 x 30 inches An elegant, oil st...
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1920s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Queens' College, Cambridge II painting by Margaret Souttar
Located in London, GB
To see our other views of Oxford and Cambridge, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the view you want. Margaret Souttar (1914 – 1987) Queens' College, Cambridge II Acrylic paint 55 x 75 cm Souttar was a Scottish painter and printmaker known for her images of town- and cityscapes. In the early 1960s, she was commissioned to produce a series of prints of the Cambridge colleges...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

East Santa Cruz (California), Farm House with Storm Clouds Landscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"East Santa Cruz (California)" is an oil on canvas board by Jon Blanchette (1908-1987) of a yellow farm house with dark gray storm clouds overhead. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 21 ¾ x 25 ¾ x 1 ½ inches. Image size is 16 x 20 inches. Painting is in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Jon Blanchette Born England, 1908 Died California, 1987 Jon Blanchette was born in Somerset, England on March 29, 1908. He immigrated to Battle Creek, Michigan in 1918. Artistically inclined at age six, he later studied at the Pittsburgh Art...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Captivating "Visitation" William Shields' Masterpiece of Modern Abstract Art
Located in Arp, TX
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010 "Visitation" 1994 Mixed media on canvas 48"x48" artist framed Signed lower right William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010 He was born in san Francisco, in 1931, Bill moved to Texas, where he grew up. Moved to New York in 1940 and later joined the Naval Air Corps at the age of 18. He served as an Aviation Cadet in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945. At the end of WWII, Bill returned to Texas. At 21, Bill re-focused his energy and enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Art as an Illustration major. What followed was a whirlwind of success, great friendships and a sense of belonging he had never before experienced. Art was his calling and the art-world could not have been less prepared for the likes of Bill Shields. He took them by storm, first Houston, then San Francisco, followed by New York in the late 60's. For 35 years, Bill produced some of the country's best illustrations: fresh, playful, loose and innovative. His illustrations were coveted by such clients as Bantam Books, Time Life, MacMillan Publishing Co., and were awarded numerous gold medals by the Societies of Illustrators in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the Houston Artists Guild. Later, following inspirational trips to Mexico and France, Bill shifted his attention to the self-directed world of fine art. After years of sculpting, making assemblages, painting nudes and landscapes, he settled on the exploration of large abstract oil paintings. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, Connecticut and New York. CV EDUCATION: Chicago Academy Of Fine Art San Antonio Art Institute MAJOR FIELDS OF PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVOR: Freelance graphic design and illustration Instructor of painting and illustration Landscape, figurative and abstract painting ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT: (Professor of Art) California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Art Institute San Jose State University AWARDS FOR ILLUSTRATION, Gold Medals: New York Society of Illustrators Los Angeles Society of Illustrators San Francisco Society of Illustrators Dallas-Fort Worth Art Director's Club Houston Artist's Guild BIBLIOGRAPHY: Feature articles in: American Artist, Communication Arts, Print, North Light. Architectural design featured in: Better Homes and Gardens, American Home, Sunset Magazine, Architectural Digest. ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS: Oil Companies: Champlin Oil Company, Mobil Oil Company, Continental Oil Company, Standard Oil Company, Humble Oil...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Panel

The Betrothal Ring
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower left: WARREN B. DAVIS 06
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modernist Abstract Still Life Interior View Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract still life oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 22L x 13H. Signed.
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

“Seduction", Lady Intoxicated by the Music Played by the Man Figurative Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This is an original painting on canvas by French artist Françoise Collandre. A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre entered...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Large American School Modernist Nude Woman Fauvist Modern Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Up for sale here is a great modernist portrait painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1920. Painted in a wonderful modernist style. Framed. Image size 28 x 44.
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1910s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Landscape 1954 American Modernist from Paul Rosenberg Gallery
By Raymond Mintz
Located in Surfside, FL
Label verso from Paul Rosenberg Gallery. (this was 600$ in 1954!) 18 X 26 without frame. 19 X 27.75 with frame Raymond was born in Clifton, New Jersey, in 1925, of German descent. ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Monogrammed Modernist Signed American School Abstract Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape painting. Monogrammed. "E" lower right. Framed. Image size, 12L x 9.5H.
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

La Crue a Monaco, Le Roche, Villa and Garden at Monte Carlo
Located in Cotignac, FR
An oil on board view of a villa and garden in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The painting is signed bottom left but as yet undeciphered, presented in wood frame with inscription and trade labe...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Magdalene College, Cambridge I painting by Margaret Souttar
Located in London, GB
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Columbian Catalina Oil on Canvas Painting Signed Sonia Bulley
Located in Plainview, NY
An elegant oil on Canvas painting featuring columbian catalina flower. The painting is nicely framed in a custom wooden frame and is signed by the artist Sonia Bulley.
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Figurative landscape oil painting- Purple Memory
Located in Beijing, CN
Dai Xiangwen was born in Hunan in 1991 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Jianghan University, He is a member of China Artists Association, China Designers Association, a painter of Li Keran...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950's Modernist Painting - French Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century), stamped verso original watercolour/gouache painting on paper overall size: 13 x 19.75 inches condition: very good and re...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Vieillesse, French Portrait of an Elderly Jewish Man
Located in Surfside, FL
1949 French Portrait of an Elderly Jewish Man, Signed Stern
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Young Oriental Woman Looking at the Mirror-Oil on Canvas - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
A young woman is an original modern artwork realized in Late 19th Century. Mixed colored oil on canvas. The artwork depicts a young woman with veil and mirror. Unreadible signatur...
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19th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Endless Fields, Landscape painting, Original art, Gerhard Richter Style Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Endless Fields is a contemporary artwork by emerging artist and painter Fleur Park. Fleur Park's art is influenced by the push and pull of her country life vs her old city life. The ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century c. 1930s
Located in New York, NY
American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Oil Terminal Lamp Magazine, published, c. 1930s. 15 3/4 X 12 inches (image) 18 X 14 inches board Gouache on board Signed lower right unframed BIOGRAPHY: Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests. In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s. ‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune. Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
Category

1930s Modern Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Madonna of the Picture, 1930s Framed Figural Devotional New Mexico Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Original 1939 oil painting by New Mexico modernist, Howard Schleeter (1903-1976), Madonna of the Picture includes a santo of the Virgin Mary, a still life of flowers in a vase and a crucifix. Presented in a custom hand-carved frame, outer dimensions measure 21 x 17 x 2 inches. Image size is 16 x 12 inches. Painting is clean and in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a complete condition report. Provenance: Private Collection, California Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Howard Schleeter, the son of a commercial artist, studied formally at the Albright Art School in his hometown of Buffalo, New York. However, his studies at Albright were brief and the artist considered himself to be primarily self-taught. He later met Charles Lindbergh while working as an airplane mechanic. However, he soon chose to make his living entirely as an artist and, in 1929, he traveled to New Mexico. The following year he married and the couple made New Mexico their permanent home. Schleeter studied under Brooks Willis during the 1930's and worked in several mediums including gouache, watercolor, oil, scratchboard and engraving. The Great Depression took its toll on Schleeter who occasionally found work digging ditches to make ends meet. In 1936, his financial status greatly improved when he received the first of several commissions from the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Though he worked primarily in abstraction, the five murals he completed for a WPA commission in the Melrose Public School library are realistic depictions of the West. He worked on several more New Deal commissions during the years of 1936 and 1942 in locations including Santa Fe, Clayton, and Washington D.C. During this time, Schleeter furthered his income by teaching at a Las Vegas, New Mexico, art gallery during 1938 and 1939. In 1945, the Encyclopedia Britannica referred to Schleeter as "an artist's artist." He also received local attention when he became one of the first artists chosen by Peter Hurd and Jane Mabry for his significant contributions to New Mexico's art. Schleeter taught at the University of New Mexico during 1950-1951 and 1954. Member: Art League of New Mexico Exhibited: Kansas Art Institute, 1936-1938; New Mexico State Fair, 1939 (prize); New Mexico Art League, 1939 (prize); Cedar City, New Mexico, 1941-1946; Philadelphia Artist Alliance, 1945 (solo); deYoung Memorial Museum, 1946; Art Institute of Chicago, 1947; Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1951 (purchase prize), 1955 (purchase prize); Vienna, Austria, 1952; Guggenheim Museum, 1954; Karlsruhe Museum, Germany, 1955; Stanford University, 1955 (solo); New Mexico Highlands University, 1957 (purchase prize); Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1958; Swope Art Gallery Works Held: A&M College, New Mexico (mural); Art League of New Mexico; Cedar City Institute of Religion; Encyclopaedia Britannica; Miners Hospital, Raton, New Mexico (mural); Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; Research Studio, Maitland, Florida; University of New Mexico Further Reading: Artists of 20th-Century New Mexico: the Museum of Fine Arts Collection, Museum of New Mexico Press for the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, 1992.; The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West, Peggy and Harold Samuels, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1976.; Taos and Santa Fe: the Artist's Environment, 1882-1942, Van Deren Coke, University of New Mexico Press for the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, TX and the Art Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM: 1963.; Treasures on New Mexico Trails: Discover New Deal Art and Architecture: Kathryn A. Flynn ed., Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, NM: 1995.; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Vol. 1. Peter Hastings Falk, Georgia Kuchen and Veronica Roessler, eds.,Sound View Press, Madison, Connecticut, 1999. 3 Vols. ©David Cook...
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1930s Modern Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

1970s Abstract Figurative Framed Oil Painting, Modernist City Scene With Couple
Located in Denver, CO
1950s oil on board painting by George Cecil Carter portraying a modernist couple, thought to be Alfred Stieglitz & Georgia O'Keefe. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 20 ⅝ x 13 ½ x 1 ⅞ inches. Image sight size is 16 ⅞ x 9 ⅞ inches. Painting is clean and in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a complete condition report. Provenance: Private Collection, Denver Colorado Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: George Cecil Carter was born in Oklahoma in 1908 and became a noted Colorado abstract expressionist alongside contemporaries including Al Wynne, Mary Chenoweth...
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1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

The Bass Season by John Atherton
Located in New Orleans, LA
John Atherton 1900-1952 American The Bass Season Saturday Evening Post cover, June 29, 1946 Signed "Atherton" (lower right) Inscribed "The Bass Season opens in the east July 1st /...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Italian Modernist Abstract Flower Still Life Pop Art Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Italian modernist flower still life oil painting by Giorgio Celiberti (1929 - 1960). Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Signed on verso. Displayed ...
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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist Rabbi Judaica Painting on Gold Background
Located in Surfside, FL
A contorted Rabbi looking upward is depicted in a naive, and almost child-like manner. Vibrant colors, and gestural brushstrokes fill the composition, enhancing the flatness of the figure. Harry Sternberg, artist, teacher, and political activist was born in New York City's lower east side in 1904. He was the youngest of eight children born to his mother, a hungarian immigrant, and his father, an immigrant from Russia, . His passion for art came early; by age 12 he had begun saturday art classes at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Sternberg continued to advance his formal art education through 1922, studying at at New York's prestigious Arts Students League alongside Raphael Soyer, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and other notables of the day. His career as a professional artist began in 1928 when he consigned a group of his early prints with the dealer Frederick Keppel in New York. In 1933 he returned to the Art Students League of New York as an instructor, where he taught etching, lithography and composition, continuing to teach there for over 34 years. During the Great Depression he was a WPA artist, and his murals are in post offices in Chicago, Chester and Sellersville, Pennsylvania. Sternberg came to national prominence as a printmaker, painter, and muralist, in the Depression era and during World War II. Sternberg was an acclaimed member of a vital generation of American artists dedicated to exposing social injustices and offering support for an egalitarian society. His interest in the plight of American workers...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Illustration Board

English late 20th century, field mouse in a landscape eating a nut.
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful English late 20th century Field Mouse in a landscape. Signed and dated 1981 Chris Howells was born in 1947 and passed away in 2013. He studied Graphic Design at Stourbrid...
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1980s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Clown, Early 20th Century Playful Oil Painting on Board
Located in Surfside, FL
This portrait of a clown by Maurice Kish is part from a series of carnival figures, circus clowns and carousel horses and riders that he did in the 30s and 40s. The artist uses a vibrant color palette and controlled brushstrokes to depict the subject in a realistic way. The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subverts expectations. His vision hovers just around the unraveling edge of things, where what is solid and clear becomes ambiguous. He is fascinated, often delighted, by the falling apart. This unexpected, fresh perspective results in oddly affecting pictures of a now long-gone New York. Born Moishe in a town called Dvinsk, Russia (what is now Daugavpils, Latvia), Kish came with his family to New York when he was in his teens. The family settled in Brownsville, and for the rest of Kish’s life Brooklyn remained his home, though he moved from one neighborhood to another. He was close to his parents, who recognized his talent and supported his desire to become an artist. Kish attended the National Academy of Design as well as Cooper Union. His fellow students included many other immigrants and children of immigrants who were particularly receptive to the Modernism coming from Europe. As his career progressed, Kish himself applied different strains of Modernism to different purposes. For him, the story was held above all else. For years, Kish used the skills he acquired in art school to earn his living at a Manhattan glass...
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Country landscape and peasants mowing hay
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Beige wooden frame 61 x 78.5 x 5 cm
Category

Early 1900s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rome with St Peter - Oil Panting by Follower of G. Van Wittel - 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Rome with St Peter is an oil paint on canvas realized by a follower of Gaspar Van Wittel in 19th century. The artwork depicts a view of St. Peter in Rome. ...
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19th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid-Century Modern Man - Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Subtle and moody portrait of a Pensive man by Joan Tidwell (American, 1930-2002). The sitter in the portrait is a middle-aged man looking slightly downwards, wearing a collared shirt. This piece is completed in a tan and green palette, creating a somber feeling. Of particular note are the confident, thick brushstrokes - each one is well-placed in the modernist style. Similar in some ways to Picasso's portraits. Signed "Joan Tidwell" on verso Unframed. Canvas size: 30"H x 22"W oan Gay Tidwell (American, 1930-2002) was born and raised in Hollywood, CA, where she had some success as a child actor. Later, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Washington with a Master's Degree in English Literature and Drama. Tidwell moved to the Bay...
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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Aragua, Abstract Painting, Contemporary Red Blue and Green Art, Statement Art
Located in Deddington, GB
This is an original abstract acrylic painting on canvas. Discover new works by Julia Craig available to buy online and in our art gallery. Julia is an abstract artist whose love of c...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Morning Coffee", Portrait of People Street Background Figurative Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Original painting on canvas by French artist Françoise Collandre. A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre entered the fine a...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Modern paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Modern 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, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Bernard Labbe, Christel Haag, Sunil Das, and Antonio Feltrinelli. 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 Modern paintings, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available.

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