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
Portrait of a Man
By Yvonne Guégan
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Man', oil on canvas, by Yvonne Guégan (circa 1970s). This is not a portrait of the reclusive billionaire, Howard Hughes. Regrettably, we d...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peter Collins ARCA: 'Still Life with a Fruit Bowl' 20th century oil painting
Located in London, GB
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Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting - Busy Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021),
Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to P...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ancient View of the Bay of Naples - Oil Painting - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View over the Bay of Naples is an orginal old master artwork realized by Master of Northern Europe School of the second half of 19th Century.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Relined....
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Mid Century Modern Kitchen Still Life Original OilPainting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 14L x 8H. Signed.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Drawing Bearded Man Ecole D'Paris, WPA, Bezalel Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled t...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Autumn Nocturne" - Abstracted Forest Landscape in Oil on Artist's Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted fall landscape by Claire Weist (American, 1930-2014). Bare treetrunks and limbs crisscross the composition, creating a contrast between dark lines and bold color. Warm reds and yellows fill in the spaces between the limbs. Beyond the foliage, a grey sky can be seen.
Signed and dated "Weist 69" in the lower right corner.
Title and artist's name on verso.
No frame.
Board size: 16"H x 20"W
Claire Weist (American, 1930-2014) was an artist known primarily for her watercolor compositions. She won several awards throughout her career, including the jury award for graphics from the Illinois Watercolor Society. Weist was originally from the Boston area and studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and then Harvard. After spending time teaching art and as an illustrator, Weist moved to Crete, Illinois and opened her own studio, where she spent the remainder of her professional career.
Education:
1949-50 Lomma, Sweden
1951, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1953, B.F.A. Degree, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Work:
1953, Commercial Artist, Vincent Edwards Art Agency, Boston, MA
1954-1957, Art Editor and Illustrator, Baby Post Magazine, New York, NY
1960-1964, Painter and Art Teacher, Lynchburg, VA
1965-1971, Book and Magazine Illustrator, Delafield, WI
1972, Studio, Crete, IL
Exhibitions and Memberships:
1971 - Alverno Art Fair, Milwaukee, WI
1971 - Elmwood Plaza Art Fair (Best in Show), Racine WI
1971 - Brookfield Square Winter Art Show (First Place, Watercolors), Waukesha, WI
1973 - Marathon County Historical Museum, Wausau, WI
1982 - Park Forest Art Fair, Park Forest, IL
Member, Wisconsin Watercolor Society
Member, Kettle Moraine...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Portrait of a Young Man, Oil Painting by Stanley Mitruk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stanley Mitruk, American (1922 - 2006)
Title: Portrait of a Young Man
Year: 1952
Medium: Oil Painting, signed and dated verso
Size: 40 x 23 inches
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting, Portrait with Auburn Hair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021),
Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Madame in the Blossom Garden - Tempera on Paper by Lucie Navier - 1931
By Lucie Navier
Located in Roma, IT
Madame in the blossom garden is an original painting realized by Lucie Navier in the 1931.
Original tempera on paper.
Very good conditions.
Colorful composition representing a f...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Untitled, Figurative, Pen & Ink on Paper by Artist Somnath Hore "In Stock"
By Somnath Hore
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Somnath Hore - Untitled
Pen & Ink on Paper, 10.6 x 6.7 inches, 25-03-1987
(Unframed & Delivered)
Inclusive of shipment mounted not framed, Should you wish to receive the same framed...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Cocktail glass
By René Guinand
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
White wooden flush frame
51 x 62.5 x 2.5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape - Watercolor by Alfonso Avanessian - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original watercolour on paper realized by Alfonso Avanessian in the 1990s.
The piece is hand signed lower right.
Good condition.
...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Sepia French Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 10.5 x 21 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Stormy Sea - Mixed colored Oil on Canvas - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Stormy sea is an original modern artwork realized by Artist of Northern Europe School of the mid-19th Century.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Includes frame.
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in Red - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in red is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s.
Original oil on plywood.
Beautiful and representative artwork of a female figu...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitle, 2020
By Donya MOTEDAYEN
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Painter & Graphic designer
DM Art Studio
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
flowers from evergood, bright figure domestic setting predominantly red painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on wood by Stephen Basso
Narrative work, woman in chair in interior setting
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Dreaming Woman - Original hansigned oil on paper
By René Genis
Located in Paris, FR
Rene GENIS (1922-2004)
Dreaming Woman
Original watercolor and oil painting on paper
Signed bottom middle
32 x 25 cm (c. 13 x 10 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950's Big Modernist/ Cubist Painting - The Band On The Terrace
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, mounted in a card frame
size: 17 x 22 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoye...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
River Landscape with Bystanders - Oil on canvas - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
River Landscape with Bystanders is an original old master artwork realized by Artist of 18th Century.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
The painting is approachable to traditio...
Category
18th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Little girl with red curls
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
39 x 34 x 3 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Return from the hunt for the blue vase
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
92.3 x 60.5 x 2.5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Modern Sumptuous Interior Scene Signed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist interior scene with a kitchen still life by Johannes Gecelli (1925 - 2011) . Oil on board. Signed and dated lower right and verso. 24 3/8 x 32 1/8. Nicely framed.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman with Parrot - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman with parrot is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Includes frame
Not ...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
Portrait of Child on a Car - Oil Painting - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Child on a Car is an original moder artwork realized between the late 19th and the 20th century by an italian Master.
Mixed colored oil...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Non Angli sed Angeli - Original Lithograph after G. Scharf and E. Webb - 1846
Located in Roma, IT
Non Angli sed Angeli is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by G. Scharf and E. Webb.
The state of preservation of the artwork is good.
On the lower left margin...
Category
1840s Modern Paintings
Materials
Offset
Still Life - Oil Painting by Edward Ladell - 1870 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a superb original oil painting on panel, realized around 1870 by the British artist Edward Ladell (1821-1886), the best known English still-life artist.
The artwork r...
Category
1870s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Through The Woodland
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache on artist paper, unframed
Mounted on card frame
size: 17 x 11 inches
condition: very good an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
The Woman on Sofa - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Woman on Sofa is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Not signed.
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – G...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two Orientalist Subjects -Oil on Panel by A. Momo Simonetti - Early 20th Century
By Amedeo Momo Simonetti
Located in Roma, IT
Two Orientalist Subjects is an original modern artwork realized in the early 20th Century by Amedeo Momo Simonetti.
Oil on Board.
Includes a be...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Nude Lady Model / Double Sided image
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021),
Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Boy in Bloomers
Located in London, GB
'French Boy in Bloomers', gouache on art paper (circa 1960s-70s), by Raymond Debiève. A young boy emerges from a beach cabana wearing a bloomer bathing costume that was still in use ...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Cattery by Orovida Pissarro - Animal painting
Located in London, GB
The Cattery by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil and pencil on canvas
61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 ⅛ inches)
Signed and dated upper right Orovida 1964
Provenance
Estate of the artist
G Hassel...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pencil
The bridge
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Golden wooden frame
36 x 43 x 6 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Primus Mixed Media on Panel
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Primus
Artist signed, acrylic and collage on panel, 1993
28x27 with the frame 38x38
Patrick Archer (b. 1926). Archer studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts (MFA). 2002
Philip Hulitar Award, Society of 4-Arts, Palm Beach, FL (A national Contemporary Painting competition)
Graduate- Arts & Crafts in Oakland, CA
Undergraduate- Principia in Elsah, IL
Exhibitions:
2002 Merrill Lynch...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Panel
Into the tunnel - Oil Painting by Isidore Odorico - Early-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Into the tunnel is an original modern artwork realized by Isidore Odorico (1893-1945) in the early 20th Century.
Oil on board.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes frame
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
MUDDY MOON FIRE
Located in Lafayette, LA
This painting is entitled money Moonfire. It depicts a campfire that has moons in the flames. In the background there is swirls depicting the rushing water of the Mississippi.
Signe...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Surreal Street Scene Unsigned Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene painting. Oil on board, circa 1930. Unsigned. Image size, 24L x 20H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Gouache
Starred Cloud
By David Hayes
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on paper
signed en verso
Throughout his sixty-year artistic career, David Hayes created sculptural forms abstracted from organic forms encountered in daily life. He first studied with American sculptor David Smith, who was among the first to work with welded steel. Hayes' sculptures have affinities to Alexander Calder's playful stabiles (Hayes met Calder in Paris) and to the shapes and colors of Matisse's late paper cutouts. Hayes works are firmly rooted in modern artists' interests in industrial materials and in commercial fabrication processes.
He has had more than 400 exhibitions of his work. His work is in more than 70 museum collections, including MOMA and the Guggenheim.
Throughout his career, Hayes painted models for his sculptures and sculptural-like landscapes of the geography surrounding his home in Northwestern Connecticut. In these landscapes, the gently rolling hills become modernist forms and shapes, recognizable as landscapes but also as explorations of shape and color. These are intriguing works of art in and of themselves. Lawrence Fine Art...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mid Century Abstract
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Unsigned. Image size, 37"L x 25"H.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting American Modernist Landscape Pond Tree
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949)
This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not.
Thes...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Reading Woman - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Reading Woman is a beautiful and impressive oil on canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli.
It was realized between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s and represents a reading...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
Haitian Scene #7 Mid Century modern painting by renowned artist, signed AA label
By Adolf Dehn
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Arthur Dehn
Haitian Scene #7, ca. 1951
Watercolor gouache, hand signed; framed with AAA Gallery label verso
Signed on the front bearing the origina...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Mixed Media
The mermaid who couldn't climb the iceberg . Framed painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The mermaid who couldn't climb the iceberg painting by Suzzane Law
Image size: 12.6 in. H x 17.1 in W
Framse size: 18.1 in. H x 22.4 in W x 1 in D
W...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Port de Mallorca, Palma by Pierre Desaules - Gouache on paper 29x44 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
51,5 x 66 x 3,5 cm
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Countryside landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Head with Figure, 2008
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mersad Berber was a Bosnian painter and printmaker. Known for his particularly skilled draughtsmanship in depicting historical and contemporary Bosnian events, Berber frequently empl...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Victor, Colorado, 1940s Modernist Mountain Landscape with Town, Mining Town
By Martyl Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf
Located in Denver, CO
'Victor, Colorado', 1942 oil painting on masonite by Martyl Suzanne Schweig (1918-2013). This classic Colorado landscape was painted overlooking a ghost town with the Rocky Mountains visible across the background, completed in rich tones of green, gold, and brown. This painting was completed on a trip with fellow artist, Adolph Dehn...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Universal - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Universal bank is an original modern artwrok realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
The artwork depicts a portrait of a woman.
Antonio...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
Blue Landscape - Oil on Canvas by Mario Asnago - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Blue landscape is an original contemporary artwork by Mario Asnago (1896-1981).
Mixed colored oil painting.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes frame.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Oil on Canvas. Harbour scene. Farewell to the Fishermen.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th century oil on canvas of a crowded harbour scene, showing the local fisherman or sailors saying farewell to their families before going to sea. The painting is signed bottom right but the artist remains as yet unidentified.
A colourful yet slightly brooding and dreamlike painting. The figures are faceless and the shapes loose and undefined reminiscent of the works by Balthus who in turn was influenced by LS Lowry and his scenes of industrial districts. The colours are deep and glowing and the shapes of the figures are rounded giving a sense of warmth and evoking the quality of light seen at either dawn or dusk.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his imagery.
Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of North West England in the mid-20th century. He developed a distinctive style of painting and is best known for his urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as "matchstick men".
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The park house by I. Ch. Goetz - Oil on canvas 46x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas without frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl with red hair. 1996. Oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Girl with red hair. 1996. Oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm
This depiction of young nude woman with red hair on green-pink-blue background shows the artist as a master of forms and color field areas.
Laimdots Murnieks...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Modern Abstract Green and Purple Wild Brush Landscape Painting of Sun and Trees
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract green and purple toned landscape painting by American artist Jane Tate. The work features a wild grove of trees and brush with the sun framed...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mixture - Tempera on paper - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Tempera on paper realized by the italian artist Contempologyc in 2021.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Angela’s Kitchen Table
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
ROBINSON , Geoffrey (b.1945)
Angela’s Kitchen Table
Image: 51.5 x 61.5 cm
Frame: 66.5 x 76.0 cm
Unglazed
Geoffrey Robinson trained at Bournemou...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Screen
Carmicael Graphic Oil Painting
Located in Pasadena, CA
"Hope is all we have but if we believe it is enough"
A statement piece and graphic painting full of emotion and color by Jae Carmichel (1925-2005)
Jae Carmichael, painter, sculptor, photographer, writer, and independent filmmaker. She was the founding director of Pasadena's Pacific Asia Museum. She staged more than 200 solo exhibitions in galleries in Los Angeles, Japan, and Europe and has works included in permanent collections of the Oakland Museum of California, the Long Beach Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.
She studied art with Francis de Erdely, Millard, Sheets, Phil...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
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