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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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Untitled, Figurative, Ink, Brush, Dry Pastel on Paper Jogen Chowdhury "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury - Untitled, 14 x 11 inches ( Unframed Size ) Ink with Brush & Dry Pastel on Paper, 2014 Style : He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India. Jogen Chowdhury had developed his individual style after his return from Paris. Jogen Chowdhury has been widely acknowledged to be, the master of the unbroken line. Like Léger, Chowdhury has been stirred by the linear Kalighat pat tradition, but his lines are emotive and used to express and suggest the character of a person. This is done by, distorting the form without breaking the line and in the world of young, contemporary art; distortion has been Jogen Chowdhury’s most significant impact. Perhaps, because of this, a common observation of his work is that his “people” are caricatures. The person feels familiar to the viewer but it is far more individualised - the face is imaginary but the psyche or characteristics are real. The power and beauty of his technique and line is this play between the known and unknown. In Jogen Chowdhury’s work, the figure is always in the foreground, it is primary, it conveys everything. He uses colour to give volume to his figures and the fluidity of his lines bring a sensual aspect to his forms. About the Artist & his works : Born : 1939 in Daharpara Village, Faridpur, Bangladesh. Jogen Chowdhury is an eminent Indian painter and considered an important painter of 21st century India. Family Background: His father Pramatnath Chowdhury was a Brahmin zamindar. Both his parents took interest in art, Jogen Chowdhury's father Pramatnath Chowdhury painted several mythological scenes from the village theatres and also sculpted various Hindu icons. Whereas his mother was an expert in Alpana drawings. 1939-47 Jogen Chowdhury lived in a village atmosphere. And after partition in 1948, the whole family shifted. Till 1951 the whole family stayed at the police department quarter of his uncle, where on the walls Jogen Chowdhury painted his first painting, 1962 Jogen Chowdhury was employed as Designer in the Handloom Board. Education: 1955-60: Studied at the Government College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata. 1965 : He went to paris to study in Ecole des Beaux Arts, in William Hayter’s Atelier 17. Professional Experience: 1968-72 : He worked as an Art-Designer, Madras Handloom Board, Madras. 1970 : A collection of his poems were published, titled 'Hridoy Train Beje Othey'. 1987 : Joined Kala Bhavan , Santiniketan as a professor of painting. Selected Exhibitions: 1972, 1975 & 1978 respectively : I, III, IV Triennales at New Delhi . 1979: The Sao Paolo Biennale . 1980: The exhibitions at the Fukuoka Museum, Japan. 1982: The Royal Academy, London. 1982: The Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D.C. 1986: The II Havana Biennale 1989: 'Festival of India', in Geneva 2002: Saffron art...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Ink, Pastel, Paper

Eucalyptus Trees, Sunset Coastal Landscape Watercolor by Kipp Stewart
Located in Soquel, CA
"Shoreline", Modern Coastal Landscape Eucalyptus Trees, Sunset Coastal Landscape Watercolor by Kipp Stewart (American, b. 1928), late 20th century. This vivid scene uses a soft and dreamy polychromatic palette of golden rod yellow, subdued purple, and dark green. Acrylic on natural edge paper. Signed in the lower right, "Stewart". Tag on verso with title ("Shoreline"), artist's name, size, and materials. Presented in a light wood frame, mounted on a white background. Image size: 12.75"H x 17.5"W. Paper size: 23"H x 30"W. Framed size: 30.5"H x 38"W x 1.25"D. Kipp Stewart (American, b. 1928) is an artist, architect, and designer from Pennsylvania. Known to furniture obsessives for the Declaration series he codesigned for North Carolina’s Drexel Furniture, Stewart is most commonly associated with mid-century design movements of his adopted home state of California. There, in 1972, Stewart designed the Ventana Big Sur, a luxury resort near Montecito for which he oversaw architecture, planning, furniture and interior design across 160 acres of land. By the time Stewart spearheaded the Ventana, he was already well versed in furniture design. After briefly serving in the U.S. Navy as a teenager, Stewart enrolled at the Chouinard Art Institute (present-day Cal Arts) in Los Angeles. By the time he graduated, he was steeped in the world of modern seating design, experimenting with new chair models that bridged form and function. Charles and Ray Eames were important influences on his early work, which included a chrome-framed lounge chair whose reclined shape bears a striking resemblance to the Eames iconic lounge. In the late 1950s, Stewart partnered with another West Coast furniture designer, Stewart MacDougall, on a line of modern furniture for Drexel. (The pair were also producing case pieces and more for Glenn of California.) Drexel soon unveiled Stewart and McDougall’s Declaration line, which was constructed entirely of natural walnut and featured the choice of white porcelain or brass drawer pulls and cabinet door handles...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Still Life Watercolour - The Teapot
Located in Bristol, GB
THE TEAPOT Size: 58 x 56 cm (including frame) Watercolour An elegant and gentle still life painted in watercolour. A teapot, a pitcher, a plate of fruits, and a garlic glove are la...
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1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Family of Farmers by the Barn
Located in Surfside, FL
Barn in a serene landscape, oil painting.
Category

20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Dartmoor, Modern British Style Painting, Devonshire UK Landscape Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
A view across Dartmoor in early autumn. Artist Tim Woodcock-Jones original paintings are available for sale with Wychwood Art. Discover new paintings for sale by Tim. Tim Woodcock-Jo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Queen, Pen & Ink on Paper, B/W Colors by Indian K.M. Adimoolam "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
K. M. Adimoolam - Queen - 19 x 13 inches (Unframed Size) Pen & Ink on Paper , 1998 Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Should you want it framed and ready to hang .. please let us know and we will be happy to assist. About the Artist and his work : Born : K. M. Adimoolam (1938 – 2008) was a well-known Indian abstract artist. He was born in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. Education : 1959 - He moved to Chennai where under the influence of the sculptor Dhanapal, he enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts. 1966 - Completed his Diploma in Advanced Painting. Art Career : He had a natural aptitude for drawing at an early age. After completing his Diploma in Advanced Painting, Adimoolam started a series of black and white portraits of Mahatma Gandhi...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pen

The Old Port Marseille
Located in London, GB
'The Old Port Marseille', oil on canvas, by Françoise Pirró (circa 1970s-80s). The way the artist employs her thick brush strokes and palette knife wit...
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1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Farm and marsh at the foot of the Salève
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 73 x 56 x 3.5 cm
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

American Modernist Oil Stick Drawing, Gray Barn With Red Sliding Doors Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Oil stick on paper titled "Barn Side with Sliding Doors" by George Vander Sluis (1915-1984) of a grey wooden barn with two windows as well as two r...
Category

1980s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Paper

With Smiling Teeth, Dry Pastel on Paper by Artist Jogen Chowdhury "In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury With Smiling Teeth, Dry Pastel on Paper 7 x 9.25 inches , 2022 (unframed Size ) The framed size of the work is approx . 17 x 20 inches The work will be shipped inclusive of framing. Signed in Bengali Style : He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India. Jogen Chowdhury had developed his individual style after his return from Paris. His most famous paintings are in ink, watercolor and pastel. He has painted in oil medium as well. In Chowdhury’s more recent works the sensory experiences of cloth, bolsters, sofas and the human body are cross-projected to produce an uncanny world of tran-substantiated tumescence and flaccidness. Jogen Chowdhury has been widely acknowledged to be, the master of the unbroken line. Like Léger, Chowdhury has been stirred by the linear Kalighat pat tradition, but his lines are emotive and used to express and suggest the character of a person. This is done by, distorting the form without breaking the line and in the world of young, contemporary art; distortion has been Jogen Chowdhury’s most significant impact. Perhaps, because of this, a common observation of his work is that his “people” are caricatures. The person feels familiar to the viewer but it is far more individualised – the face is imaginary but the psyche or characteristics are real. The power and beauty of his technique and line is this play between the known and unknown. In Jogen Chowdhury’s work, the figure is always in the foreground, it is primary, it conveys everything. He uses colour to give volume to his figures and the fluidity of his lines bring a sensual aspect to his forms. About the Artist and his work : Born : Born 1939 in Daharpara Village, Faridpur, Bangladesh. Jogen Chowdhury is an eminent Indian painter and considered an important painter of 21st century India. Family Background : His father Pramatnath Chowdhury was a Brahmin zamindar. Both his parents took interest in art, Jogen Chowdhury’s father Pramatnath Chowdhury painted several mythological scenes from the village theatres and also sculpted various Hindu icons. Whereas his mother was an expert in Alpana drawings. 1939-47 Jogen Chowdhury lived in a village atmosphere. And after partition in 1948, the whole family shifted. Till 1951 the whole family stayed at the police department quarter of his uncle, where on the walls Jogen Chowdhury painted his first painting, 1962 Jogen Chowdhury was employed as Designer in the Handloom Board. Education : 1955-60: Studied at the Government College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata. 1965 : He went to paris to study in Ecole des Beaux Arts, in William Hayter’s Atelier 17. Professional Experience : 1968-72 : He worked as an Art-Designer, Madras Handloom Board, Madras. 1970 : A collection of his poems were published, titled ‘Hridoy Train Beje Othey’. 1987 : Joined Kala Bhavan , Santiniketan as a professor of painting. Selected Exhibitions : 1972, 1975 & 1978 respectively : I, III, IV Triennales at New Delhi. 1979: The Sao Paolo Biennale. 1980: The exhibitions at the Fukuoka Museum, Japan. 1982: The Royal Academy, London. 1982: The Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D.C. 1986: The II Havana Biennale. 1989: ‘Festival of India’, in Geneva. 2002: Saffron art...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Paper, Mixed Media

Six O'Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Six O-Clock, c. 1942, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches, signed and titled several times verso of frame and stretcher (perhaps by another hand), marked “Rehn” several times on frame (for the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries in New York City, who represented Craig at the time); Exhibited: 1) 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings from March 21 to May 2, 1943 at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. #87, original price $450 (per catalog) (exhibition label verso), 2) Craig’s one-man show at the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York City, from October 26 to November 14, 1942, #10 (original price listed as $350); and 3) Exhibition of thirty paintings sponsored by the Harrisburg Art Association at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg in March, 1944 (concerning this exhibit, Penelope Redd of The Evening News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) wrote: “Other paintings that have overtones of superrealism inherent in the subjects include Tom Craig’s California nocturne, ‘Six O’Clock,’ two figures moving through the twilight . . . .” March 6, 1944, p. 13); another label verso from The Museum of Art of Toledo (Ohio): original frame: Provenance includes George Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA About the Painting Long before Chris Burden’s iconic installation outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Urban Light, another artist, Tom Craig, made Southern California streetlights the subject of one of his early 1940s paintings. Consisting of dozens of recycled streetlights from the 1920s and 1930s forming a classical colonnade at the museum’s entrance, Burden’s Urban Light has become a symbol of Los Angeles. For Burden, the streetlights represent what constitutes an advanced society, something “safe after dark and beautiful to behold.” It seems that Craig is playing on the same theme in Six O-Clock. Although we see two hunched figures trudging along the sidewalk at the end of a long day, the real stars of this painting are the streetlights which brighten the twilight and silhouette another iconic symbol of Los Angeles, the palm trees in the distance. Mountains in the background and the distant view of a suburban neighborhood join the streetlights and palm trees as classic subject matter for a California Scene painting, but Craig gives us a twist by depicting the scene not as a sun-drenched natural expanse. Rather, Craig uses thin layers of oil paint, mimicking the watercolor technique for which he is most famous, to show us the twinkling beauty of manmade light and the safety it affords. Although Southern California is a land of natural wonders, the interventions of humanity are already everywhere in Los Angeles and as one critic noted, the resulting painting has an air of “superrealism.” About the Artist Thomas Theodore Craig was a well-known fixture in the Southern California art scene. He was born in Upland California. Craig graduated with a degree in botany from Pomona College and studied painting at Pamona and the Chouinard Art School with Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Barse Miller among others. He became close friends with fellow artist Milford Zornes...
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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Warrior King, Pen & Ink on Paper, B/W Colors by Indian K.M. Adimoolam "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
K. M. Adimoolam - Warrior King - 19 x 13 inches (Unframed Size) Pen & Ink on Paper , 1998 Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Should you want it framed and ready to hang .. please let us know and we will be happy to assist. About the Artist and his work : Born : K. M. Adimoolam (1938 – 2008) was a well-known Indian abstract artist. He was born in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. Education : 1959 - He moved to Chennai where under the influence of the sculptor Dhanapal, he enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts. 1966 - Completed his Diploma in Advanced Painting. Art Career : He had a natural aptitude for drawing at an early age. After completing his Diploma in Advanced Painting, Adimoolam started a series of black and white portraits of Mahatma Gandhi...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Paintings

Materials

Pen, Ink, Paper

Antique American Modernist Abstract Flower Still Life Outsider Art Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 16L x 11H. Signed.
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1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Green Village Market, Bleecker Street', Manhattan, New York, Grisaille Diptych
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A very large American School diptych showing this vintage Greenwich Village landmark with various pedestrians passing by as an assistant arranges the produce...
Category

1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Countryside landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Gray wooden frame 46 x 58.5 x 5.2 cm
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Young man sitting white collar and polka dot sweater
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Molded frame in wood and gilded plaster 96.5 x 79.5 x 4.5 cm
Category

1920s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Les Halles Food Market
Located in London, GB
'Les Halles Food Market', oil on canvas (circa 1960s), by Roland Hamon. This artwork captures a typical day in the old food markets of Paris, called Les Ha...
Category

1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modernist Nature Study Lake Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed illegibly lower left. Image size, 36L x 24H. Housed in a period modern frame.
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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Gouache

Wonder - Tempera on paper - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Realizzato da contempologyc a tempera su carta nel 2021 in Italia . Contempologyc artista poliedrica contemporanea amante dell'astrattismo ,sono svariati anni che percorre la sua car...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Tempera

Sea and Rocks - Oil on Canvas by Gino Pira - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Sea and rocks is an original artwork realized by Gino Pira in 1937. Original mixed colored oil painting on plywood. Hand-written dedication on the back. Beautiful and representati...
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1930s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Face of a Young Man, Dry Pastel on Paper by Artist Jogen Chowdhury "In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury Face of a Young Man, Dry Pastel on Paper 7 x 9.25 inches , 2022 (unframed size ) The framed size of the work is 17 x 20 ( approx. ) The work will be shipped inclusive of framing. Signed in Bengali Style : He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India. Jogen Chowdhury had developed his individual style after his return from Paris. His most famous paintings are in ink, watercolor and pastel. He has painted in oil medium as well. In Chowdhury’s more recent works the sensory experiences of cloth, bolsters, sofas and the human body are cross-projected to produce an uncanny world of tran-substantiated tumescence and flaccidness. Jogen Chowdhury has been widely acknowledged to be, the master of the unbroken line. Like Léger, Chowdhury has been stirred by the linear Kalighat pat tradition, but his lines are emotive and used to express and suggest the character of a person. This is done by, distorting the form without breaking the line and in the world of young, contemporary art; distortion has been Jogen Chowdhury’s most significant impact. Perhaps, because of this, a common observation of his work is that his “people” are caricatures. The person feels familiar to the viewer but it is far more individualised – the face is imaginary but the psyche or characteristics are real. The power and beauty of his technique and line is this play between the known and unknown. In Jogen Chowdhury’s work, the figure is always in the foreground, it is primary, it conveys everything. He uses colour to give volume to his figures and the fluidity of his lines bring a sensual aspect to his forms. About the Artist and his work : Born : Born 1939 in Daharpara Village, Faridpur, Bangladesh. Jogen Chowdhury is an eminent Indian painter and considered an important painter of 21st century India. Family Background : His father Pramatnath Chowdhury was a Brahmin zamindar. Both his parents took interest in art, Jogen Chowdhury’s father Pramatnath Chowdhury painted several mythological scenes from the village theatres and also sculpted various Hindu icons. Whereas his mother was an expert in Alpana drawings. 1939-47 Jogen Chowdhury lived in a village atmosphere. And after partition in 1948, the whole family shifted. Till 1951 the whole family stayed at the police department quarter of his uncle, where on the walls Jogen Chowdhury painted his first painting, 1962 Jogen Chowdhury was employed as Designer in the Handloom Board. Education : 1955-60: Studied at the Government College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata. 1965 : He went to paris to study in Ecole des Beaux Arts, in William Hayter’s Atelier 17. Professional Experience : 1968-72 : He worked as an Art-Designer, Madras Handloom Board, Madras. 1970 : A collection of his poems were published, titled ‘Hridoy Train Beje Othey’. 1987 : Joined Kala Bhavan , Santiniketan as a professor of painting. Selected Exhibitions : 1972, 1975 & 1978 respectively : I, III, IV Triennales at New Delhi. 1979: The Sao Paolo Biennale. 1980: The exhibitions at the Fukuoka Museum, Japan. 1982: The Royal Academy, London. 1982: The Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D.C. 1986: The II Havana Biennale. 1989: ‘Festival of India’, in Geneva. 2002: Saffron art...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Mixed Media

Oil Painting on Linen in the Fresco Manner
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Oil painting on linen, in the fresco manner that has the feeling of a collage or assemblage but is a clever painted interpretation. Having classical and Asian modern influence that c...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled, Figurative, Ink & Pastel on Paper by Artist Jogen Chowdhury "In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury Untitled, Figurative, Ink & Pastel on Paper 5 x 6.5 inches , 2003 Signed in Bengali Style : He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India. Jogen Chowdhury had developed his individual style after his return from Paris. His most famous paintings are in ink, watercolor and pastel. He has painted in oil medium as well. In Chowdhury’s more recent works the sensory experiences of cloth, bolsters, sofas and the human body are cross-projected to produce an uncanny world of tran-substantiated tumescence and flaccidness. Jogen Chowdhury has been widely acknowledged to be, the master of the unbroken line. Like Léger, Chowdhury has been stirred by the linear Kalighat pat tradition, but his lines are emotive and used to express and suggest the character of a person. This is done by, distorting the form without breaking the line and in the world of young, contemporary art; distortion has been Jogen Chowdhury’s most significant impact. Perhaps, because of this, a common observation of his work is that his “people” are caricatures. The person feels familiar to the viewer but it is far more individualised – the face is imaginary but the psyche or characteristics are real. The power and beauty of his technique and line is this play between the known and unknown. In Jogen Chowdhury’s work, the figure is always in the foreground, it is primary, it conveys everything. He uses colour to give volume to his figures and the fluidity of his lines bring a sensual aspect to his forms. About the Artist and his work : Born : Born 1939 in Daharpara Village, Faridpur, Bangladesh. Jogen Chowdhury is an eminent Indian painter and considered an important painter of 21st century India. Family Background : His father Pramatnath Chowdhury was a Brahmin zamindar. Both his parents took interest in art, Jogen Chowdhury’s father Pramatnath Chowdhury painted several mythological scenes from the village theatres and also sculpted various Hindu icons. Whereas his mother was an expert in Alpana drawings. 1939-47 Jogen Chowdhury lived in a village atmosphere. And after partition in 1948, the whole family shifted. Till 1951 the whole family stayed at the police department quarter of his uncle, where on the walls Jogen Chowdhury painted his first painting, 1962 Jogen Chowdhury was employed as Designer in the Handloom Board. Education : 1955-60: Studied at the Government College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata. 1965 : He went to paris to study in Ecole des Beaux Arts, in William Hayter’s Atelier 17. Professional Experience : 1968-72 : He worked as an Art-Designer, Madras Handloom Board, Madras. 1970 : A collection of his poems were published, titled ‘Hridoy Train Beje Othey’. 1987 : Joined Kala Bhavan , Santiniketan as a professor of painting. Selected Exhibitions : 1972, 1975 & 1978 respectively : I, III, IV Triennales at New Delhi. 1979: The Sao Paolo Biennale. 1980: The exhibitions at the Fukuoka Museum, Japan. 1982: The Royal Academy, London. 1982: The Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D.C. 1986: The II Havana Biennale. 1989: ‘Festival of India’, in Geneva. 2002: Saffron...
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Mixed Media, Ink

Back from hunting
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Molded frame in gilded wood 41 x 49 x 4 cm
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Small Flower Study, Naïve style painting, Still Life Art, Bright Floral Art
Located in Deddington, GB
I often have cut flowers on the table at home. In this still life you can see my interest in the structure and shape of the plants in front of me. Andrea Humphries art is available o...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Acrylic, Board

Paesaggio di Romagna
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 61 x 71 x 5 cm
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Restoration Day on December 31, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Golden wooden frame 46 x 38 x 3 cm
Category

1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bench by the water
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Animated landscape att. to Alexandre Blanchet - Oil on canvas 23x32 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas Gilded wood frame 28,5 x 38 x 3 cm
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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bay of Naples and view of Vesuvius
Located in Genève, GE
Artwork on canvas
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bathers
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present outstanding original oil on canvas by American artist William Gropper (1897-1977.) William Gropper was an artist and illustrator, known for his exceptional a...
Category

1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Winter Morning
Located in Kansas City, MO
Aster da Fonseca Winter Morning Acrylic on Tape on Paper Year: 2022 Size: 19x24in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1366 collage acrylic paint t...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Tape, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Large Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Midcentury abstract oil on canvas painted with skill and confidence with overlapping, disciplined geometric forms with free form lines executed with a complex palette of dark and bri...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

1994 "Outer Limits" Abstract Bill Shields Chicago Academy of Fine Art
Located in Arp, TX
William Shields Jr., 1925-2010 "Outer Limits" 1994 Oil on canvas 48"x48" artist framed Signed in pencil 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...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Village landscape, Geneva countryside
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

A Summer Morning
Located in Kansas City, MO
Aster da Fonseca A Summer Morning Acrylic on Tape on Paper Year: 2022 Size: 12x9 Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1373 collage acrylic paint tape nature landscape bird tree ...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Tape, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Styros, Greece - Watercolor on paper 28x37 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

NIGHT FALL- DARK
Located in Tulsa, OK
Night Fall Dark by artist Doug Freed is a green, yellow, and purple contemporary landscape that measures 17 x 14 and is priced at $1,200. Artist Statement For nearly twenty years, ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Docks
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower right: EVERETT SHINN / 99
Category

Late 19th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Still Life with Apples and Skull, Figurative Oil Painting by Ohio Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Still Life with Apples, 1940 Oil on canvas Signed and dated upper right 18 x 24 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
Category

1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Landscape of a village with a view of steeples - Oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
Dated, signed Signature unknown Work on wood Gray wooden frame with golden patina 82 x 997 x 6 cm
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Flying South
Located in Kansas City, MO
Aster da Fonseca Flying South Acrylic on Tape on Paper Year: 2022 Size: 14x17in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1375 collage acrylic paint tape nature landscape bird tree b...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Tape, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Chinese Ink painting-Landscape- Distant Mountains No.1
Located in Beijing, CN
Contemporary emerging artist Min Ying was born in 1995. He is now a creation researcher of Sichuan Poetry and Calligraphy Painting Academy...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Ink, Handmade Paper

Landscape with Cypress and Fence
Located in Lawrence, NY
Art critic Hilton Kramer called the Greek-American artist Aristodimos Kaldi's paintings "beautifully executed landscapes in a lyric mode. . . all delicacy and nuance and romance. . . " Kaldis was a New York School painter...
Category

1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rabbit Hunters
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rabbit Hunters, egg tempera on Masonite, 12 x 9 inches, 1947, signed and dated lower left, signed, titled and dated verso “Rabbit Hunters Egg Tempera Roger Medearis 1947,” exhibited ...
Category

1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Tempera, Board

Colorado Hill Town with Storm Clouds, 1940s Modernist Landscape, Green Blue
Located in Denver, CO
WPA era signed framed modernist oil painting of houses and trees in summer with a stormy cloud in Colorado by Paul K. Smith in shades of green, ...
Category

1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Scully’s Jug
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
ROBINSON , Geoffrey (b.1945) Scully’s Jug c.2000 Image: 31.5 x 41.0 cm Frame: 51.5 x 61.5 cm Unglazed Geoffrey Robinson trained at Bournemouth ...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

'The Pont Neuf, Sunset', Paris, Académie Colarossi, Oakland, NYMOMA, SFMOMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Rinaldo Cuneo' (American, 1877-1939) and painted circa 1925. Provenance: Private collection, Illinois. Previously in the collection of Frank E. Cummings. (accompanied by Butterfield & Butterfield documentation) A lyrical, early twentieth-century view of the Seine and this beloved Parisian landmark with laborers and pedestrians shown walking home beneath dramatic sunset clouds. Undated but likely painted between 1911-1913, when the artist was studying in Paris at the Académie Colarossi. Rinaldo Cuneo first studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute under Gottardo Piazzoni and Arthur Matthews. He subsequently furthered his studies in London and, later, at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. Cuneo exhibited with success worldwide, including at the Panama Pacific...
Category

1920s Modern Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Modern Colorful Tropical Abstract Painting of Two Female Figures and an Animal
Located in Houston, TX
Modern colorful abstract painting by Texas artist Don Snell. The work features two central nude female figures standing next to an animal in a tropical lands...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Poseidon - Ink and Tempera on Paper by Lucie Navier - 1933
Located in Roma, IT
Poseidon is an original painting realized by Lucie Navier in 1933. Original Ink and tempera painting on paper. Dated on the lower right corner (23-6-2033). Fair conditions except...
Category

1930s Modern Paintings

Materials

Tempera, Watercolor, Ink

Flowers With Butterflies - Oil Painting by Claude Decamps - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers With Butterflies is a painting realized by Claude Decamps in the 1970s Oil painting on cardboard canvas. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condi...
Category

1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Cardinal's Nest
Located in Kansas City, MO
Aster da Fonseca Cardinal's Nest Acrylic on Tape on Paper Year: 2022 Size: 12x9in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: Ref.: 924802-1372 collage acrylic paint tape nature landscape bir...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Tape, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Fishing boats and fishermen at the port
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Golden wooden frame 47 x 67 x 7.5 cm
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pastel Drawing Polish Ecole D'Paris WPA Female Equestrienne
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

Paper, Oil Pastel

Still life - Oil Painting by Valentino Ghiglia - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still life is an original modern artwork realized by Valentino Ghiglia in the mid-20th Century. Mixed colored oil on board. Hand signed on the back. Includes frame.
Category

1930s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paint

"Canna Lilies" - Modernist Still Life in Oil on Artist's Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold and angular composition with cannas by Claire Weist (American, 1930-2014). Bright red flowers jump out from a saturated green background. Large leaves act as a background, covering the majority of the composition, intertwined with other foliage. This piece is executed on top of a previous composition and the artist has left part of it visible around the edges to act as a border. Signed "Weist" in the lower left corner. Title and artist's info on verso. No frame. Board size: 20"H x 16"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

1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board, Canvas

Chinese Ink painting-Landscape- Joy in the wilderness
Located in Beijing, CN
Contemporary emerging artist Min Ying was born in 1995. He is now a creation researcher of Sichuan Poetry and Calligraphy Painting Academy...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Ink, Handmade Paper

Venice
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Molded frame in wood and gilded plaster 68 x 59 x 7 cm
Category

1920s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

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