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
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Antique Early American Signed Female Modernist Portrait Original NY Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist portrait oil painting by Salpi Miriam Mavian (Born 1908). Oil on canvas, circa 1930. Signed. Displayed in a giltwoo...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1977 Vintage Original Modernist Landscape Oil Painting - Modernist Forest
Located in Bristol, GB
MODERNIST FOREST
Oil on canvas
Size: 49 x 60 cm (including frame)
A very pleasant modernist landscape oil composition dated 1977, and painted by the established Swedish artist Ture ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage New York Modernist Cityscape Brooklyn Bridge Dusk Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trees - Paint by Jean Dreyfus-Stern - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Trees is a modern artwork realized by Jean Dreyfus-Stern in the 1930s.
Oil on Wooden Panel.
Good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Blue and Gold
Located in Westport, CT
DAVID DUNLOP is a modern-day old master whose luminous paintings draw from both Renaissance techniques and contemporary science. His paintings have been shown internationally and a...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Still Life with Bread', Portland Art Museum Exhibited Work, Reed College
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'Widman' for Harry Widman, Jr (American, 1929-2014) and painted circa 1956.
Exhibited: Artists of Oregon, Painting and Sculpture Sho...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oriental Slave Traders - Oil Painting on Canvas - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental slave traders is a modern artwork realized in the 19th century.
Colored oil painting on canvas realized with superb and refined technique following all main philhellenic st...
Category
19th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Portrait by WPA Artist Arthur Smith
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled (Nude), 20th century
Oil on board
11 1/8 x 14 in.
Framed: 17 x 20 in.
Signed lower right: A Smith
Arthur Sm...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage American Beach Scene Monogrammed Nature Study Modernist Frame
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist beach scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 16L x 20H.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Serene, ca. 1940s, Western Landscape Painting with Horses by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A serene, ca. 1940s, Western landscape painting with horses by artist Francis Chapin. In a brown, wooden frame. Image size: 22" x 28". Framed size: 25" x 31". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large American Modernist Post Impressionist Framed Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Window 329 - Modern Resin Dual Tone Blue Minimalist Artwork
By Ricky Hunt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Vintage Signed American Modernist Framed Landscape Architectural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Window 292 - Modern Monochromatic Resin Artwork
By Ricky Hunt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape Monogrammed American Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Post Impressionist Modern Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist portrait painting. Housed in a period frame. Measuring 29 by 33 inches overall and 20 by 24 painting alone.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Framed Male Portrait New England Flannel Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicey painted American modernist portrait oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 8H by 10L.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harlem Renaissance Signed Ellis Original Abstract Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size 22L x 30H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Frida
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting "Frida" explores the depths of the human soul through the image of the renowned Mexican artist. Inspired by Frida Kahlo's unique personality, this piece conveys her com...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
San Pedro Post Office: History of Writing Mural South, Preliminary Mural Study
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
San Pedro Post Office: History of Writing Mural South, Preliminary Mural Maquette right panel...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Lively Paris street. 1973. Oil on canvas. 54 x 73cm
Located in Riga, LV
Lively Paris street. 1973. Oil on canvas. 54 x 73cm
Hiro Yamagata was born near Kyoto, Japan, went to Paris to study art, and considers himself an American artist. In his Los Angeles studio, Yamagata paints minutely detailed scenes of Paris streets, cafes and parks. He captures the essence of the naif style by presenting life in simple terms, and the world in the happiest light. His creative synthesis of photorealist and neo-folk techniques has won countless admirers and collectors.
Yamagata's vision is unequivocally cheerful and his imagery is endlessly inventive. He works from a palette of over 100 shades of acrylic paints, and renders in exacting detail with brushes with as small as two hairs. Serigraphs of some of Yamagata's most popular paintings...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 1960's French Modernist Signed Oil Sailing Yachts Regatta Blue Sea Panorama
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Regatta
by Jean-Emile Podevin (French 1925-2011)
signed oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 20 x 40 inches
Provenance: Private collection, Paris
Condition: Great condition
For more...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pool Side 2
Located in Hudson, NY
Oil on Canvas
Painted in Florence Italy
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
An Exceptional Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting of a Reclining Nude Female Model
Located in Chicago, IL
An Exceptional Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting of a Reclining Nude Female Model by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. Painted in the 1960s, the painting exemplifies the stylized, ab...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Garden Under the Snow - Oil On Canvas Hansigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Jacques RENÉ
Garden Under the Snow
Original oil painting on canvas
Hansigned
61 x 50 cm (c. 24 x 20 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Horses in the Park
Located in New York, NY
This painting is from an excellent period by the artist, 2001.The condition is in excellent condition with no cracking and not relined. It is in ready to hang condition and the frame...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Holzbrücke" Max Beckmann, 1922 Modernist Drypoint Urban Landscape
By Max Beckmann
Located in New York, NY
Max Beckmann
Holzbrücke, 1922
Signed in pencil lower right
Drypoint on cream wove paper
11 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches
From the edition of 150
Max Beckmann dreamed up a world of actors, cab...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint
Modernist Blue & Yellow Abstract
By Grady McDonald
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful oil abstract titled "Coming Out" by Grady McDonald (American, 1938-1980). Signed lower right, titled and dated 1974 on verso. Unframed. Image, 50”H x 44”W.
Grady McDona...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Expressionist Signed Original Sunset Horse Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist expressionist sunset oil painting. Oil on canvas. Image size, 27.5L x 20H. Signed.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life with Pitcher and Flowers' by Anna Costa, French Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
'Still Life with Pitcher and Flowers', oil on board, by Anna Costa (circa 1960s). In addition to her many landscapes, Costa painted many still lifes, mostly bouquets of flowers as su...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Blue Orange and Yellow Abstract
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
Rise of the Sun in Provence - Original oil painting, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
André Cottavoz (1922-2012)
Rise of the Sun in Provence
Original oil painting
Signed in the right corner
On panel 24 x 41 cm (c. 10 x 16 inch)
Very g...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sky is the Limit (Oil Painting, Impasto, Impressionism, Colorful, Pastel, Cool)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Genevieve Hamel
Sky is the Limit
Oil on Wood Panel
Year: 2024
Size: 36 x 18 x 1.625 inches
Signed by hand
COA provided
*wired and ready to hang
Genevieve Hamel’s passions for desi...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Polish Jewish Art, The Rabbi, Judaica Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Konstanty Swewczenko (1910-1991), signed oil Judaica Oil Painting, Polish.
Konstantin Shevchenko studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the years 1927 - 1928. Then, in 19...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s "Pink Floor" Mid Century Female Nude Figurative Painting
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Pink Floor"
c.1950s
Gouache paint on paper
17.25" x 17.25" unframed
Signed in pencil lower right
Came from artist's estate
*Custom framing av...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Bedouin Woman in Purple, Modern Framed Oil Painting by Philippe Alfieri
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Philippe Alfieri, Italian/American (1921 - 2009)
Title: Bedouin Woman in Purple
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 36 x 48 in. (91.44 x 121.92 cm)
Fram...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Captivating, Mid-Century Floral Still Life of Red Roses by Rudolph T. Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Captivating, Mid-Century Floral Still Life of Red Roses by Rudolph T. Pen. Wonderful colors and brushwork, and executed with the unique, Modern, sloped perspective for which Pen's...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bird Song and Summer
Located in Deddington, GB
My interest is to convey elements of the classical arcadian landscape paintings of the 17th and 18th century, inviting the viewer to reflec...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Savoie in Winter" by Claude Sauthier - Oil on Wood - 35x46 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Claude Sauthier was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1929 and passed away in the same city in 2016. He studied at the Geneva School of Decorative Arts and initially worked as a graphi...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Vintage Exhibited Modernist Abstract Maine Seascape Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist Maine landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 40L x 36H.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bearsville, New York" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist New York Wooded Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Bearsville, New York
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
26 1/4 x 32 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Woman Portrait Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Contemporary modernist American portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Measuring 20 by 40 inches.
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Showers Today" San Francisco's Chinatown on an Overcast Day Original Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
"Showers Today" San Francisco's Chinatown on an Overcast Day Original Watercolor
A two sided watercolor on Arches paper by San Francisco and Maryland artist Harolod Gretzner (America...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
1960's French Modernist Oil Painting Green background with Bizarre Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 1960's period
Title: figurative group, with deep green color background.
Medium: oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 36.5 x 26 inches
Provenance: pri...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spanish town street oil on canvas painting Spain urbanscape
By Rafael Fernández de Soto
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael de Soto - Village street - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 41x33 cm.
Without frame.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life, Coral and Jade', San Francisco Woman Artist, Tokyo, Calligraphy
By Jean Kalisch
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Jean Kalisch" (American, 1912-1995) and painted circa 1965.
Previously with: Pomeroy Galleries, San Francisco (stamped, verso, and with old label)
Born in Japan, Jean Kalisch started her art training early and, when she was seven years, began to receive additional instruction in Chinese brush and ink...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique Italian Modernist Abstract Flower Still Life Pop Art Signed Oil Painting
By Giorgio Celiberti
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 ...
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.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Gouache
Breton fisherman with pipe
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Beige wooden frame
90 x 70 x 4.6 cm
Breton fisherman with pipe
This captivating portrait shows a fisherman with a bushy beard, deep in thought and smoking his pipe. T...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Energy Manifestation #4" Kimon Nicolaides, 1933 Dynamic Cubist Composition
Located in New York, NY
Kimon Nicolaides
Energy Manifestation #4, 1933
signed and dated lower left
oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches
Kimon Nicolaїdes (10 June 1891 – 18 July 1938), was an American artist, educ...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red House, Hampstead - Mid 20th Century Modern British London Landscape Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful mid 20th century Modern British oil on canvas depicting a red house on Hampstead Haeath, by Arnold Auerbach.
The work is signed upper right and presented in a painted wo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Virginia Hills American Female Modernist Abstract Signed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract signed oil painting by Anne Sharp. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Artist's Apartment Mid-Century Fauvist Interior Scene Original Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
The Artist's Apartment Mid-Century Fauvist Interior Scene Original Oil on Canvas
Vibrant interior scene by Santa Cruz California artist Frances Rinaldo (American, b. 1943). A bright...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
1975 Modernist Semi-Abstract Portrait Oil Painting - Figure in the Dark
Located in Bristol, GB
FIGURE IN THE DARK
Size: 49 x 40 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
An emotive and expressive semi-abstract figurative portrait, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1975.
The co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Framed Modernist Romantic Leaves Falling Waterfall Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern French Oil Painting Nude Woman on a Beach Coastal Figurative Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modern French Oil Painting Woman Reading in a Chair Figurative Interior Scene
by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933)
Unsigned
Medium: oil p...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Signed Modernist Picnic Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive American school impressionist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 18H by 24L.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cliffs at Paramé, France, 20th century seascape & landscape watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Cliffs at Paramé, France, c. 1926
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
14 x 17.5 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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