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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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Panoramic Painting of the Harvest by Leonard Creo
Located in New York, NY
Leonard Creo (American, 1923-2019) Untitled, c. 1960s Oil on canvas 29 x 48 in. Framed: 30 1/8 x 49 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. Signed lower right: Creo Creo was bor...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Interior with Womens Shoes Colourful French Modernist Gouache Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstract Interior with Womens Shoes Colourful French Modernist Gouache Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.5 x 24 inches (heigh...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

Vintage Signed American School Modernist Cubist Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas, 24 x 19 inches overall, 20 x 15.75 inches image size. A modernist still life. Cubist elements as well. Signed lower right and presented in an a modernist frame. ...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Huge French Modernist Portrait of Cubist Figure Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"L'usure du Temps" French School, late 20th century signed indistinctly lower right, titled verso oil painting on canvas 55 x 40 inches Magnificent French oil painting on canvas from the close of the 20th century, depicting this haunting figure dressed in what looks to be some sort of coat of armour...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Miss Cacheux 3" by Armand Cacheux - Oil on canvas - 73x60 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Artwork sold with frame (76 x 63 cm) Armand Cacheux (1868–1965) was a Swiss painter and engraver born in Geneva. He studied at the Geneva School of Fine Arts under Barthélemy Menn a...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

A Charming, Vibrant 1950s Modern Painting of Martha’s Vineyard by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, vibrant 1950s painting of Martha’s Vineyard by notable Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin. Depicting a colorful, bustling view of Main Street in the historic whaling p...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Wind Flowers in a Tzu Chow Vase
By Ethelyn Cosby Stewart
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wind Flowers in a Tzu Chow Vase, 1933, oil on canvas board, signed and dated lower right, 20 x 16 inches, label verso with title and original price ($185.00), exhibited 44th Annual E...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

A Ballynakill Woman.
Located in Storrs, CT
A Ballynakill Woman. c. 1926. Oil on canvas. 30 x 25. Housed in an elegant gold leaf frame. Signed 'Brockhurst' in green paint, in the blanket, lower right. Provenance: Provenance...
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

1920's French Signed Oil Old Naval Tall Sailing Ships at Sea Rocky Coastline
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tall Ships off the Coast French School, signed and dated 1927 oil on canvas, framed dated 1927 framed: 21 x 26 inches canvas: 18 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, France co...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Portrait Oil Painting - Portrait of a Troubled Soul
Located in Bristol, GB
PORTRAIT OF A TROUBLED SOUL Size: 65.5 x 54 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas This mid-century expressive and emotive oil portrait delves into the depths of the human psyche with a...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Young Woman - Painting by Francesco Settimj - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on wooden panel realized by Francesco Settimj in 1930s. Good condition.
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Downtown New York
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Downtown New York, c. 1930s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 10 x 12 inches; label verso reads: "Harry Dix / Title Downtown New York / Medium Oil" Harry Dix was a 20th-century p...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large 20th Century French Modernist Provencal Landscape Cubist Village Houses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Provence Village 20th century French school after Andre Lhote (bears signature, ie: not by Andre Lhote) oil on board, framed framed: 12 x 19.5 inches board: 8 x 15.5 inches Pro...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

French Modernist 1970's Oil Painting Two Nude Females Beautiful Original Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nudes French School, circa 1970's oil painting on board, framed measures: 25.5 x 16 inches provenance: private French collection Beautiful French oil painting depicting two female ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

"Blue Nude" Modern Abstract Woman in Style of Modigliani Oil Painting on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Archival Paper, Acrylic

Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism George Pearse Ennis (American, 1884-1936) "Forging a Gun Tube #1...
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1910s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Modern Vintage Mini Abstract Portrait Oil Painting -Garden Gathering
Located in Bristol, GB
GARDEN GATHERING Size: 36.5 x 40.5 cm (including frame) Oil on board A lively mid-century modernist oil painting that presents a group of figures gathered in a semi-abstract outdoo...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Paul K. Smith Vintage 1930s New Mexico Adobe Church, Denver Modernist Oil
Located in Denver, CO
This evocative vintage oil painting from the 1930s–1940s by Denver modernist Paul K. Smith beautifully depicts a classic adobe church in New Mexico, likely insp...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Vintage Mid-Century Abstract Figurative Oil Painting - All at Once
Located in Bristol, GB
ALL AT ONCE Size: 77 x 66 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A beautifully textured and confidently executed mid-century modernist figurative composition in oil, painted onto canva...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Central Park Zoo, New York City, Limited Edition Hand Colored Etching
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a very hard to find hand colored etching of Central Park Zoo, New York City, well conserved in this excellent condition. It’s beautiful both for the skill: intricate details,...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Etching, Ink, Watercolor

Conversation at Dawn
Located in Zofingen, AG
shipped in roll acrylic and neon pigment on canvas This painting is about how light becomes a feeling. When the morning just begins, and everything around is filled with a soft pink ...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Portrait of Noblewoman with Harp - Painting by A. Varucca - 1891
Located in Roma, IT
Outstanding, big painting, realized by A. Varucca in 1891. Oil on canvas. it depicts a noblewoman in evening dress with a beautiful harp and a fan.  Hand signed and dated lower left....
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1890s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Antique American Modernist Fauvist Barn Rural Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas board. Framed. Measuring: 21 by 27 inches overall, and 18 by 24 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. Ha...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Monumental Abstract Modernist Oil Panel Oregon Centennial Exposition Mural 1959
By Louis Bunce
Located in Portland, OR
Monumental modernist oil on panel painting by Louis Demott Bunce (1907-1983), from an installation for the Oregon Centennial Exposition, 1959. A rare & important and monumental abstract painting by the celebrated Oregon artist Louis Bunce, the artist was commissioned to paint a mural for the 1959 Oregon Centennial & Trade Fair in Portland, the installation was titled " Gay Garden Way ", it was painted for the exterior of the Horticultural building. The mural having abstract plant abstractions, according to Bunce in his own words it was "the rounded shapes of flowers and the sun", the mural created a major furor from the conservative art public. The painting signed and dated by the artist lower left, the work was sold in the late 1980s through the celebrated Laura Russo Gallery, this painting is featured in Roger Hull's book; "Louis Bunce, Dialogue with Modernism". The painting is in good condition and ready to grace your wall. Louis Bunce attended high school and the Museum Art School before leaving for the Art Students League in New York. He established a New York connection that began when he first attended classes there in 1927 and continued over the years with frequent visits. He became friends with many promising artists, including Jackson Pollock and David Smith. In 1939 he worked for the WPA Easel Project in New York and by the time he returned to Portland he was an established artist on the East Coast. He worked at the WPA art center in Salem as an Instructor and Assistant Director. His work included murals, two of which are in the Post Offices in Grants Pass and St. Johns. Their subjects, mining and orchard farming, are activities of each region. "I have always been visually drawn to the landscape, at first the desert and mountain regions of Wyoming; then the lush and gentle color of the Pacific Northwest and the urban landscape of New York." From 1942-1945 he worked as an illustrator, a tool designer, and in assembly for the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation. After WWII, Bunce joined the faculty of the Museum Art School in Portland, where he had been a student in 1925-1926. He taught there until his retirement in 1972. He excelled at producing screen-prints and introduced this technique to Oregon. While maintaining a national reputation throughout the 1950s and 1960s, some of New York's most prestigious galleries represented him. Theater buffs will remember his murals and portraits for Portland Civic Theater's 1938 production of Pride and Prejudice. In a career that made him one of the most recognized names in Oregon's art history, Bunce had many styles: cubism, expressionism, surrealism and abstractionism. His 1958 mural in the Portland International Airport presents this abstract style: "whirling propellers and shadows of the concourse as seen from above." It was controversial at the time as being too abstract for a public art project. Louis and wife Eda opened a full-time art gallery in Portland in 1949, called the Kharouba. Located first at 1016 SE Morrison, then at SW 11th and Alder, the gallery represented many of the leading artists of the day: Josephine Cameron, William Givler, Clifford Gleason, Jack Hammack, Charles Heaney, Frederick Heidel, George Johanson, Jack McLarty, Rick Norwood, C.S. Price, Arthur Runquist, Jolan Torok, Charles Voorhies...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil

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.
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Mid-19th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

French Modernist Painting Blue And Pink Abstract Of String Musician
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

Large Classical Oil Painting Mythological Biblical Figures in Sky
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
European artist, 20th century signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 28 x 38 inches provenance: private collection, Wiltshire, England condition: very good and sound condition, stai...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

"Centurion, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This vertical format abstract painting by Modernist artist Stanley Bate measures at 26" x 50" framed. The original gold-hued floater frame pulls out the vibrant and warm pops of yell...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Large Vintage American Modernist Abstract Dove Portrait Signed Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring 48 by 48 inches overall and 40 by 40 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Hands...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

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

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

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Canvas, Oil

WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers Seymour Fogel (1911-1984) Mural Study, untitled 11 x 49 1/4 inches (sight) Tempera on board Provenance:...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Egg Tempera, Board

Time Zone 8 - Modern Resin Minimalist Rhythmic Geometric Abstraction Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed-media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past, which led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acryl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Laxmi, Figurative, Mythology by Raja Ravi Verma "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Raja Ravi Varma - Laxmi, 19 x 14 inches Oleograph with embellishments, Circa (Unframed & Delivered) Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian painter and artist...
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1890s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Landscape Painting w. Female Figures by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A large, dynamic Mid-Century Modern summer landscape painting with female bathers by noted Chicago artist, Rudolph Pen. A wonderful example of the artist's uniquely expressive figur...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1967 Vintage Mid-Century Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Nature Dwellings
Located in Bristol, GB
NATURE DWELLINGS Size: 42.5 x 68 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A brilliantly executed semi-abstract composition, painted in oil onto canvas and dated 1967. In this abstract nature landscape...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Huge French Modernist Oil Sunny Garden Landscape with French Chairs
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Le Jardin Jeanon Pitre (French contemporary) signed oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 51 x 38 inches provenance: private collection, Paris condition: overall very good
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

A Colorful, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Pool Hall Scene by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Colorful, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Pool Hall Scene by Notable Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 6 3/4" x 8 1/2", Oil on Masonite, Framed size: 11" x 12 1/2"....
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Masonite, 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
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

The Wood Chopper, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) The Wood Chopper, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1917 Oil on masonite 33 x 24 inches "We were fortunate in that the two farms in Brecksville were still open to our visits. The urbanization of the township was then only beginning and we spent several summers there where I tried to capture something of the rural peace so soon to be erased from the countryside." - Wilcox Exhibited: “Water Colors and Oils by Frank N. Wilcox,” Cleveland Museum of Art, January 1937. Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School...
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1910s Modern Paintings

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Oil

English 20th century landscape with a pussy cat, buttercups, daisy's and flowers
Located in Woodbury, CT
Alison Bolton studied fine art at Salisbury School of Art and Hornsey College of Art with Maurice de Sausmarez. After leaving college, Alison resumed painting once her children were ...
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique American Modernist 19th Century Framed Sunset Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist landscape sunset painting. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy....
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1890s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Modernist Framed Signed Exhibited Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Exhibited at the Butler Art Institute.
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Still Life Oil on Canvas Painting of Flowers and Lavender Framed, Signed
Located in Plainview, NY
A gorgeous oil on canvas painting in a pastel tone depicting a vase with white flowers and lavenders in a vase. The painting is beautifully framed in a custom gilt carved wood frame ...
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Coastal View
By Joaquin Mir Trinxet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Joaquín Mir Y Trinxet Spanish, 1873-1940 Coastal View Oil on board 11 ¾ by 16 in, w/ frame 25 ¼ by 29 ¼ in Signed lower right Joaquín Mir Trinxet was a Catalan Spanish artist. Livi...
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Vintage American Modernist Signed Flower Still Life Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 25 by 21 inches overall, and 24 by 20 painting alone. Handsomely framed in modern wood...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Chess Match
Located in London, GB
'The Chess Match', oil on cardstock paper, by Raymond Debiève (1973). Rich colours, bold, painterly brush strokes and an unusual subject for a work of art, Debiève has created this s...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

The Chess Match
The Chess Match
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Huge Spanish/ French Oil Painting Elegant Ladies on the Beach Group Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Group Portrait by Maria Tort Xirau (Catalan, 1924-2018) signed lower corner dated 1991 oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 42 x 52 inches framed: 33 x 43 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artists estate, France Maria Tort Xirau ( Figueres , 26 May 1924 – 6 June 2018) was a painter and photographic and cinematographic editor from Emporda. She developed a long professional career in leading photographic studios, in films for The Walt Disney Company and also in advertising claims for companies such as Educa Borràs . The second half of her life was dedicated to painting, exercising a luminous, varied and nostalgic chromatic style in the techniques of oil and watercolor and with exhibitions of her work in Barcelona and Figueres. The Biographical Dictionary of Art Empordà defined Tort Xirau's work as "a painting that is characterized by the strength of the strokes, the vividness and brightness of the chromatic range and exudes mastery of the photographic technique. A mixture of nostalgia and tenderness is evident.". Tort Xirau's paintings were exhibited in the two towns where she spent her life: in 1992 she exhibited his work at the Caixa de Figueres Exhibition Hall. Two years later, she did it at Sala Conex in Barcelona and in 2007 and 2013 the Consortium of Sant Ferran Castle and the Figueres Town Council organized tribute exhibitions. In 2013, she ceded to the council of the city of Figueres her work Mercat de la plaça de l'Ajuntament , watercolored on paper around 1991, which is exhibited in the rest room of the building. On June 6, 2018, she died in Figueres at the age of 94, receiving the apostolic blessing . Two years after her death, part of her paintings were included in the exhibition Paint, create, live. Women artists in the Alt...
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Horses in a paddock
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Donald Grant (1924-2001) Horses in a paddock Signed lower right Oil on canvas Canvas size - 24 x 36 in Donald Currie Grant was born in 1930 in North Shie...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

1955 Mid Century Modern Geometric Abstract Oil Painting - Intersecting Planes
Located in Bristol, GB
INTERSECTING PLANES Size: 64 x 91.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A large and very striking mid-century geometric abstract composition, painted in oil in 1955 by the establish...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

You are my Light (Oil Painting, Impasto, Impressionism, Colorful, Vibrant, Warm)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Genevieve Hamel You are my Light Oil on Wood Panel Year: 2024 Size: 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches Signed by hand COA provided *wired and ready to hang Genevieve Hamel’s passions for design...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Adolf Dehn, Haitian Scene A, signed painting, Associated American Artists, 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Arthur Dehn Haitian Scene A, ca. 1951 Watercolor gouache on board Signed on the front Frame included: held in vintage modern frame Measurements: Framed: 11 inches vertical by 13 inches horizontal by .75 Painting 4.5 inches by 6 inches Watercolor gouache, hand signed; framed with AAA Gallery label verso Signed on the front bearing the original label on the verso of Dehn's longtime gallery, the prestigious Associated American Artists Gallery, New York City. Provenance Associated American Artists Frame included: held in vintage frame with original label as provenance Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti -- the subject of this work. It was part of a series inspired by Dehn's visit to Haiti. Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti. ADLOF DEHN Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968 Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere - not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art. In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic "little magazines" such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art. If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques. Early Years, 1895 - 1922 For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Board

Selbstporträt / Selfportrait
Located in Wien, 9
Julius Zimpel * 30.8.1896 Vienna, † 11.8.1925 Vienna "First artistic inspiration by his uncle Gustav Klimt. 1911-16 attended the School of Arts and Crafts under F. Cizek, A. v. Ken...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Original Oil Painting Big Sur, Monterey California Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful American Impressionist oil seascape of the rugged Big Sur coast, Carmel California by Virginia Shackles (American, 1921-2020). The composition is pleasing with an interes...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Train Station - Oil Paint by Eliano Fantuzzi - 1953
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Fantuzzi in 1952. Hand signed lower left and on rear.
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil

"Sea Cliff" Mid Century Modern Coastal Cliff Seascape in Acrylic on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
"Sea Cliff" Mid Century Modern Coastal Cliff Seascape in Acrylic on Masonite Expansive seascape by notable California artist Farren Jensen (American, 19...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Acrylic

Busy Beach Summer with Figures on Sand Contemporary French Modernist Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Summer on the Beach Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020) signed oil painting on canvas 20 x 24 inches. All the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artis...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Harmonic Sounds" by Jules Courvoisier - Oil on Canvas - 95x71 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Artwork sold with frame (114 x 93 x 6 cm) Jules-Ami Courvoisier was a prominent Swiss painter, illustrator, and poster artist, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1884. He studied under Ch...
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1930s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rue à Sannois by Maurice Utrillo - City scene, Oil painting, Impressionist
Located in London, GB
*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE. Once an order is placed we will arrange the VAT of 20% to be reduced to 5% Rue à Sannois by Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)...
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1910s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Nature morte au vase, Modern Oil Painting on Canvas by Claude Venard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Claude Venard, French (1913 - 1999) - Nature morte au vase, Year: 1970, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, Size: 29.5 x 29.5 in. (74.93 x 74.93 cm), Frame Size: 35.5 x 35...
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1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

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