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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Unfinished Problem
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unfinished Problem, by 1953, oil on canvas, signed lower right, signed and inscribed verso on stretcher “Charles Goeller/1272 Clinton Place, Elizabeth, NJ...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seating Figures - Oil Painting by Antonio Mellone - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Seating figures is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Mellone in 1957
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Includes frame
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Reclining Nude Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French School, circa 1960's
chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
size: 12.5 x 19 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: priva...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
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
Riders, Oil Painting by Joyce Roybal
Located in Long Island City, NY
Riders
Joyce Roybal, (1955)
Oil on Canvas, signed lower right
Size: 19.75 x 24 in. (50.17 x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 26 x 29.75 inches
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
1950's French Village Hillside On Green Rolling Hills Oil Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Verdant Hills
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original oil on artist paper
size: 19 x 26 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
Description: This expressive ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Follower of Matisse, 20th Century French Oil Pink House in South of France
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century, follower of Henri Matisse
Title: The Pink House.
Medium: oil on board, framed
Framed: 22.5 x 25.5 inches
Painting: 15 x 18 inches...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Pierrots by André Braunecker - Oil on paper 50x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil paint on paper with glass and frame.
Signed and certified by the artist.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figures Riding Horses, Oil Painting by Joyce Roybal
Located in Long Island City, NY
Figures Riding Horses
Joyce Roybal, (1955)
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Size: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Frame Size: 35.5 x 45.5 inches
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
1954 Mid-Century Modern Expressive Figurative Oil Painting - Quiet Repose
Located in Bristol, GB
QUIET REPOSE
Size: 29 x 60.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A brilliantly executed and emotive mid-century modernist figurative composition that presents a reclining nude figure ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1953 Mid Century Modern Swedish Vintage Landscape Oil Painting - Rolling Greens
Located in Bristol, GB
ROLLING GREENS
Size: 60 x 66 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A mid-century modernist landscape painting that features a serene rural scene characterised by geometric simplicity an...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bouquet of roses by Benjamin II Vautier - Oil on wood 30x40 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on wood sold with frame
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
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
Vintage American School Framed Modernist Fall Signed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting by Frank Barry. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 27 by 31 inches overall and 18 by 22 painting alone. Nicely framed in a wood...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Warm Evening
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
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
Doves by Franck Chabry - Gouache on paper 50x70 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Frame in wood moldings and gilded plaster with glass pane
65 x 85 x 3 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
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 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
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
Antique American Impressionist Framed Young Woman Portrait Exhibited Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted early 1900s American impressionist portrait painting by Alexander Oscar Levy (1881 - 1947). Oil on canvas, lain to board. In excellent original condition. Hand...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
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
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
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
Pool Side 2
Located in Hudson, NY
Oil on Canvas
Painted in Florence Italy
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
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
"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
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
Mid-Century Modern Swedish Expressive Oil Painting- Still Life with Green Apples
Located in Bristol, GB
STILL LIFE WITH GREEN APPLES
Size: 49.5 x 85 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A large and expressive mid-century modernist still life painting captures a simple yet effective arran...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
Young woman posing naked
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Molded frame in gilded wood
87 x 73.5 x 4.5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Interior with Five Children - Oil Painting on Canvas - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Interior with Five Children is an original oil painting on canvas applied on panel.
This painting has been realized between the end of the 19th century ...
Category
19th Century 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
'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
"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
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
"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
"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
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
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
Erotic Scene - Original Gouache on Silk
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a gouache and China ink original painting on silk, realized probably in the second half of XIX century by an anonymous Japanese artist of XIX century,
From a collection of twelve Japanese erotic silk paintings, wrongly titled "Shunga", mounted under a yellow cardboard Passepartout, cm 37 x 26.8, this modern artwork of little dimensions, but of extraordinary quality represents an erotic scene between two young Japanese lovers portrayed in their intimate situation and with their sophisticated traditional costumes and hairstyle.
Without ever being vulgar or too explicit but with extreme elegance, our ancient Japanese artwork...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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