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
Item Ships From: Europe
Sunset 1979. Oil on canvas, 84x110 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sunset
1979. Oil on canvas, 84x110 cm
The central focus of the artwork is a red sunset scene. The artist's portrayal captures the vibrant and warm hues of the setting sun, creating...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Sunset Over French Town Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
size: 8.25 x 11.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - The Three Boats Watercolour Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
size: 8.25 x 11.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Orange Watercolour Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
size: 8.25 x 11.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Romantic sunset, 1991, oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Romantic sunset, 1991, oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm
The artwork depicts a serene and romantic scene of a sunset, red landscape evokes feelings of warmth, intensity, or even a dreamy a...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
City and tulips 1988, oil on cardboard, 100x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Riga. Tulips
1988, oil on cardboard, 100x80 cm
The composition depicts a light-colored cityscape with a prominent element of red tulips placed on a windowsill in the foreground. In...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
City - roses 1988. Oil on cardboard 100x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
City - roses
1988. Oil on cardboard 100x80 cm
The composition features a vibrant arrangement of roses positioned on a windowsill, set against a stylized cityscape that represents t...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Still life with apples. 1989. Oil on canvas, 60x73 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with apples. 1989. Oil on canvas, 60x73 cm
"Still Life with Apples" presents a harmonious and inviting composition that combines the natural beauty of apples with the vib...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The blue trees. 1974 . Oil on cardboard, 49.7 x 69.7 сm
Located in Riga, LV
The blue trees. Riga. 1974 . Oil on cardboard, 49.7 x 69.7 сm
Artwork published in Japanese catalog
This depiction of trees shows artist Laimdots Murnieks as a master of nature repr...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
The tree of the yard by Isaac Charles Goetz - Oil on canvas 27x35 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil work on canvas without frame
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Winter Park, Original Figurative Art, Oil Landscape Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Figurative landscape set in a park
Discover beautiful artwork by Ana Bianchi online with Wychwood Art. Originally trained as a designer in Paris, Ana Bian...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At night. Paper, mixed media, 14.5x8 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At night. Paper, mixed media, 14.5x8 cm
watercolor, ink on paper.
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting -Orange & Pink French Cathedral Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 25.75 x 19.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to be en...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Detailed French Town Square
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache on artist paper, unframed
Mounted on card frame
size: 19.5 x 23.5 inches
condition: very goo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Under The Sea Series Nº 24. Úbeda. Oil fantasy underwater green landscape
Located in Segovia, ES
Under The Sea Series Nº 24. Oil on paper.
Fantasy underwater abstract landscape. Green color. Transparencies effect.
Measurements:
(H) 30 cm. / 1...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting River & Town at Dusk
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
Alexander III Bridge, Paris by Pierre Desaules - Watercolor on paper 30x45 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Two trees and the sun. 2002. Cardboard, oil, 100x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Laimdots Murnieks had a significant influence on the development of Latvian painting at the end of the 20th century. His work 'Holiday' conveys the f...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
1950's Signed Modernist Painting - Fine Drawing Of Historic Fountain
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Historic Fountain
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century), stamped verso
original gouache/watercolour painting on artist paper
overall size: 25.5 x 19.5 inches
condition: very goo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Mountain by I. Ch. Goetz - Oil on canvas 38x45 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas without frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape by I. Ch. Goetz - Watercolor on paper 24x31 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Watercourse by I. Ch. Goetz - Watercolor on paper 36x45 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Countryside landscape by I. Ch. Goetz - Watercolor on paper 29x32 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting signed - Bright Colour Shapes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Colourful Shapes
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
signed original watercolour/ gouache mounted painting on paper board, unframed
size: 8.5 x 5.75 inches
condition: very goo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Spring. 1997, oil on cardboard, 74x85 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Laimdots Murnieks had a significant influence on the development of Latvian painting at the end of the 20th century. His work 'Holiday' conveys the fee...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Carnival by Stéphanie Guerzoni - Oil on cardboard
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas board
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
66,5 x 56,5 x 3 cm
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage French Modernist Oil - Still Life Kitchen Objects on Red Table
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1960's, stamped verso
Title: Still life
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 6.25 x 8.25 inches
Provenance: private collection, F...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Kimmeridge Bay, 20th Century English School Oil Landscape, Monogrammed
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, monogrammed bottom right, inscription and artist label on stretcher
Image size: 12 x 24 inches (30.5 x 61 cm)
Original frame
Provenance
Collection of Mrs Fairchild, L...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Autumn Equinox With Its Hunters, Rosie Phipps, Landscape Painting under $500
By Rosie Phipps
Located in Deddington, GB
The Autumn Equinox with its Hunters by Rosie Phipps [2022]
The Autumn Equinox with its Hunters is an original watercolour and gouache painting by artist Rosie Phipps, sold mounted. ...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Vase with field flowers. 1985. Oil on cardboard, 68x54, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Vase with field flowers. 1985. Oil on cardboard, 68x54,5 cm
Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes (1938 – 44). He graduated from the Painti...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait in black with red lips. Oil on cardboard, 49x35 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait in black with red lips. Bilateral. Oil on cardboard, 49x35 cm
Woman portrait in black colors
Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Small harbor by Ernest Voegeli - Oil on canvas 51x62 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ich in meinen Bildern
Located in Wien, 9
Der begnadete Zeichner Karl Anton Fleck wurde vor kurzem mit einer Personalen in der Albertina geadelt. In dieser Ausstellung fehlte allerdings etwas ganz Entscheidendes: Eines der w...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Deux Arbres - Chatêau de St Georges by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié - Landscape
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
Deux Arbres - Chatêau de St Georges by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié (b. 1935)
Oil on canvas
130 x162 cm (51 ¾ x 63 ¾ inches)
Signed, titled and dated, July 1994 on revers...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait. cardboard, oil, 50x35, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1970s, cardboard, oil, 50x35,5 cm
Woman portrait in light colors
Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes (1938 – 44). He graduated ...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Erotic motives. 2.pcs., paper, cardboard, mixed media, 8, 3x5, 5 cm, 12, 8x3, 2 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Erotic motives. 2.pcs., paper, cardboard, mixed media, 8,3x5,5 cm, 12,8x3,2 cm
small two drawings with erotic motives
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Cityscape Oil Painting - Geometric City
Located in Bristol, GB
GEOMETRIC CITY
Size: 81 x 69 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An outstanding mid-century geometric abstract cityscape composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
The painting depic...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
XXX. 2002. acrylic on canvas, 80x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
This sizeable work is a combination of fauvist and impressionist style. It shows a hurricane of different feelings and moods that each one of us interprets differently
Ingrida Irbe ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Love, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylics and spray paint on stretched canvas, mixed media painting :: Painting :: Modern :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Read...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Walking Home III, Modern Figurative Painting, Landscape Painting, Park Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Colourful figurative landscape set in a park
Discover beautiful artwork by Ana Bianchi online with Wychwood Art. Originally trained as a designer in Paris,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Countryside landscape in Sanary by René Guinand - Oil on canvas 22x27 cm
By René Guinand
Located in Geneva, CH
Painter and teacher, displayed lithograph.
He was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1892, he died in Geneva in 1983.
Work on canvas
Gilded wood frame
33,5 x 38,5 x 4 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Autumn Intoxication, Modern Style Art, Cotswold Landscape Painting, Bright Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Autumn Intoxication by Rosie Phipps [2022]
Autumn Intoxication is an original watercolour and gouache painting by artist Rosie Phipps, sold mounted. Featuring her gestural and expre...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
The carousel by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas 42x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Gordon Barker, It's Snowing, Original Landscape Painting, Winter Art, Bright Art
Located in Deddington, GB
It’s Snowing by Gordon Barker [2016]
original
Acrylic on paper
Image size: H:25.5 cm x W:35 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:25.5 cm x W:35 cm x D:0...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Youth. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Youth. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to pu...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
The beauty of curvature. Paper, mixed media 16x12 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The beauty of curvature. Paper, mixed media 16x12 cm
watercolor and pen on paper
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his rel...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
My pomegranates, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Still life with pomegranets at the back ground of beach. :: Painting :: Modern :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Han...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Willow. 1999, cardboard, oil, 22x14 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Willow. 1999, cardboard, oil, 22x14 cm
Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes (1938 – 44). He graduated from the Painting Department of the ...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Flowers. 1979. Oil on canvas, 100x92 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers. 1979. Oil on canvas, 100x92 cm
Still life with colorful flowers
Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes (1938 – 44). He graduated fr...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gina Parr, Chando, Limited Edition Contemporary Art Print, Modern Art
By Gina Parr
Located in Deddington, GB
Gina Parr
Chando
Limited Edition Photographic Print of 10
Image Size: 54.9 x 36.6 cm
This is one work
Sold Unframed
Chando – 2 of 10 Limited Edition Photograph by Gina Parr from a S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Digital
Erotic motive. Paper, mixed media, 10x14 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Erotic motive. Paper, mixed media, 10x14 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Moonlight. 1996. Oil on cardboard, 85x74 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Laimdots Murnieks had a significant influence on the development of Latvian painting at the end of the 20th century. His work 'Holiday' conveys the fee...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Tellurians XVIII, Henry Walsh, Original Figurative Painting, Affordable Artwork
By Henry Walsh
Located in Deddington, GB
Tellurians XVIII [2020]
original
Acrylic on Canvas
Image size: H:30 cm x W:100 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:100 cm x D:4cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Oil Painting by Doris Zinkeisen "New Forest Ponies"
By Doris Clare Zinkeisen
Located in Mere, GB
“New Forest Ponies” by Doris Zinkeisen 1898-1991. Highly fashionable painter of equestrian scenes fine horsewoman herself. Studied at the Royal Academy. Oil...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Thomas by Gabrielle Pool Ink on Paper with Wooden Frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
Gabrielle Pool’s inks on paper are simple and charming. Using an unforgiving medium she produces work that is delicately poised between reality and abstraction with an underlying hu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Wood
Theater Spain. Paper, mixed media, 9.7x8.3 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Theater Spain. Paper, mixed media, 9.7x8.3 cm
watercolor, ink on paper.
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives gi...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Lady in red and lady in brown. 1935. Paper, watercolor, 35x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Lady in red and lady in brown. 1935. Paper, watercolor, 35x25 cm
Sitting women in summer dresses, mixed media on paper
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, ...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bella. Oil on canvas, 50x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Bella. Oil on canvas, 50x50 cm
Woman portrait in warm colors
Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes (1938 – 44). He graduated from the Paint...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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