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
Cangiante Arancione
Located in Firenze, FI
Giulio Turcato (Mantova, 16 marzo 1912 – Roma, 22 gennaio 1995) è stato un artista italiano, fra i principali esponenti dell'astrattismo informale italiano.
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Sans Titre
Located in Barbizon, FR
Laurent Bouro, born in Touraine in 1967, is a painter and visual artist living in France. From an early age, he developed a passion for art and painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
(1934-2022) LARGE ORIGINAL oil painting MODERNIST EXPRESSIONIST PORTRAIT STUDY
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Robin Hambro (1934-2022) American
TITLE: "Expressionist Portrait"
SIGNED: lower right
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 120cm x 95cm inc frame
CONDITION: excellent
DETAIL: Born ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Firenze, FI
Franco Rognoni
Media: mixed media on paper
size: 21x30 cm
Franco Rognoni Milano 1913-1999
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Woman sitting: Hilary Hennes Miller c.1940 English Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, including others by Hennes, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Beautiful British Modernist Oil Painting - Soft Green Landscape & Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Jill Jackson (British, contemporary)
Title: The Country Lane
Medium: oil on board, framed
Framed: 17 x 22 inches
Painting : 14 x 18 inches
Provenance: all the pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Notte di luna
Located in Firenze, FI
Franco Rognoni - Milano 1913 -1999
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Paesaggio
Located in Firenze, FI
Title:"Paesaggio"
Media: Oil on canvas
Size: 50x70 cm
Sergio Scatizzi (Gragnano Lucca), 20 October 1918 – Florence December 1º 2009)
Art and nature are the themes of Scatizzi’s wor...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Cestello by Night
Located in Firenze, FI
Uliviero Ulivieri - Born in Florence, Italy in 1934, this perennially youthful artist has a sweet and slightly shy aspect. He has absorbed from his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Dessin de feu
Located in Firenze, FI
Bernard Aubertin
Media : mixed media on wood
size: 80x120 cm
Frame options available
Bernard Aubertin, a monochrome painter, was born in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France in 1934. His ar...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Signora-The shadows of grey version Painting, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Original and unique On Cansons paper 600gr A structural design with special attention to color and balance. Every painting is signed and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity a...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Me-Time, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Original and unique On Cansons paper 600gr A structural design with special attention to color and balance. Every painting is signed and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity a...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Feathers, Mystical and Spiritual Commentary by Female Modernist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Feathers" is a 30 x 40 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color palette. The work is s...
Category
1970s 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
Tonal Lillies - Landscape Painting - American Modern Art By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Sepia and black base color with off white and yellow flowers makes a high contrast statement. The florals have a fluid flowing design. Perfect for a minimalist decor.
Tonal Lillies ...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chickens On The Loose - Animal Painting - American Modern By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Three Roosters from the beautiful island of Kauai, being as goofy as the naturally can in this contemporary tropical jungle painting .
Chickens on the Loose - Animal paintings - Ame...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chrysanthemums in a Green Pot - Modern British Flowers Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful large signed and dated 1940 modern British oil on canvas by Patricia Fell-Clark, the painter and novelist known for introducing the Beatles to Ravi Shankar.
The work dep...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Strawberry Fields Diptych, Illustration Style Blooming Wild Flowers, Red, Green
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Strawberry Fields" is an illustration style painting by Romina Milano.
Romina Milano is an Italian artist renowned for her paintings that are primarily composed of strong gestures,...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Ink
Small chapel
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Deep in the Jungle - Figurative Painting - American Modern Art By Marc
Located in Carmel, CA
Blue women: at home in the jungle- attuned to the wild.
Deep in the Jungle - Figurative Painting - American Modern Art By Marc Zimmerman
This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zim...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dreamcatcher, Native American Cultural Still Life and Spiritual Commentary
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Dreamcatcher" is a 28 x 42 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color palette. The work ...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harvest, Abstract and Contemporary Wildlife Painting by Female Modernist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Harvest" is a 30 x 25 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant reds and orange, and estate s...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring, Abstract Landscape and Spiritual Query
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Spring" is a 38 x 50 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color palette. The work is sig...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunlit Hill, 2006
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn paints a row of trees with the sun peeking out from underneath in his stellar oil painting entitled “Sunlit Hill.”
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled Abstract in Yellow and Blue by Female, American Modernist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Untitled - Yellow and Blue" is a 46 x 34.25 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. This abstract work is painted in a vibra...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orbs, Spiritual and Abstract Landscape
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Orbs" is a 38 x 50 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is estate stamped 202141 on verso. The painting has been...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Hat Rack Signed Interior Scene Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century modernist interior view. Finely painted. Framed.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Young Lady in Green
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Lady
French School, mid 20th century
signed, S. Ascher
signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 16 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris
condition: good...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Cubist Framed Mid Century Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really rare and well painted American still life by Harry Lane (1891 - 1973). Oil on board. Framed in a period modernist wood frame. Signed. Image size, 12 by 16 inches.
Arti...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In The Pink: Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative painting by John Emanuel
By John Emanuel
Located in Brecon, Powys
Another very pretty mixed media from the studio of this well collected British artist.
Image 21" x 15"
mounted
Originally from Bury, in the North of England, John Emanuel works in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Fish & Flowers
Located in Bristol, GB
FISH & FLOWERS
Size: 47 x 62 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas Laid onto Board
A characterful mid-century modernist style still life oil composition, painted onto canvas.
At the h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Expressive Landscape Oil Painting - Rustic Houses
Located in Bristol, GB
RUSTIC HOUSES
Size: 57 x 67 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A wonderfully executed mid-century modernist style landscape composition, painted in oil onto canvas.
The composition...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Expressive Landscape Oil Painting - Coastal Living
Located in Bristol, GB
COASTAL LIVING
Size: 51 x 72.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A vibrant and inviting mid-century coastal landscape composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
The painting captur...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Monumental Pop Art Architectural Cityscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century abstract cityscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tools, Symbolism and Abstract by American Female Modernist Peter Miller
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Tools" is a 25 x 30 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a earth-tone color palette. The work is e...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Madeleine, Paris Street Scene
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century oil on canvas painting of a Paris street scene with the columns of La Madeleine in the distance, signed Deuvray bottom left. The canvas is on its original stretcher ...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Cubist Framed Mid Century Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really rare and well painted American still life by Harry Lane (1891 - 1973). Oil on board. Framed in a period modernist wood frame. Signed. Image size, 12 by 16 inches.
Arti...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Just as you are
Located in Long Island City, NY
There is no definitive answer to the message my work seeks to communicate.
I begin my work with mixed feelings between ‘feeling-self’ and ‘conscious-self’.
We cannot logically explai...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Fruit" Georgina Klitgaard, Apples and Pears Still Life, Woodstock Female Artist
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Apples and Pears Still Life
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
8 x 10 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artists to membership in one school or another. Unfortunately for her posthumous reputation, Klitgaard defied easy characterization. She was a U.S. modernist, working in both oil and watercolors, but never abandoned figurative painting. She made her reputation in landscape but also excelled in portraits, flower studies, and even cityscapes. Yet despite Klitgaard’s ambiguous status in art history, her paintings continue to fascinate viewers attracted to the unsteady ground between twentieth-century realism and expressionism.
Georgina Klitgaard (née Berrian) was born in Spuyten Duyvil, New York (now part of the Bronx); the Berrians had lived in the area since at least the U.S. Revolution. After graduating from Barnard College, she studied art at the National Academy of Design. In 1919 she married Kay Klitgaard, a Danish artist and writer. The next year, her life took a decisive turn when the couple visited friends in Woodstock, NY—about 120 miles north of New York City--and fell in love with the area.
In 1906, L. Birge Harrison helped found the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock and the area became a magnet for landscape painters. The Klitgaards bought a house in 1922 on a steep ledge at the end of Cricket Ridge, high above Bearsville, which provided panoramic vistas overlooking the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson Valley. Klitgaard joined the artists’ colony in the area, which at the time included artists Ernest Fiene and Katherine Schmidt.
Klitgaard exhibited widely and her career slowly developed momentum. She was a regular contributor at Whitney Museum shows from 1927 to 1944. In 1929, she exhibited a painting entitled “Carousel” in the Whitney Studio Club’s famous exhibition “Circus in Paint.” Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney acquired five paintings by Klitgaard in the early 1930s and served as a significant patron for the artist. Klitgaard s New York dealer, Frank Rehn...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Day at the Beach
Located in New Orleans, LA
A Day at the Beach by unkown American School painter, circa 1940-1950, oil on canvas.
Framed: 31 x 29 inches
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Bright Yellow Lemons Still Life
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 studies ...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Listed Signed Female Vintage Modernist Paris Cafe Street Scene
Located in Buffalo, NY
Listed female vintage modernist Paris cafe street scene by Elise Shaw. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Furious Embrace
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on panel, 82cm x 62cm (118cm x 98cm framed).
Born in Newport, south Wales, in 1951, the early part of his career was as a choreographer and stage director. Turning away from...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Moon Glow by Robert Terry
Located in Brookville, NY
Born 1955 in Broken Bow, Nebraska. Lives and works in New York.
AWARDS
National Endowment for the Arts, Major Grant
Robert Terry was best noted in his depictions of romantic moons...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dance Wands, Modernist Southwestern Still Life and Cultural Commentary
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Dance Wands" is a 36 x 24 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female artist Peter Miller. The work is painted in a vibrant color palette, signed and...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vacation Times!, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting was born in my happiest time. As all my paintings as well ;-) When I feel that I have a lot of good vibes, I want to share them, and then I start painting. So here we ...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Rest In The Forest, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Rest In The Forest Acrylic, canvas 24"x18" :: Painting :: Modern :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signe...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
“Abstract”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very unusual and boldly colored original oil on canvas abstract painting done by the Russian artist Gufor Malyanov. Signed in cyrillic verso, dated 1952 and titled in cyrillic “Abst...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Keeping Company
Located in Atlanta, GA
Being born into a family of six children all of them artists, designers, and musicians…a future in the creative arts was unavoidable. A North Carolina native, Marlise obtained a degr...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Come to Blows, 20th Century British Female Artist, Gouache
Located in London, GB
Gouache on card, signed lower right
Image size: 19 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches (50 x 28.5 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
Joan Fairfax Whiteside
Joan Fairfax Whiteside was a prodig...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Wolf Boy
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on panel, 56cm x 61cm, (67cm x 77cm framed)
Born in Newport, south Wales, in 1951, the early part of his career was as a choreographer and stage director. Turning away from ...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Still life with three apples
Located in Bayonne, NJ
Masterfully executed still life with brush strokes inspired by old masters. Yet Belik is trying to achieve a metaphysical feeling for his compositions by quietly placing objects in a...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wings Out
Located in Atlanta, GA
Being born into a family of six children all of them artists, designers, and musicians…a future in the creative arts was unavoidable. A North Carolina native, Marlise obtained a degr...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
1950 Vintage Mid-Century Expressive Landscape Oil Painting - Landscape Light
Located in Bristol, GB
LANDSCAPE LIGHT
Size: 43.5 x 55 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A beautifully textured and soothing mid-century landscape composition, executed in oil onto board and dated 1950.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
School of Paris, Sleeping Woman, Nude, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Fortunato Pirazzini (1907-2003), School of Paris, ca.1950. "Sleeping woman, Nude". Measurements : with frame : 56x71 cm - 22x28 inches
without frame : 46x61 cm - 18....
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Harbor, St Michaels Mount, Cornwall. Exhibited 1982. Unique Perspective
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Ken Symonds.
English ( b.1927 - d.2010 ).
The Harbor, St Michaels Mount, Cornwall, 1982.
Oil on Artist’s Board. Signed.
Image size 15.4 inches x 19.5 inches ( 39cm x 49.5cm ).
Frame...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid-Century Modern Figurative Oil Painting, Fabian Lundqvist -Overlooking Fields
Located in Bristol, GB
OVERLOOKING THE FIELDS
Size: 41 x 48.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A calm and soothing mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas by the established Swed...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman Nude, Pop Art, canvas, mixed media - ANTIFRAGILE - 100x80 cm
Located in Zofingen, AG
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
The artwork titled "Woman Nude - ANTIFRAGILE" presents a striking juxtaposition of serenity and chaos, a profound exploration of resilience and the human spirit. At...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
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