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
Period: 20th Century
Vintage American New York School Minimalist Abstract Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Step into the vibrant world of mid-20th-century American art with this remarkable Vintage New York School Minimalist Abstract framed oil painting, dating back to the pivotal year of ...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Jockey by Roger Bonhnenblust - Gouache
By Roger Bohnenblust
Located in Geneva, CH
Roger Bohnenblust, born August 15, 1929 in Mulhouse and died May 30, 1979 in Friborg, is a Swiss painter, designer and engraver.
Roger Bohnenblust w...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
City Streets (British Street scene architectural landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Rene Beckley. City Streets, 1965. Oil on artist board, 16 x 20 inches; 18 x 22 inches framed. Signed and dated lower right.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Modernist Southwest Signed Desert Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American Western landscape modernist oil painting . Oil on canvas, circa 1920. Signed. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Ima...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique French Japanese Modernist Paris Cityscape Signed Sunset Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist cityscape of Paris at sunset by FOUSSA ITAYA (Japanese/French b. 1919). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Bread tray" by Jean Maurice Beyeler - Oil on cardboard
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on wood
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
1970s Abstract Figurative Framed Oil Painting, Modernist City Scene With Couple
Located in Denver, CO
1950s oil on board painting by George Cecil Carter portraying a modernist couple, thought to be Alfred Stieglitz & Georgia O'Keefe. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 20 ⅝ x 13 ½ x 1 ⅞ inches. Image sight size is 16 ⅞ x 9 ⅞ inches.
Painting is clean and in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a complete condition report.
Provenance: Private Collection, Denver Colorado
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About the Artist:
George Cecil Carter was born in Oklahoma in 1908 and became a noted Colorado abstract expressionist alongside contemporaries including Al Wynne, Mary Chenoweth...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Exhibited Modernist Abstract Maine Seascape Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist Maine landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 40L x 36H.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Otto Hake Signed American Modernist Woman Portrait Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nice modernist portrait for sale here. Oil on board. Signed. Nicely framed. Image size, 9L x 10H.
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
WPA Landscape American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Farm Rural
Located in New York, NY
WPA Landscape American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Farm Rural
James McCracken (1875 – 1967)
WPA Landscape
28 x 36 inches
Oil on canvas, c. 1930s
Signed lower right
...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American School Signed Framed Fauvist Still Life Modern Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed still life oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 21L x 18H.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Expressionist Signed Original Sunset Horse Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist expressionist sunset oil painting. Oil on canvas. Image size, 27.5L x 20H. Signed.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American Modernist Interior Scene Kitchen Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract interior scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Abstract Framed Original Neutral Pastel Palette Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
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
Interesting Tropical Modernist Palm Tree Abstract Vintage Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract tropical oil painting. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Female Cornish artist, Walter Sickert pupil, Cubist portrait of man in interior
Located in Harkstead, GB
A really stylish portrait of a young man relaxing in an interior, painted in a unique, almost cubist style and wonderful texture to the brushwork.
Garlick Barnes ( 1891-1987)
A man reading in an interior
Signed
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches without frame
29 x 24½ inches with frame
Barnes raised four children before turning her full attention to art. She studied at the Sidney Cooper School of Art, Canterbury, and at Heatherley's. In 1936 Garlick became a pupil of Walter Richard SICKERT...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large American School Modernist Nude Woman Fauvist Modern Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Up for sale here is a great modernist portrait painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1920. Painted in a wonderful modernist style. Framed. Image size 28 x 44.
Category
1910s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Early Antique American School Fauvist Woman Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Framed. Very finely painted and a rare fauvist palette. No signature found.
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Tropical 19th Century Landscape Original Oil Painting Flower Path
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 17.5L x 13.75H. Signed.
Category
Early 1900s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early American School Modernist Seaside Wine Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Step back in time to the roaring 1920s, a period of innovation, artistic rebellion, and cultural transformation. This painting invites you to own a piece of this vibrant era with a r...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Southern California Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Clean and modern landscape by Kipp Stewart (American, b. 1928). This piece is executed in a bold, blocky style. Large bushy trees cast shadows on lush grass surrounding a man-made pond. Behind the pond is other vegetation, as well as white houses with boldly colored roofs. The reflections in the pond are particularly captivating, completed with Stewart's signature attention to detail.
Signed in the lower right "Stewart"
Presented in a wood frame with a linen fillet.
Canvas size: 24"H x 36"W
Kipp Stewart (American, b. 1928) is an artist, architect, and designer from Pennsylvania. Known to furniture obsessives for the Declaration series he codesigned for North Carolina’s Drexel Furniture, Stewart is most commonly associated with mid-century design movements of his adopted home state of California. There, in 1972, Stewart designed the Ventana Big Sur, a luxury resort near Montecito for which he oversaw architecture, planning, furniture and interior design across 160 acres of land.
By the time Stewart spearheaded the Ventana, he was already well versed in furniture design. After briefly serving in the U.S. Navy as a teenager, Stewart enrolled at the Chouinard Art Institute (present-day CalArts) in Los Angeles. By the time he graduated, he was steeped in the world of modern seating design, experimenting with new chair models that bridged form and function. Charles and Ray Eames were important influences on his early work, which included a chrome-framed lounge chair whose reclined shape bears a striking resemblance to the Eameses’ iconic lounge.
In the late 1950s, Stewart partnered with another West Coast furniture designer, Stewart MacDougall, on a line of modern furniture for Drexel. (The pair were also producing case pieces and more for Glenn of California.) Drexel soon unveiled Stewart and McDougall’s Declaration line, which was constructed entirely of natural walnut and featured the choice of white porcelain or brass drawer pulls and cabinet door handles...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Polyester, Acrylic
Signed American School Post Impressionist Cow Farm Landscape Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist regional cow farm landscape. Really nicely framed and a very impressive painting in person. Signed illegibly.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Large Mid Century Art School Interior View Signed Nicely Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior view oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Seascape Framed Hamptons Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 18H x 24L. No signature found. Very nicely painted.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
George Town Great Exuma Signed Vintage Bahamas Modernist Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist seascape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American School Fall Cat Still Life Framed Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life with a cat. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Landscape with Quarry' oil on canvas circa 1974
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine oil by Bengy Hansson ( Danish) circa 1974.
Landscape with a quarry .
An extensive natural landscape interupted by mans activity scaring the natural topography creating artific...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American School Modernist Geometric Abstract New York School Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On the Sea (På havet, 1911) by Swedish Carl Wilhelmson
Located in Stockholm, SE
The painting På Havet (On the Sea) by Carl Wilhelmson, created in 1911, stands as a remarkable testament to the artist's profound connection with the s...
Category
1910s Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Seated Woman
Located in London, GB
'Seated Woman', oil on board, by François Diana (circa 1970s). This work of sumptuous colour and sensuous subject matter elicits an immediate response. ...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Styros, Greece - Watercolor on paper 28x37 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract portrait with antique frame, 1950s/60s
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Donald Purdy (1924 - 2016).
Oil on masonite
Measures 25"L x 23"W.
Work is behind glass and comes with exceptional antique frame.
Acquired from the Schoneman Gallery in NY...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mountainous landscape
By Erich Aey
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Interior Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Rolling Fields
Located in Soquel, CA
Blue skies and sun drenched planted fields impress the passerby of this rural scene by California artist Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th c.). From a collection of his works...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Port of Saint-Malo', French Modern School
Located in London, GB
'Port of Saint-Malo', oil on canvas affixed to board, French Modern School (1984). Although the artist dated this painting '84, it depicts a nostalgic view of the port of Saint-Malo in Western France's, Brittany in 1884 judging by the clothing worn by the characters depicted. The crowd on the shoreline is watching a sailboat regatta starting just inside the port's breakwater. A rather rare sunny day in Brittany brought out the parasols of the sitting ladies on the edge of the old ramparts. The walled city...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Spanish postwar children oil on burlap painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Agusti Ferre Pino (1884-1960) - Children - Oil on burlap
Oil measurements 100x97 cm.
Frame measurements 107x104 cm.
Painter trained at the La Lonja School of Fine Arts. He became kn...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
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
Antique American Sparse Modern Expressionist Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Image size, 18L x 24H.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Cyclists Rest Stop in Honfleur
Located in London, GB
'The Cyclists Rest Stop in Honfleur' by Jean-Marie Luc Blanpain, oil on canvas (circa 1970s). The artist's depiction of the terrace of the well known Honfleur restaurant, 'Au Relais ...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Framed Artist Studio Nude Woman Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior scene with a nude woman oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 22L x 26H.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern British Still life of daffodils in a china vase by Howard J Morgan
Located in Harkstead, GB
A most attractive and striking image of daffodils placed against a darker background
Howard J Morgan (1949-2020)
Daffodils in a china jug
Signed and S...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
Vintage 1970's Harbour Scene with Moored Boats & Figures by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage 1970's Harbour Scene with Moored Boats & Figures by British Artist, William Stockman (1935-2021)
Art measures 31 x 15 inches
Frame measures 36 x 20 inches
Professionally cleaned and re-framed in a high quality contemporary black moulding with a white insert
20th Century Vintage Original...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
Antique Large Modernist Interior View Fauvist Palette Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique large modern interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1920. Unsigned. Image size 35.5L x47.5H.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Cubist Still Life Abstract Original MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 21"L x 13"H.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage French Surreal Young Woman Portrait Framed Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas by Jean Pierre Serrier (1934 - 1989). Framed. Signed. Lots of nice detail.
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Vendor of Masques (Masks), Modernist Gouache Painting by Boardman Robinson
Located in Denver, CO
"The Vendor of Masques", 1930s modernist painting by Boardman Robinson (1876-1952) of a Mask vendors display with male and female figures (lik...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Antique American School Surreal Female Portrait Symbolic Rural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist surreal oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modernist Sunset Garden Figurative Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cathédrale by Jean Schweckler - Oil on canvas 42x51 cm
By Jean Schweckler
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Yoga Pose Surreal Woman Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist oil painting of a woman stretching. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Nude Artist Studio Surreal Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school surreal composition painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Unsigned. Image size, 8L x 12H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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