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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
Peonies 1975. Oil on canvas, 100x92 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Peonies 1975. Oil on canvas, 100x92 cm The combination of the pink flowers and the blue vase creates a harmonious color scheme, evoking a sense of tranquility and elegance. The pa...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950s "Sleeping with Fruit" Mid Century Figurative Painting University of Paris
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy "Sleeping with Fruit" c.1950s Gouache paint on paper 24" x 18'" unframed Unsigned Came from artist's estate *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expec...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

'Still Life with Wine', California Modernist, Santa Cruz, University of Maine
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Taylor' for Jonathan Taylor (American, born 1968) and painted circa 2000. This listed California artist first studied art at the College of the Atlantic in Bal ...
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Paper

"Fireglow Sunset"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on artist board mounted on wood panel. Tschacbasov sunset sets the trees ablaze in this beautiful painting done in the late 1950's while two small figures in the lower right side...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil

1950's Bright Green and Blue Landscape of Hills and Fields French Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Harmonious Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original oil on artist paper size: 23 x 20 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed Description: This impr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Yucca Growing in Garden, Modern watercolor
Located in Greenwich, CT
This modernist work by acclaimed Werner Drewes, exude sunlight and a contemporary feel akin to Fairfield Porter. The colors are bold and rich and the brushwork spontaneous and bold....
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Watercolor

Large Hudson River Figurative Modernist Landscape Oil Painting Edward Avedisian
Located in Surfside, FL
Edward Avedisian ( 1936-2007 ) Gouache or oil on paper, 3 guys around a car, hand signed in paint lower left, Measures 30"x 22.5" Edward Avedisian (June 15, 1936, Lowell, Massachusetts – August 17, 2007, Philmont, New York) was an American abstract painter who came into prominence during the 1960s. His work was initially associated with Color field painting and in the late 1960s with Lyrical Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism. He studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. By the late 1950s he moved to New York City. Between 1958 and 1963 Avedisian had six solo shows in New York. In 1958 he initially showed at the Hansa Gallery, then he had three shows at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery and in 1962 and 1963 at the Robert Elkon Gallery. He continued to show at the Robert Elkon Gallery almost every year until 1975. During the 1960s his work was broadly visible in the contemporary art world. He joined the dynamic art scene in Greenwich Village, frequenting the Cedar Tavern on Tenth Street, associating with the critic Clement Greenberg, and joining a new generation of abstract artists, such as Darby Bannard, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Larry Poons. Avedisian was among the leading figures to emerge in the New York art world during the 1960s. An artist who mixed the hot colors of Pop Art with the cool, more analytical qualities of Color Field painting, he was instrumental in the exploration of new abstract methods to examine the primacy of optical experience. One of his paintings was appeared on the cover of Artforum, in 1969, his work was included in the 1965 Op Art The Responsive Eye exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and in four annuals at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His paintings were widely sought after by collectors and acquired by major museums in New York and elsewhere. He has been exhibited in prominent galleries, such as the Anita Shapolsky Gallery and the Berry Campbell Gallery in New York City. Edward Avedisian was known for his brightly colored, boldly composed canvases that combined Minimalism's rigor, Pop art exuberance and the saturated tones of Color Field painting. Roberta Smith of the NYT writes of Avedesian: "Edward Avedisian helped establish the hotly colored, but emotionally cool, abstract painting that succeeded Abstract Expressionism in the early 1960s. This young luminary harnessed elements of minimalism, pop, and color field painting to create prominent works of epic proportions that energized the New York art scene of the time." In 1996 Avedisian showed his paintings from the 1960s at the Mitchell Algus Gallery, then in SoHo. His last show, dominated by recent landscapes, was in 2003 at the Algus gallery, now in Chelsea. Selected Exhibitions: Op Art: The Responsive Eye, at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum’s Young America 1965 Expo 67, held in Montreal, Canada. Six Painters (along with Darby Bannard, Dan Christensen, Ron Davis...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Gouache, Archival Paper

Buffalo, NY Steel Mill American Scene Modernism WPA Era Industrial 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Buffalo, NY Steel Mill American Scene Modernism WPA Era Industrial 20th Century Ruth A. Haven Gay (1911-1992) “Buffalo, NY Steel Mill”, c. 1935 23 x 28 inches Oil on canvas Signed G...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Table with Bouquets of Flowers - Original Oil on Canvas, SIGNED
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert ZAVARO (1925-) Table with Bouquets of Flowers, c. 1965 Oil on canvas Signed lower right corner On canvas 60 x 60 cm (c. 24 x 24 in) PROVENANCE: Galerie Framond, Paris, inven...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Vintage Expressionist Portrait of a Man with a Bowtie Oil on Wood
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive portrait, a caricature of a man with bowtie by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Another version of th...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Fiberboard

Winter Landscape - Paint by Dumbra - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Winter Landscape is an original contemporary artwork realized by the Artist Dumbra in the late 20th Century. Relief material work (cementite and airbrush with glue). Hand signed by...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Mixed Media

Vintage American Mid Century Modernist Abstract Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Signed
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled by Sam Francis
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sam Francis 1923-1994 American Untitled Signed and dated "Sam Francis 1965" (en verso) Oil on canvas This striking painting hails from the renowned Edge Paintings series by impor...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

"China Town" Ernest Fiene, 1925 Modernist Watercolor on Paper Chinatown Scene
Located in New York, NY
Ernest Fiene China Town, 1925 Signed and dated to lower right ‘Ernest Fiene 1925’. Watercolor on paper 18 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches Ernest Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894. As a teenager, Fiene immigrated to the United States in 1912. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1914 to 1918, taking day classes with Thomas Maynard and evening classes with Leon Kroll. Fiene continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York from 1916 to 1918, adding classes in printmaking at the Art Students League in 1923. Fiene began his career as an artist in 1919 with his first exhibition of watercolors at the MacDowell Club arranged by his mentor Robert Henri. In 1923 the Whitney Studio Club mounted a large exhibition of his works. The following year he had an exhibition at the New Gallery in New York, which completely sold out all fifty-two works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings. With the proceeds of sales from the New Gallery exhibition, Ernest Fiene and his younger brother Paul, a sculptor, built studios in Woodstock, New York in 1925. In the early Twenties Ernest Fiene painted mostly landscapes of Woodstock and both the Ramapo and Hudson River Valleys. The first monograph from the Younger Artists Series was published on Fiene in 1922. Published in Woodstock, the series went on to include Alexander Brook, Peggy Bacon, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The book reproduced 1 illustration in color and another 27 reproductions in black and white. Around 1925 Fiene became fascinated with the intensity, excitement, and opportunities for color harmonies New York City offered as a subject. His paintings shifted to urban and industrial themes with architecture, industry, and transportation becoming his subjects. By 1926 Fiene had attracted the dealer Frank K.M. Rehn, who gave him a one-man exhibition that year, which travelled to the Boston Arts Club. C.W. Kraushaar Galleries gave Fiene a one-man exhibition of urban, landscape, portrait, and still life paintings in 1927. Julianna Force, the director of the Whitney Studio Club and first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, included two of Fiene’s paintings in a fall exhibition in 1928. The Whitney Studio Club showed Fiene’s paintings in a two-man exhibition with Glenn O. Coleman that year and acquired three of Fiene’s paintings. Also in 1928 Fiene became affiliated with Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery where he had an exhibition of 20 lithographs in the spring. Fiene sold his house in Woodstock in 1928 to spend more of his time in New York City. With so many successful exhibitions, Fiene returned to Paris in 1928-29 where he rented Jules Pascin's studio and studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In France, Fiene painted both landscape and urban subjects developed from ideas influenced by Cubist geometry and the use of flat areas of broad color. Upon returning to New York in 1930, Fiene used this new approach to continue to paint New York skyscraper and waterfront subjects, as well as to begin a series of paintings on changing old New York based on the excavations for Radio City Music Hall and the construction of the Empire State Building. Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries exhibited this series, titled “Changing Old New York,” in 1931. Fiene also has solo exhibitions at Rehn Galleries in 1930 and 1932. Fiene’s oil paintings are exhibited at the Chicago Arts Club in 1930 as well. Fiene was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans in December of 1931. Visiting New York, Henri Matisse saw the exhibition and called Fiene’s Razing Buildings, West 49th Street the finest painting he had seen in New York. Fiene had two mural studies from his Mechanical Progress series exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers in 1932. Fiene sent View from my Window which depicts Fiene working on a lithograph stone while looking out his window to the newly completed Empire State Building to the Carnegie International in 1931. In 1932 Fiene participated in the first Biennial of American Painting at the Whitney Museum and his prints were included in exhibitions at the Downtown Gallery and the Wehye Gallery. In the same year, Fiene was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to further study mural painting in Florence, Italy. On his return from Italy in 1933 Fiene re-engaged himself in New York City life and won several public and private mural projects. Fiene resumed his active exhibition schedule, participating in two group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and a one-man exhibition of recent paintings at the Downtown Gallery in January 1934. In 1933 he purchased a farm in Southbury, Connecticut, which added Connecticut scenes to his landscape subjects. This was also the year Fiene began to spend summers on Monhegan Island, Maine, where he painted seascapes, harbor scenes, and still lifes. Fiene’s landscape paintings attracted numerous commissions as part of the American Scene movement. Through the fall and winter of 1935-36, Fiene took an extended sketching trip through the urban, industrial, and farming areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Most of the twenty-four Pennsylvania urban and rural paintings from this trip were featured in an exhibition held at the First National Bank in Pittsburgh in October of 1937 by the Pittsburgh Commission for Industrial Expansion. Fiene said of these works that he formed rhythm, opportunity for space and color, and integrity in the Pennsylvania mill and furnace paintings. Fiene received the silver medal for one of the Pittsburgh paintings...
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1920s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary Leon Bibel (1912 - 1995) "The Audience," 52 ½ x 41 ¼ inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1963. Signed lower right. Framed. BIO Painter, printmaker and sculptor, Leon Bibel was born in San Francisco in 1913. He trained at the California School of Fine Arts and received a scholarship to study under the German Impressionist Maria Riedelstein. He worked in collaboration with Bernard Zackheim, a student of Diego Rivera, to create frescoes for the San Francisco Jewish Community Center and the University of California Medical School. In 1936 Bibel moved from California to join the Federal Art Project at Harlem Art...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Intermission Oil Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Intermission, woman and guitar 48"x36" framed 66"x54" Arbe Berberyan Russian/Armenian Artist born 1958. The son of a distinguished artist, and Professor of Art & Design, Ara Berbery...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Vintage Signed Surreal Black Farming Figures Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist surreal landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

20th Century Modernist Painting Stone Village Arch Way Street Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape signed by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original gouache on artist paper size: 20 x 17 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: th...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

Large Signed Cubist Abstract Framed Colorful Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Mother and Child with Rainbow Pinwheel', Paris, Rome, New York, AIC, Chicago
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Cabaniss' for Larry Cabaniss (American-Italian, 1928-2008) and painted circa 1975; additionally signed, verso, 'Cabaniss'. Born in...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Card Game - Oil Painting by Armando Orfeo - 1999
Located in Roma, IT
Card Game is an original color oil painting realized by the artist Orfeo in the 1999. Signed by the artist on the lower center. Good conditions Includes frame: 40 x 3 x 55 cm. Si...
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Nude with Cat, Mid-20th Century, Modern, Oil on Board, Figural, Interior
Located in Wiscasset, ME
"Nude with Cat" by R. Walker is a charming portrait of a woman and cat posed by a window.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

'Ravello' c 2005 Mixed media on toned paper circa 2005
Located in Frome, Somerset
Ravello. All that visit know the capture of the place when looking towards the Med. Gradwell created of semi abstract view of the collaspe between coast and the town dwellings . An e...
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

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Mixed Media

1970s Large Wood, Copper Inlay Sculpture Wall Relief Tropical Flowers Motif
By Helen Weber
Located in Surfside, FL
Helen Weber Large wall hanging wood and metal sculptural relief in a tropical Hawaiian or Polynesian motif with tropical flowers. "Art belongs everywhere from cruise ships to churches" This has been the mantra of Helen Webber since she began her career in the 1970’s creating hundreds of art works for public spaces throughout the United states and abroad. It was her strongly held belief that art can touch the spirit of many more people than those whose art experiences are limited to the halls and walls of museums and galleries. Her bold and richly hued art works executed in a wide variety of media, such as tapestry, glass, metal wood and clay have been installed in universities, corporations, medical facilities, cruise ships, hotels, religious spaces, community and civic centers and even in a train station. Over the years many architects and interior designers have collaborated with Helen Webber finding that her work enhanced their designed environments, giving her the opportunity to create art for well known corporations as well as multitudes of residences. It is the tapestries that she is best known for, and it is this medium that dominates the largest body of her work, which was first introduced to the design world in the mid 1970's. The tapestries utilize a fabric collage technique combining an array of designer upholstery fabrics such as velvets, brocades, worsteds, jacquards, mohair, hand woven woolens, among many others. Yarns of all kinds are integrated into the tapestries surrounding the edges of each fabric piece. Some clients, who saw that Webber’s particular art style could be expressed in a variety of media, offered her commissions in stained and etched glass, wood collage, sculpted tile...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Copper

"Farm in Winter - 2" by Claude Sauthier - Oil on Wood - 73x54 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...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Wood, Oil

"Savoie in Winter - 2" by Claude Sauthier - Oil on Wood - 73x54 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...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Wood, Oil

Gold Moon 3, Gold Black Silver Moon Mixed Media Painting On Canvas 54 x 80"
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Discover Art You Love. Start and build your art collection. Investment Opportunity - Unique - Original - Signed Astronomy & Space Collection SPECIFICATIONS: - Artist-grade canvas. ...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital

Walkers in winter. 2023. Oil on canvas, 35X60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Walkers in winter 2023. Oil on canvas, 35X60 cm Ansis Butnors (1977) Education: J. Rozentals Art School in Riga – 1989. – 1996. Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department – 1996...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Selfie in Christ"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The theme of religion is an integral part of my author's paintings. This work was inspired by the painting by Rembrandt, The Removal of Christ.
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

The Theatre Stage - Painting on Canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Theatre Stage is an original artwork realized in the first half of the 20th Century by Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 - Gargnano, 1942). Original Painting on canvas. Total d...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Costume - Original Mixed Media on Paper by Alkis Matheos - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Costume is an original painting in mixed media tempera and watercolor on paper, realized by the Greek-French artist Alkis Matheos . Very good conditions. Signed by artist's stamp. ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Mixed Media, Tempera, Watercolor

'The Seine and the Pont Neuf', Paris, Académie des Beaux Arts, Kraków, Normandy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Walles' for Luc Cossier Walles (French, born 1946), titled lower right, 'Paris' and dated 1978. Luc Cossier, known as Walles, was born in Poland to French paren...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Modernist Coastal Ocean Beach Abstract Rock Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist seascape beach oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1930. Signed on verso. Image size, 24L x 18H. Framed in a period frame.
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Portrait of a mysterious rose" Original floral painting. vertical. Oil /canvas
Located in Oslo, NO
In this painting, I've infused my passion for the delicate interplay of light and shadow with acrylics, sprays, and inks. The painstaking realism brings forth the rose's enigmatic bl...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Ink, Acrylic

Urban Landscape - Original Artwork by Nazareno Gattamelata - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Urban Landscape is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Nazareno Gattamelata in the 1970s. Original colored oily pastels on paper. Hand signed by the artist on the lower l...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Trompe L'Oeil "Old Town Chicago" Signed Van Zandt Street Scene Modern Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene painting. OIl on board. Framed. Signed "Van Zandt 50". Really finely painted and an interesting subject as well!
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Pop Art Bulldog Animal Portrait Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist animal portrait painting by Jerry Farnsworth. Oil on canvas, circa 1970. Signed. Image size 20L x 16H. Housed in a peri...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Rail Crossing: Middletown, NY"
By Jules Halfant
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful oil on linen canvas painting, entitled "Rail Crossing: Middletown, was executed by the esteemed artist Jules Halfant (American, 1909-2001)...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Expressionist Oil Painting - Cosy Interior
Located in Bristol, GB
COSY INTERIOR Size: 46 x 53.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A lively and expressive interior scene composition, executed in oil onto canvas by Swedish artist Uno Vallman (1913-...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

'Still Life with Guitar', Art Deco Woman Artist, National Academy of Design, ASL
By Tosca Olinsky
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed Upper Left "Tosca" for Tosca Olinski (American, 1909-1984) and painted in 1941. Provenance: Mongerson Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago. Exhibited: New Directions in American Pai...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Hillside of Cologny in the Fog" by Claude Sauthier - Oil on Wood - 92x65 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...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Board, Wood

The Cockerel, Water colour on Paper Grey, Red by Indian Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Badrinarayan The Cockerel Water colour on Paper 22 x 14 inches 55.8 x 35.5 cm This work features in the Book on Badrinarayan Written by Ms. Prema Vishwanathan & Published by Ma...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

1940's Americana WPA Modernist Watercolor Painting Catskill Mountains Bungalow
Located in Surfside, FL
Bungalow (fauvist painting of New York scene) 1940's. image is 10X 11.5 inches. Hand signed lower right Country Scene Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings. Arrived in the USA from Hungary in 1921 and settled in New York City where he studied at the Art Students League. Grunvald worked for the Federal Art Project, taught at Colony House in NYC. Member: Art Guild, Watercolor Society, New York Watercolor Club. exhibited at Montross Gallery, NYC, World House Galleries, NYC, Leonard Hutton Gallery, NYC, Associated American Artists Gallery and the A.C.A. Gallery. Gunvald's work spanned many modern American movements from the WPA to Abstract Expressionist painting. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society and the Brooklyn Society of Artists. He exhibited with both of these organizations and at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He was involved the the WPA being a Federal Arts Project artist. A number of prominent Jewish artists participated in this New Deal program among them Ben Shahn, Joseph Solman, William Gropper, Philip Guston Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Ben Shahn, the Soyers (Isaac, Moses, and Raphael), and many others Grunwald exhibited alongside other popular artists such as Paul Klee, Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Charles Burchfield. He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Jewish Museum, New York. Americana. The Catskills became a major resort destination for Jewish New Yorkers in the mid-20th century. Borscht Belt is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster counties in upstate New York which were frequented by Ashkenazi Jews. At its peak of popularity, about 500 resorts operated in the region. Later changes in vacationing patterns have led most of those travelers elsewhere, although there are still bungalow communities and summer camps in the towns of Liberty, Bethel, Monticello and Fallsburg catering to Orthodox Jewish populations. Borscht Belt, The term, which derives from the name of a beet soup popular with people of Eastern European origin, can also refer to the Catskill region itself. In August, 1969, the Catskills were the site of a music and art festival in the town of Bethel, which had originally been planned for Woodstock, New York. Thirty-three of the best-known musicians of the era appeared during a sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers. The event, featuring liberal drug use and nudity, exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. Select Exhibitions A.C.A. Gallery Associated American Artists Gallery, 1936-1955 American Watercolor Society, 1932-1942 New York Watercolor Club, 1935-1937 Humanist Art...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Watercolor

Exhibited Ashcan School Nocturnal New York City Brooklyn Bridge Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist nocturnal view of the Brooklyn Bridge. Oil on board. Signed verso. Framed.
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

La femme aux fleurs (Portrait de Mathilde See)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Paul César Helleu is regarded among the most sought-after society portraitists of his era, and his Belle Époque works rival those of his contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Giovanni Boldini. He is best remembered for capturing the era's most beautiful socialites, including Consuelo Vanderbilt, the Duchess of Marlborough, the Comtesse de Loriol Chandieu and the Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles, among others. This work, however, stands out in that it captures the charming likeness of one of his art world cohorts, Mathilde See, a Parisian-born decorator and painter of floral still lifes. She is the essence of the modern woman, captured in her fashionable dress as she strolls along the flower-lined streets of Paris. Commanding in size, Portrait de Mathilde See fully displays Helleu's mastery over the medium of pastel. The muted palette of greys and blues is typical of the artist, bringing a harmony and cohesiveness to the composition. Furthermore, Helleu cleverly alludes to See's own artistic output with a backdrop of vibrant floral blooms, enlivening the canvas and complementing the greens and blues of the peacock feather adorning her hat. The portrait is all the more significant thanks to its provenance. It was previously in the collection of A. Alfred Taubman, one of America's most successful entrepreneurs and one-time owner of Sotheby's. Considering Taubman encountered some of the most noteworthy and beautiful works of art ever made through his auction house, the fact that he chose this portrait by Helleu to grace his collection is a testament to its import. Born in Brittany in 1859, Helleu moved to Paris in 1876 in order to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. Like so many other artists of his generation, he was trained there under the Academic master Jean-Léon Gérôme. That same year, he also attended the Second Impressionist Exhibition...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Linen, Pastel

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.
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Changing Everything Forever: River #7 bright colorful abstract landscape
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Changing Everything Forever: River #7 Exuberant brushwork, bright colorful abstract landscape Acrylic, w some dirt, some grass, on canvas. Painted at the Blackstone-Seekonk River.
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Antique American School Modernist Kitchen Table Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted American school modernist still life. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Abstract Sailing, 1945”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on academy board by the Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and dated lower left, 1945. Condition: Excellent. Presently not framed. Biography : Russian-America...
Category

1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard

Vintage American Modernist Surreal Dry Dock Boat Scene Signed Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted modernist dry dock boat landscape by Karl Soderlund (Born 1962). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category

1980s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Garden - Painting by Alkis Matheos - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Garden is an original painting artwork in mixed media on paper realized by the Greek-French artist Alkis Matheos . Good conditions except for some diffu...
Category

20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Modern British oil painting "Farmhouse by Lane", Ralph Gillies
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. Ralph Gillies Cole (1915-1994) Farmhouse by Lane Oil on canvas 48 x 72 cm Signed lower left 'Ralph Gillies Cole' and dated 1964. A handsome oil painting of the English countryside by well-listed painter Ralph Gillies Cole. We have another painting by the same artist listed. Artist known for his views of the English countryside. Additionally the Fleet Air Arm Museum has a series of paintings by Cole...
Category

1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Signed Exhibited American Female Modernist Woman Sewing Framed Portrait
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century modernist interior portrait oil painting by Sadie Skoletsky Rosenblum 1899-1987. Great color and composition. Framed.
Category

1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Mid Century Modern Kitchen Still Life Original OilPainting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 14L x 8H. Signed.
Category

1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Modern Green Pink Mixed Media on Canvas 48" X 36"
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas Artwork: Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digital original hand painting, printed on canvas, then hand p...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink

'Attic Series, Yellow', California Woman Post-Impressionist Artist, Sonoma State
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Davenport' for Jill Davenport (American, 1930-2019) and painted circa 1985; titled, verso, 'Attic Series- Yellow'. Framed dimensions: 28 x 1.5 x 25 inches. Born in Kansas, Jill Davenport moved to California in 1963. A lifelong artist and art enthusiast, she raised a family before focusing, in her early forties, on her vocation as an artist. In 1976, she graduated from Sonoma State University with a Bachelors in Art, subsequently continuing her studies with the California Post-Impressionist, Maury Lapp. During this period, her work was primarily representational and her favored medium was oil. In the late 1980's, however, she became an early exponent of computer-aided design and worked with some of the earliest Mac computers...
Category

1980s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Classic 1950s Husband and Wife and Gagged Parrot, Esquire Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Works by this female artst are very rare only seldom come on the market. Juliette Kida Renault (as JKR) Esquire Magazine Illustration Original Art (H...
Category

1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Watercolor

Young boy by Max Band - Portrait painting
Located in London, GB
Young boy by Max Band (1901-1974) Oil on canvas 81.2 x 54.4 cm (32 x 21³/₈ inches) Signed lower left Max Band Provenance Private collection, London
Category

20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Incredible American Modernist New York City Central Park Plaza View Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive mid 1900s American school painting of Central Park. An amazing piece with hints of abstraction. Framed. No signature found.
Category

1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mesdames et Messieurs (circus, 1920s, 1930s, performance, ~32% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Philip Verhoeven Mesdames et Messieurs (circus, 1920s, 1930s, performance) Acrylic and Marker on Canvas Year: 2024 Size: 15.75 x 15.75 inches Signed and titled by hand COA provided ...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Permanent Marker

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