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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
1960's Modernist Portrait of Woman Monegasque Artist Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Woman by Jonathan ZUTTER (Monegasque, 1928-1998) signed oil on canvas, framed Canvas: 22 x 15 inches Provenance: Private collection, France This modern portrait featur...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

View from the Park Colorado Summer Mountain Landscape 20th Century Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"View from the Park" is a stunning oil on canvas painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968), showcasing the serene beauty of a Colorado landscape. The artwork captures a peacefu...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

20th century English portrait of two Labrador Retriever dogs Sadie & Sophie
Located in Woodbury, CT
20th-century English portrait of two Labrador Retriever dogs Sadie & Sophie Owning a painting of two English Labrador Retriever dogs by D.J. Holdswor...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Stage - Opera view. 1935-37s, paper, ink, watercolor, 35, 3x24 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Stage - Opera view. 1935-37s, paper, ink, watercolor, 35,3x24 cm Women in evening dresses on the stage, mixed media on paper Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jur...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Nude Model - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Model is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Good conditions. Not signed. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Paint

The Red Hat oil on canvas by Moses Soyer
Located in Hudson, NY
Realist oil painting by Moses Soyer. The artist was often quoted as saying, "My message is people." He was always looking to find who the person within was. Soyer and his brothers Raphael and Isaac were all successful artists. Moses Soyer began his art studies at the Cooper Union and National Academy of Design, the Education Alliance, and eventually moved to the Ferrer Art School in Harlem to study with teachers who promoted the Ashcan style of painting. This style promoted unglamorized representations of everyday life and a focus on social realism. When many artists shifted to abstract expressionism Soyer...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid-Century Modern Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Contours of the Earth
Located in Bristol, GB
CONTOURS OF THE EARTH Size: 68.5 x 73.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A captivating and wonderfully textured large mid-century abstract landscape painting, executed in oil onto...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Coastal Landscape Oil Painting - Moonlit Sea
Located in Bristol, GB
MOONLIT SEA Size: 34 x 47 cm (including frame) Oil on board An atmospheric mid-century abstract coastal landscape, executed in oil onto board. The composition presents a seascape w...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Architectural Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Here we have a serious painting that flaunts classical architecture in an efficient disciplined technique, but the whimsical nature of the figures atop the building add a humorous el...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Animal Oil Painting - Roosters
Located in Bristol, GB
ROOSTERS Size: 46 x 55cm Oil on canvas A truly striking and vibrant scene of a pair of roosters set within an expressive landscape dotted with trees and other animals. This painting...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Antique American Modernist Barn Landscape Framed Regional Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
This vibrant oil painting by Henry Varnum Poor (American, 1888–1970) captures a blooming spring landscape with barns, budding trees, and bright skies rendered in expressive, textural...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

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...
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Mid Century Modern Expressive Still Life Oil Painting - Objects by the Window
Located in Bristol, GB
OBJECTS BY THE WINDOW Size: 67 x 59 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A striking and energetic mid-century expressionist style interior still life painting, executed in oil onto ca...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

“Bouquet in Porcelain Pitcher”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on artist board painting of a bouquet in porcelain pitcher by the American artist Nicholai Cikovsky. Signed lower right. In good condition. In contemporary gold leaf frame 27 b...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Positano, Amalfi Coast, Italy ' mixed media on paper, circa 2005
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine piece from a series of paintings by Gradwell. This piece represents the sense of place throughout the Seasons. Light , time of day and weather. It's a very layered piece in mi...
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

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Mixed Media

Oil Painting of Snowdon Mountains & Lakes in Wales by Modern British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of Snowdon Mountains & Lakes in Wales by Modern British Artist Charles Wyatt Warren (1908-1983) Art measures 21.5 x 9.25 inches Fra...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board, Mixed Media

Vibrant 1940 Modernist Floral Still Life Oil Painting by John E. Thompson
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1940 Modernist still life oil painting by celebrated artist John Edward Thompson (1882–1945) presents a striking floral arrangement in a richly colored, expressive comp...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Nude, Figural, Watercolor and Gouache, Catalogued Rodin's Studio
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Odilon Roche was born in Chateauneuf-sur-Loire in 1868. He was a professional wine taster who traveled around Europe attending wine fairs. In 1902 he opened a shop selling artists'...
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Figures in a Fauvist Landscape - Original Oil on Canvas, SIGNED
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert ZAVARO (1925-) Figures before a Fauvist Landscape, c. 1965 Oil on canvas Signed lower right On canvas, 46 x 55 cm (c. 18 x 22in) Presented in a silver-rimmed frame, c. 48 x 5...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Gondoliers Group Oil Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Gondoliers Group, signed, dated and titled on verso, framed. Igor Medvedev Russian Artist: b. 1931-2015. Igor Medvedev was born in Novopskov city in the...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Linen, Oil

"Dering Harbor Sunset" contemporary blue and purple seascape with sailboats
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Dering Harbor Sunset" is a contemporary blue & purple seascape with sailboats. Kelly Carmody’s work has been widely exhibited and collected. One of her major figurative works was c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Oil, Panel, Wood Panel, Board

Figures at the Beach, Blue and Yellow Human Silhouettes, Acrylic on Paper, 2025
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a beautiful painting by Alberto de Blobs (Barcleona, 1982). Alberto is a talented painter whose elaborate mixture of figurative and free form abstraction create a highly illu...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

20th Century French Modernist Signed Oil Boats Moored on Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Beached Boats by Lucien Gondret (French b. 1941) signed oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 18.5 x 22 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and soun...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Girl with red hair. 1996. Oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Girl with red hair. 1996. Oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm This depiction of young nude woman with red hair on green-pink-blue background shows the artist as a master of forms and color field areas. Laimdots Murnieks...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

"Spanish Moss, Georgia" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Southern Flora Painting
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard Spanish Moss, Georgia Signed lower right Oil on artist's board 12 x 16 inches Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to as...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Pigeon at Sunrise" Animal Acrylic Painting on Yellow Background by Ian McCaine
Located in Pasadena, CA
In this squared composition, Ian McCaine transports us into a suspended moment, where the soft light of a sunrise barely reveals the contours of the world. Against a background domin...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled, Ink on Paper by Modern Indian Artist Rabin Mondal “In Stock”
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rabin Mondal - Untitled Ink on Paper 10.3 x 13.4 inches, 1996 ( Unframed & Delivered ) In this untitled 1996 ink drawing, Rabin Mondal captures a deeply expressive moment through bo...
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Untitled, Ink on Paper by Modern Indian Artist Rabin Mondal “In Stock”
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rabin Mondal - Untitled Ink on Paper 10.3 x 13.4 inches, 1996 ( Unframed & Delivered ) In this untitled 1996 ink drawing, Rabin Mondal captures a deeply expressive moment through bo...
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Ink

I Know I'm Paranoid by The Connor Brothers
Located in Cleveland, OH
I Know I'm Paranoid by The Connor Brothers
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Varnish, Oil, Acrylic, Giclée, Screen

Mott Street - NYC Street Scene on Bright Orange Paper, Original, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Patrick Vale Mott Street acrylic and ink on paper 20h x 28w in 50.80h x 71.12w cm PKV002 Artist Patrick Vale garnered international attention in 2012 whe...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic, Archival Paper, Ink

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Fruit & Red Mug
Located in Bristol, GB
FRUIT & RED MUG Oil on Board Size: 39.5 x 39.5 cm (including frame) An expressive and beautifully textured mid-century still life oil composition, executed i...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Composition, Painting, Pastels on Canvas
By Miguel Machado Moura
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil pastels painting, linen canvas. :: Painting :: Modern :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Pastel

American Modernist Everglades Florida Wildlife Park Garden Painting Lilly Pads
By Russ Elliot
Located in New York, NY
Here we have 1960’s Russ Elliott Florida painting Painting depicts a Park with figures overlooking a canoe with a lilly pad pond Russ Elliott 1960’s signed lower right oil on canva...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Oil

"The Blackhand" Colorful Abstract Modern Pop Art Portrait Painting of a Man
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract modern portrait painting of an evil man by Texas artist Robert Sandman. As the artist explains, "The Black Hand, or La Mano Nera in It...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

“HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES ESPÉCIES: ILLEGAL ALIEN’S MANUSCRIPT”, 2008
Located in Atlanta, GA
Enrique Chagoya is an American-Mexican artist best known for his mixed-media paintings and prints. In his work, the artist combines contemporary cultural icons with Pre-Columbian ima...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Lithograph

"By the Window, " Leon Kroll, oil, figurative art, nude, modernism
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Leon Kroll was a painter, lithographer, art critic and teacher who was born in 1884 in New York City. Living his professional life in New York City and Chicago, he summered in Rockpo...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait - Oil Painting by Tato - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This Portait painting on cardboard was realized by the Italian artist Tato in the early 20th Century, hailing from the artist's early period. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

1980s Autumn Harvest, Original Semi-Abstract Landscape Oil Painting with Figures
Located in Denver, CO
This original oil painting, titled Autumn Harvest by Edward Marecak (1919-1993), was created in 1987. It features a stunning autumnal landscape, with seven women actively engaged in ...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Static 157, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
old energetic ruby red race across the palest deep red background. This lively original Painting is 12X16â€
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

History and Innocence, symbolic interpretation and social commentary
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In this series, Audrey Anastasi has shifted her focus away from naturalistic domestic settings to a dark, enigmatic, and some might say, unsettling, pl...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Les baigneuses - Eté (summer), '30s - oil paint, 73x60 cm., framed
By Suzanne Blanche Kaehrling
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas by Suzanne Blanche KAEHRLING, representing two girls on the beach. The painting comes with its frame. Suzanne Blanche KAEHRLING, painter from Alsace, lived and worked ...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Oil

American WPA Jewish New York Modernist Madonna Mother and Child painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A magnificent oil on canvas by Russian American WPA artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984), dating from 1943. Depicting a Maternity scene - or possibly a m...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1951 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Figurative Portrait Framed Oil Painting - Pose
Located in Bristol, GB
POSE Size: 80.5 x 41 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A brilliantly executed modernist style figurative portrait, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1951. The composition feat...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

1976 Original Modernist Swedish Interior Oil Painting - Sunlit Still Life
Located in Bristol, GB
SUNLIT STILL LIFE Oil on canvas Size: 63 x 54 cm (including frame) A cosy and intimate mid-century still life composition that captures a warmly lit interior scene, executed in oil ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Red roofs, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
TITLE - Red roofs SIZE - 36 X 36 In inches This painting shows the view of some rooftops of houses in Paris. I love the architecture and old building and the colors are just s...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Sailor playing the accordion oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Albert Roca (1945) - Sailor playing the accordion oil on board painting Medidas óleo 62x46 cm. Medidas marco 73x57 cm. Painter of landscapes and figures, ...
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Queen of the Night, narrative, partial nude figure, red colors, ethnic fabrics
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT the artist: Audrey Frank Anastasi is a prolific feminist artist, working in painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, & printmaking. She is also curator, gallerist, educator and arts advocate. Most of Ms. Anastasi's figurative works are painted with her non-dominant left hand. She has created large bodies of works of birds, animals and birch trees. She has had 20 solo & 200 group shows. Her "ref-u-gee" series will be shown in 2020 at Medgar Evers College in collaboration with the Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn. Accompanying the show will be a limited-edition monograph w/ over 180 images and a foreword by Phyllis Braff. Ms. Anastasi's collage series was exhibited at Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, in May, 2019. In 2018, ten paintings were exhibited in "Painting to Survive," curated by Yale critic Jonathan Weinberg. Book and catalog publications include "Stations of the Cross", SPQR press, BREUCKELEN magazine, “Audrey Frank Anastasi”, catalog essay Cindy Nemser, and "Collage," essay by Giancarlo T. Roma. Public art includes a portrait of Jo Davidson...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Huge Contemporary Oil Painting Nude Lady against Red Background signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Nude Model European School, contemporary signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 39 x 39 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

High Line Yellow Flowers
Located in Fairfield, CT
About the artist: Susan Cohen’s paintings are exhibited with New York City galleries: George Billis, Garvey Simon, First Street,The Painting Center; and the Cynthia Winings Gallery...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Egg Tempera

Road Repairing, Lower Manhattan at Night
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Road Repairing, Lower Manhattan at Night, 1934, oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower right, 24 x 16 inches; original label verso has title and address Margit Varga was an artist,...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

'In Full Flow' - A Hunting scene
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Heather St. Clair Davis (1937-1999) In Full Flow Signed lower right Oil on canvas Canvas size 22 x 28 in Framed size 27 x 33 in Provenance Sold by Frost & Reed Galleries, London. ...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Untitled, Pastel on Paper by Modern Indian Artist Rabin Mondal “In Stock”
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rabin Mondal - Untitled Pastel on Paper 16 x 23 inches, 1981 ( Unframed & Delivered ) This striking pastel work by Rabin Mondal from 1981 showcases his signature expressionist style...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

"Rushelle in the Garden"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Artist and His Family, 1950s Interior Figurative Oil Painting, American Modern
Located in Denver, CO
"Artist and His Family" is a captivating 1950 oil on board painting by renowned American artist Donna Marecak (1922-1998). This intimate interior scene f...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Bathers, Modernist Nudes, Oil on Canvas, Signed and Titled
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Bathers" by Philadelphia born modernist painter Leon Kelly, is a fantasy nude scene of two female figures, one with towel in hand, one only depicted as a portrait within the paintin...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1952 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Landscape Framed Oil Painting - Winter Fog
Located in Bristol, GB
WINTER FOG Size: 49 x 61.5 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A mid-century semi-abstract landscape composition that captures the serene and enigmatic essence of a winter forest by ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Large 1920's French Nabis School Oil Painting The Annunciation Mary & Angel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Annunciation French Nabis School, early 20th century circle of Maurice Denis (1870–1943) oil on canvas, framed framed: 34 x 27.5 inches canvas: 32 x 25 inches Provenance: privat...
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

The New Hat, 20th Century British Oil Portrait Interior
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas on board Image size: 15 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches (40 x 55 cm) Contemporary style frame This sensitive portrait captures the use of contemporary dress of this lady beautifu...
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Antique Large American Impressionist Giltwood Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique European impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 29 by 37 inches overall, and 24 by 32 painting alone. In excellent original conditi...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1930s American Modernist Colorado Winter Landscape Watercolor, Trees, Mountains
Located in Denver, CO
This 1938 watercolor painting by American Modernist artist Turner B. Messick depicts a serene winter landscape, likely set in Colorado. The scene features a bare tree in the foregrou...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Watercolor

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Find a wide variety of authentic Modern paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Bernard Labbe, Christel Haag, Sunil Das, and Antonio Feltrinelli. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern paintings, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available.

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