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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
"Where Are You ?", with Bridge Pyramid Shape & the Mona Lisa Figurative Painting

"Where Are You ?", with Bridge Pyramid Shape & the Mona Lisa Figurative Painting

By Françoise Collandre 1

Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

"Where are you?", at a place where there are an arched bridge, a pyramid-shaped glass building and a portrait of the Mona Lisa. The lady in the painting asks or is asked in the phone...

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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags
Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags

Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags

By Alexander Raymond Katz

Located in Surfside, FL

This has young ISraeli pioneers dancing with the flag as typical of works of the late British mandate Palestine era early state of Israel. Genre: Modern Subject: Figurative (stained...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Le Boischaut - Maurice Esteve, modern, colorful, french, painting, abstract, art
Le Boischaut - Maurice Esteve, modern, colorful, french, painting, abstract, art

Le Boischaut - Maurice Esteve, modern, colorful, french, painting, abstract, art

By Maurice Estève

Located in London, GB

Maurice Estève (1904-2001) Le Boischaut 1960 oil on canvas 65 x 100 cm signed and dated ‘Estève 60’ (lower left) Price: €276,000 EUR (inc. 20% UK VAT) Provenance: Galerie Villand-Galanis, Paris Sonja...

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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Harbor Party, Modern Gouache by John von Wicht
Harbor Party, Modern Gouache by John von Wicht

Harbor Party, Modern Gouache by John von Wicht

By John von Wicht

Located in Long Island City, NY

Harbor Party by John von Wicht, German (1888–1970) Date: circa 1965 Gouache and Pastel on Japon, signed in pencil lower right Size: 15.5 x 23 in. (39.37 x 58.42 cm) Frame Size: 22 x ...

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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Oil Pastel

Mid-20th Century Abstract Canvas Painting with Curved Lines
Mid-20th Century Abstract Canvas Painting with Curved Lines

Mid-20th Century Abstract Canvas Painting with Curved Lines

By Jean Xceron

Located in New York, NY

Jean Xceron (Greek-American, 1890 – 1967) Mid-20th Century Abstract Painting Oil on canvas 41.7 x 43.5 inches Signed lower left Jean Xceron (1890 – 1967) is a modernist artist who...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

String

String

By Marina Stern

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This work is part of our exhibition Marina Stern Luminary, the first retrospective of the artist since 2007. Literature: Marina Stern Paintings and Drawings, privately published (2015), p. 36 Marina Stern was a multifaceted New York-based artist whose works ranged from Expressionism and Pop Art to the Neo Immaculate paintings and pastels for which she is best known. A native of Venice, Stern and her family fled in 1939 to escape Italy’s repressive racial laws. After living in England for several years, the family arrived in the United States in 1941. A bright and capable student, Stern graduated from New York’s Julia Richman High School at age 15 and soon enrolled in the Pratt Institute to pursue an interdisciplinary education in the arts. Despite majoring in advertising design, Stern favored her fine art courses. She graduated from Pratt in 1946 at age 18 and began working for advertising agencies. After a brief marriage which ended in divorce, Stern married her second husband, who encouraged the artist to study at the Art Students League of New York, under the renowned Japanese American modernist, Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In Fall 1953, Stern gave birth to her first child, Michael, as she continued to study at the Arts Students League. Later in the Spring of 1957, Stern gave birth to her daughter Nina, as she continued to balance motherhood with her fine art practice and commercial art and design work. Stern’s first significant exhibitions were in 1962 at the Waverly Gallery and the Osgood Gallery, both in New York, followed by inclusion of her work in the Bertha Schaefer Traveling Collage Show from 1963 to 1964. Stern made a splash in the avant-garde art world in 1964 when Time magazine reviewed a show at Amel Gallery which featured three of her audio-visual paintings. Time’s critic noted that Stern created the “cleverest noisemakers” in the exhibition. Time dubbed this work “Talkie Pop,” a label which Stern rejected. Following this recognition, Stern was selected for inclusion in The New American Realism at the Worcester Art Museum—a major showcase of leading artists, including Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns. After the Worcester exhibition, Stern began to shift away from her “talking” Pop paintings to mysterious, interior scenes with orange, blue or black walls with windows or doors rising above black and white floors, often depopulated, but sometimes with figures. One of these works, Seven Minus Twenty-One Equals Seven, entered the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1966. By 1969, Stern began to incorporate industrial images into these scenes, and in the early 1970s, Stern created her first Neo-Immaculate works of rural, and urban landscapes, which she described as her most satisfying work. Stern often depicted locations that she held close -- New York, New Jersey, Iowa (where her son attended college), Sharon, Connecticut (where her family spent weekends and vacations) and her native Venice, Italy. Stern’s success as a Neo Immaculate painter led to consistent New York gallery representation for over two decades, first with Lee Ault & Co and James Yu Gallery, and then Forum Gallery, where she had six solo shows. Stern completed a Neo-Immaculate mural commission for the Port Authority of New York, George Washington Bridge #1 and #2, followed by another commission from the NY Cityarts Public Art Program in 1976 for a mural on Mulberry Street. Stern also enjoyed solo exhibitions in Boston (Eleanor Rigelhaupt Gallery), Connecticut (Silo Gallery, the Hotchkiss School, J. Rosenthal Fine Arts Gallery, Tremaine Gallery, and Staib Gallery), Chicago (Michael Rosenfeld Gallery), and Santa Fe (Santa Fe East Gallery). Her work was included in group shows at over a dozen public institutions, including The National Academy of Design, The Staten Island Museum, Worcester Art Museum, the Oklahoma Art Center, and the Arkansas Art Center. The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art hosted a retrospective of four decades of Stern’s work from January 19 to April 22, 2007, entitled Perception and the Cultural Environment: The Paintings of Marina...

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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

French Modernist Painting Of Pink And Yellow Flowers In Glass Vase
French Modernist Painting Of Pink And Yellow Flowers In Glass Vase

French Modernist Painting Of Pink And Yellow Flowers In Glass Vase

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...

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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

20th Century French Modernist Painting Female Musician In Green With Violin
20th Century French Modernist Painting Female Musician In Green With Violin

20th Century French Modernist Painting Female Musician In Green With Violin

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...

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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Gouache

"Testing the Water" American Modernist Interior Scene Still Life Oil Painting
"Testing the Water" American Modernist Interior Scene Still Life Oil Painting

"Testing the Water" American Modernist Interior Scene Still Life Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Incredible and rare early American modernist interior scene still life. So finely painted and a very rare and provocative subject for its time. Signed lower left. Handsomely fram...

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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

An Ideal Head of a Woman
An Ideal Head of a Woman

An Ideal Head of a Woman

By Alfred Henry Maurer

Located in New York, NY

In the tradition of Modigliani, Maurer's depictions of women are expressive and lively. America had very few modernists who painted in this manner but Maurer is famous for exactly t...

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1920s Modern Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Oil, Board

Marbleized Abstraction
Marbleized Abstraction

Marbleized Abstraction

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original mid century modern abstract painting.

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1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Daydreaming” (Reclining Bear)
“Daydreaming” (Reclining Bear)

“Daydreaming” (Reclining Bear)

Located in Austin, TX

Oil on Canvas 24 x 36 in. 32 x 44 in. Framed A charming and whimsical composition featuring a shaggy, brown bear reclining on a turquoise, blue, and lavender background. The bear i...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

French Modernist Contemporary Oil Couple with Dog in Harbor with Boats
French Modernist Contemporary Oil Couple with Dog in Harbor with Boats

French Modernist Contemporary Oil Couple with Dog in Harbor with Boats

By Huguette Ginet-Lasnier

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

The Harbor Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020) signed oil painting on canvas 20 x 24 inches. All the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artists estat...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid 20th Century French Modernist Oil Abstract Figure
Mid 20th Century French Modernist Oil Abstract Figure

Mid 20th Century French Modernist Oil Abstract Figure

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Abstract Figure French Modernist, circa 1950's oil on canvas 16 x 8.5 inches provenance: private collection, France The painting is in good and presentable condition.

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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jeaune Femme au Port de Sanary, Oil on Canvas, French, 1956, Framed
Jeaune Femme au Port de Sanary, Oil on Canvas, French, 1956, Framed

Jeaune Femme au Port de Sanary, Oil on Canvas, French, 1956, Framed

Located in London, GB

'Jeaune Femme au Port de Sanary' (Young Woman in the Port of Sanary), oil on canvas, French School (1956). This large, luminous painting captures the languid warmth of the French Riv...

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1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

American Modernist Snowscene
American Modernist Snowscene

American Modernist Snowscene

Located in Buffalo, NY

A modern 1940s American oil painting depicting a rural landscape in winter. This work comes housed in a rustic barn wood frame likely original to the piece

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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Horse Rider - Original Gouache on paper
Horse Rider - Original Gouache on paper

Horse Rider - Original Gouache on paper

By Marcel Mouly

Located in Paris, IDF

Marcel MOULY Horse Rider Original gouache drawing Signed with the artist’s dry stamp Authenticated by the Mouly Committee On paper 28.5 x 38 cm (c. 11.02 x 14.96 in) Very good cond...

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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Gouache

' Two Moons '  oil on canvas

' Two Moons ' oil on canvas

By Katherine Russell

Located in London, GB

' Two Moons ' 2014 oil on canvas 40 x 30 cm signed on reverse by artist. Unique work. About the artist : Katherine Russell is a London based Painter. ...

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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Modern Colorful Abstract Oil Painting
Modern Colorful Abstract Oil Painting

Modern Colorful Abstract Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original 1950's unsigned abstract. This whimsical bright work comes housed in a contemporary natural wood frame presentation which signs on the w...

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1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Karl

Karl

By Bradley Theodore

Located in Montreal, Quebec

Born in Turks and Caicos, Bradley Theodore is a contemporary artist who started his career in New York City and has been an internationally-inclined artist and collaborator from his ...

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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Folk Singer oil painting by Byron Browne
Folk Singer oil painting by Byron Browne

Folk Singer oil painting by Byron Browne

By Byron Browne

Located in Hudson, NY

Lovely oil painting by Byron Browne. Measures 18" x 14" and framed 24" x 20" x 1 3/4". Signed "Byron Browne" lower left. Inscribed on canvas verso: Byron Browne / 1958 / – Folk Singer– / 18 x 14 / N.Y.C. About this artists: Through an oeuvre displaying the re-envisioning of figural subjects and the formation of an abstract expressionist style, Byron Browne stands out among the American abstractionists of his generation. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1907, the artist was a bright talent at the National Academy of Design in his teens. From 1924 to 1928 Browne studied at the Academy under notable artists Robert Aitkin, Charles Courtney Curran, Charles Hawthorne, Alice Murphy...

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1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Female Modernist Landscape "Berkshire Hills" 1961
Vintage Female Modernist Landscape "Berkshire Hills" 1961

Vintage Female Modernist Landscape "Berkshire Hills" 1961

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage modernist landscape signed Nannette Rhodes Hayes. Titled on the reverse Berkshire Hills and dated 1961.

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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Shed In The Forest Watercolour Landscape
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Shed In The Forest Watercolour Landscape

1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Shed In The Forest Watercolour Landscape

By Bernard Labbe

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour on artist paper, unframed size: 8.25 x 11.75 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed. p...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Variation 1, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Variation 1, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Variation 1, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By Christel Haag

Located in Yardley, PA

"Variation 1" is a colorful, dynamic, positive acrylic painting on canvas. It is a Color Field Painting with expressive and gestural black and white movements. The sides of the a...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Hidden Portraits XXXIII
Hidden Portraits XXXIII

Hidden Portraits XXXIII

Located in London, GB

'Hidden Portraits XXXIII', acrylic on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an agei...

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1980s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Board

Still Life with Sunflowers - Oil Paint - 1904
Still Life with Sunflowers - Oil Paint - 1904

Still Life with Sunflowers - Oil Paint - 1904

Located in Roma, IT

Oil on panel realized in 1904. Hand signed (unreadable) and dated lower right. Irregular shape on the right side. The oil painting presents in a stable and globally very good stat...

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Early 1900s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid Century Idaho Pack River Landscape
Mid Century Idaho Pack River Landscape

Mid Century Idaho Pack River Landscape

By Laura Lindberg

Located in Soquel, CA

Beautiful American photorealist view of Pack River in Sandpoint, Idaho by Laura Lindberg (American, 1904-1976). Signed lower right corner "64 L Lindberg" "26 Pack River Laura Lindb...

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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Pianist in Concert Hall with Audience
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Pianist in Concert Hall with Audience

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Pianist in Concert Hall with Audience

By Elisabeth Hahn

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 ...

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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Colorado Woman Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modernist Still Life, Fruit
Colorado Woman Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modernist Still Life, Fruit

Colorado Woman Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modernist Still Life, Fruit

By Ruth Todd

Located in Surfside, FL

Ruth Todd (1909-2006, American Woman Artist) one of Colorado’s most prominent avant-garde artists and played a significant role in Colorado’s art history. Known for painting and collage. Still life with lemon and banana on kitchen table. Ruth Thomas Todd was born in 1909 in Sanford, North Carolina. She arrived in New York City in the 1930s where she began her career as a fashion model supporting herself as she attended classes at the Art Students League. For reasons of health she moved to Colorado Springs to treat her condition. During her recuperation she started to draw and studied under famous American abstract painter Robert Motherwell, who was teaching at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at the time. By the 1950s, her career as an abstract expressionist painter was blooming. She was one of Colorado’s most visible and avant-garde artists. Ruth married Littleton Todd, a poet and a woodworker. In 1953, Todd traveled to Europe (Paris, France) to study art and to paint. Littleton Todd opened a design studio in Denver where he manufactured and sold modern furniture. She would incorporate sawdust and other found materials from the workshop imbued with oil paint into her abstract work to create unique topographies and patterns. She showed at numerous Gilpin County Art Exhibitions, the Denver Art Museum, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Women’s College, the University of Colorado, Boulder, the Colorado State Fair, and the Jewish Community Center. Among the Colorado Modernists that she exhibited with were Vance Kirkland, Frank Vavra, Martha Epp, Ardis Sturdy...

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1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Vintage American New York School Minimalist Abstract Framed Oil Painting
Vintage American New York School Minimalist Abstract Framed Oil Painting

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 ...

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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"War Brides, Wash Sq NYC" American Scene WWII Modernism WPA Mid-Century Oil
"War Brides, Wash Sq NYC" American Scene WWII Modernism WPA Mid-Century Oil

"War Brides, Wash Sq NYC" American Scene WWII Modernism WPA Mid-Century Oil

By Georgina Klitgaard

Located in New York, NY

"War Brides, Wash Sq NYC" American Scene WWII Modernism WPA Mid-Century Oil. 30 x 40 inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1942. Signed lower right. Titled on the stretcher. Housed in a sensational Heydenryk frame. Our gallery, Helicline Fine Art...

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1940s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modern paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

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.