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MODERN STYLE

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Holiday. 2003. Oil on cardboard, 91x85 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

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Mid Century Modern Swedish Figurative Oil Painting - Abstract Figure in Blue
Located in Bristol, GB
ABSTRACT FIGURE IN BLUE Size: 73 x 59.5 cm (including frame) Oil on board A striking mid-century modernist abstract painting that presents a fragmented and abstracted seated figure,...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Érte, "Les chatters, deuxieme version", unique gouache, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
A unique, original gouache on paper by Érte, also known as Romain de Tirtoff. Érte was a vastly diverse artist who excelled in an array of fields including fashion, jewelry, graphic ...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Gouache

Boats in Harbour, Looking out to the Sea, Colourful French Watercolour, The Port
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour view of boats in a port, looking out to sea, by French Painter Jean-Paul Claveau. The painting is signed and dated bottom left and presented in painted wood frame, with c...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Vintage Modernist Still Life of Tulips, American School, Oil on Canvas, 1956
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is not your grandmother’s typical still life painting. But if she was young and hip for her time, maybe it is. Painted on stretched canvas and dated (19)56, it is only signed ...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Seated 1974. Oil on canvas, 100x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Seated 1974. Oil on canvas, 100x60 cm The central focus of the artwork is a nude woman seated in a relaxed position. The artist's portrayal captures the beauty and form of the fema...
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1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Signed American Surreal Exhibited Beach Scene "Femininity" Oil Painting
By Harry Long
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting by Harry Lane. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Exhibited. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Autumn II. 2016. acrylic on canvas, 40x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ingrida Irbe's Autumn series capture the beauty of the season in an abstract way, focusing on the expressive dance of colors Ingrida Irbe (1969) Born ...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Theresa Thompson"
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 Benj...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Seated Clown, Modern Art Oil Painting by Philippe Alfieri
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Philippe Alfieri, Italian/American (1921 - 2009) Title: Seated Clown Year: 1988 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: 46 x 34 in...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Figurative landscape oil painting- Old time
Located in Beijing, CN
Dai Xiangwen was born in Hunan in 1991 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Jianghan University, He is a member of China Artists Association, China Designers Association, a painter of Li Keran...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

On the Great Lakes
Located in Long Island City, NY
A watercolor painting by Clarence Holbrook Carter from 1953. Carter's modernist style utilizes strong structural lines and architectural aesthetics to form almost surreal-like scenes. Signed on lower right corner, framed in elegant silver wooden frame. Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 1998) Title: On the Great Lakes...
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1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Rhythms. Stage. 1927, paper, watercolor, 41x28 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Rhythms. Stage. 1927, paper, watercolor, 41x28 cm Women figures, watercolor on paper. Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latv...
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1920s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Thrashing Machine
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by John Christopher Smith. "Thrashing Machine" is a modern painting, oil on board in browns and blues by John Christopher Smith. The artwo...
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Garcon in Cafe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: David Azuz, Israeli/French (1942 - 2014) Title: Garcon in Cafe Year: circa 1979 Medium: Oil on Paper, signed l.l. Size: 24.5 x 19 in. (62.23 x 48.26 cm) Frame Size: 36 x 30 i...
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1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Archival Paper

Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series VII
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series VII", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inte...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series IV
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series IV", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inter...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Bella Balla
Located in PARIS, FR
Edvarda Braanaas (B.1963) Bella Balla Oil on canvas 130 x 97 cm / 51.18 x 38.19 in With frame : 136 x 103 cm / 53.54 x 40.55 inches 2024 Edvarda Aslaksen Braanaas est une peintre fi...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Penguins"
Located in San Antonio, TX
Lu Ann Barrow (1934 - present) Austin Artist Image Size: 30 x 36 Frame Size: 32 x 38 Medium: Oil Mid Century "Penguins"
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1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique American Modernist Abstract Framed Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted modernist landscape by Robert Noel Blair (1912 - 2002). Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed Image size, 23 by 31 inches. In excellent original condition. ...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Abstract Landscape with Palm Tree Judaica Gouache Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Mane-Katz (1894-1962) Landscape with palm tree. Gouache on paper, signed lower right. Dimensions: (Frame) H 37.5" x W 31", (Sight) H 24.5" x W 18" Emmanuel Mané-Katz (Hebrew:מאנה כ...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Mid-Century Modern Still Life Oil Painting by Gunnar Hållander - Stacked Objects
Located in Bristol, GB
STACKED OBJECTS Size: 61 x 77 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A striking original mid century modernist composition, painted onto board and dated 1968 by the established Swedish a...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Sunflowers 2003. Oil on cardboard, 100x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sunflowers 2003. Oil on cardboard, 100x81 cm Still life painting with stylized sunflowers on light-colored background. The focal point of the artwork is the depiction of sunflowers...
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

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

the promise
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting depicts two women covered by a colorful blanket. One of them looks directly at the viewer, while the other is lost in her thoughts. It’s about the desire to protect som...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

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

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

Abstract Expressionist Color Gouache Painting Mid Century Mod WPA Jewish Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Waterfall in green. Garden landscape. Modern acrylic figurative painting.
Located in Segovia, ES
Waterfall in green). Garden landscape. Figurative painting. Modern Acrylic and mixed media on panel. 122x60x3.5 cm. / 48.03x 23.62x1.38 Inches Author: Spanish artist Ángel Luis Úbeda...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel

Radha, Cascading hair & wistful looks, Oil Painting, Red, Brown colors"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Suhas Roy - Radha - 10 X 8 inches ( unframed size) Oil on Canvas , 2006 Suhas Roy 's mystic woman which he calls 'Radha', either Oil on canvas or soft coloured pastel on Paper or ...
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

River Oaks Home Interior Painting of a Dining Room
Located in Houston, TX
Elegant dining room scene of a River Oaks Houston, Texas home. The piece is mainly yellow and orange tones. The piece is framed in a gold frame with tan mat...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Watercolor

Standing on the Edge
Located in Atlanta, GA
“My current work often features ordinary creatures, like the many illustrations of birds and flowers I painted for the Homes and Gardens and other sections during the 25 years I was ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Vincente Romero, The Glance, original pastel
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Vincente Romero The Glance Original pastel on Ingres paper 2022 Hand signed is lower left corner Image Size: 25.5 x 19.5 inches Framed Dimensions: 33 x...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Pastel

"Shattered" WPA Mid 20th Century Modernism American Scene Surrealism Figurative
Located in New York, NY
"Shattered" WPA Mid 20th Century Modernism American Scene Surrealism Figurative Estate stamp on the stretcher, verso. Provenance: Estate of the artist. 20 x 24 inches. BIO Leon Bibel continued painting through 1941 and resumed work in both painting and especially wood sculpture by 1960. He worked until his very last day in 1995. His last series of large wood sculptures were modeled on spice boxes, which were miniature buildings...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait. On a yellow background 1950's, oil on cardboard, 49.5x35 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. On a yellow background 1950's, oil on cardboard, 49,5x35 cm Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not ...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Sunset 1979. Oil on canvas, 84x110 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sunset 1979. Oil on canvas, 84x110 cm The central focus of the artwork is a red sunset scene. The artist's portrayal captures the vibrant and warm hues of the setting sun, creating...
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1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Israeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
size is with frame. Motke Blum was born in Racacun, Romania in 1925. Early in his childhood, the Blum family moved to Bukarest where they settled in a house situated near a circus. ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Mixed Media

Large Richard Merkin Painting Harlem Jazz Club, New Yorker Magazine Cover Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Richard Marshall Merkin (American, 1938-2009) Gladys and Half-Pint Hand signed 'Merkin' (center right), Titled, inscribed, dated, and initialed 'GLADYS BENTLEY AND FRANKIE 'HALF-PINT' JAXON 1997/R.M.' verso. Oil on canvas 37 1/2 x 72 in. (95.3 x 182.9 cm) framed 39 1/4 x 74 x 2 in. Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance. Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House, a well-known gay speakeasy in New York in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer. She headlined in the early 1930s at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens. She dressed in men's clothes (including a signature tailcoat and top hat), played piano, and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the day in a deep, growling voice while flirting with women in the audience. On the decline of the Harlem speakeasies with the repeal of Prohibition, she relocated to southern California, where she was billed as "America's Greatest Sepia Piano Player" and the "Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs". She was frequently harassed for wearing men's clothing. She tried to continue her musical career but did not achieve as much success as she had had in the past. Bentley was openly lesbian early in her career, but during the McCarthy Era she started wearing dresses and married, claiming to have been "cured" by taking female hormones. Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, born Frank Devera Jackson was an African American vaudeville singer, stage designer and comedian, popular in the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, orphaned, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. His nickname of "Half Pint" referred to his 5'2" height. He started in show business around 1910 as a singer in Kansas City, before travelling extensively with medicine shows in Texas, and then touring the eastern seaboard. His feminine voice and outrageous manner, often as a female impersonator, established him as a crowd favorite. By 1917 he had begun working regularly in Atlantic City, New Jersey and in Chicago, often with such performers as Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters, whose staging he helped design. He served slightly less than a year in the United States Army in 1918–1919 and rose to the rank of sergeant. In the late 1920s he sang with top jazz bands when they passed through Chicago, working with Bennie Moten, King Oliver, Freddie Keppard and others. He performed and recorded with the pianists Cow Cow Davenport, Tampa Red and "Georgia Tom" Dorsey, recording with the latter pair under the name of The Black Hillbillies. He also recorded with the Harlem Hamfats. In the 1930s, he was often on radio in the Chicago area, and led his own band, titled Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon and His Quarts of Joy. Jaxon appeared with Duke Ellington in a film short titled Black and Tan (1929), and with Bessie Smith in "St. Louis Blues" (1929). Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" (1931) is based both musically and lyrically on Jaxon's "Willie the Weeper" (1927). Richard Merkin, Sometimes described as Rhode Island’s most famous New York artist, Richard Merkin has led a dual life for nearly 40 years - teaching at RISD while enjoying a celebrated painting career based in New York City. He has exhibited in countless gallery and museum shows in the US and abroad and is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the RISD museum and many others. In addition to contributing drawings and paintings to The New Yorker (along with, Art Spiegelman, Saul Steinberg, Harper’s, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and several books on Erotica and Baseball, he is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a former style columnist for GQ. Merkin’s honors include a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship and the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Museums and Selected Collections : The American Federation of Arts, New York, NY Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA First city Bank, Chicago, Ill Fisk University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN Hallmark Collections, Kansas City, MO Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Maimi-Dade Junior College, Miami, FL Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Minnesota Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Pennsylvania Acadamy of the Arts, Philadelphia PA Prudential Insurance Company, Boston, Ma Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Sara Robey Foundation, New York, NY Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC State University of Brockport, Brockport, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Selected Publications : 1986-Present Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair ..1988-Present, New Yorker... 1988-Present, style column, GQ...1997, Text and Illustration for The Tijuana Bibles, published by Simon & Shuster, 1995, Illustrated book, Leagues Apart: the Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues published by Morrow. 1967 Cover of the Beatles “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” Album (Mr. Merkin appears in the back row, right of center) RISD: MFA in Painting, 1963; Professor, Department of Painting special skill: Merging his role as flaneur (connoisseur of city life) with his role as painter and social historian, Merkin retrieves lost cultural artifacts – a Turkish cigarette, a gangster, a bowler and generally “things most people don’t know about” – and reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. (ala Robert Crumb and Ben Katchor) breaking in: Perpetually on the fly from his middle-class Brooklyn background, Merkin found the perfect escape in the mid ‘60s in George Frazier, a dapper Boston columnist who inspired the emerging New York painter’s overnight reinvention of himself. The elements of structure, stability and surprise he admired in this well-dressed dandy – a cool linen suit, a splash of suspender, a polka dot scarf and pearl-handled walking stick – soon surfaced in paintings peopled by impeccable underdogs of café society along with his personal pop heroes: William Burroughs, Bobby Short and Krazy Kat...
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil

"Victoria Tower England" Mid Century Modern Texas Painting Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
Michael Frary (1918 - 2005) Austin Artist Image Size: 40 x 30 Frame Size: 41 x 31 Medium: Heavy Textured Acrylic 1966 "Victoria Tower" Biography Michael Frary (1918 - 2005) M...
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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Colorful Purple, Pink, & Green Modern Portrait of Man Playing Billiards or Pool
By Gerald Garston
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful modern figurative portrait of a man playing billiards or pool by Connecticut artist Gerald Garston. The work features a man in a blue bowler ha...
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1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

At night. Paper, mixed media, 14.5x8 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At night. Paper, mixed media, 14.5x8 cm watercolor, ink on paper. Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives give his...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Landscape Framed Oil Painting - Pastel Landscape
Located in Bristol, GB
PASTEL LANDSCAPE Size: 53 x 68 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A serene mid-century modernist style composition of a southern Spanish landscape, executed in oil onto board. In th...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Lower Manhattan Cityscape American Artist WPA Era NY School c. 1930 Henry Ensol
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern 1930's oil painting by WPA era American artist Henry Ensol. This work comes in a period frame likely original to the piece.
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Church at Chapala Signed Marion Wakeman Taos School Exhibited Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape painting by Marion D Freeman Wakeman (1891 - 1953). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Image size, 26H x 20L
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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Robert Laurent Sculpture
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Born in New York City, modernist painter Adelaide Lawson Gaylor studied at the Art Students League and with Kenneth Hayes Miller. She was a member of the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, and the New York Society of Women Artists. She was married to artist Wood Gaylor...
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1920s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Polish French Ecole de Paris Mid Century Modernist Oil Painting Clown Juggler
Located in Surfside, FL
Abram Abraham Krol was born January 22, 1919, in Pabianice (Lodz), Poland. Abram Krol went to France in 1938 to study civil engineering at the Universit...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

2 Sided Expressionist Detroit Modernist Painting Female Nude, Night Cruise Ship
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a two sided painting. Nude reclining woman and a ship lit at night. Harold Cohn (1908 - 1982) Harold Cohn was active/lived in New Jersey, Michigan. Harold Cohn is known fo...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

"The Faces We Wore" WPA Family American Scene Figurative Abstract Woman Artist
Located in New York, NY
"The Faces We Wore" WPA Family American Scene Figurative Abstract Woman Artist Juanita Guccione (1904 - 1999) The Faces We Wore 20 x 16 inches Oil on...
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1930s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"George Washington 9/11" Modern Pointillist Figurative Presidential Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Modern portrait of George Washington painted on September 11th, 2001 by Texas born artist Clark Fox. The work features an intricate depiction of the former president using pointillis...
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"The Juggler"
Located in San Antonio, TX
Henri Gadbois (Born 1930) Houston Artist Image Size: 29 x 13 Frame Size: 34 x 18 Medium: Oil 1953 Mid Century Modern Juggler Biography Henri Gadbois (1930 - present) 1930 Born Houston, Texas St. Joseph’s Hospital 1947 Ceramic Bowl accepted in the Texas General 1948 Graduated Lamar High School, Houston, Texas Houston Artists Exhibit 1948 to 1960 1952 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Houston Instructor Museum of Fine Arts, Houston School (Now the Glassel School) 1952 to 1965: “16 Texas Painters” Valley House Gallery, Dallas Texas 1953 Master of Letters, University of Houston Registrar, Business Manager, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston One-man Exhibit, James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas 1954 U.S. Army, Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, Camp Gordon, Augusta, Georgia Archives of American Art, Personal Papers 1954 to 1970 “Red Tights” Allied Art Purchase Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston “Clump of Trees, Hermann Park” Western Artists Exhibit, Denver, Colorado Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Art Rental Exhibit 1955 One-Man Exhibit, Herbert Institute, Augusta Georgia 793 MP Battalion, Nurnberg, Germany Studio space at University of Georgia, Furth, Germany 1956 Married Leila McConnell August 18, 1956 Art Teacher, Houston Public Schools Chaired Exhibit “Contemporary German Graphics” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Exhibit, Men of Art Guild, San Antonio, Texas “Landscape-Stuttgart” Flaxman Purchase prize, Houston Artists Exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1957 “Three Tiered Formation”, American Federation of Arts Survey of Texas Painting “Illogical Organism” Bute Gallery 1958 “Budding Stump”, Feldman Collection Exhibit, Little Studio, New York, New York “Espaliered Burlap” Autumn Show, Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana One-Man Exhibit, Rudi’s Club, Houston, Texas Texas Fine Art Association Exhibit, Austin, Texas TFAA Circulating Exhibit 1958-1959, San Marcos, Seguin, Corpus Christi, Edinburg, Brownsville, and Kingsville “Night Crossing”, Four-man Exhibit Petroleum Club, Houston, Texas “Gold Flow” Texas ’58 Circulating Exhibit “White Out” Honorable Mention, Houston Artists Exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston “Spring”, Terrace Show, Handmakers, Houston, Texas “Winter”, “Start With Art” Exhibit, Junior League, Houston, Texas 1959 One-man Exhibit, Driscoll Gallery, Austin, Texas One-man Exhibit, Houston Geophysical Club, Houston, Texas Faculty-Student Exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Dallas Art Rental, Dallas, Texas “Winter”, Western Artists Exhibit, Denver, Colorado “Portrait of a Dress” Junior League, Houston, Texas 1960 “Field Patterns, Europe” One-man exhibit James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas 1961 Instructor Hill Country Arts Foundation 1961 to 197? “ Katy Road”, Texas Annual Exhibit, San Antonio Art league Purchase Prize, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas 1962 “Field Pattern, Wurzburg” Western Arts Exhibit, Denver Colorado One-man Exhibit, St. Luke’s Church, Houston, Texas “Mystic Road, Germany” Azalea Trail Exhibit, River Oaks Garden Forum, Houston, Texas Art Teacher, Robert E. Lee High School, Houston 1963 One-man Exhibit, James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas “Landscape at Nysa”, Longview Invitational, Longview, Texas 1964 Chaired...
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1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bohemians
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a just arrived original oil painting by Azerbaijani artist Fidan Kim. Bohemians, is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated 2019 with an image dimension of 47 x 35 inches, just arrived from the personal collection of the artist. Please contact the gallery for additional information, pricing and availability. The artist’s description: This painting is referring to people living in beautiful golden cages since they are captivated by stereotypes of bohemian lifestyle, and when they leave these cages they don’t know how to use their beautiful strong wings. They are not capable to exist outside and walk far away from their cages, which is why their wings snugly fit their bodies almost hiding and guarding their real beauty from the gossiping society. The middle right figure is Medusa Gorgon and right next to her covering her with his huge wing is her lover Poseidon. The Ancient Greek myth about Medusa says that she was one of the trio Gorgon sisters, the only immortal one. Medusa Gorgon is famed for her snake like hair and her gaze which turns those who look at her into stone. Medusa was once a beautiful priestess of Athena, Goddess of war and wisdom. When Gorgon had a love affair with God of the sea and earthquakes Poseidon, Athena punished her. The Goddess of War turned Medusa into a hideous creature making her hair into writhing snakes and her skin was turned a greenish blue. From that day on Medusa Gorgon became a monster we all now know. Two figures next to Medusa and Poseidon are Stheno and Euryale. They are sisters of Medusa who witnessed everything, but chose to stay in the shadow covering their faces with their wings. And finally the bottom figure is Hermès, God of commerce and thieves who helped Athena and Perseus to kill Medusa Gorgon. For me this myth represents some aspects and stereotypes of Bohemian lifestyle, people hiding themselves from judgment and gossip, at the same time putting themselves into golden cages.. It also represents the forbidden love and revenge About Fidan Kim: Fidan Kim was born in Baku, Azerbaijan on the 21th of August 1997. 2014-2018 – BA FINE ARTS AZERBAIJAN STATE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS 2018-2020 – MA FINE ARTS AZERBAIJAN STATE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS August 2009 – “Young Talents Exploring Visual Arts” summer art courses at the Edinborough Art College August 2010 – “Art al Sole” summer art courses in Italy August 2011 - “Art al Sole” summer art courses in Italy October 2013 – a solo exhibition “The last day of the childhood” November 2014 – a solo exhibition “”Paradoxes” March 2015 – participation at a master class given by a renowned artist, Professor Inge H. Schmidt from the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany organized by ADRA June 2015 – VI International Art Festival June 2016 – an art exhibition “Futurismo Ora” at the “Lamborghini” salon October 2016 – participation at the Shopping festival Carrousel du Louvre Art in Paris December 2016 – art courses at the Georgian State Academy of Art within the exchange program Art) February 2017 – Gave art classes at Yarat contemporary art space April 2017 – an art exhibition “Live Life” in Moscow May 2017 – an art exhibition at the Embassy of Turkey in Azerbaijan May 2017 – an art exhibition Live Life organized in Geogria by Idea community June 2017 – Master Class given by Fidan Kim at Yarat Contemporary Art Centre Member of the Union of Artists May 2018 – solo exhibition in Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Beijing, China November 2018 – Participation in Shanghai art...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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