Modern Paintings
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Langdale Lake District Fine English Oil Painting Mountain Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
M.Barton, English late 20th century
Summer Morning, Langdale (English Lake District)
signed oil painting on board, framed
inscribed verso
framed: 20 x 27 inches
board: 16 x 22 inche...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,223 Sale Price
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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.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harvest
By Ketut Liyer
Located in Roma, IT
Harvest is an acrylic painting on canvas. With frame.
It is signed “Kt. Lijer. Pengosekan. Ubud. Bali” on the lower right corner.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,090
"Summer Splendor"
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 ...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
North African Street Market with Figures French Modernist Signed Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Market
French School, indistinctly signed
late 20th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 19.75 x 19.75 inches
Provenance: private collection, Paris
Condition: very good cond...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
$761 Sale Price
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Market Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Market Scene" 1968 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Haitian artist Petion Savain, 1906-1973. It is signed and dated at the lower right...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Changing Rock II, Abstract, Mythscape Series, Mythology, Indian Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Amitabh Sengupta - Changing Rock II - 60 x 60 inches (unframed size)
Oil on canvas
** This work will be shipped in roll form to save on shipping cost.
Mythscape Series : This serie...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting Signed, Woodland over Lake
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Woodland over lake
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century).
signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on board, unframed.
Size: 9.5 x 13.75 inches.
Condition: very good and re...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$238 Sale Price
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Self Portrait in a Mirror with Artist's Tools, Oil on canvas, Signed, Polish
By Joseph Biel
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed bottom left
Image size: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
Joseph Biel
Joseph Biel was a painter and photographer who was born in ...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Alpine Landscape', Bay Area Abstraction, Mid-Century Woman Modernist, CCAC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Cathcart' for Marjorie Cathcart (American, 1918-2014) and painted circa 1965. Additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'Alpine Landscape'.
Marjorie Cathcart firs...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Landscape - Oil Painting by Fioravante Seibezzi - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original modern artwork realized by Fioravante Seibezzi (1906-1975) in the mid-20th century.
Oil painting on board.
Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mountain & Lake in Ireland Countryside - Oil Painting by Northern Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Mountain & Lake in Ireland Countryside - Oil Painting by Northern Irish Artist, Dennis Orme Shaw
Art measures 12 x 10 inches
Frame measures 18 x 16 inches
Dennis Orme Shaw was b...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dennis Orme ShawMountain & Lake in Ireland Countryside - Oil Painting by Northern Irish Artist, 1980
$1,173 Sale Price
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1950's French Impressionist Painting Blue Flowers in Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Blue Flowers
by Y. Blanchon, French 1950's Impressionist artist
signed oil on board, framed
board: 12.5 x 10.5 inches
framed: 11 x 9 inches
provenance: from a large private collectio...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
$618 Sale Price
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Contemporary Paris scenery, Les Deux Magots, Paris.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Areg Elibekian is known for his vibrant and unique style, often capturing scenes with vivid colors and expressive brushstrokes. Les Deux Magots in Paris is a famous café known for it...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large colourful modernist abstract landscape painting Vietnamese American artist
By Ngoc Dung
Located in Norwich, GB
A striking, bold colourist painting by Vietnamese artist Ngoc Dung (1931-2000), dating from circa 1960.
His highly individualistic art is hard to categorise. In the artist"s own wor...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Between Heaven and Hell (The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Philip Verhoeven
Between Heaven and Hell (The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch)
Acrylic and Marker on Canvas
Year: 2024
Size: 39.37 x 39.37 inches (100 x 100 cm)
Signed a...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
$4,800 Sale Price
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Prayer 1 - Oil Paint by Mino Meno - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on plywood realized in 1977.
Titled, dated and signed on rear.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Naschera
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Naschera" is an oil painting on canvas by Italian artist Vittorio Maria Di Carlo, 1939-2015. It is hand signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Diamond Skull I
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 ...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Rites of Winter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rites of Winter, by 1939, oil on canvas, 32 x 40 inches, exhibited: 134th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, January 29 – March 5, 1939, no...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Cafe in Madrid, Oil on Board Painting, Signed and Dated 1950, English Artist
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed and dated '50 bottom right, entitled on reverse
Image size: 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (34.5 x 23 cm)
Original frame
Exhibitions
1989, Belgrave Gallery, 22 Mason's Yard, Duke Street, St. James', London SW1 'Clifford Hall (1904-1973) 15th June - 14th July, no.12.
Clifford Hall
Clifford Hall was born in Wandsworth in 1904, and spent his youth in nearby Richmond upon Thames...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Nuns at Notre-Dame', Paris, Munich, Woman Modernist, AIC, Smithsonian, Carmel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, and lower right, 'Patricia Cunningham' for Patricia Stanley Cunningham (American, 1907-1984) and painted circa 1965.
A vibrant, Post-Impressionistic oil showing a...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Streets under the Fortress - Paint by Hippolyte Camille Delpy - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on wooden table realized by Hippolyte Camille Delpy in the late 19th Century.
A nice small painting by an important french painter of the late 19th Century, deeply influenced by...
Category
19th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Framed Modern Abstract Oil Painting by Stevan Kissel
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This abstract painting by little known Los Angeles artist is a fine example of color abstraction. The painting portrays an abstract ballerina dancer. The painting has been newly fram...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
1972 Modernist Swedish Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Fragments of a Day
Located in Bristol, GB
FRAGMENTS OF A DAY
Size: 59.5 x 74 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A striking modernist work that presents a scene fragmented into angular planes and interlocking blocks of colou...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Captivating, Mid-Century Floral Still Life of Red Roses by Rudolph T. Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Captivating, Mid-Century Floral Still Life of Red Roses by Rudolph T. Pen. Wonderful colors and brushwork, and executed with the unique, Modern, sloped perspective for which Pen's...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life of Two Pears French Modernist Original 20th Century Painting Framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life
by Max Toutain (French 1935-2006)
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 10 x 12 inches
canvas : 7 x 9 inches
Provenance: all the paintings we have for sale by this artist h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Une Reunion
By Jean Tannous
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Byblos lebanon, in 1946, is a contemporary plastician artist franco-canadian.
Artistic journey
Early days (1970-1975)
Paris (1976-2001)
Quebec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$15,600
French Mid Century Drawing, 'Ligne Claire' after Hergé, Grasse, South of France
Located in Cotignac, FR
French mid 20th Century drawing in the style of Georges Remi, dit Hergé. The work is not signed but is titled (Cannes) and dated (Mai 1969) to the back of the paper. Presented in modern gilt frame under glass.
A charming street view of Cannes on the Cote D'Azur in the South of France, an area now internationally famous for its film annual festival. The artist has captured the imposing nature of the fine stone buildings with their blue and green shutters towering over the scene. Next to it a fine trees so characteristic of French streets are just coming in to leaf. Two men go about their business, one is walking towards a cafe. Cars and a red delivery truck animate the scene. The style of the artist is clearly inspired by the animations of Georges Remi, dit Hergé which were so popular at this period.
Georges Remi, more commonly known as Hergé created his own clean, expressive style of drawings known as ligne claire...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Crayon
$361 Sale Price
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Venetian Canal - Large 20th Century Modern Venice Italy Oil on Board Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful and unusual mid 20th century oil on board depicting a Venetian canal with couple on a gondola. Lots of detail and very well painted work. Original exhibition label on the...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Nude Female Figure Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French School, circa 1960's
signed and stamped
chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
size: 18.75 x 11 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoy...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
$209 Sale Price
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Oil Painting of Camlough Lake in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Modern Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of Camlough Lake in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Modern Artist, Patrick O'Neill
Art measures 30 x 20 inches
Frame measures 35 x 25 inches
A beautiful colourful ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"People" - Mid-Century Ovoid Geometrical Abstract Black & White Drawing
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
People, 1964
Ink and crayon on paper
Signed and dated upper right
36.5 x 24 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of nation...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Ink
"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...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Board, Wood
$3,850 Sale Price
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Original British Signed Oil Painting Jack Russell Terrier and Companion Dog
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Good Friends"
British artist, late 20th century
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 17.5 x 17.5 inches
canvas: 15 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very go...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
King Tut No. 2, Mid-Century Ovoid Geometrical Abstract Gouache on Paper
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
King Tut No. 2, 1968
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated upper right
11.25 x 8.25 inches
25.5 x 20.5 inches
A surrealist mid-century fig...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Taos Adobe Wall and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Located in San Francisco, CA
A study in neutrals, the essence of timeless Taos comes together in this picture. The backdrop of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and particularly notice the brilliant light on the st...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Mid Century Drawing, 'Ligne Claire' after Hergé, Nice, South of France
Located in Cotignac, FR
French mid 20th Century drawing in the style of Georges Remi, dit Hergé. The work is not signed but is titled (La Chapelle) and dated (Sept 1969) bottom left. Presented in modern silvered frame under glass.
A charming view of the chapel at the Nice Chateau cemetery on the Cote D'Azur in the South of France. The artist has captured the imposing nature of the fine colourful stone buildings with their arches, cupolas and finials. Surrounding the buildings are trees and bushes and to the foreground cars of typical 1960s design. The style of the artist is clearly inspired by the animations of Georges Remi, dit Hergé which were so popular at this period.
Georges Remi, more commonly known as Hergé created his own clean, expressive style of drawings known as ligne claire...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Crayon
$304 Sale Price
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A Striking 1960s Mid-Century Modern City Rooftops View, Painted from a City Bus
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking, 1960s Mid-Century Modern Watercolor of European City Rooftops, Painted from a City Bus. Rudolph Pen was fond of these innovative city rooftop compositions completed whil...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Minimalist Figurative Drawing by Cuban artist Juan Carlos Vazquez Lima
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Minimalist Figurative Drawing by Cuban artist Juan Carlos Vazquez Lima.
Original Unique Piece.
Juan Carlos was born in Havana Cuba June 30th 1986. He Studied at Eduardo Garcia Delg...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Ballpoint Pen
French Neo-Impressionist Modernist Dog in a Tent Mid 20th Century Painting
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Neo Impressionist Dog in a Tent
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
signed lower left
gouache painting on paper, unframed
measurements: 11.75 x 16.5 inches
provenance: private collection of the artists work, Provence, France
Condition report: very good, colour strong, very shallow crease to lower right corner of sheet
Interesting Neo-Impressionist 1950's French painting of a rather lively dog at the entrance to brightly coloured canvas tents...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$1,047 Sale Price
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Sleeping: Mixed media painting on paper by Angela Lyle
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela was born in 1946 and studied art at Kingston Art College, London. Her early career was predominantly spent designing sets and costumes for rock bands. This connection with the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"9th Ave. EL"
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 ...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting Woman Portrait French Armenian Modernist Jean Jansem Ecole De Paris
By Jean Jansem
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian) 1920-2013
Hand signed upper left corner
Dimensions: 14 X 9.5 Framed 21 X 16.75
Jean Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian) 1920-2013
Bursa, Ottoman Turki...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Muse. From the Portraits series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The portraits of Christopher Veggetti are not just works of art; they embody a tangible testimony of the deep need for social inclusion at a national level. In an Italy undergoing co...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Maat, 2011
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jennifer J L Jones was born in Virginia U.S.A. in 1971 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
Vesegnin and the Lion, Ain
Located in Geneva, CH
Swiss painter
Sculptor, painter and ceramist. Landscape. Wall painting and drawing
Work on canvas without frame
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
$528 Sale Price
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El Analisis Imposible, 1983
By Antoni TAULÉ
Located in Atlanta, GA
Taulé was born in 1945 in Sabadell, Barcelona. His father imparted the taste for painting to Antoni as a boy as the young artist watched him paint. After his primary studies, he began studying architecture in Barcelona and graduated in 1970. In 1965, he arrived in Paris and worked in architectural firms. It was Sartre's Paris, the construction of Unesco, the year of Le Corbusier's death and the end of Chandigarh, the French Cinematheque and Antonioni's films. Since the age of 14, he has never stopped painting and made his first personal exhibition in 1966 at the Academie de Belles Arts in Sabadell.
Upon receiving his degree in architecture, he worked on the construction of l’Université autonome de Barcelone for a year. In 1971, he was asked to work on the development of a large shipyard on the small island of Formentera. There he met Laetitia Ney of Elchingen, who he would go on to marry. He devoted himself entirely to painting, and Formentera, like Paris, became one of his favorite places in both his life and to work.
His first exhibition in Paris was in 1975 with Mathias Fels, presented to him by Hervé Télémaque—showing many paintings of his young daughter Djamilla, then three years old. The exhibition was titled, Espace hors temps (Space out of Time), with a foreword by Alain Jouffroy. In 1976, Taulé exhibited Contre-Jour (Against Day) at Fabien Boulakia on rue Bonaparte with a preface by Gérald Gassiot-Talabot and in Barcelona at the Aimé Maeght gallery—an exhibition visited by Joan Miró and Alexander Calder. In 1977, he exhibited at the Beaubourg gallery, with then associates Nahon and Trigano. In 1983, he met Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, who wrote the novella Fin d’étape (End of Stage) for Taulé That same year, he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by Jack Lang...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Night Rodeo
Located in Zofingen, AG
shipped in roll
In this work, the night becomes a space of freedom and play. The woman-rider controls not only the horse but also the situation — her power lies in calmness, self-acc...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Subirachs, Jose Maria. original pencil drawing
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Subirachs, Jose Maria. original pencil drawing
Josep Maria Subirachs i Sitjar (Barcelona, March 11, 1927-ibidem, April 7, 2014)1 was a Spanish sculptor, painter, engraver, set desi...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Deer & Eagle Winter Snow Scottish Landscape Signed British Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Eagle & Deer
by Ben George Powell, British contemporary artist
signed and dated 2014
acrylic on canvas, unframed
canvas: 20 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection of this art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$1,142 Sale Price
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19th Century Landscape of Shepherdess w/ Sheep & Dog, Munich, Cleveland School
By Henry Keller
Located in Beachwood, OH
Henry George Keller (American, 1869–1949)
Shepherdess with Sheep and Dog, Munich, 1891
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left
19 x 24 inches
25 x 30 inches, framed
Keller, a lead...
Category
1890s Modern Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
North African Orientalist Scene Man on Horseback with Dogs outside City Building
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Orientalist Scene
European artist, late 20th century
possibly a copy of an earlier work judging from the style
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 24 x 20 inches
provenance: private col...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,333 Sale Price
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"Girl in Pareu"
By RAD Miller
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Robert Alexander Darrah “R.A.D.” Miller (1905 - 1966)
Robert Alexander Darrah Miller, called “RAD” by his friends, was born in Philadelphia. He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1923 to 1927 under the tutelage of Daniel Garber. In 1928, Miller moved to Bucks County where he would meet and marry Celia Belden Marshall, daughter of Dr. George M. Marshall, who at that time owned the Phillips Mill property.
Nearly a year later, in 1929, a committee headed by artist, William Lathrop, negotiated to purchase the Mill property from Dr. Marshall for the purpose of holding art exhibitions. Thus, the Phillips Mill Art Association was formed. RAD Miller was a regular exhibitor at the Phillips Mill with the traditional New Hope Impressionists. Many of the original founders of the New Hope Art Colony, set in their ways, frowned upon the concept of modernist painting. A decision was made by the Association to not include the growing group of modernist painters in the area to exhibit with them at Phillips Mill. Although clearly not a traditional impressionist, Miller was not being excluded with the others, largely because his father-in-law formerly owned the mill and was one of the Association’s board of directors. RAD was sympathetic to his fellow modernists. In 1933, he was one of the original members of the Independents, a group formed for modernist artists who chose to embark on a more non-traditional creative path. They would exhibit in tandem with the Impressionists but at different locations.
Around the time of his arrival to New Hope in 1928, Miller struck up a friendship with Thomas Hart Benton, and in 1932 he worked under Benton on a mural project. RAD’s paintings...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Longing to Belong - Figurative Surrealist Quirky Raccoon Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting oil and watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' ar...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Seated Woman
Located in Miami, FL
Charming portait with Modernest colors.
Provenance: Christie's
Mercedes Matter, daughter of the artist, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York. Private Collection. Sale: Skinner, Inc...
Category
1910s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
#301. From the Beaches series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The beaches of Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku represent a pictorial exploration that goes beyond the mere representation of the subject itself. The artist seeks to convey a poetry ...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Vintage American Modernist Framed Signed Kitchen Table Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 19 by 16 inches overall. Handsomely framed ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, 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...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
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Gudrun Sibbons
Guy C Wiggins
Hunt Slonem Violet
Jan Coutts
Joe Rader Roberts
John Foulger
John Pierce Barnes
Josep Roca Sastre
Landcaping Oil Paintings
Lovell Birge Harrison
Lucien Dhurmer Levy
Maurice Codner
Mexican Impressionism