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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
Discovering Red (Gestural Abstraction, Red, Green, Blue, Gold, ~35% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ted Hinrichs Discovering Red Acrylic on Canvas Year: 2025 Size: 20 x 16 x 0.75 inches (50.8 x 40.64 x 1.9 cm) Signed by hand COA provided *On Stretcher Frame (Painted Edges), ready ...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

1971 Mid-Century Modern Swedish Framed River Landscape Oil Painting - Boathouse
Located in Bristol, GB
BOATHOUSE Size: 54 x 48 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A soothing and restful modernist style river landscape composition, executed in oil and dated 1971. The composition pres...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Loading
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Loading" is a reflection on the moment when a miracle begins to take form. The painting features pink hydrangeas, symbolizing the gentle, almost imperceptible unfolding of something...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mid Century River & Farm Landscape in Oil on Canvas Stretched Over Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century River & Farm Landscape in Oil on Canvas Stretched Over Board A pastoral mid-century landscape with a red farmhouse on the banks of a beautiful river valley by J. Anderso...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Reclining Nude
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Joseph Stella. "Reclining Nude" is a figurative painting, oil on canvas in a bright palette of yellows, greens, and tans by American Modernist artist Joseph Stella. The...
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Enfant venu du sable et du silence
Located in Nice, FR
Painter Théo Tobiasse 1927/2012 French and israel born in jaffa Palestine and died in Cagnes s /mer 06 . After winning the prize for young Mediterranean painting in 1961 he then devoted himself entirely to art with works imbuedwiththe exile , for the mother woman . Tobiasse's work is inspired by the judaism of his childhood , traditional jewish themes...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Canvas

Arcadian Reflections, original painting, landscape, abstract, oil paint
Located in Deddington, GB
My interest is to convey elements of the classical arcadian landscape paintings of the 17th and 18th century, inviting the viewer to reflect again at the sublime landscape of the pas...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Linen, Oil

"Antique games.. A look through time 2" Original conceptual portrait. Vertival
Located in Oslo, NO
In the paintings of this series , images of antique figures and statues are used to talk about the eternal in modern language , as well as to present antiquity in a modern way .The w...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Modern British, Interior with an old record player, port decanter and glass
Located in Woodbury, CT
Colin Ruffell is an English painter of interiors, cityscapes, and many other unique subjects. His styles have varied and include iconic cityscapes of London, New York, Venice, Hong ...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Vintage Fire Island Bike Shop Realist Street Scene Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and impressive Fire Island, NY store still life. Very well painted with great detail. Amazing and historic beach town. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Image size, 20"H x24"L.
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Cosmological abstraction n.5" by Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona 1915-Milano 1994)
Located in Milano, MI
Salvador was one of Spain's first abstract painters, exhibiting work in this style as early as 1946 in Barcelona. Subsequently he went through many painting styles, from Fauvism to P...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Seascape : Storm is Coming - Original Oil on canvas, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Marcel MOULY Seascape : Storm is Coming, 1957 Original Oil on canvas Signed and dated bottom right On canvas 65 x 81 cm (c. 26 x 32 in) Excellent condition
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil

French 20th Century Modernist Painting Artists Paint and Paint Tools Still Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Tools by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 9.5 x 15.75 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound cond...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Oil on canvas painting of a gas station by night
Located in Oostende, BE
Oil on canvas painting of a gas station by night. Hans Defer is a well-known Belgian artist, making photos, paintings and videos. The main themes in his work are autism, crime and...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas

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

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Canvas, Oil

20th Century French Abstract Still Life Modernist Style Amazing Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed stamped verso painting : 19.5 x 24 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Tide Pools On Porthcurno Beach Cornwall The Lamorna Colony Cornish Oil Painting
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Stanley Horace Gardiner. English ( b.1887 - d.1952 ). Tide Pools, Porthcurno Beach, Cornwall. Oil On Artist’s Board. Signed Lower Left. Image size 12.4 inches x 15.6 inches ( 31.5cm ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

"Very Cubist Bouquet with Bird" Modern Abstract Floral Still Life Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern Cubist inspired still life painting by the iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. The work features an abstracted white and maroon toned floral still life on a small table...
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Henri Matisse Pencil Of Nude By Chair From Matisse Estate
Located in Dallas, TX
Henri Matisse Original Pencil On Paper Study Of A Standing Nude Next To Chair Pencil on paper Unsigned. Sheet: 8.85 x 13.75 Inches Framed: 25....
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Early 1900s Modern Paintings

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Paper

Mid Century Modern Swedish Expressive Landscape Oil Painting - Winter's Edge
Located in Bristol, GB
WINTER'S EDGE Oil on canvas Size: 48 x 55.5 cm (including frame) An expressive and atmospheric mid-century winter landscape painting, executed in oil onto board. The composition f...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

El Analisis Imposible, 1983
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

Selfie. Large format semi-abstract, girl, woman, fashion
Located in Oslo, NO
"Selfie" is a modern painting in graphic style from the "Golden Series". "A young beautiful girl in a hat and a polka dot dress takes a selfie." said Anna about this painting. "I...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Cat and Mouse by Orovida Pissarro - Animal painting
Located in London, GB
Cat and Mouse by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Oil on canvas 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 ⅛ inches) Signed and dated lower centre Orovida 1948, altered by the artist in 1966 Provenance Royal ...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait #13 and #3, Diptych. 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...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper

"The Little Elephant" - Hand Colored Drawing
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Little Elephant, drawing by Cuca Romley (b. 1933) Image size: 10.5 x 7 7/8 in. Framed 11 x 14 in. Signed Cuca Romley, lower right. Drawing framed, acquired originally from a Par...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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India Ink, Watercolor

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

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Oil, Paint

Rouge et Noir
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 (2002 - present) China (2011-...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Mixed Media

Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Abstract Figurative Framed Oil Painting - Enigma
Located in Bristol, GB
ENGIMA Size: 49 x 57 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas An emotive and skillfully executed mid-century abstract figurative composition, painted in oil onto canvas. The piece featur...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cowgirl in the Studio - Figurative Study in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Cowgirl in the Studio - Figurative Study in Oil on Canvas A woman in a vest, cowboy hat, and boots by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932). The model is sitting on a stoo...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Horse Race Painting by Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic, Mid-Century Modern horse race painting by noted Chicago artist, Rudolph Pen. Artwork size: 27" x 23"; Framed size: 27 1/2" x 23 1/2". Signed "Pen" lower right. Provenan...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Vintage Original Swedish Framed Still Life Oil Painting - Balcony Garden
Located in Bristol, GB
BALCONY GARDEN Size: 32 x 26 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A richly textured and charming mid-century painting, executed in oil onto canvas. Small yet impactful in its composi...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Park - Paint by Henri Hamm - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Park is a modern artwork realized by Henri Hamm in 1937. Oil on wooden Panel. Good conditions.
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Red Sky" Oil on Canvas by Jerome Gastaldi #1
Located in Pasadena, CA
This painting features a red sky (as Gastaldi named it) and it is part of 3. The #2 one is featuring a yellow sky and the third one is the desert light. #1 and 2 show the strength of nature with vigorous large brush strokes and bright colors whereas the colors of #3 depicting the desert light, are more muted and reflect perfectly the desert atmosphere before a storm. See attached the pictures of the 2 matching ones. Jerome Gastaldi, born in Oakland, California, in 1945, is a contemporary artist. His works have been compared by art critics to that of Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Kienholz...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

An Exceptional Mid-Century Modern 1950s Chicago Night Club Scene of Showgirls
Located in Chicago, IL
An Exceptional, Vibrant Mid-Century Modern 1950s Chicago Night Club Scene of Dancing Showgirls. Titled "Dancers #2", the painting depicts a dynamic, sta...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A new adventure
Located in Zofingen, AG
shipped in roll A New Adventure She knows how to draw attention — red dress, stockings, veil. Too bold? Exactly as planned. Naivety is a carefully staged role, and mystery is part ...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Nighttime Crowd Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Nighttime Crowd Scene by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size: 2.25 inches (...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Polka Dot Game
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this work, naive playfulness meets quiet resilience. The heroine, dressed in polka dots, seems to have stepped out of an old film — part actress, part observer of her own life. "P...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Untitled"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by Jean Calogero. Circa 1950. Signed lower right. Condition: Good. Overall in museum quality gold leaf frame 17.5 by 15.75 inches. Provenance: Manhattan Co...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Untitled"
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The Cattery by Orovida Pissarro - Animal painting
Located in London, GB
The Cattery by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Oil and pencil on canvas 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 ⅛ inches) Signed and dated upper right Orovida 1964 Provenance Estate of the artist G Hassel...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Pencil

Figura Femminile, 2010
Located in Atlanta, GA
Son of painter Angelo Bonfanti, Maurizio Bonfanti attended Bergamo's Liceo Artistico and studied etching at the Accademia di Belle Arti in the same c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Charles Burk– American (1947-) Title: Doorway, old Building Year: unknown Medium: Watercolor on watercolor paper Size: 10 x 15 inches. Framed size: 19 x 23.5 inches Signatu...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

1963 French Japanese Art Brut Abstract Oil Painting Akira Kito Diable et Rouge
Located in Surfside, FL
Akira Kito, Japanese, 1925-1994 Diable et Roge Oil on Canvas Titled, signed, and dated 1963 verso Hand signed lower center Dimensions: 32 x 12 3/4 in. (81.3 x 32.4 cm.), Frame: 33 1...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Luberon Valley Provence Superb French Modernist Signed Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed lower front Ginet-Lasnier, the wife of the painter Jean Lasnier, was born in the Seine-Maritime region of France an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Oil

Contemplation and Purring
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Contemplation and Purring" captures a serene moment of harmony between a relaxed young woman and two playful cats. The woman, in gentle repose, embodies tranquility and introspecti...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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

Tuscany landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 57 x 79.5 x 4.5 cm
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

Winter on the Farm
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower left: DALE NICHOLS ∙ 1961
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Sunset Grip
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Wax, Oil

Pere Creixams Spanish Woman, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Pere Creixams Pico (1893-1965), School of Paris, ca.1920. Beautiful Spanish woman. Provenance: Charpentier Gallery, 76 rue du Faubourg Saint Honore, Paris (Sotheby's...
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1920s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Countryside landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Mid-Century Modern Abstracted Cubist Table Still-Life in Acrylic on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-Century Modern Abstracted Cubist Table Still-Life in Acrylic on Masonite Vibrant mid-century modern still life with abstracted synthetic cubist elements in warm colors, highligh...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Acrylic

Untitled, Figurative, Gouache on Paper by Gobardhan Ash "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Gobardhan Ash - Untitled Gouache on Paper 13.25 x 7.5 inches ( Framed & Delivered ) In this evocative composition, Gobardhan Ash masterfully blends abstraction with suggestion, usin...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Pink Ascension Now
Located in Cleveland, OH
This is an original work by world famous artist Hunt Slonem.
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Woman- Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Not signed. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargn...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Paint

Neighborhood Geometry
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Oil

Interior with Figures
Located in Dallas, TX
Arthur Osver studied at Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago. Osver was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1952. He taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, Columbia Un...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modernist French Portrait of a Woman Holding Flowers Expressive Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Modernist Portrait of Woman with Flowers French artist, circa 1960's Signed lower right corner Oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 24 x 18 inches Provenance: Private collection, France C...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

NOLA's French Quarter in Exuberant Impasto
Located in San Francisco, CA
The vibrant French Quarter is brilliantly depicted in "Bourbon Street in New Orleans" by California-based artist Pablo Cucaro in a rich palette of chestnut, Tiffany Blue and black. S...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

An English landscape with a country house
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Tom Coates (1941-2023) An English countryside landscape Oil on canvas Signed with initials lower left Canvas Size - 12 x 16 in Framed Size - 18 x 22 in Tom Coates (1941–2023) was a ...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

A Valley Streetscape at Night
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s A Valley Streetscape at Night, 1948, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower right, 18 x 24 inches; literature: King, Chloe, The Paintings of Edgard O. Kiechle – Unearthed After 60 Years, Ventura Blvd, January/February, 2023, pp. 46 – 53 (illustrated) Edgar Kiechle...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

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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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