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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
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Horse & Foal in Mountain Landscape Contemporary British Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Horse and Foal by Ben George Powell, British contemporary artist signed acrylic on canvas, unframed canvas: 20 x 20 inches provenance: private collection of this artists work, UK The...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Steam Train Bromyard Station Contemporary British Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bromyard Train Station by Ben George Powell, British contemporary artist signed acrylic on canvas, unframed canvas: 16 x 20 inches provenance: private collection of this artists work...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Large French Contemporary Signed Oil Sun Scorched Provence Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed in wooden frame oil painting on textured canvas framed: 40 x 21 inches canvas: 39.5 x 20. 5inches. All the paintings we have for sa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Surrealist Armenian American Artist Stephen Sacklarian Biomorphic Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Stephen Sacklarian 1899-1983 Sacklarian studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the T- Square Club-School for Architects, The Philadelphia College of Art, the Fleisher ...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Golden Delta Sunset', Mid-Century Modernist Estuary Landscape, Water Grasses
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Crowell' and additionally signed, verso, 'V. Crowell' (American, 20th century) and dated 1966. Additionally signed, verso, on frame, titled, 'Hot Afternoon...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Framed Oil Painting, "Cubist Dancer"
Located in Bristol, GB
CUBIST DANCER Size: 54 x 35 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A very charming mid century figurative composition, painted in oil onto canvas. Characterised by a cubist ethos, a ba...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Parisian Interior Attic Room Mid 20th Century French Signed Oil, Rooftop Views
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: August Pietri, French mid 20th century, signed Title: attic room interior scene with a window overlooking winter snow rooftops Medium: signed oil painting on board...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

THREE MUSICIANS Large Oil Painting French Israeli Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Music Medium: Oil Surface: Board Country: France Dimensions: 36.5" x 23.5" Dimensions w/Frame: 43.5" x 31" NISSAN ENGEL Israel, b. 1931 Multidisciplinary art...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Huge French Modernist Oil Sunny Garden Landscape with French Chairs
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Le Jardin Jeanon Pitre (French contemporary) signed oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 51 x 38 inches provenance: private collection, Paris condition: overall very good
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Contemporary British Painting Bird with 3 Chicks
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bird with chicks by Ben George Powell, British contemporary artist signed acrylic on canvas, unframed canvas: 12 x 16 inches provenance: private collection of this artists work, UK T...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Portrait of Working Class Man
Located in Surfside, FL
American artist Samuel Brecher (active NY, 1897-1982) Oil on Canvas, Signed lower right ‘S. Brecher’ Brecher was a very accomplished painter who won over forty prestigious prizes and awards during his career, and had numerous one-man exhibitions. Brecher’s works are included in many important private collections as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Museum, the Smithsonian and the Newark Museum of Art. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and is a member of the Salmugundi Club* and the National Academy of Art Samuel Brecher was born in Boryslaw, Austria, a town near the Carpathian Mountains, now a part of Poland. His family came to New York in 1910, where Samuel graduated from Cooper Union* in 1921. He studied Art at the National Academy of Design* from 1921-1924, and continued studies under Charles W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Brecher was represented by several well known New York City galleries in the 1940’s and 1950’s including the Kraushaar Gallery, the ACA Gallery, the Hudson Walker Gallery and the Merrill Gallery. During his career he won over forty prestigious prizes and awards and had numerous one-man shows. Some of Brechers’s contemporary artist friends were Walt Kuhn, Reginald Marsh, Richard Haley...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Old Steam Train going under Bridge in Welsh Landscape Contemporary Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Trelewis by Ben George Powell, British contemporary artist signed acrylic on canvas, unframed canvas: 16 x 20 inches provenance: private collection of this artists work, UK The paint...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Figurative landscape oil painting- Purple Memory
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

Sennedem, Abstract Italian Modernist Oil Painting in Brass Frame
By Ezio Gribaudo
Located in Surfside, FL
36X30 framed, 31X26.5 unframed. Ezio Gribaudo was born in Turin on January 10, 1929. He trained at the Accademia di Brera, Milan (1949–52), and attended the Faculty of Architecture ...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Brass

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

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Oil, Board

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

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Canvas, Acrylic

Blossom Trees Provence Landscape French Modernist Signed Painting Blue Skies
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Blossom Trees Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020) signed framed oil painting on canvas framed: 23.5 x 28 inches canvas: 20 x 24 inches. All the paintings we have for sale by th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

'Modernist Still Life', Paris, Salon d Automne, Centre Pompidou, Budapest
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, 'G. Simonka' for Georges Simonka (Hungarian, 1916-2001) and dated 1955. A substantial, mid-century modernist, oil still-life showing an assemblage of items on a table-top Born in Budapest, Georges Simonka studied at the University of Applied Arts in Budapest. After his first solo exhibition in Budapest in 1943, he moved to Paris, where he became a regular exhibitor at several salons including the Salon d'Automne and the Salon Comparaison. An active member of several Parisian art groups, Simonka exhibited successfully throughout Europe and his work may be found in the permanent collections of numerous European museums, including that of the Centre Pompidou...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Ponton à Ruth by William Goliasch - Print 50x66 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Swiss painter. Lithography and woodcut. Mural Lithograph numbered 54/80 Work on paper with frame, Total size with frame is 68x53 cm
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Lithograph

Abstract Village Naive Chinese Modernist Painting
By Heshi Yu
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Abstract Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Dimensions: 16" x 12" Heshi Yu was born in Shandong, Mainland China, 1935. He graduated from the Art Department of National Taiwan Normal University. In 1946, he traveled to France to further his studies at l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1968, he moved to New York and devoted himself to creation. A work of 1970s was selected by Lincoln Center to make a serigraph to celebrate the bicentenary of America. Multiple materials, acrylic and ink, used in his works; Through the concept to modern painting, Mr. Yu blended the find art...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Pardner, 1943 Vintage African American Art, Black Artist, Painting, Pet Portrait
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
John Farrar (American, 1928-1972) Signed: John Farrar (Lower, Left) “ Pardner ”, 1943 Titled Above Signature (Lower, Left) Oil on Canvas 26 ⅛” x 32 ⅛” Housed in a 2 ½” period ornamented Newcomb-Macklin frame in toned gold leaf, in good original condition. Outside Size: 30 1/2" x 36 5/8" A recent discovery of a painting that appears to be Farrar’s family dog. This was done when he was just fifteen years old. As a teenager in the 1940s, Farrar received much local acclaim in the Washington D.C. art Scene. Words like “Child Prodigy”, “Brilliant” and “Gifted” were used to describe him in the local newspaper. He had a great bout of early success which included developing patrons among Washington DC’s art elite but this was short lived as he was afflicted with schizophrenia and alcoholism as an adult causing him to spend much of his life in mental institutions. In 1942, Farrar won the Washington Times-Herald's outdoor art fair. This painting was executed the following year when he was 15 (1943). That same year he won the top prize at Atlanta University’s third annual “ Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Prints by Negro Artists ” with a piece titled “ Queenie ”. Approximately one hundred and fifty works of art were included in the show, representing the best works of more than seventy-five contemporary African American artists. This show included works by Romare Bearden, who was awarded Honorable Mention for his painting “ The Two Genrerations ”. Also included among the exhibitors - Charles H. Alston, Allen Rohen Crite, Aaron Douglas, Fredrick Flemister, Sargant Johnson, Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence, Marjorie Wheeler Brown, Hughie Lee Smith, Lois Mailou Jones...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Pair of Battle Scenes - Oil Painting - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pair of Battle Scenes is an oil painting realized by an italian artist in 18th century. 110x85 cm each. Framed. Good conditions.
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18th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

TURN YOUR LIGHT ON I, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
SIZE: 100x150x4cm. DESCRIPTION: TURN YOUR LIGHT ON I is an original intuitive artwork. It is when you turn your inner light on and you become one ...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Indian Modernist Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
God, Keeper, and Maker of all Air Tola-Kina. Figural Abstract Gouache Watercolor Painting.
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

The Wedding of Rebecca and Isaac - Oil Painting by E. Savini - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Wedding of Rebecca and Isaac is an oil painting realized by Enrico Savini (1832-1869), in the mid-19th Century. Artist's name on the bottom plate. ...
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19th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Adam & Eve Garden of Eden The Apple Israeli Judaica Art Original Painting Lovers
Located in Surfside, FL
This painting depicts a man and woman, Adam and Eve, interlocked and embracing one another. The woman holds an enticing apple as they are thrusted from the Garden of Eden. This is an...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Bird of Prey in Tree against Blue Sky Contemporary British Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Bird of Prey by Ben George Powell, British contemporary artist signed acrylic on board, unframed board: 14 x 18 inches provenance: private collection of this artists work, UK The...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Large French Modernist Painting Young Boy Harvesting Lavender Provence Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020) Ginet-Lasnier, the wife of the painter Jean Lasnier, was born in the Seine-Maritime region of France and went onto study at...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Oil

Turquoise Blue Sea French Modernist Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Seascape Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020) inscribed verso framed oil painting on canvas framed: 11.5 x 14.5 inches canvas: 11 x 14 inches. All the paintings we have for sale...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

GNOSIS XXX
Located in Tulsa, OK
Fabio Modica GNOSIS XXX oil on canvas 60.00 X 60.00 in $18,000.00
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Self Portrait, Modernist Portrait of the Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Portrait Medium: Oil Surface: Board Country: United States Dimensions: 16" x 12" Dimensions w/Frame: 23" x 18" Painter David Rosen emerged onto the art scene...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Erotic Scene - Original Gouache on Silk
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a gouache and China ink original painting on silk, realized probably in the second half of XIX century by an anonymous Japanese artist of XIX century, From a collection of twelve Japanese erotic silk paintings, wrongly titled "Shunga", mounted under a yellow cardboard Passepartout, cm 37 x 26.8, this modern artwork of little dimensions, but of extraordinary quality represents an erotic scene between two young Japanese lovers portrayed in their intimate situation and with their sophisticated traditional costumes and hairstyle. Without ever being vulgar or too explicit but with extreme elegance, our ancient Japanese artwork...
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Late 19th Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

Columbian Catalina Oil on Canvas Painting Signed Sonia Bulley
Located in Plainview, NY
An elegant oil on Canvas painting featuring columbian catalina flower. The painting is nicely framed in a custom wooden frame and is signed by the artist Sonia Bulley.
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Night Trees
By Walter Hahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Early in the 1950s, WALTER HAHN was a force to be reckoned with in Chicago painting. In 1951, his final year as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Hahn won first prize in oil in the Chicago and Vicinity exhibition. As this was a purchase prize, this placed his work in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, provoking jealous awe from some of his teachers. Born in 1927, Hahn studied with Kathleen Blackshear...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rocamadour, Modernist Abstract Architectural Village Landscape
By Pierre (Baron) Courtens
Located in Surfside, FL
Pierre Courtens is a French painter of Belgian origin, born in Brussels in 1921 and died in Ribérac Dordogne in 2004. Baron Pierre Courtens is the third generation of painters with his brother Jacques Courtens , son of Hermann Courtens, grandson of Franz Courtens. His grandfather and then his father, director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, were ennobled by the King of the Belgians...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Dawn Wrangler
Located in Breckenridge, CO
Artist Terry Gardner , "Dawn Wrangler" 36h x 60" w , Original Oil Painting.
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Parisian Street Scenes Oil on Canvas Painting Signed R. Roywilsens, a Pair
Located in Plainview, NY
A classy pair of oil on canvas Parisian street scenes paintings signed by the artist R. Roywilsens. ( American, 1940's) The paintings fe...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

MERCIFICATION XX
Located in Tulsa, OK
Fabio Modica MERCIFICATION XX oil on canvas 23.00 X 47.00 in $10,590.00
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Venus de Milo - Oil on Canvas by Marthe Delacroix - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Unknown, Venus de Milo is an artwork realized by Marthe Delacroix (French, 1898–1970) in mid-20th century. Original oil on Canvas. Mint Conditions with de-coloring on margins.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Seated Woman (11-8)
Located in Westport, CT
This figurative abstract painting is by David Skillicorn. The female nude is a new direction for the artist. A bold and creative approach is the melding of the abstract with the fig...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Aragua, Abstract Painting, Contemporary Red Blue and Green Art, Statement Art
Located in Deddington, GB
This is an original abstract acrylic painting on canvas. Discover new works by Julia Craig available to buy online and in our art gallery. Julia is an abstract artist whose love of c...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

“Seduction", Lady Intoxicated by the Music Played by the Man Figurative Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This is an original painting on canvas by French artist Françoise Collandre. A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre entered...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Still Life Oil Painting Betsy Podlach American Post Feminist Modernist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Betsy Podlach (American, born 1964.) Still life with Tin Cup, 1996 17.5 X 16.5 inches. Framed it measures 18.25 X 17.25 Betsy Podlach graduated from Harvard, cum laude, (she studied at Harvard with Alfred Decreido and William Reimann as well as Carlos Fuentes continuing her studies at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, Ms. Podlach was awarded an art fellowship and residency at The International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. Betsy Podlach is an American painter who considers the Italian Venetians and the american abstract expressionist painters her mentors. The two painters she is most inspired by are Titian and Jackson Pollock, Both use the picture plane and abstraction and space, light, movement and form to communicate a physicality built entirely on the principals of painting, in the “classical” sense of a flat plane and lines, color, shape, space and light applied to that flat surface to create magic – light, space, form, emotion, force, movement, the physical and the spiritual. She describes her work as a figurative version of abstract expressionism. She was influenced by many of the abstract expressionists from the NY school...
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage 1950s Israeli Oil Painting, Signed in Hebrew Kibbutz Worker Reading
Located in Surfside, FL
Murray S. Greenfield Art Gallery (label on verso). Genre: Modern Subject: People Medium: Oil Surface: Board Country: Israel Dimensions: 9 1/2" x 13" Dimensions w/Frame:16.75" x 20.25"
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Young Girl Portrait Acrylic on Canvas Painting Signed Kimberly Van Rossum
Located in Plainview, NY
A portrait of young girl in a Garden Acrylic on canvas painting signed Kimberly Van Rossom . The painting feature a young girl standing in a garden and the portrait shows white Wing...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Still Life with Buddha and Pomegranates - Painting by Bruno Croatto - 1944
Located in Roma, IT
In this work we find the image of the Buddha and several pomegranates, symbolizing fertility. The choice of combining objects and materials of different nature becomes an unmistakable feature of his style. A taste for the intrinsic qualities of different materials, specifically chosen for their characteristics of gloss transparency and sphericity, not least, the optical precision with which the different surfaces are rendered. Croatto creates images where reality is transformed into a magical and suspended atmosphere. Bruno Croatto...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sun Flower - Oil Painting by Claude Deschamps - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Sun Flower is a painting realized by Claude Decamps in the 1970s Oil painting on cardboard canvas. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. The ar...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Figurative Oil Painting - Off to School
Located in Bristol, GB
OFF TO SCHOOL Oil on canvas Size: 32 x 25.5 cm (including frame) A lovely and endearing miniature oil on canvas depicting a scene of a pedestrian walkway on a fine summer’s day. A ...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Notion
Located in East Durham, NY
Notion (2022) Silver circuits hand etched on dyed fiberglass board mounted on linen-wrapped wood. "Notion" is a one-of-a-kind piece by artist Lana O. Lana O's retro-future modern ...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Silver

Antique American Modernist Street Scene Vintage Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school modernist cityscape painting. Oil on canvas, wrapped to board. No signature found.
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Mutual Admiration" Flower Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting Monterey Artist
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mutual Admiration" Flower Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting Monterey Artist Mid-Century Modern painting of a little blonde girl in a white apron adoring her flowers by Monterey Artist Rose Marie (Smith) Ansel, (American, 1921-2012) Rose Marie was born and lived in the Monterey area all her life. She volunteered in various city government associations and founded the Parade of Nations in 1970 which celebrated the many ethnic cultures on the Monterey Peninsula...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board

Seated Woman (11-4)
Located in Westport, CT
This figurative abstract painting is by David Skillicorn. The female nude is a new direction for the artist. A bold and creative approach is the melding of the abstract with the fig...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

1994 "Dreamer's Forest" Abstract Painting on Panel William Shields
Located in Arp, TX
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010 "Dreamer's Forest" 1994 Oil on panel 48"x36" artist framed Signed lower right William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010 He was born in san Francisco, in 1931, Bill moved to Texas, where he grew up. Moved to New York in 1940 and later joined the Naval Air Corps at the age of 18. He served as an Aviation Cadet in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945. At the end of WWII, Bill returned to Texas. At 21, Bill re-focused his energy and enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Art as an Illustration major. What followed was a whirlwind of success, great friendships and a sense of belonging he had never before experienced. Art was his calling and the art-world could not have been less prepared for the likes of Bill Shields. He took them by storm, first Houston, then San Francisco, followed by New York in the late 60's. For 35 years, Bill produced some of the country's best illustrations: fresh, playful, loose and innovative. His illustrations were coveted by such clients as Bantam Books, Time Life, MacMillan Publishing Co., and were awarded numerous gold medals by the Societies of Illustrators in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the Houston Artists Guild. Later, following inspirational trips to Mexico and France, Bill shifted his attention to the self-directed world of fine art. After years of sculpting, making assemblages, painting nudes and landscapes, he settled on the exploration of large abstract oil paintings. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, Connecticut and New York. CV EDUCATION: Chicago Academy Of Fine Art San Antonio Art Institute MAJOR FIELDS OF PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVOR: Freelance graphic design and illustration Instructor of painting and illustration Landscape, figurative and abstract painting ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT: (Professor of Art) California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Art Institute San Jose State University AWARDS FOR ILLUSTRATION, Gold Medals: New York Society of Illustrators Los Angeles Society of Illustrators San Francisco Society of Illustrators Dallas-Fort Worth Art Director's Club Houston Artist's Guild BIBLIOGRAPHY: Feature articles in: American Artist, Communication Arts, Print, North Light. Architectural design featured in: Better Homes and Gardens, American Home, Sunset Magazine, Architectural Digest. ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS: Oil Companies: Champlin Oil Company, Mobil Oil Company, Continental Oil Company, Standard Oil Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company. Industrial: Hughes Tool Company, General Electric, United States Steel, Phelps Dodge, Sylvania Television, Texas Gulf Sulphur, Litton Industries, Houston Lighting and Power Company...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Abstract Landscape 1954 American Modernist from Paul Rosenberg Gallery
By Raymond Mintz
Located in Surfside, FL
Label verso from Paul Rosenberg Gallery. (this was 600$ in 1954!) 18 X 26 without frame. 19 X 27.75 with frame Raymond was born in Clifton, New Jersey, in 1925, of German descent. ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Green Pepper - Late Modernist Still Life
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Arthur Meltzer (American, 1893-1989) Green Pepper Oil on canvas, 12 x 22 inches; Framed: 19 x 29 inches Signed at lower left: “Arthur Meltzer” Frame is original and also by Arthur Meltzer Arthur Meltzer was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and studied at the Minneapolis School of Art before enrolling in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Meltzer achieved fame for his Pennsylvania landscapes of Bucks and Berks Counties. He taught for many years at the Moore College of Art and Design, where he met his wife, the impressionist painter Paulette Van Roekens. He was a member of many art organizations, including the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Graphic Sketch Club, the Philadelphia Art...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Seated Woman (11-1)
Located in Westport, CT
This figurative abstract painting is by David Skillicorn. The female nude is a new direction for the artist. A bold and creative approach is the melding of the abstract with the fig...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Early Modernist River Landscape with Trees and Mountains WPA artist
Located in Surfside, FL
In artist's hand painted frame. signed and dated. Genre: Modern Subject: Landscape Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: United States Dimensions w/Frame: 23" x 30.25" The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subverts expectations. His vision hovers just around the unraveling edge of things, where what is solid and clear becomes ambiguous. He is fascinated, often delighted, by the falling apart. This unexpected, fresh perspective results in oddly affecting pictures of a now long-gone New York. Born Moishe in a town called Dvinsk, Russia (what is now Daugavpils, Latvia), Kish came with his family to New York when he was in his teens. The family settled in Brownsville, and for the rest of Kish’s life Brooklyn remained his home, though he moved from one neighborhood to another. He was close to his parents, who recognized his talent and supported his desire to become an artist. Kish attended the National Academy of Design as well as Cooper Union. His fellow students included many other immigrants and children of immigrants who were particularly receptive to the Modernism coming from Europe. As his career progressed, Kish himself applied different strains of Modernism to different purposes. For him, the story was held above all else. For years, Kish used the skills he acquired in art school to earn his living at a Manhattan glass...
Category

1930s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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