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
WPA Landscape American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Farm Rural
Located in New York, NY
WPA Landscape American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Farm Rural
James McCracken (1875 – 1967)
WPA Landscape
28 x 36 inches
Oil on canvas, c. 1930s
Signed lower right
...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1965 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Vegetables
Located in Bristol, GB
STILL LIFE WITH VEGETABLES
Size: 59 x 74 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A brilliantly executed modernist style still life composition, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1965...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1970's French Modernist Still Life Pineapples Amazing Blue Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pineapples
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
oil on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
painting : 24 x 20 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
1970s French Abstract Composition Painting Amazing Bright Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 20 x 14 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sou...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Antique American Impressionist Hamptons Wetlands Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract landscape oil painting by June Kirkpatrick Ciancio (B.1926). Great color and composition. Framed.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roll Over Mouse
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. He not only defined Pop Art but had an unrivaled influence on artists and image-making.
...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Polymer
(1934-2022) LARGE ORIGINAL oil painting MODERNIST EXPRESSIONIST PORTRAIT STUDY
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Robin Hambro (1934-2022) American
TITLE: "Expressionist Portrait"
SIGNED: lower right
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 120cm x 95cm inc frame
CONDITION: excellent
DETAIL: Born ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Enjoy instability
Located in Long Island City, NY
There is no definitive answer to the message my work seeks to communicate.
I begin my work with mixed feelings between ‘feeling-self’ and ‘conscious-self’.
We cannot logically explai...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
OGGETTO CON A-B MULTIPLO
Located in Firenze, FI
Vinicio Berti
Archived
Year 1974
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait of a mysterious rose
Located in Oslo, NO
In this painting, I've infused my passion for the delicate interplay of light and shadow with acrylics, sprays, and inks. The painstaking realism brings forth the rose's enigmatic bl...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Mid 20th Century French Painting Figures Working in Factory Post Impressionist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Factory Workers
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 15.75 x 19 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sans Titre
Located in Barbizon, FR
Laurent Bouro, born in Touraine in 1967, is a painter and visual artist living in France. From an early age, he developed a passion for art and painting, inspired in particular by t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Modernist Judaica "Les Valises" French Jewish Modernist Mixed media Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Painting measures 28 X 36 inches. There is a sulpture quality to the suitcase, it has texture to the piece. It subtly recalls the european Holocaust, travel and displacement. Provena...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
"Fanti Fishing Boat" Modern Abstract Figurative Woodcut Print 47 of 86
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract figurative woodblock print of a beach landscape with a boat. The print is stamped by the artist and titled and editioned in pencil. This print is editioned 47 of 86 and the print is not currently framed.
Artist Biography: Born in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1924, John Biggers studied at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) under Viktor Lowenfeld and muralist Charles White. In 1943, Biggers' mural, Dying Soldier, was included in the exhibition curated by Lowenfeld, Young Negro Art, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
After serving in the United States Navy, Biggers transferred to Pennsylvania State University where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees as well as his doctorate in art education. In 1949, Biggers accepted a faculty position at Texas State University for Negroes (now Texas Southern University) in Houston, where he founded and chaired the art department until his retirement. In the early 50s, he won prizes for his work at annual exhibitions held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Dallas Museum of Art.
In 1957, he traveled to Africa on a UNESCO fellowship to study Western African cultural traditions, becoming one of the first black artists to study the culture first-hand rather than through library research. His work was profoundly influenced by his experiences in Africa.
He was known for his murals, but also for his drawings, paintings, and lithographs, and was honored by a major traveling retrospective exhibition from 1995 to 1997. He created archetypal imagery that spoke positively to the rich and varied ethnic heritage of African Americans, long before the Civil Rights era drew...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Woodcut
SENZA TITOLO. From the Portraits series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
SENZA TITOLO, 2019 by Luigi Christopher Veggetti
From the Portraits series
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Size: 48 H x 33 W cm
Unframed
The portraits of Christopher Veggetti are not ju...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
Antique games.. A look through time 2
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...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Sans Titre
Located in Barbizon, FR
Laurent Bouro, born in Touraine in 1967, is a painter and visual artist living in France. From an early age, he developed a passion for art and painting, inspired in particular by t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Sunny Day
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sharon Paster is a distinguished San Francisco Bay-area artist Sharon Paster creates her paintings using oil sticks and brushes, a technique that allows her to both draw and paint at...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Harlem Renaissance Signed Ellis Original Abstract Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size 22L x 30H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Santorini. View from the café-bar Tera Painting Blue White Green Yellow
Located in Sofia, BG
"Santorini. View from the cafe-bar in Terra" is an modernist painting by Maestro Krassimira Mihaylova.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting
STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporar...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Coastal Seascape Oil Painting - Watching the Waves
Located in Bristol, GB
WATCHING THE WAVES
Size: 66 x 58 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An expressive and beautifully textured mid-century seascape composition, painted in oil onto canvas.
Executed i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Finely Painted Antique American Modernist Landscape Framed Summer Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century modern abstract landscape. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract painting of People on the Beach oil on canvas circa 1950-1960 New York
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Aaron Berkman (New York, 1900 - 1929)
"Beach"
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Signed lower right: Aaron Berkman
Unframed
Provenance: Private collection, USA
An abstract oil painting o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marching
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sharon Paster is a distinguished San Francisco Bay-area artist Sharon Paster creates her paintings using oil sticks and brushes, a technique that allows her to both draw and paint at...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
In Passing
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sharon Paster is a distinguished San Francisco Bay-area artist Sharon Paster creates her paintings using oil sticks and brushes, a technique that allows her to both draw and paint at...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
ESTATE #2. From the Beaches series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
ESTATE #2, 2023 by Luigi Christopher Veggetti
From the Beaches series
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Size: 50 H x 125 W cm
Mounted on stretcher
Unique
The beaches of Luigi Christopher Ve...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil
Located in New York, NY
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil. Signed lower left.
Not much is known about Marco de Marco, but just look at...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Expressive Landscape Oil Painting - Coastal Living
Located in Bristol, GB
COASTAL LIVING
Size: 51 x 72.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A vibrant and inviting mid-century coastal landscape composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
The painting captur...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
ESTATE #1. From the Beaches series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
ESTATE #1, 2022 by Luigi Christopher Veggetti
From the Beaches series
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Size: 40 H x 100 W cm
Mounted on stretcher
Unique
The beaches of Luigi Christopher Ve...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
BOOKNOTE 9. From the Beaches series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
BOOKNOTE 9, 2023 by Luigi Christopher Veggetti
From the Beaches series
Oil and acrylic on paper
Size: 24 H x 89 W cm
The beaches of Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku represent a pict...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper
In a Perfect World
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sharon Paster is a distinguished San Francisco Bay-area artist Sharon Paster creates her paintings using oil sticks and brushes, a technique that allows her to both draw and paint at...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
BOOKNOTE 8. From the Beaches series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
BOOKNOTE 8, 2023 by Luigi Christopher Veggetti
From the Beaches series
Oil and acrylic on paper
Size: 24 H x 60 W cm
The beaches of Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku represent a pict...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Christ's College, Cambridge heraldic design for stained glass by Florence Camm
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of designs for stained glass windows from the TW Camm studios that had not been seen for decades. To see more of them scroll down to "More from this Seller" and ...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Forbes Mill, Los Gatos - Historic Landscape Original Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Forbes Mill, Los Gatos - Historic Landscape in Acrylic on Masonite
Idyllic California watermill landscape by Stella Leis (American, b. 1922). This autumn-themed painting depicts For...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Come to Blows, 20th Century British Female Artist, Gouache
Located in London, GB
Gouache on card, signed lower right
Image size: 19 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches (50 x 28.5 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
Joan Fairfax Whiteside
Joan Fairfax Whiteside was a prodig...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
BOOKNOTE 7. From the Beaches series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
BOOKNOTE 7, 2023 by Luigi Christopher Veggetti
From the Beaches series
Oil and acrylic on paper
Size: 24 H x 89 W cm
The beaches of Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku represent a pict...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper
manichini
Located in Firenze, FI
Bruno Paoli
Italian artist, born in 1915 and died in 2005, who lived and worked in Florence. He held exhibitions and taught at the Academy in various Italian cities. He received sev...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Persephone
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Persephone
Oil on canvas, 1952
Signed lower left (see photo)
Titled reverse "Persephone" Signed "V. 52"
Exhibited: Columbus Gallery of the Arts label "71/30 Bt. 2", see label
Condi...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French North African Orientalist Oil Painting Hareem Interior Two Ladies
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Hareem Interior
French Orientalist School, late 20th century
(painted after an earlier style)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 30 x 34 inches
canvas: 20 x 24 inches
provenance: priv...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Santorini, Violet Twilight - Landscape Painting Blue White Green Yellow
Located in Sofia, BG
"Santorini, Violet Twilight " is an modernist painting by Maestro Krassimira Mihaylova.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting
STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary
Edition : Uni...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Santorini Landscape from Ia - Painting Blue White Green Yellow
Located in Sofia, BG
"Santorini, landscape form Ia " is an modernist painting by Maestro Krassimira Mihaylova.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting
STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary
Edition : U...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Santorini, in the Fairy tale Ia - Landscape Painting Blue White Green Yellow
Located in Sofia, BG
"Santorini, in the Fairy tale Ia" is an modernist painting by Maestro Krassimira Mihaylova.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting
STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary
Edition :...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1990s "Nude With Ball" Female Nude Painting
Located in Arp, TX
Bill Shields
"Nude with Ball"
1990's
Acrylic paint on board
Site measures 10.5"x8.5 wood frame float mount on linen 15.5"x13"
Unsigned came from artist's estate
William Stephens Shi...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Two graces
Located in Bayonne, NJ
Two graces by Volodymyr Makarenko represent his authentic style, a beautiful composition, great variety of colors and very delicate artistic techni...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Church and Churchyard - Landscape Painting, Mid-20th Century, Oil Paint, Modern
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Joan Gillchrest.
English ( b.1918 - d.2008 ).
Church and Churchyard.
Oil on Board. Signed.
Image size 33.9 inches x 21.8 inches ( 86cm x 55.5cm ).
Frame size 42.3 inches x 30.3 inch...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American School WPA Modernist Black Figure Ashcan Dock View Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Santorini, live in Ia - Landscape Painting Blue White Green Yellow
Located in Sofia, BG
"Santorini, live in Ia " is an modernist painting by Maestro Krassimira Mihaylova.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting
STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary
Edition : Unique, ...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nature Morte Gris
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This is an important oil on panel mounted on stretchers, framed by Lev Meshberg. It represents his metaphysical still life manner where the artist is symbolically presenting the view...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Sgraffito, Saltimbanque and the Card Player, Circle of Picasso.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century sgraffito work on plaster by Jean Pierre de Cayeux. The work is signed and dated on the skirt of the card player, bottom right, and on the stretcher of the chair, bo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Santorini, Afternoon in Ia - Landscape Painting Blue White Green Yellow
Located in Sofia, BG
"Santorini, afternoon in Ia" is an modernist painting by Maestro Krassimira Mihaylova.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting
STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary
Edition : Uniq...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Rockwell Kent Copy of "Vermont Winter 1921" Oil on Canvas Painting, 1960
Located in Baltimore, MD
This large painting is a ca. 1960 copy of a famous Rockwell Kent painting that was executed in Vermont in 1921. The work is oil on canvas and well represents the original image, tho...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Pots & Green Fruit
Located in Bristol, GB
POTS & GREEN FRUIT
Size: 43 x 67 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An expressive mid-century still life oil composition, that invites viewers to appreciate the beauty of simple, ev...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Classical Oil Painting Mythological Biblical Figures in Sky
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
European artist, 20th century
signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 28 x 38 inches
provenance: private collection, Wiltshire, England
condition: very good and sound condition, stai...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Diana
Located in Bayonne, NJ
A beautiful painting by Volodymyr Makarenko that represents his authentic artistic style. The painting is in excellent condition. Oil on canvas, un...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950's French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Young Lady in Green
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Lady
French School, mid 20th century
signed, S. Ascher
signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 16 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris
condition: good...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Model sitting
Located in Bayonne, NJ
A half-naked model posing for a portrait. A classic depiction by Volodymyr Makarenko on a large oil on canvas. The artist feels the space, he works...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Monumental Atmospheric Summer Beach Sunset Framed Modern Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century summer beach scene oil painting. Framed in a modernist white wood frame. Great color and truly an eye grabbing piece in person. Subtle and superb!...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Ballon Portrait Framed Vintage Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century modernist portrait. Framed. Oil on canvas.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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