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
Returnable Items Only
20th Century Modernist Painting White Houses Along The Sea Coast Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
signed by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original oil on artist paper
size: 20 x 25.5 inches
inscribed verso
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Together (Oil Painting, Impasto, Impressionism, Colorful, Pastel, Red, White)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Genevieve Hamel
Together
Oil on Wood Panel
Year: 2024
Size: 12 x 12 x 1.625 inches
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-2098
So harmonious, this combination of daisies & red pop...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
20th Century French Painting Figures In Waiting Room Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 19 x 15.5 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Orange Grove Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Orange Grove Landscape, 1941, gouache on illustration board, 14 inches x 18 inches (image), 22 x 26 inches (framed) signed and dated lower right, newly framed with museum glazing
...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Venetian Canal Painting by Pietro Lietti
Located in Larchmont, NY
Pietro Lietti (Italian, b. 1928)
Untitled, c. 20th Century
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 in.
Framed: 30 5/8 x 42 1/2 x 2 in.
Signed lower right
Pietro Lietti is an Italian artist who has p...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Window 292 - Modern Monochromatic Resin Artwork
By Ricky Hunt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Wildflowers, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Jeff Ferst
Located in Yardley, PA
Ferst's painting style is joyful, juicy, and flamboyant. He is a colorist and loves painting the scenery, particularly the sunrise and sunsets, of the southwestern US desert he calls...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge French Signed Oil Vineyard Grapes Growing on Vines Deep Green & Blue Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Vineyard
signed J. Bernd (French, 20th century)
oil painting on board, unframed
painting: 31.5 x 39.5 inches
condition: overall very good
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Deep Breathing
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
Wood Panel, Mixed Media
Riders of Pigeon Hill
By Jon Corbino
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riders of Pigeon Hill, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 24 x 36 inches, label verso with title, artist’s name and address; same information inscribed verso; ex-collection...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1963 Vintage Mid-Century Abstract Seascape Oil Painting - Coastal Thunderstorm
Located in Bristol, GB
COASTAL THUNDERSTORM
Size: 52.5 x 70 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An emotive and wonderfully executed mid-century abstract artwork, painted in oil onto canvas and dated 1963.
...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Abstract #1”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil paint on heavy archival paper abstract by the American artist, Martin Rosenthal. Bold, vibrant colors. Signed lower right by the artist and dated 1967. Condition is ver...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
THE BALLERINAS, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The Ballerinas is a work of art that uses music to create painting. Figures show on the canvas like musical notes., non-representational, in an abstract manner, which yet invokes cl...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
20th Century French Modernist Gouache Painting Pink Roses In White Jug
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
William Fisher Classic American Illustration on Canvas
Located in Larchmont, NY
William Fisher (American, 1891-1985)
Untitled, 20th Century
Oil on canvas/illustration
23 3/4 x 29 3/4 in.
Framed: 31 x 37 1/4 x 1 in.
Signed lower right: William Fisher
William Fis...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Blue Scarf', 1960's African American Oil, Study of a Black Woman, Phoenix
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An elegant and psychologically penetrating, American School portrait of a woman, shown in three-quarter profile wearing a blue headscarf and contrasted against a terracotta backgroun...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Modernist Painting Hands Threading The Needle
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Threading The Needle
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper mounted in card frame
size: 12 x 16 inches
condition: very good and ready to be e...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Houses and Railroad Tracks)
By Harry Lane
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Houses and Railroad Tracks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas board, signed lower right, 16 x 20 inches, presented in a newer frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coas...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Homage to Leger
By Jean Kellogg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Homage to Leger, 1941, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 14 x 17 inches; inscribed ...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Portrait of a Child by NY Artist Syril Frank
Located in Larchmont, NY
Syril Frank (American, 1929-2021)
Untitled, c. 1960s
Oil on canvas
35 7/8 x 23 3/4 x 3/4 in.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Syril Harriet Frank was born in Brooklyn to Israel and...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cindy Kane 1985 Original Painting on Plywood
By Cindy Kane
Located in Larchmont, NY
Cindy Kane (American, b. 1957)
Untitled, 1985
Oil on plywood
Sight: 31 1/2 x 28 1/2 in.
Framed: 39 3/4 x 36 x 2 in.
Signed lower right: KANE
Signed, titled, dated verso: Cindy Kane, Untitled, 1985
Cindy Kane (American, 1957-) grew up in Washington DC during the Vietnam War era, absorbing the period's powerful political climate. She is a self-taught artist whose multi media work is born out of a deep sense of connection to the political and environmental issues of our times.
Her early work was influenced by the experience of living and working at the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park, where she had the opportunity to document Anasazi Indian pictographs in pen and ink drawings. These images would inform her work for years to come.
She draws on personal narrative and experience to create her paintings of maps, birds, toys, and artifacts from nature, often collaging bits of newspaper headlines, pieces of her children's homework, and pages of sheet music beneath layers of color and imagery.
In a review of her work, author and critic John Loughery wrote; "Kane leads us into a peculiar netherworld, a hard to place area that's both reassuringly ancient, and anxiously modern. This is a painter who is interested in the unconscious and the archetypal, and utilizes her own private, (but not inaccessible) vocabulary and imagery."
In a submission to AskART, Diana Wilson...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
Modernist American Judaica Painting Synagogue Interior Ladies Section WPA Era
Located in Surfside, FL
Titled Torah Service, hand signed on Arches archival paper.
In this painting, Nussbaum portrays a joyful holiday celebration of the Torah reading in the synagogue in a sketch-like m...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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 inch...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
My Only Working Tool
Located in Los Angeles, CA
My Only Working Tool, 1949, oil on panel, signed and dated lower right, 16 x 12 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, exhibited at the Art News Second Annual National Amateur Co...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fantasy., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Fantasy. A modern, abstract, expressive, sophisticated painting that harmoniously fits into a modern interior. The work was created using the technique of dripping and splashing pain...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Antique American Framed Original Vintage Abstract Cubist Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract flower still life painting. OIl on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Modernist Painting Black and White Courtyard Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original biro pen drawing on artist paper
size: 19 x 25 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
What Gets Seen
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
City Skyline - Mid Century Modern Urban Landscape in Oil on Burlap
Located in Soquel, CA
City Skyline - Mid Century Modern Urban Landscape in Oil on Burlap
Vibrant cityscape by S. Craig (20th Century). Several tall, thin buildings rise above a city street lined with tre...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
Gracie Mansion
By Isabella Banks Markell
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Gracie Mansion, c. 1944, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 25 x 30 inches, presented in a ne...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century French Modernist Figure and Child Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure and child
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 8 x 5.5 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
The Lament of Icarus Large Signed Oil Painting on Canvas Mythological Nudes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'The Lament of Icarus'
Continental School, late 20th century, signed
after the original painting by Herbert James Draper
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 36 x 24 inches
provenance: ...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
20th Century French Modernist Painting Purple Orange Pink Mauve Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition
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 a...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
1967 Vintage Mid-Century Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Nature Dwellings
Located in Bristol, GB
NATURE DWELLINGS
Size: 42.5 x 68 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A brilliantly executed semi-abstract composition, painted in oil onto canvas and dated 1967.
In this abstract na...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"At the Opera" WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre American Scene
Located in New York, NY
"At the Opera" WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre American Scene
John Winters (1904 - 1983)
"At the Opera"
17 x 14 inches
oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1943 lower r...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Window 282-1 - Modern Monochromatic Resin Artwork
By Ricky Hunt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Evening blues., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Evening blues. A modernist abstract painting with acrylics on linen fabric, made in a bright palette. The product has a modern aesthetic design. A delicate balance between an ordered...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
Located in New York, NY
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
*William Kienbusch (1914 – 1980)
Shooting Gallery, Sixth Avenue
Post...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Paint
Evening, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Modern, decorative still life in the kitchen, a bottle of wine, a glass, fruits on the table. Part of an ongoing series of colorful decorative still lifes. The picture has good spati...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas provocative figurative painting by the American artist Martin Rosenthal. Mid century modern. Signed lower right. Circa 1955. Condition is very good. Present...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Couple on the balcony. Large format young woman and man portrait.
Located in Segovia, ES
"Couple on the balcony" is an interior scene of a young woman and a young man sitting comfortably watching the street from their balcony.
Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Alfredo Rold...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sea Shells – Blue & Gold
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sea Shells – Blue & Gold, c. 1940s, watercolor on paper, signed upper left, 15 x 19 ¼ inches (image); title and artist’s name and address inscribed verso, presented in a newer glazed...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Norwegian still life., Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Norwegian still life in the interior. On the table is a bottle, a glass of wine, pomegranates, sweets, a pear. A window, chairs, a lamp complete the composition. The painting was pai...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Festive, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A bright, expressive, modern still life with a red teapot with polka dots, bottles of wine, glasses, fruits on the table. Oil painting. Artist's signature, varnished. Ready to hang. ...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tea under the umbrella., Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Orange teapot with blue peas, apples, pears, a bottle of wine, a glass, a red umbrella on a yellow background. The painting was painted expressively with brushes and a spatula. Pa...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Elevated Platform)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our current exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Elevated Platform), 1950, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 30 x...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1967 Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - House by the Tree
Located in Bristol, GB
HOUSE BY THE TREES
Size: 39 x 47 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A very pleasant modernist-style street scene composition, executed in oil onto board and dated 1967.
In the foreg...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Untitled #2”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas provocative figurative painting by the American artist Martin Rosenthal. Mid century modern. Signed lower right. Circa 1955. Condition is very good. Present...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern 2021., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Modern 2021. A modern, abstract, expressive, sophisticated painting that harmoniously fits into a modern interior. The work was created using the technique of dripping and splashing ...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
English mid century oil painting Portrait of Miniature Black Poodle
Located in Woodbury, CT
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a Miniature Poodle
Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last half of the 20th century. She also painted flower subj...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Landscape, 1940, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, signed, dated and titled verso: “Marcel Cailliet ’40 – S.C.” and “Marcel Cailliet Landscape”; likely exhibited at the annual juried st...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Red Roof Green Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on board unframed
size: 9.5 x 13 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: the art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Orchestra Jazz Band Superb 20th Century French Modernist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Band
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 18.5 x 13 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
French 20th Century Modernist Painting Still Life Table Ornemants
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Table Ornements
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
oil on artist paper, unframed
painting : 19.5 x 25.5 inches
stamped verso
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
Santorini Nightfall - Landscape Painting Blue White Green Yellow Red Brown
Located in Sofia, BG
"Santorini, Nightfall" is an modernist painting by Maestro Krasimira Mihaylova.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting
STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary
Edition : Unique, sig...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century French Modernist Painting Crowded Cafe Bar Scene with Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Crowded Cafe
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 15 x 17.5 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Modern Wheat & Fruit Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century modern oil painting of wheat and fruit by Wanda Faust (American, 20th century), c.1950. Signed lower left corner "Faust." Displayed i...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Cardboard
Champagne Bottles 1970's French Still Life Modernist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Champagne
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
oil on artist paper, unframed
painting : 26 x 19.5 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
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