Modern Figurative Photography
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
Herd - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days Photo - Herd is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and p...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$63 Sale Price
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Groups of Sailormen - Original Photograph by A. Mastellone - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Groups of Sailormen is an original vintage b/w photograph realized by Alfredo Mastellone in the early 20th century.
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (26x32.5 cm...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Fascism in Italy - Public Exercise - Vintage b/w photo - 1934 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo from the Fascist period. Photo by Gherlone, Torino.
Photo dimensions 17 x 23 cm. Includes passepartout.
Good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$234 Sale Price
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'Palm Beach Idyll' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Palm Beach Idyll- Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA (Photo by Slim Aarons).
This photograph ep...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Photo of Iva Zanicchi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Photo of Iva Zanicchi a Portrait is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
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Portrait of Miranda Martino - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 20th Century.
Fair conditions with oxidation.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Peter Cushing in a scene from "The Hound of the Baskervilles", a 1959 British gotich horror and mistery film, directed by Terence Fisher.
Vi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$135 Sale Price
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Ancient Views of Tokyo - Original Albumen Prints - 1880s/90s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient views of Tokyo is a set of four original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 26 x 34 cm.
They were realized between the 1880s and the early 1890s.
Four images on th...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$450 Sale Price
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Painting - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Painting- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
War in Algeria - Demonstration - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
War in Algeria - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical events and p...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$63 Sale Price
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Historical Places Photo - Bath Abbey - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Places Photo- Bath Abbey is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including maste...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$144 Sale Price
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Photo of Marina Malfatti - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Photo of Marina Malfatti is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
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Portrait of Bill Margarita - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Bill Margarita is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$54 Sale Price
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Slim Aarons - New York Picnic 1952 - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New York Picnic
A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New York skyline. 1952
Paper size 50 x 50 / 127 x 127 cm
Estate S...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
The Girl - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Girl- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the 1970s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Parade in San Paolo - Vintage b/w Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Parade in San Paolo- Vintage b/w Photo realized by Octales Gonzales in the 1970s. Copyright by Agenzia JB.
Very Good conditions.
With the Stamped on the re...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
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Former Queen of Iran Farah Diba - Vintage Photograph -1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Former Queen of Iran Farah Diba is a vintage photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
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Slim Aarons 'La Barranca' 1971 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'La Barranca'
Bandleader Teddy Stauffer (1909 - 1991) at La Barranca, Warren Avis' villa in Acapulco, January 1971.
Paper size 20 x 30 inches / 51 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Collect...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Champagne by the Pool' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Champagne by the Pool' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo (in white crochet, left) talking to a guest by the pool at Nelda Linsk's de...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
'Phil Richards' Pool' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Phil Richards' Pool' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A poolside party at Phil Richards' home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 1970.
Produced from the original tran...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
'Poolside Party' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Party'
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann.
Paper Size 24x20 i...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Royal Winner' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Royal Winner'
1955: Prince Philip, captain of the Windsor Park Team, with the Windsor Cup after his team beat India during the Ascot Polo tournament of ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Portrait is a vintage photo, realized in the Early 20th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
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Hollywood Boulevard - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Hollywood Boulevard is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$108 Sale Price
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Marcello Mastroianni - Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Marcello Mastroianni - Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1985.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
Gymnastics in a Stadium during Fascism in Italy - Vintage b/w Photo - 1934
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo from the Fascist period in Italy. Photo by Studio Gherlone, Torino.
Photo dimensions 17 x 23 cm. Includes passepartout.
Good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$270 Sale Price
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'Having A Topping Time' 1959 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Having A Topping Time'
Socialite Alice Topping relaxing at a poolside in Palm Beach.
30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Palm Beach Street 1953 - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953.
Paper size 50 x 50 / 127 x 127 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Sl...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'The Butlers' 1971 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'The Butlers'
March 1971: Allan and Shirley Butler beside the pool at their home 'Jacaranda' in the Bahamas. His wife is the daughter of the well known Bahamian, Sir Harry Oakes.
...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Kaufmann Desert House' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Kaufmann Desert House' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for businessm...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
'Poolside Bar' 1980 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Bar'
Guests seen from a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1980.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Relaxing At The Club' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Relaxing At The Club' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Members sunbathe around the pool at Palm Springs Tennis Club, California, c...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Polo World Cup' 1989 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Polo World Cup' 1989 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
The Polo World Cup at St Moritz, February 1989.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authenticity...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Poolside Catwalk' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Catwalk'
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Spri...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Arch of St. Lazzaro - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Arch of St. Lazzaro- Vintage Postcard is a colored vintage postcard realized in the 1980s.
Copyright and information on the rear.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - School of Carmini - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - School of Carmini is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously capture...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$72 Sale Price
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Ancient Views of Colombo - Sri Lanka - Original Albumen Prints - 1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Views of Colombo Sri Lanka is a set of 2 original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 25 x 34 cm.
Size of photos: 21.5 x 27.5 cm.
Good conditions.
Caption in Ital...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$450 Sale Price
25% Off
'Clifftop Pool' 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Clifftop Pool'
Guests around the clifftop pool at Warren Avis' villa 'La Barranca', Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1971.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate St...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Racing At Baden Baden' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Racing At Baden Baden' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Spectators dine in the open air as the horses go by at Baden Baden racecourse, ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Tania Mallet' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tania Mallet'
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Sunbathing In Arizona' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sunbathing In Arizona' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A woman sunbathing nude by Tom Darlington's pool in Carefree, Arizona, Ap...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Poolside Reflections
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Holiday makers relaxing by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
Gorgeous print measuring a large 40" x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm's.
Est...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Penthouse Pool' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Penthouse Pool'
Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961.
Paper size 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Porto Rotondo' 1990 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Rotondo'
Pleasure yachts moored in a sandy cove at Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, July 1990.
Paper size 48 x 72 inches / 122 x 183 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Vuccino And Rava' 1958 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Vuccino And Rava' 1958 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava, both wearing bikinis as they sit on the rear o...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
'Port Life' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Port Life'
A man stops to watch a young woman tie her sandals on the pavement in Portofino marina, August 1977.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Dali's Party' 1959 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dali's Party'
circa 1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman at a ball in New York.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped C...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Prince Charles and Princess Anne - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Prince Charles and Princess Anne - Vintage press print realized in the mid-20th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi - Photo- 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$58 Sale Price
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Alitalia - Historical Photos - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Alitalia - Historical Photos is a vintage photograph realized in the 1970s.
This photo belongs to a precious testament album of Italian airline.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$135 Sale Price
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Life in Italy in 1960s - Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Life in Italy in the 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in Italy in t...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
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Boys Club - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Boys Club - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series on American life in the 20th Century.
With ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
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Portrait of Miranda Martino - Golden Period of Italian Cinema - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 20th Century.
Fair conditions with oxidation.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Guests around the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1978. (...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
'Poolside Promenade' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Promenade'
A fashion show at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, 1961.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Coll...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
'The Fullers' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'The Fullers'
May 1970: Alvin and Lilly Fuller outside their new home in Palm Beach, Florida, pose with their fashionable European sports car, the Mercedes 190SL.
30x30 inches / ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Cecily Godfrey' 1979 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Cecily Godfrey'
Cecily Godfrey relaxes by the pool at her home in Hong Kong, 1979. Her husband Gerald is Vice-President of the Court of Appeal in Hong Kong.
Paper Size 24x20 in...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Rina Morelli - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Rina Morelli (italian actress) - Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
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Slim Aarons 'Backgammon in Haiti'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Backgammon By The Pool, 1975
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Women playing backgammon while sunbathing at the Habitation Leclerc pool in Haiti, January 1975.
Estate ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Social Call' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Social Call'
Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, 1972.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Modern figurative photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern figurative photography 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 figurative photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Mark Shaw, Alain Le Garsmeur, and Terry O'Neill. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, and Paper 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 figurative photography, so small editions measuring 0.79 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $22 and tops out at $115,000, while the average work sells for $1,800.