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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Catch Up by the Pool, 1970 - Poolside Conversation, Kaufmann House Palm Springs
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Catch Up by the Pool, 1970 - Poolside Conversation, Kaufmann House Palm Springs by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. ...
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Slim Aarons 'Adriatic Riviera' Midcentury Modern Photography - Play
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Two children playing on a swing in the waters on the coast of Rivabella, near Rimini, on the Adriatic Riviera, Italy, 1956. Slim Aarons Adriatic Riviera 1956 Chromogenic Lambda Pri...
C Print
Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore), 1964 Terry O'Neill Estate Limited Edition Print
Located in New York, NY
Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore), 1964 Silver gelatin print Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 50 English actress Honor Blackman on a beach, circa 1964. Splashes on the s...
Silver Gelatin
Golf At The Mill Reef Club 1959 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Golf At The Mill Reef Club 1959 Golfers at the Mill Reef Club in Antigua, by Toni Frissell 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101" cm paper size Archival pigm...
Archival Pigment
Terry O'Neill 'Faye Dunaway by the Pool'
Located in New York, NY
Faye Dunaway at the Beverly Hills Hotel, 1977, Printed Later Silver gelatin print 30 x 30” estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity Terry...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Beach Hut In Antibes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at a beach hut at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150...
Lambda
Norman Parkinson 'Twiggy, British Vogue, 1967'
Located in New York, NY
Twiggy, British Vogue, 1967. Twiggy, British Vogue, 1967 Silver gelatin print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso with certificate of authenticity Norman Parkinson (...
Silver Gelatin
La Fenice - Italian Opera House Black and White Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
La Fenice - Italian Opera House Black and White Photograph A nighttime view of the opera house La Fenice in Venice. The interior, with its rich and splendid decor and design, made i...
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Thames Divers - London Embankment River Thames Photography 1930s London
Located in Brighton, GB
Two divers jump off Embankment and into the River Thames in London. In the background is Westminster and the Houses of Parliament. Passersby turn in amazement to watch the divers l...
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Kubrick On Set, 1963 - Stanley Kubrick Clockwork Orange Director Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
Kubrick On Set, 1963 - Stanley Kubrick Clockwork Orange Director Photograph American film director Stanley Kubrick takes a pause on the set of one of his films. It is not Clockwork ...
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Dali And Gala (1955) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dali And Gala (1955) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Spanish artist Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) enjoying a cup of coffee with his wife Gala (1894 – 1982) on a terra...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Naples 1954, Street music
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph, taken in 1952 in Naples, Italy, captures a vibrant street scene featuring musicians performing for a small crowd in Santa Lucia, Naples. . The settin...
Silver Gelatin
$700
Ingressi di Milano. via Gabriele Rossetti 19, Interior Architecture Photography
Located in Los Angeles, CA
36 x 50 cm, 14.2 x 19.7 in. (unframed) Inkjet Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Paper Edition of 15 The photographer Delfino Sisto Legnani lives and works in Milan. His photography has ...
Inkjet
64x48" Elvis by Warhol" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography Signed
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"ELVIS BY ANDY WARHOL" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller images. Archival photographic paper Editio...
Archival Pigment
Saint Tropez Boucherie, August 1971 - Nude Women Portrait French Riviera Fashion
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Saint Tropez Boucherie, August 1971 - Nude Women Portrait French Riviera Fashion by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. ...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
$4,200
Slim Aarons El Venero - Marbella 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967. Gorgeous print measuring a very large 40 x 30" inches / ca 101 x 76 cm's. (printed on a 40 x 30"...
Color, Archival Pigment
Happy Marilyn (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Happy Marilyn (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images) American film star Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) outside her home at Englefield Green. A...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Interviewing Grace (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Interviewing Grace (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Bob Harrow/Express/Getty Images) May 1956: American actress Grace Kelly (1929 - 1982) being interviewed by journali...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Sailing Off Boston Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing Off Boston 1959 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Henry B. Cabot Jr. (in black) on Barclay (Buzzy) H Warburton III’s brigantine ‘Black Pearl’, circa 1959. ...
Archival Pigment
Colette by Herbert List, ca. 1950 – Late Print
By Herbert List
Located in Cologne, DE
Colette by Herbert List, ca. 1950 – Vintage Print This intimate black-and-white portrait captures the legendary French author, performer, and feminist icon Colette (1873–1954) in her...
Silver Gelatin
Dennis Hopper Out of the Sixties exhibit poster (Dennis Hopper Biker Couple)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Dennis Hopper, Out of the Sixties 1986 exhibit poster published Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York 1986 Image: Dennis Hopper's Biker Couple' (1961) Off-set lithograph. 17 x 24 inche...
Offset
Allegorical Ceiling - Vintage Photograph by Tiepolo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Allegorical ceiling by Tiepolo is an original vintage photograph realized in "Villa Nazionale Venezia" in Venice by Naya photograph agency. With the description on the lower. Good ...
Photographic Paper
Paris Colour Scene from the Paris In Color Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Paris Colour Scene from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 By Peter Cornelius 40 x 60 inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Printed 2023 Archival pigment print Framing and size options available - Please enquire About: Peter Cornelius (1913–1970) was a German photographer and photojournalist. The goal he set himself was to capture: “the right colours at the right moment”. He was never concerned with a pure, apparently “right” picture of “reality”. After World War II, he began his career with reportage, landscape and sailing photography...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Blonde Beauties (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Blonde Beauties, 1966 (printed later) Archival pigment print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Bathers by a pool at the Tahoe...
Archival Pigment
$3,200
Alice Cooper Family Silver Gelatin Print, O'Neill Estate Signature Stamped ED.50
Located in New York, NY
Alice Cooper, Los Angeles, 1974, Printed Later Silver gelatin print estate stamped and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity Terry O'Neill, Alice Cooper with his...
Silver Gelatin
Raquel Welch in ‘Myra Breckinridge
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Relaxing, 1970 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 50 American actress Raquel Welch wearing a stars and stripes suit in ‘Myra Breckinridge’, a 1970 America...
Silver Gelatin
The Thinkers by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
The Thinkers by Arthur Steel The Thinkers – The National Gallery London circa 1968. A female art lover admires’The Thinker’, a famous bronze...
Silver Gelatin
Terry O'Neill 'Raquel Welch in ‘Myra Breckinridge’' Estate Edition of 50
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Relaxing, 1970 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 50 American actress Raquel Welch wearing a stars and stripes suit in ‘Myra Breckinridge’, a 1970 America...
Silver Gelatin
Sexy Scot - Sean Connery as James Bond 007 Hollywood Film Stars and Actors
Located in Brighton, GB
Sexy Scot from the Getty Archive The original James Bond, Scottish actor Sean Connery, lounges on a chintzy sofa with a cigarette as he converses with someone off camera. This por...
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Swimming In Bermuda Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Swimming In Bermuda Guests on Sidney Gould’s ‘Sea Quest’ boat take a dip in the ocean, Bermuda, September 1977. 30x40 inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection ...
Color, Archival Pigment
$4,200
Eleuthera Pool Party - Slim Aarons - Bahamas - color photography 20th century
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Eleuthera Pool Party' by Slim Aarons LIMITED EDITION ESTATE STAMPED PRINT Numbered in ink to 150 only and emboss stamped on front. Guests at the French Leave...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with cert...
C Print
Robert Mapplethorpe, Pair of Porcelain Plates
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of limited edition ceramic plates incorporating Robert Mapplethorpe’s Cala Lily and Poppy Flower photographic images. This set is new, ...
Porcelain
Frida on White Bench - Color Photograph, Portrait, Celebrity, Frida Kahlo
Located in Denton, TX
Frida on White Bench, New York, by Nickolas Muray is a colorful portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. This iconic image features the woman artist sitting on a white bench in fron...
Archival Pigment
Buckingham Palace Garden Party England - oversized signed limited edition print
Located in London, GB
Buckingham Palace Garden Party England 1985 by Homer Sykes oversize 60x40 inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size signed limited edition print edition of 5 only this size printed 2022 Certificate of authenticity provided Note Other sizes available Homer Sykes Sykes's father, Homer Warwick Sykes, was a Canadian-born American of English extraction who worked for the China National Aviation Corporation in Shanghai; his mother, Helen Grimmitt, was Canadian-born and raised in Hong Kong. The couple were married in August 1947, but in June 1948, in an early stage of his wife's pregnancy, Homer was killed in an accident at Lunghua airfield. Helen returned to her family home in Vancouver, and the son was born three weeks later, in 1949.[1][2] When the boy's mother remarried in 1954, the family moved to England.[3] Homer was a keen photographer as a teenager, with a darkroom both at home and at boarding school. In 1968 he started a three-year course at the London College of Printing (LCP),[1][3] while sharing a house in St John's Wood.[4] In the summer vacation during his first year, he went to New York, and was impressed by the work of current photographers – Cartier-Bresson, Davidson, Friedlander, Frank, Uzzle and Winogrand – that he saw at the Museum of Modern Art.[3] Solo exhibitions "Traditional British Calendar Customs", Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol), 1977;[14] Side Gallery (Newcastle), 31 August – 25 September 1977.[15] "Shanghai Odyssey", Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool), 24 May – 20 June 2003.[14][16] Festival of Photography and Contemporary Art (Biella), 2005.[14] "On the Road Again", Hereford Town Hall (Hereford Photography Festival), 2002.[17] "Green Man and Friends, photographs from the 1970s", WPS (Hastings), 2009.[18] "England 1970–1980", Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau (Gentilly, Paris), 27 June – 12 October 2014.[10][11][19][20] "My Britain 1970–1980", Les Douches la Galerie, Paris. 5 September – 31 October 2015.[21][22][23] "Once a Year – Homer Sykes", Lucy Bell Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea, May–June 2021[24] Other exhibitions "Personal Views 1850–1970", British Council touring exhibition, 1970.[3] "Traditional Country Customs" (with work by Benjamin Stone), ICA (London), 1971.[3][14] "Young British Photographers", Museum of Modern Art (Oxford), 1971.[14] Exhibition of photographs by Stone and Sykes of festivals, customs and pageants, Southampton and Birmingham, 1973.[7] "Reportage Fotografen", Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (Vienna), 1978.[14] "Il Regno Unito si diverte". British Council, Milan, 1981. With Chris Steele-Perkins and Patrick Ward.[25] "The Other Britain", National Theatre (London), and touring in Britain, 1982.[26] "A British Eye on the World", Museum of Modern Art (Rio de Janeiro), 1986.[14] "Viva, une agence photographique", Jeu de Paume (Paris), 2007.[27][28] "How We Are: Photographing Britain." Tate Britain (London), 2007.[29][30] "No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1968–1987", Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Tullie House (Carlisle); Ujazdów Castle (Warsaw).[31] "Unpopular culture." De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill), 2008.[32] "The Other Britain Revisited: Photographs from New Society", Victoria and Albert Museum, 2010.[26] "Goodbye London: Radical art and politics in the seventies", Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (Berlin), 26 June – 15 August 2010. With Stuart Brisley, Victor Burgin, David Hall, Margaret Harrison, Derek Jarman...
Color, Archival Pigment
Monte Mano 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Monte Mano 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A young woman by the pool at Monte Mano, the villa of architect Jacques Couelle in Sardinia, August 1973. 48 x 72" inches / 122 x 198 ...
Archival Pigment
$3,600
Slim Aarons 'Pebble Beach' 1976 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pebble Beach' Riders from the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center wend their way through the Californian sand dunes and pampas grass, November 1976. 20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper s...
Archival Pigment
Couple Sharing a Chair at Party - Romantic Couple Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Couple Sharing a Chair at Party - Romantic Couple Silver Gelatin Photograph An amorous couple embraces intensely at a party, almost catching the attention of nearby partygoers... Th...
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
The Church of St. Anastasia in Verona - B/W Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Church of St. Anastasia in Verona is an original photograph taken in Verona, Italy, realized by an Anonymous photographer. Titled on the lower, with the description. Very Good c...
Photographic Paper
What Do You Think Of It So Far by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
What Do You Think Of It So Far by Arthur Steel Eric Morcombe at home, England, 1981 All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold. paper ...
Silver Gelatin
David Lynch by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
David Lynch Film director David Lynch, Cannes, 2001 by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images o...
Archival Pigment
$2,900
Nature's First Green is Gold: Abstract Still Life Photograph of Green Plants
Located in Hudson, NY
Colorful, Maximalist style floral still life photograph of green plants and flowers with gold lights and fireworks Archival digital print, made to order 48 x 40 inches, edition of 15...
Archival Ink, Digital
Barbados Bliss - Ava Marshall American Socialite Barbados Portrait Bougainvillea
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Barbados Bliss - Ava Marshall American Socialite Barbados Portrait Bougainvillea by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Spectator Tennis (1938) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Spectator Tennis (1938) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy) 1st December 1938. Spectators watching a tennis match at a country club. Addi...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Memphis, 1989", Memphis, Tennessee, 2005
Located in Hudson, NY
Coca Cola, brick, American, Americana, Classic, Memphis, Tennessee, symbol, sign, wall art, graffiti, urban, city, color, landscape, americana, still life, color photography, rural, ...
C Print
Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sea Drive 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Film producer Kevin McClory takes his wife Bobo Sigrist and their family for a drive in an ‘Amphicar’ across the harbour at Nassau....
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Pool At Las Hadas' 1974 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pool At Las Hadas' Guests round the pool at Las Hadas, Manzanillo, Mexico, 1974. 40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...
Archival Pigment
Well Heeled London by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Well Heeled by Arthur Steel WELL HEELED WESTMINSTER BRIDGE LONDON, 1973 “I’d just acquired a 19mm lens for my Leica flex SL9 and was keen to explore it’s ability to focus very close-up. Platform shoes were all the rage at the time and I took one of the girls from the office to Westminster Bridge and lay on the pavement to get this shot framing Queen Elizabeth Tower...
Silver Gelatin
Brigitte Bardot On Set 1966 Large Oversize Print
Located in London, GB
Brigitte Bardot 1966 The French actress Brigitte BARDOT in Scotland between two takes of the film A COEUR JOIE Head over Heels directed by Serge BOURGUIGNON. Photo by Keystone-Fran...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Palms Beach' Stuart Möller Signed Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
Palms Beach By Stuart Möller A morning shot of a costal beach front surrounded with Palm trees. 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print Unframed (framing av...
Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe, unique print of 1988 from original negative
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot wit...
Silver Gelatin
Backstage At La Scala (1948) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Backstage At La Scala (1948) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A chorus girl reads a movie magazine in a dressing room at La Scala opera house, Milan, November 1948....
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Harbour Island, Bahamas 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Harbour Island, Bahamas 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A couple relax at the beach on Harbour Island, Bahamas, 1967. 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate Stamped Co...
Archival Pigment
"Cheetah Who Shops" by B C Parade
Located in London, GB
"Cheetah Who Shops" by B C Parade American silent film actress Phyllis Gordon (1889 - 1964) window-shopping in Earls Court, London with her four-yea...
Black and White
Il Canille, 1980, Capri, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathers lounge on the white-painted terrace of Il Canille, built into the rocks of Pizzolungo overlooking the waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980. I...
C Print
New Look (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
New Look (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Getty Images) A model wearing a black cocktail dress and a black velvet wide-brimmed hat, designed by Ronald Paterson...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960s
By Ron Galella
Located in Cologne, DE
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American socialite, writer, and photographer who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of P...
Silver Gelatin
Ocean Club Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ocean Club Versailles Gardens at the Ocean Club, Nassau with terraced steps leading from a swimming pool to a 14th century French cloisters, 1968. 16×20 ...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,500
Frida Kahlo with Magenta Rebozo - Color Photograph, Portrait, Celebrity, Woman
Located in Denton, TX
Frida Kahlo with Magenta Rebozo, New York is a limited edition color portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. This iconic image depicts the woman artist leaning against a wall, with ...
Archival Pigment
Ambone Cosmatesco Cathedral - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Ambone Cosmatesco Cathedral- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century by Alinari. Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Photographic Paper