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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
"1951 Dress" by Bill Brandt

"1951 Dress" by Bill Brandt

By Bill Brandt

Located in London, GB

"1951 Dress" by Bill Brandt 14th April 1951: An off-the-shoulder evening dress with a black sash, accessorised with gloves and a veiled hat. Original Publi...

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1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Black and White

Terry O'Neill 'Raquel Welch and Ringo Starr'

Terry O'Neill 'Raquel Welch and Ringo Starr'

By Terry O'Neill

Located in New York, NY

Raquel Welch and Ringo Starr, 1969 silver gelatin print 20 x 16 inches edition of 50 Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity from the O'...

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1960s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

AC DC BACK IN BLACK 30x50 Photography Photograph Cassette Tape Fine Art Print
AC DC BACK IN BLACK 30x50 Photography Photograph Cassette Tape Fine Art Print

AC DC BACK IN BLACK 30x50 Photography Photograph Cassette Tape Fine Art Print

By Destro

Located in Los Angeles, CA

A contemporary photograph of an AC/DC - Back In Black cassette tape. This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro "They encapsulate an...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Gravestone Leap-Frog

Gravestone Leap-Frog

By Bert Hardy

Located in London, GB

A young boy from the Gorbals area of Glasgow playing leap-frog over gravestones. Children play in the graveyard because they have no gardens or playgrounds. Original Publication: Pic...

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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Double-Decker at Restauradores Square, Lisbon, Portugal 1965

Double-Decker at Restauradores Square, Lisbon, Portugal 1965

Located in Cologne, DE

A moment in time In 2021, a gallery from Brussels contacted us. There, a photographic collection had been kept in tin boxes for decades, consisting of 6x6 glass slides in color. Th...

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1960s Modern Photography

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Color

Conca dei Marini Bay, 1984 - Estate Stamped C-Type Print, Limited Edition
Conca dei Marini Bay, 1984 - Estate Stamped C-Type Print, Limited Edition

Conca dei Marini Bay, 1984 - Estate Stamped C-Type Print, Limited Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Conca dei Marini Bay, 1984 by Slim Aarons 16" x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. 'Conca dei Marini Bay' is a Limited Edition Estate ...

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20th Century Modern Photography

Materials

C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital

Snowmass Picnic - Limited Edition Slim Aarons Estate Stamped C-Type Print
Snowmass Picnic - Limited Edition Slim Aarons Estate Stamped C-Type Print

Snowmass Picnic - Limited Edition Slim Aarons Estate Stamped C-Type Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Snowmass Picnic by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Snowmass Picnic" is a beautiful Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type print by 20th Century photographer Slim Aarons. A stand-up fondue picnic for the skiers at Snowmass-at-Aspen, in Colorado. The picnic was organized by Holiday magazine, with the helicopter in the background being used to bring up hot food. The guest list included one Olympic skier, the president of IBM, an American restaurateur, and the CEO of Head Ski...

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20th Century Modern Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital

Marilyn Monroe, Black and White Print, 1988 from Original Negative.

Marilyn Monroe, Black and White Print, 1988 from Original Negative.

By Edward Feingersh

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 without flash in available light. The photographs he made of her during the week March 24–30, 1955 as she prepares for two appearances; opening night of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Morosco Theatre and being fitted with a burlesque corset for her ride on a pink elephant at a charity event at Madison Square Garden. (from Wikipedia) This is a unique silver gelatine print, made in 1988 from the original negative.

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1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Saint Tropez Boucherie, August 1971 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type
Saint Tropez Boucherie, August 1971 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type

Saint Tropez Boucherie, August 1971 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Saint Tropez Boucherie, August 1971 by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. 'Saint Tropez Boucherie, August 1971' by Sli...

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20th Century Modern Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Monte Carlo, 1952 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Color Print
Monte Carlo, 1952 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Color Print

Monte Carlo, 1952 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Color Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Monte Carlo, 1952 by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. 'Monte Carlo, 1952' by Slim Aarons is a beautiful Limited Edit...

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20th Century Modern Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Still Life with Tomatoes. Flowers. Digital Collage  Color Photograph
Still Life with Tomatoes. Flowers. Digital Collage  Color Photograph

Still Life with Tomatoes. Flowers. Digital Collage Color Photograph

Located in Miami Beach, FL

As an artist, He is fascinated by the opulence and richness of still life of the golden age of Dutch painting in the 17th c. These works, of course, symbolize mortality and the tempo...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography

Materials

Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Julie London - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Portrait C-Type Print, 16" x 20"
Julie London - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Portrait C-Type Print, 16" x 20"

Julie London - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Portrait C-Type Print, 16" x 20"

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Julie London by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. Julie London is a Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type pri...

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20th Century Modern Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Untitled #24 (Woman and Dog Westminster), 2013 - Limited Edition Silver Gelatin

Untitled #24 (Woman and Dog Westminster), 2013 - Limited Edition Silver Gelatin

By Giacomo Brunelli

Located in Brighton, GB

Untitled #24 (Woman and Dog Westminster) from the series Eternal London is a Limited Edition Silver Gelatin print by Giacomo Brunelli. This size of 9" x 12" from a Limited Edition ...

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2010s Modern Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Linda Christian (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant

Linda Christian (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Linda Christian (1958) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Mexican actress Linda Christian poses at the Canzone del Mare on the Picola Marina on the island of Capri,...

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1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Cafe Society: The Smoker, male portait Closerie des Lilas, Lost Generation Paris
Cafe Society: The Smoker, male portait Closerie des Lilas, Lost Generation Paris

Cafe Society: The Smoker, male portait Closerie des Lilas, Lost Generation Paris

By John Wentworth Russell

Located in Norwich, GB

A strong portrait, and a piece of history. It was confidently sketched in 1923, during the heyday of the "Lost Generation" in Paris, at the Closerie des Lilas - Ernest Hemingway's favourite haunt and home-from-home in the City. This historical café is where Hemingway first read The Great Gatsby with his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and where he wrote most of The Sun Also Rises...

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1920s Modern Photography

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Tourists in a ropeway carriage over the Niagara Falls, USA/Canada 1962

Tourists in a ropeway carriage over the Niagara Falls, USA/Canada 1962

Located in Cologne, DE

A moment in time In 2021, a gallery from Brussels contacted us. There, a photographic collection had been kept in tin boxes for decades, consisting of 6x6 glass slides in color. Th...

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1960s Modern Photography

Materials

Color

Marilyn Monroe In A Bikini (1951) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print

Marilyn Monroe In A Bikini (1951) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print

Located in London, GB

Marilyn Monroe In A Bikini (1951) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images) American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) posing on a rooftop circa 1951. ...

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1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Fisherman Fly Box Hampshire England  - oversized signed limited edition print

Fisherman Fly Box Hampshire England - oversized signed limited edition print

By Homer Sykes

Located in London, GB

Fisherman Fly Box Hampshire England 1985 by Homer Sykes oversize 30 x 20 inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size signed limited edition print edition of 8 only this size printed 2022 Certificate of authenticity provided Note Other sizes available Chelsea, London, England circa May 1985. The Chelsea Flower Show. Visitors sheltering, its raining, its summer in Britain. People sitting under their umbrellas. 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...

Category

1980s Modern Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

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Find a wide variety of authentic Modern 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 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, red, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Kevin Westenberg, Slim Aarons, Howard Schatz, and Terry O'Neill. Frequently made by artists working with Archival Pigment Print, and Pigment Print 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 photography, so small editions measuring 4 inches across are also available. Prices for 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 $44 and tops out at $75,000, while the average work sells for $2,150.