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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
Period: Early 1900s
Young Beauty American Maurice Sterne rare early 1904 signed original etching
Located in Norwich, GB
An extremely rare and lovely hand signed etching by American Maurice Sterne, dating from the turn of the century when the artist was working in Paris. Maurice Sterne, born in 1877 ...
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Early 1900s Modern Portrait Prints

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‎Portrait of Frank Brangwyn - Collotype Print by J.H. Frederick Bacon - 1901
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Frank Brangwyn is an artwork realized in 1901, by the English Artist John Henry Frederick Bacon (1865 - 1914). Collotype print on paper. Signed on plate on the right cor...
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Early 1900s Modern Portrait Prints

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Paper

Sadness - Etching by Albert Besnard - 1909
Located in Roma, IT
Sadness is an etching realized by Albert Besnard in 1909. Etching ex. 6/30. Slab dimension cm. 15 x 9,5. paper cm. 25 x 18. Pencil signature and date in the lower right part, date in the left part. Good conditions. Paul Albert Besnard (Parigi 1849 - 1934)born in Paris, was the son of an artist; his father, Louis Adolphe, was a painter and his mother, Louise Pauline Vaillant, was an esteemed miniaturist, a pupil of Lizinska de Mirbel. Besnard first studied drawing and painting with Jean-François Brémond and at 17 entered the École des Beaux-Arts, where he was taught by Alexandre Cabanel. In 1874 he won the Prix de Rome with the canvas "Death of Timofane, tyrant of Corinth", and during his stay at Villa Medici he had the opportunity to meet Franz Liszt and his pupil André Worsmer, whose portrait he painted in 1877. his stay in Italy and, in 1879he married the sculptor Charlotte Dubray, daughter of the sculptor Gabriel-Vital Dubray, with whom he moved to England for three years, until 1884, exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. At the Paris Salon of 1886 his "Portrait of Madame Roger Jourdain...
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Young Woman - Original Lithograph by Charles Lucien Léandre - 1903
Located in Roma, IT
Young Woman is an original lithograph artwork, realized in 1903 by Charles Lucien Léandre (1862–1934). Signed on plate on the lower left and dated. Th...
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Early 1900s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

La Pierre au Trois Croquis (The Stone with Three Sketches), 1904
Located in Palo Alto, CA
A warm and loving depiction of a group of three women, the delicate soft appearance of these portraits evokes a sense of the romanticism and sensitivity put forth by Renoir in this p...
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Early 1900s Modern Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Woman - Original Zincograph by F. Reifs after G. Stadelmann - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original zincography on paper realized by F. Reifs after G. Stadelmann , in 1905. This Specially Zincography representing a woman's Portrait. The title of the work "Carm...
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Early 1900s Modern Portrait Prints

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Woman's Face - Original Zincography after Frantisek Zenisek by E. Krell - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Woman's Face is an original zincography on paper realized after F. Zenisek by F. Krell, in 1905. This Specially Zincography representing a woman's face. The title of the work "Bohmi...
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Early 1900s Modern Portrait Prints

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Paper

Aglaé - Original Etching by Gustave Joseph Biot - 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Aglaé is an original etching realized by Gustave Joseph Biot d'aprés Cabanel (1900). The artwork is in good conditions except for worn and yellowed paper on the margins. Mounted on...
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Woman - Original Zincography by U.Seifert - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original zincography on paper realized by U. Seifert, in 1905. This Specially Zincography representing a woman's Portrait. The title of the work "Cordelia" and the capti...
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Early 1900s Modern Portrait Prints

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Paper

Portrait of Jesus - Woodcut by Max Théron - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Jesus is an original artwork realized by Max Théron in the first years of the 20th Century. Woodcut print on paper. Hand-signed in penc...
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Early 1900s Modern Portrait Prints

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Woodcut

Woman's Portrait - Original Zincography by Jan Van Beers - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Woman's Portrait is an original zincography on paper realized by Jan Van Beers, in 1905. This Specially Zincography representing a woman's Portrait. The title of the work "Graziella...
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Early 1900s Modern Portrait Prints

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Paper

Woman - Original Zincograph by R. Jericke after A. Seifert - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original zincography on paper realized by R. Jericke after A. Seifert, in 1905. This Specially Zincography representing a woman's Portrait. The title of the work "Gretch...
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Paper

Woman with Dove - Original Zincography after M. Sichel - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Woman with Dove is an original zincography on paper realized after M. Sichel in 1905. This Specially Zincography representing a woman with dove. The t...
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Early 1900s Modern Portrait Prints

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Paper

"Mes Petites Amies, Les Deux Sœurs" signed by Jacques Villon
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This is an original drypoint and aquatint artwork by Jacques Villon. The artist signed in pencil on the lower right. As well as signed in plate at the top right of the image. This is a wonderful artwork of different intaglio processes being brought together in a beautiful almost seamless harmony. The thin pencil like markings and hair detailing are made using the Drypoint printmaking method. Whilst the color details around the girls are made using the Aquatint etching method. Jacques Villon shows his skills as a printmaker with the way these pieces line up perfectly and with how clean the rest of the plate is around the girls. Catalogue Raisonne E101, pg. 66-67 (Ginestet & Pouillon. It depicts two young girls. 15" x 11 1/2" art 25 1/8" x 20" frame French painter, printmaker and illustrator. The oldest of three brothers who became major 20th-century artists, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, he learnt engraving at the age of 16 from his maternal grandfather, Emile-Frédéric Nicolle (1830-94), a ship-broker who was also a much appreciated amateur artist. In January 1894, having completed his studies at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, he was sent to study at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, but within a year he was devoting most of his time to art, already contributing lithographs to Parisian illustrated newspapers such as Assiette au beurre. At this time he chose his pseudonym: Jack (subsequently Jacques) in homage to Alphonse Daudet’s novel Jack (1876) and Villon in appreciation of the 15th-century French poet François Villon...
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Early 1900s Modern Portrait Prints

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Drypoint, Aquatint, Etching, Intaglio

Out West - Vintage Photo Book - Around 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Out West is a beautiful rare book illustrated by 24 panels with photolithographs realized by various authors. Printed probably in Germany, around 1900. Black and gold embossed title...
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Early 1900s Modern Portrait Prints

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Photogravure

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The Box at 'Faustus'
Located in Storrs, CT
The Box at 'Faustus'. 1929. Drypoint. 11 x 8 7/8. Edition 100, #39. Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil. A rich impression printed on the full sheet of pale blue/green-toned wove paper. Signed in pencil. A tongue-in-cheek image of the devil in the opera box...
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1920s Modern Portrait Prints

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The Box at 'Faustus'
The Box at 'Faustus'
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Located in Saint Augustine, FL
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Melanie Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
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Melanie Schiele
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