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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Steel Garden Wall - "Dandelion clock_3" - Modern Outdoor Ornament - 75×195 cm
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Beautiful contemporary oxidized sheet steel Garden Wall or privacy screen. Customization possible. With this garden wall you'll conjure up an atmospheric ambience in your garden. Id...
Steel
Vintage Art Deco Style Brass Seahorse Sculpture
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Charming mid century seahorse sculpture or object of art crafted in cast brass in a stylized art deco form.
Brass
Arctic, Abstract Art, Modern Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Glass Sculpture, Art for Modern Interior, Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2025 Style: Contemporary Art, Subjec...
Metal
Sleeping Nude Large Wall Art Cast Paper
By Frank Gallo
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Sleeping Nude Large cast handmade paper, artist signed AP 10/20, 1981 62x52x5.5 wood, linen and lucite box frame. Stunning art wall sculpture by Fran...
Lucite, Handmade Paper
Sleek Wooden Boat - Mid Century Modern Wall Hanging Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
Sleek Wooden Boat - Mid Century Modern Wall Hanging Sculpture Simple but elegant wooden sculpture of a boat by William Tripp (American.) The body of the boat is comprised on multipl...
Wood
Monochrome, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, modern
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Monochrome, Size: 29" x 47" x 4'' inch, ...
Metal
Arctic, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Modern Art
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Arctic, Size: 19" x 24" x 4'' inch, 49x61x10...
Metal
Earth, Abstract 3D Original Glass Wall Sculpture, Modern Art
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass Wall Sculpture, Year: 2022 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Earth, Size: 37.5" x 77.5" x 1'' inch, 95x197x3 cm, R...
Metal
Arctic, Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Modern Art, 3D
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2022 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Arctic, Size: 29" x 47" x 4'' inch, 74x125x1...
Metal
Steel Garden Wall - "Tree" - Modern Outdoor Ornament - 75×195 cm
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Beautiful contemporary oxidized sheet steel Garden Wall or privacy screen. Customization possible. With this garden wall you'll conjure up an atmospheric ambience in your garden. Id...
Steel
Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
A whimsical fish sits placidly in the center of Pablo Picasso ceramic Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate), 1947 A.R. 3. A sweeping blue back and a orange belly make up the...
Ceramic, Clay, Glaze
Bust Of A Young Woman bronze
By Kevin Berlin
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Bust Of A Young Woman Bronze sculpture signed by the artist inside the cast and dated 1988, 1st cast in London. Kevin Berlin is an international arti...
Bronze
A Bird from the Lost Forest
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
A Bird from the Lost Forest Repurposed Wood, Glue H 24 x W 30 x D 20.5 in 2023 This sculpture is conceived as an abstract interpretation of a bird, where organic form meets mosaic-...
Wood, Glue
Large Bronze Sculpture of Horse With Two Riders
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Horse With Two Riders Large Outdoor, indoor patinated bronze sculpture 1974 Artist signed, edition 2/6. Light blue green patina. Deaccessioned from the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Th...
Bronze
$1,250
Axial, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Modern Design
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2022 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Axial, Size: 40" x 26" x 4'' inch, 124x66x10...
Metal
Speckled Black Face, 1948
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso, Speckled Black Face, 1948 A.R. 49, is a beautiful and early example from Picasso’s groundbreaking ceramic collaboration with the renowned Madoura Pottery in Vallauris,...
Clay, Ceramic
$4,500
Pilots in Plane Painting on Metal Sculpture Wall Hanging Seymour Chwast Airplane
Located in Surfside, FL
Seymour Chwast (American, b. 1931) Three Pilots Ready for Take Off Mixed Media Painted Sculpture Hand-painted metal, (galvanized steel or aluminum) large wall hanging Hand signed to ...
Metal
Le Barbu (A.R.217)
Located in PARIS, FR
• Picasso began working with ceramics in 1946 at the Madoura workshop in Vallauris, marking the beginning of an important and highly productive chapter in his career. What initially ...
Ceramic
$8,550
Malachite, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Modern Art
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Malachite, Size: 29" x 47" x 4'' inch, 7...
Metal
$4,650
Oceanic, Abstract Art Modern 3D Original Metal Wall Sculpture, modern design
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2025 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Oceanic, Size: 30" x 72" x 4'' inch, (7...
Metal
$3,000
Bronze Sculpture Wall Relief Judaica Jewish Matriarchs Modernist Leonard Baskin
Located in Surfside, FL
Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) Jewish Matriarchs, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah with Hebrew calligraphy Bronze, 1998 9.5 X 9 inches Judaic biblical bronze of Jewish mothers. Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher. Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960). The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin. Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974. Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Arman, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover...
Bronze
Cosmos, Abstract Art, Modern Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Abstract Art, Modern Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2022 Style: Contemporar...
Metal
Picasso Ceramic, Mains au poisson (A.R. 214)
Located in Madrid, ES
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) "Mains au poisson" (A.R. 214) stamped and numbered “Madoura Plein Feu / Empreinte Originale de Picasso / I. 117 / 150/250' (on the reverse) terracotta plate...
Terracotta
Corvina Bowl (Hand-Painted, Gold Luster, Platinum Luster, Vintage Imagery)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Melanie Sherman Corvina Bowl (Hand-Painted, Gold Luster, Platinum Luster, Vintage Imagery) Porcelain, Glaze, Overglaze, Chinapaints, 24k German Gold Luster, Platinum Luster Year: 20...
Porcelain, Glaze, Luster
$3,960
Triangulation, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Modern Art
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2025 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Triangulation B/W, Size: 32" x 42" x 4''...
Metal
Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Mother and Baby Playing WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) Cast bronze sculpture Caring (or Mother and Child) signed Mounted on wooden plinth Featuring a mother raising her child up in superb high relied i...
Bronze
$2,800
Large Rare Signoretto Murano Glass Aventurine Menorah Italian Sculpture Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Giancarlo Signoretto (Italian, 1962-) Glass Sculpture Undated Hand signed and dedicated to a gallery on underside. Depicting a gold menorah and a Jewish star of David over cobalt...
Blown Glass
$83,200
La gatta assise
By Mauro Corda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Bronze
Chouette (A.R. 606)
Located in OPOLE, PL
Chouette (A.R. 606) stamped, marked and numbered 'Edition Picasso / Madoura Plein Feu / Edition Picasso / 110/500 / R 149' (underneath) white earthenware ceramic vase, partially engr...
Ceramic
Joy, Abstract 3D, Original Metal Wall Sculpture, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Joy, Size: 30" x 72" x 4'' inch, (76x183...
Metal
Linear 2, Abstract Original Metal Wall Sculpture, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2022 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Linear 2, Size: 34" x 60" x 3'' inch,86 x153x8 cm...
Metal
Relief - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Good condition. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his child...
Terracotta
$3,250
"Boofy (Large Version) Mid Century Wood Wall Sculpture- by Artist Scott Troxel
By Scott Troxel
Located in Marmora, NJ
"Boofy (Large Version)" is a minimalist and modernist wood wall sculpture reminiscent of both mid century modern forms and bold graphic design. Boofy is part of my popular "Small Po...
Wood, Paint
Portrait - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Good condition. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his child...
Terracotta
Seated Mother and Child
By Chaim Gross
Located in New York, NY
Bronze sculpture on wood base. Signature, edition number 11/47, and date inscribed in bronze on back. Cast by Joel Meisner & Co., Plainview , NY (foundry mark lower verso). Height ...
Bronze
Holy Trinity Bronze Sculpture, Modern Style, 1990s, 88cm
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this sculpture I have embodied the idea of the Holy trinity. According to the Bible, God in the form of three angels appeared to Abraham's wife and pre...
Metal, Bronze
Eagle, Modern Hand-Carved Wooden Sculpture
Located in Long Island City, NY
Unknown Artist - Eagle, Medium: Hand carved wooden sculpture, Size: 13.5 x 7.5 x 5.5 in. (34.29 x 19.05 x 13.97 cm)
Wood
Penguin C "Ballance" realism wildlife sculpture artwork-contemporary Wall art
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Porcelain, Canvas, Acrylic
$12,750
Cosmos, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Modern Art
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Cosmos, Size: 44" x 71" x 4'' inch, (111x180...
Metal
$4,034
Terracotta Sculpture by Evert Lindfors, Sweden, Similarities with A.Giacometti
Located in Stockholm, SE
Terracotta Sculpture by Swedish artist Evert Lindfors (1927-2016), made in the 1970s. Evert moved to France in the 1940s where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He worked from the mid-1950s as a painter in Lacoste in Provence, France. Towards the end of the 1960s, he switched to terracotta sculpture. He met his friend Torsten Renqvist...
Bronze
'Life Size Bull Penny Sculpture'
Located in Nottingham, GB
This piece is extraordinary. 10,000 individual pennies are welded together to create this magnificent bull. The Bull is created to order. If you wish to own this prize Bull do cont...
Copper
$85,441
Visage Solaire
Located in PARIS, FR
• An authenticated work This unique circular plaque in wax crayon on terracotta was created by Pablo Picasso and authenticated by Claude Ruiz Picasso on September 26, 2022. • A pres...
Ceramic
Martyre (petit modèle)
Located in London, GB
Auguste Rodin Martyre (petit modèle), ca. 1899 Incised with artist's signature & numbered 'A. Rodin N. 8' on the head Inscribed & dated Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris. © By musée Rodin...
Bronze
Mood, Abstract Modern Art 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Mood, Size: 32.5" x 33" x 4.5'' inch, (82x83...
Metal
$93,600
Le saut de mouton
By Mauro Corda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Iron, Bronze
$6,500
"Leda and the Swan" Wheeler Williams, Modernist, Classical Myth, Art Deco
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams Leda and the Swan, 1943 Signed, titled and dated on the base Patinated bronze 11 inches high x 21 1/2 inches wide Provenance Private Collection, Queens, New York ...
Bronze
Vertex, Abstract 3D Original Glass Wall Sculpture, modern design
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Title: Vertex, Size: 26" x 15" x 3.5'' inch, (66...
Metal
$289Sale Price|24% Off
Vintage Midcentury Demitasse Coffee Set Hans Achtziger for Hutschenreuther Selb
Located in East Quogue, NY
Pristine decorative white porcelain 'Apart' coffee demitasse set from Hutschenreuther Selb, with 6 cups, 6 saucers, coffee pot, creamer/milk jug, sugar bowl (15 piece set). Germain porcelain maker Hutschenreuther (est.1814) commissioned sculptor Hans Achtziger...
Porcelain
Picasso Ceramic, Chouette (A.R. 602)
Located in Madrid, ES
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Chouette (A.R. 602) stamped, marked and numbered "Edition Picasso / Madoura Plein Feu / Edition Picasso / 240/350 / Madoura" (underneath) white earthenware ...
Ceramic
$1,950Sale Price|53% Off
"Female Torso"
Located in Southampton, NY
Rosa Portugal marble torso of a woman. Unsigned. Late 20th century. In excellent condition. American School. 18.5 inches high by 10 wise by 7 inche...
Marble
$8,550
Dusk, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, One of a kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2022 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Dusk, Size: 29" x 47" x 4'' inch, 74x120x10 ...
Metal
“Eyes That Are...” Porcelain cup with sgraffito detailing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
“Eyes that are..” Eyes that are at once too sharp and too wild. Seeing everything crystal clear makes the whole world blind. Makes me fill my head with clouds, Pretending these smoke...
Porcelain, Paint
$8,306
Jument et son poulain, sculpture de chevaux en bronze de René Paris, 20e siècle
Located in Ixelles, BE
Ce très joli bronze est signé "René Paris" et porte le cachet de fondeur Thiébaut Frères (Fumière et Cie Successeurs. Il fut offert à François Sales en 1914, à l’occasion du concours...
Bronze
Dunes, Abstract Modern 3D Art Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Dunes, Size: 32.5" x 50" x 4.5'' inch, (82x1...
Metal
Earth, Abstract 3D, Original Glass Wall Sculpture, Modern Art
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass Wall Sculpture, Year: 2022 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Earth, Size: 37.5" x 77.5" x 1'' inch, 95x197x3 cm, R...
Metal
Hormiga con Hoja
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gerardo Fernandez South American Artist set of 10 bronze stick bugs with iron antennas. Some bugs have circles on their feet in order to make an art ...
Bronze
$3,500
"Streamliner II" Monochrome Modern Wall Sculpture- blue, gray, minimalism, mcm
By Scott Troxel
Located in Marmora, NJ
Note: Streamliner I is shown with Streamliner II in some of the photos. Streamliner II is the Darker of the two sculptures and shown on the right (When both are shown in same photo)...
Wood, Lacquer, Paint
Gridded, Abstract Art, Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2022 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Gridded, Size: 30" x 48" x 2.5'' inch, ...
Metal
Modernist Figural Limited Edition Bronze Sculpture, Set of 3, Signed & Numbered
Located in Plainview, NY
Modernist Figural Limited Edition Bronze Sculpture, Set of 3, Signed & Numbered: A refined set of three limited-edition bronze sculptures depicting elongated seated female figures,...
Bronze
"Prince d'Egypt", Figurative Portrait Stone Sculpture
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Named "Prince d'Égypte", this sculpture was created by artist Lutfi Romhein using locally sourced stone from Aveyron, France. Dimensions & Weight : This artwork has a total height o...
Marble