Inspired by the nontraditional ways Postimpressionists like Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat depicted the world, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pioneered an even more abstract style in which reality was fragmented into flat, geometric forms. Cubism majorly influenced 20th-century Western art as it radically broke with the adherence to composition and linear perspectives that dated back to the Renaissance. Its watershed moments are considered Picasso’s 1907 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, in which nude figures are fractured into angular shapes, and Georges Braque’s 1908 painting show, which prompted a critic to describe his visual reductions as “cubes.”
Although Cubism was a revolutionary art movement for European culture, it was informed by African masks and other tribal art. Its artists, which included Fernand Léger, Alexander Archipenko, Marcel Duchamp, Juan Gris and Jean Metzinger, experimented with compressing space and playing with the tension between solid and void forms in their work. While their subjects were often conventional, such as still lifes, nudes and landscapes, they were distorted without any illusion of realism.
Cubist art evolved through different distinct phases. In Analytic Cubism, from 1908 to 1912, figures or objects were “analyzed” into pieces that were reassembled in paintings and sculptures, as if presenting the same subject matter from many perspectives at once. The palette was usually monochromatic and muted, giving attention to the overlapping planes. Synthetic Cubism, dating from 1912 to 1914, moved to brighter colors and a further flattening of images. This unmooring from formal ideas of art would shape numerous styles that followed, from Dada to Surrealism.
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$4,750
Cubist American Modernist Opera Box Seat Theatre Interior Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist opera view interior oil painting by Dorothy Van Loan (1904 - 1999). Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size,...
Canvas, Oil
Mid 20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Still Life Tea & Saucer Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Table Interior Still Life signed by Laure Noetzin-Azam (French 1929-2024) pupil of André LHOTE oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 32 x 39.5 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have...
Oil
Mirmande - Vue de Cliousclat - Cubist Landscape Watercolor by Andre Lhote
By André Lhote
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed watercolour on paper landscape circa 1939 by French cubist painter André Lhote. The work depicts a view of Mirmande - a commune in the Drome department of Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes...
Paper, Watercolor
$944Sale Price|20% Off
Mid 20th-Century French Cubist Portrait Reclining Posed Nude Woman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Abstract by Therese Hummel (French, 1911-1999) oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 10.75 x 14 inches Provenance: private collection of this artists work, Paris Condition: sound and...
Oil
Figures in a Jazz Paris Café Interior French Modernist 20th Century Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figures in a Paris Café Interior French Modernist 20th Century Painting Laure Noetzlin-Azam (French, 1929–2024), pupil of André Lhote Canvas: 5.75 x 8.75 inches Medium: Oil on canvas...
Oil
20th Century French Modernist Post-Cubist Oil Painting Still Life Kitchen
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life Objects by Laure Noetzin-Azam (French 1929-2024) pupil of André LHOTE oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 22 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist h...
Oil
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created after an original oil on canvas from 1907, the progression of these five women, abstracted through Picasso’s delicate hand, have heralded in most of modern art as we know it....
Lithograph
Self Portrait - Mid 20th Century Swedish Modernist Cubist Artist Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
* No US duty or taxes to pay on this item * A beautiful mid 20th century Swedish oil on canvas self portrait of an artist wearing a beret. Very decorative work in the cubist style w...
Canvas, Oil
Huge 1950's Post-Cubist French Oil Painting Grey Nude Lady Sunbathing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Large Post-Cubist Reclining Nude Interior Composition French Oil Painting by Laure Noetzin-Azam (French 1929-2024) pupil of André LHOTE oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 29 x 46 inches...
Oil
San Lazzaro, Cubist Lithograph Composition by Alberto Magnelli
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: after Alberto Magnelli, Italian (1888 - 1971) Title: San Lazzaro Year: 1975 Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate Edition: 400/575 Paper Size: 14...
Lithograph
"Twist" Colorful Abstract Post-Cubist Oil Painting by A. Rigollot
By A. Rigollot
Located in Atlanta, GA
A. Rigollot (France, 20th Century) designed this superb post-cubist and colorist abstract oil on board painting. Colorist painting is characterized by intense color use, which become...
Oil, Board
Georges Braque, "Vase de Fleurs Jaunes", aquatint in colors, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Georges Braque Vase de Fleurs Jaunes (Vase of Yellow Flowers) Aquatint in colors on BFK Rives paper Hand signed and signed in plate, numbered 190/300 from an edition of 300. Blind st...
Etching
Benjamin Benno, Paris, 1938, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Expatriot, Cubist
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Benjamin Benno (1901-1980) Untitled (Cubist Composition) Pen and ink on paper, 1938 Signed, dated, and copyrighted by the artist (see photo) Inscribed verso: BG Benno/9 rue Compagne ...
Ink
$1,057Sale Price|20% Off
Roger Herson French Cubist Abstract Picasso Influence Oil Painting Signed
By Roger Herson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title Roger Herson French Cubist Abstract Picasso Influence Oil Painting Signed Key Details Artist: Roger Herson, French, 1922–2008 Medium: Painting, medium not stated Size: Not stat...
Acrylic
Composition au verre a pied (Composition with stemmed glass)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Composition au verre a pied (Composition with stemmed glass) Lithograph (Ink drawing, pen and brush transferred to lithograph stone) , 1947 Unsigned Editi...
Ink, Lithograph
Large Israeli 1950's Mod Modernist Abstract Oil Painting Cubist Morris Lazar
By Morris Lazar
Located in Surfside, FL
Morris Lazar, (Maurice Lazar) Bulgarian Israeli Painter and Sculptor. b. 1927, Bulgaria. Immigrated to British mandate Palestine in 1946. Hand signed in Hebrew Studies: Painting with Zaritzky, Yohana Simon; sculpture with Sternschuss; Art Teachers' College, Ramat Hasharon; Hands and Crafts Seminar. Teaching: Supervisor of the Art Department of the Popular University. Art Teachers' College, Ramat Hasharon Hands and Crafts Seminar This has the feel of the Israeli artists of that period, Jean David, Kopel Gurwin etc. Group Exhibition in Tel Aviv Museum with Art in Israel Tel Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv 1951 Artists: Avnieli, Bak, Berger, Genia Gurewitsch, Anatol Weil, Shraga Janco, Marcel Katz, Shmuel Levanon, Lazar, Morris Kook, Reisman, Shemi, Menahem Shafir, Ilana Schatz, Angelika Tadmor, Zvi Tamari, Amiram Allweil, Arieh Aldouby, Zvi Eloul, Kosso Palombo, David Shemi, Avni Krize, Yehiel. Solo Exhibition Chemerinsky Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Art Festival Painting & Sculpture in Israel 1969, Ganei Hataarucha, Tel Aviv Artists: Aharon Avni, Pinchas Abramovich, Gad Ullman...
Oil
$3,820Sale Price|20% Off
Mid Century Modernist NYC Cubist Abstract Large Framed Exhibited Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract cubist composition "Terra Firma Theme 10" by Augustus Goertz (Born 1948) . Oil on canvas, circa 1958. Housed in a period gi...
Canvas, Oil
$2,481Sale Price|20% Off
Profil Grec - original modern lithograph by classical modernist Georges Braque
Located in Schierensee, SH
"Profil Grec" is a color lithograph by famous French cubist artist Georges Braque, around 1962. This color lithograph on Veélin-Arches is from the editor Armand Israel and a limited...
Paper, Lithograph
$1,503Sale Price|20% Off
Fine 20th Century French Post Cubist Oil Painting Still Life Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life of Flowers by Laure Noetzin-Azam (French 1929-2024) pupil of André LHOTE oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 29 x 23.5 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by this art...
Oil
Guernica, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Esteban Vera
Located in Yardley, PA
Pablo Picasso's Guernica painting inspired, great colors, acrylic and spray on canvas, great artwork, exhibitions in the best Art Galleries in France...
Acrylic
Antique American Modernist Signed Fish Still Life Cubist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school modernist fish still life painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 15 by 19 inches overall, and 12 by 16 painting alone.. In excellent original co...
Oil, Board
Four Dancers
Located in New York, NY
Partially glazed terre-de-faïence convex wall plaque painted in black and white, 1956. Edition of 450. With the Madoura Plein Feu and Empreinte Originale de Picasso stamps, verso. ...
Clay, Ceramic
Cubist Floral Still Life
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Isabelle Graham Reese (1927-2005). Floral Still Life, ca. 1950s. Oil on canvas measuring 16 x 20 inches; 22 x 26 inches in period frame. Signed l...
Oil
$1,024Sale Price|20% Off
Abstract Modernist Floral Still Life Geometric Oil Painting Soft Pastel Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Floral Abstract Still LIfe by René GUINAND (French, 1892-1983), signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 21.5 x 29 inches Provenance: private collection of the artists work, Normandy, ...
Oil
$2,672Sale Price|20% Off
Provence Landscape - Large Mid 20th Century French Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful large c.1960 French oil on paper laid on board cubist influenced landscape by Oleg Zinger. The work depicts a summer landscape with white build...
Oil, Laid Paper
$1,057Sale Price|20% Off
1930's French Post-Impressionist Oil Elegant Portrait of Woman in Floral Attire
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Elegant Portrait signed by Therese Hummel (French, 1911-1999) oil on canvas, unframed dated 1937 canvas : 29 x 24 inches Provenance: private collection of this artists work, Paris C...
Oil
Israeli Cubist Modernist Oil Painting "Rosh Shiryon Abir" Armor
Located in Surfside, FL
Shlomo Zafrir is active/lives in Israel, France. Shlomo Zafrir is known for cubist painting. Shlomo Zafrir is a painter and, at the same time, the owner of a nightclub called Omar K...
Canvas, Oil
$2,280Sale Price|40% Off
"St. George and the Dragon" - Large Late 20th Century Framed Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
You don't have to be a Catholic, or a medievalist, or a Catholic medievalist (Tolkien?) to appreciate this striking image of St. George taking on the dragon. In style it falls somewhere between Cubism and Guernica, to my eye. The limited color palette, with the bold red, gives it the energy of early 20th-century Russian poster...
Oil
$1,781Sale Price|20% Off
Mid 20th Century French Modernist Cubist Oil Painting Female Nude Artists Model
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model, female nude reclining in chair by Laure Noetzin-Azam (French 1929-2024) pupil of André LHOTE oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 29 x 29 inches Provenance: all the pai...
Oil
A Cubist Cuban Country Chico
Located in San Francisco, CA
You cannot pass this doleful young man without engaging. If you have traveled, you have met him in the streets of Latin America, of India, of Africa and even some parts of the U.S. H...
Canvas, Mixed Media
$1,995
Pablo Picasso Etching, 1949, Carmen IV, Square Head of a Man with Soft Features
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Square Head of a Man with Soft Features (Plate IV) Portfolio: Carmen Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper Year: 1949 Edition: 289 Frame Size: 21" x 18" ...
Etching
$890Sale Price|20% Off
Bright French Modernist Cubist Signed Oil Painting Shapes and Form
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Composition French, contemporary indistinctly signed oil painting mounted in a card frame, framed glass covering framed: 21 x 25 inches inner frame: : 20 x 24 inches Provenan...
Oil
$810
Rhombus Color Study, Pastel Tones Brutalist Geometry, Gray, Blue, PInk, Diptych
Located in Barcelona, ES
These series of paintings by Natalia Roman gather their inspiration from geometric, minimalist shapes and paintings from the beginning of Modernism, with a special emphasis on Art De...
Oil, Paper
Derniers Messages, Cubist Lithograph by Georges Braque
Located in Long Island City, NY
Georges Braque, French (1882 - 1963) - Derniers Messages, Year: circa 1965, Medium: Lithograph, Image Size: 23.5 x 17 inches, Frame Size: 28 x 19.5 inches
Lithograph
Personnages Masqués et Femme Oiseau - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1934
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and Aquatint on Montval paper. Hand Signed. Edition of 260 prints (not numbered and generally not signed). Plate 24 from "La Suite Vollard". Catalogue Bloch no. 227; Baer 44...
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Parisian Fruit Market Stall French Modernist 20th Century Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Parisian Fruit Market Stall French Modernist 20th Century Painting Laure Noetzlin-Azam (French, 1929–2024), pupil of André Lhote Canvas: 9 x 11 inches Medium: Oil on canvas, unframed...
Oil
$95,000
Jacqueline au Chevalet (Jacqueline at the Easel) - Ceramic Plate, 40/200, 1956
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Pablo Picasso's Jacqueline au Chevalet (1956) belongs to his revolutionary Madoura ceramics period, the two-decade span in Vallauris during which he produced more than 3,500 ceramic ...
Ceramic, Glaze
Portrait d’Homme, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
This fragmented portrait of a painter by Pablo Picasso features bright, bold colors and relies on visible brushstrokes to show the figure of the man instead of the geometric shapes a...
Lithograph
Willow Weep for Me (Abstract Cubist Willow Tree Landscape w/ Bird)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
John Thompson (b.1949). Willo Weep for Me, ca. 1975. Edition #1 of 6. Screen print and hand painted elements on paper. Image measures 11 x 13 inches. Framed measurement: 18 x 1...
Gouache, Screen
Abstracted Letter Sunset, Vintage Miami Style Colors, Earth Tones Figures
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Abstracted Letter Sunset" is an abstract painting by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. These color field paintings are inspired by both modernist shapes of ...
Acrylic, Gouache, Paper
Studio Stove, Colorful Cubist Oil painting, Cleveland School female artist
By Clara Deike
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964) My Studio Stove, 1936 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right, titled verso 23.5 x 19.5 inches 29.75 x 25.5 inches, f...
Oil
$560Sale Price|20% Off
Picasso 'Dakar' 1972 - Original Lithograph Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dakar is a lithographic poster by Pablo Picasso, engraved by Henri Deschamps and printed at Mourlot in 1972. The collaboration with Henri Deschamps and the prestigious Mourlot prin...
Lithograph
Antique American Cubist Landscape with Trees and Hills, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
This 1971 oil on board landscape by Y. Melo presents an abstracted natural scene executed in a refined Cubist style. The composition flattens and segments a hillside view into interl...
Oil, Board
$1,809
French Modernist Harbour Scene with Boats Colourful Coastal Oil Painting 1950's
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Harbour Original oil painting by Jacques COURTADE (French, 1923-1994). Post-Impressionist/ modernist oil painting by the superb 20th century French artist, Jacques COURTADE (192...
Oil
$680Sale Price|20% Off
Lakeside Mirage, Abstract Geometric Bauhaus Landscape, Blue, Red, Tiles, Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of abstract geometric paintings by Natalia Roman draws its inspiration from the sleek grids and curves of Bauhaus architecture, while at the same time exploring bright an...
Oil, Paper
$22,500
Two Fish 20th Century Cubist interior painting of table, fish, french still life
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Framed Size: 21" x 29" Circa 1947 Provenance: Gallery Romanet, Paris circa 1948. Sothebys New York circa 1985. Private Collection, UK. Claude Venard frequently incorporated fish ...
Canvas, Oil
Post-Cubist French Oil Painting Mid 20th Century Interior Composition
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition by Laure Noetzin-Azam (French 1929-2024) pupil of André LHOTE oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 29 x 36 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist...
Oil
$1,300
Red Brezze, Bauhaus Tiles, Geometric Landscape Grid in Red and Blue on Canvas
Located in Barcelona, ES
Details: Title: Red Breeze Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 90x90 cm ( 35.4x 35.4 inches). Each canvas includes an aprox. 2 to 3 in. white border on each side, to ensure enough space...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Pablo Picasso " Plante Aux Toritos"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) " Plante Aux Toritos" Original Linocut, 1959, Color linocut June 25, 1956 – April 9, 1960 Sheet Size 66 × 54 cm Framed 35'H x 31"W x 1.5"D Printed in 5...
Linocut
Femme Assise Pres d'Une Fenetre, Estate Lithograph After Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Sitting in an chair with her arm slung over the side, Pablo Picasso's representation of his former muse Marie-Therese Walter is bright and colorful. Relying on round forms and curvin...
Paper, Lithograph
$549Sale Price|20% Off
French 20th Century Cubist Still Life Oil Painting Study of Vegetables
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed & dated signed oil on canvas canvas: 15 x 18.5 inches original oil painting condition: very good a...
Oil, Canvas
$636Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage American Modernist Interior Still Life Cubist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Handsomely framed in modernist wood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Canvas, Oil
Entrée La Gare
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pascal Jarrion was born in 1961 in Perpignan, France, a region known for its Catalan culture as well as its influence on artists before him, including Picasso, Van Gogh, and Maillol....
Oil, Panel
$1,414Sale Price|20% Off
Mid Century European Cubist Abstract Geometric Shapes Composition Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Still Life European School, mid 20th century oil painting on board, unframed painting: 18 x 11 inches condition: very good provenance: private collection, Cotswolds, England
Oil
Mythology : Hera
Located in Paris, IDF
after Georges BRAQUE Mythology : Hera MEDIUM : Lithograph PRINTER : Atelier Art-Litho EDITOR : Armand ISRAEL, Paris SIGNATURE : Printed LIMITED : 399 copies unumbered PAPER : Arches...
Lithograph
Nature Morte au Buste - Lithograph after Fernand Léger - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized after Fernand Léger in 1959, on Moulin Richard de Bas paper. Monogrammed in the plate. It belongs to the suite "Contrastes", printed by Daniel Jacomet and publi...
Lithograph
Three Birds, Cubist Lithograph Poster after Georges Braque
Located in Long Island City, NY
Georges Braque, After, French (1882 - 1963) - Three Birds, Year: circa 1960, Medium: Lithograph Poster, Image Size: 34.5 x 23 inches, Size: 37 x 25.5 in. (93.98 x 64.77 cm), Prin...
Lithograph, Offset
$438Sale Price|69% Off
Mid-Century Cubist Cityscape, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, Signed
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-Century cubist oil and acrylic futuristic cityscape on canvas. Signed bottom right, artist unknown. Highly colourful and well-composed interpretation of a cityscape of the futur...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Black Birds - Lithograph - 1956
Located in Paris, IDF
(after) Georges Braque, (1882 - 1963) Les Oiseaux Noirs (Black Birds), 1956 Lithograph Printed in Jacomet workshop On vellum 40 x 48 cm (c. 16 x 19 inc...
Lithograph
$70,000
Tête de femme à la couronne de fleurs - Framed Terracotta Ceramic Portrait, 1964
Located in Palm Desert, CA
'Tête de femme à la couronne de fleurs’ reflects the Picasso’s transformation of traditional ceramics into a medium of modern sculptural expression. In Picasso’s celebrated Vallauris...
Terracotta, Slip