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Cubist Art

CUBIST STYLE

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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Style: Cubist
Le Facteur Rural

Le Facteur Rural

By Jean-Emile Laboureur

Located in New York, NY

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Le Facteur Rural, engraving, 1924, signed in pencil lower right. Reference: Laboureur 283, third state (of 3), from the total printing of about 80. ...

Category

1920s Cubist Art

Materials

Engraving

Africa
Africa

Africa

By Kenneth B Walsh

Located in East Hampton, NY

A storytelling work of Africa Cubism Style Post Modern About the Artist: Kenneth B Walsh (1922-1980) In the 1950s, Kenneth Bonar Walsh came to Montauk from New York City to paint...

Category

1970s Cubist Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Le Promenade au Phare

Le Promenade au Phare

By Jean-Emile Laboureur

Located in New York, NY

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Le Promenade au Phare, engraving, 1925, signed in pencil lower left and numbered lower right (24/70) [with the initial in the plate lower left]. Ref...

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1920s Cubist Art

Materials

Engraving

Four Scenes  Winter Landscape - Watercolour Hungarian Cubism
Four Scenes  Winter Landscape - Watercolour Hungarian Cubism

Four Scenes Winter Landscape - Watercolour Hungarian Cubism

By Bela Kadar

Located in London, GB

This watercolour is hand signed by the arist at the lower right corner 'Bela Kadar'. It is also signed on the second composition, verso. Provenance: The estate of the artist. The co...

Category

20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Birds in Flight - French Cubism Bird
Birds in Flight - French Cubism Bird

Birds in Flight - French Cubism Bird

By Georges Braque

Located in London, GB

This original lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "G. Braque" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil 75 from the edition of 75, at the...

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1960s Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

At the Table #6, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

At the Table #6, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By Sharon Webb

Located in Yardley, PA

I have painted around the edges of the canvas should you decide to hang this work unframed. :: Painting :: Cubism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity sig...

Category

2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Acrylic

La Fille aux Oies

La Fille aux Oies

By Jean-Emile Laboureur

Located in New York, NY

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), La Fille aux Oies, engraving, 1916, signed in pencil lower left, numbered (4/40) lower right and inscribed “imp,” also titled lower left margin edge...

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1910s Cubist Art

Materials

Engraving

Le Policeman, Londres

Le Policeman, Londres

By Jean-Emile Laboureur

Located in New York, NY

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Le Policeman, Londres, 1913, etching on zinc. Signed lower left in pencil [also with the signature and date in the plate]. Reference: Godefroy, Sylv...

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1910s Cubist Art

Materials

Etching

A Midsummer Night's Dream ' 05-04-22, Painting, Oil on Canvas

A Midsummer Night's Dream ' 05-04-22, Painting, Oil on Canvas

By Corne Akkers

Located in Yardley, PA

Urgency This oil painting ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is born out of some kind of felt urgency. Never before in my life I longed for Spring and Summer in particular than thi...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Oil

Golden - 29-01-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper

Golden - 29-01-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper

By Corne Akkers

Located in Yardley, PA

Golden - 29-01-21 Addition to the Series After my previous pastel drawing I decided to do a totally different one. Not in hatched strokes but smoothed out I had in mind. My graphite pencil drawing 'Roundism - 31-03-20 (sold)'served as the motif. I was to execute it in bigger format anyway and thought that it could be an addition to the Golden Series. Yellow Since the start of my quest in pastel I did not work on yellow paper very often. For some reason yellow is very hard to work with, certainly because it is so dominant. I once read that Carel Willink...

Category

2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Pastel

Home Alone in the Pink and Green, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Home Alone in the Pink and Green, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By Brian Nash

Located in Yardley, PA

Come hang with us. Or hang us in your home. :: Painting :: Cubism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signe...

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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Midcentury Organic Shapes and Lines N-10-103 Mixed Media Canvas Painting 40x60"
Midcentury Organic Shapes and Lines N-10-103 Mixed Media Canvas Painting 40x60"

Midcentury Organic Shapes and Lines N-10-103 Mixed Media Canvas Painting 40x60"

By Irena Orlov

Located in Los Angeles, CA

One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas Artwork: Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digital original hand painting, printed on canvas, then hand p...

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2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Organic Shapes and Lines Mixed Media on Canvas Brush Strokes Painting
Organic Shapes and Lines Mixed Media on Canvas Brush Strokes Painting

Organic Shapes and Lines Mixed Media on Canvas Brush Strokes Painting

By Irena Orlov

Located in Los Angeles, CA

One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas Artwork: Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digital original hand painting, printed on canvas, then hand p...

Category

2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Summer Still Life, Wine, Melons and Fruit
Summer Still Life, Wine, Melons and Fruit

Summer Still Life, Wine, Melons and Fruit

By Henry Lee McFee

Located in Missouri, MO

Summer Still Life, Wine, Melons and Fruit Henry Lee McFee (American, 1886-1953) Watercolor on Paper Signed Lower Right 14 x 19 inches 22.75 x 28.75 inches with frame Henry Lee McFee...

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20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

La Plage à 12h – Sunlit Beach Scene, Contemporary Figurative style, by G Mathias
La Plage à 12h – Sunlit Beach Scene, Contemporary Figurative style, by G Mathias

La Plage à 12h – Sunlit Beach Scene, Contemporary Figurative style, by G Mathias

By Grégoire Mathias

Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR

La Plage à 12h 61 x 50 cm Acrylic on canvas La Plage à 12h by Grégoire Mathias captures the essence of a sunlit midday at the beach, where relaxed figures gather under striped p...

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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Le Pacte".

"Le Pacte".

By Louis Marcoussis

Located in New York, NY

"Le Pacte", Paris: Editions Forcade, 1930. In Gold Leaf Frame. Original etching printed in black ink on japon. Hand signed with artist’s monogram lower left, an impression of the f...

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1930s Cubist Art

Materials

Etching

Mâtinée à l’atelier, Modern Cubist Acrylic Painting, Signed, 40x32 cm
Mâtinée à l’atelier, Modern Cubist Acrylic Painting, Signed, 40x32 cm

Mâtinée à l’atelier, Modern Cubist Acrylic Painting, Signed, 40x32 cm

By Grégoire Mathias

Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR

Mâtinée à l’atelier (Morning at the Studio) Acrylic on canvas 40 × 32 cm Mâtinée à l’atelier presents a modern cubist interior scene drawn from the artist’s studio, approached as a...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

After Georges Braque - Antiborée - Lithograph

After Georges Braque - Antiborée - Lithograph

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Lithograph after Georges Braque. Signed in the plate Edition of 150 Dimensions: 76 x 117 cm Bibliography: « Les Métamorphoses de Braque» of Heger de Loewenfeld and Raphaël de Cuttoli , Editions FAC, Paris, 1989. In 1961 Georges Braque decided with his laidary friend Heger de Loewenfeld to pick up certain of his works to in order to create artworks, this beautiful litograph is one of them. Héméra in the Mythology: In Greek mythology Hemera was the personification of day and one of the Greek primordial deities. She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Erebus and Nyx (the goddess of night). Hemera is remarked upon in Cicero's De Natura Deorum, where it is logically determined that Dies (Hemera) must be a god, if Uranus is a god. The poet Bacchylides states that Nyx and Chronos are the parents, but Hyginus in his preface to the Fabulae mentions Chaos as the mother/father and Nyx as her sister. She was the female counterpart of her brother and consort, Aether (Light), but neither of them figured actively in myth or cult. Hyginus lists their children as Uranus, Gaia, and Thalassa (the primordial sea goddess), while Hesiod only lists Thalassa as their child. The father of Cubism Three Cubist that distinguishes art historian periods were initiated and developed by Georges Braque: The Cubist Cézanne (1907-1909), Executive (1909-1912) and synthetic (1912-1922). Post-Impressionist and fawn, Braque no longer adheres to the contingency of a decorative way or the other. Cézanne’s paintings exhibited at the Grand Palais during the retrospective of 1907 are a revelation: Cézanne sought and invented a pictorial language. In his footsteps, Braque went to the South with the reasons of the Master. He returned with Estaque landscapes and surprising Ciotat it keeps Cezanne geometric model and retains the “passages” continuity from one surface to another to create the sensation of “turning around” of the object represented. But he wants to go after the consequences of the vision of Cezanne. In his paintings Houses in L’Estaque (1908) it simplifies the volumes of houses, neglects detail by removing doors and windows: the plastic rhythm that builds the table. Large Nude , a masterpiece of the period, can be considered the first work of Cézanne cubism . Systematizing and deepening Braque discoveries open the door analytical cubism. In 1909, his painting became more cerebral than sensual. The pattern is recreated in the two-dimensionality of the canvas, leaving aside any illusionistic perspective. In Still Life with Violin, objects are analyzed facets according to their characteristic elements, each facet referring to a particular view of the object. There are so many facets of points selected view: Table reflects the knowledge of the object and the ubiquity of the eye. Moreover, Braque is looking for the essence of the objects in the world rather than their contingency, which explains the absence of light source and use of muted colors (gray, ocher), contingent aspects of the object . But formal logic has stepped facets, erased any anecdote to the object and ultimately led to his painting a hermetic more marked on the edge of abstraction (see the series of Castle Roche-Guyon ). Braque, anxious to keep the concrete and refusing at all costs that the logic of Cubism takes the paintings to abstract, reintroduced signs of reality in his paintings in 1912 marks the beginning of Synthetic Cubism. Historians speak of “signs of real” rather than reality because what interests Braque, this is not to put reality into a table, but to create a painting which, by its language, refers to the real. To do this, he invented two major techniques XX th century inclusions and contributions. The inclusions consist of painting objects that have no real depth, materials (wallpaper in Nature morte aux playing cards faux wood is a pictorial inclusion) or letters (calligraphic inclusion in Portuguese ), made first brush and a few months later stencil. Contributions are defined in contrast with the collage on canvas of foreign materials: glued or sand paper, sawdust, etc.. Regarding the collages, Braque used for the first time in September 1912 a piece of adhesive paper imitating faux wood Compote...

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1950s Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Lino Piccoli, oil on canvas, Scorcio di città, Italy, 1960s/'70s
Lino Piccoli, oil on canvas, Scorcio di città, Italy, 1960s/'70s

Lino Piccoli, oil on canvas, Scorcio di città, Italy, 1960s/'70s

Located in Vicenza, VI

The style of Lino Piccoli, an Italian painter, is characterized by a personal interpretation of Cubism through the decomposition and recomposition of forms into geometric planes. Thi...

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1970s Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dächer und Türme / Roofs and Towers
Dächer und Türme / Roofs and Towers

Dächer und Türme / Roofs and Towers

By Helmut Verch

Located in Wien, 9

Helmut Verch (1923-2002) was born in Berlin in 1923 and worked as a painter and graphic artist. In the 1940s, after his release from Russian captivity, he received artistic training ...

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1970s Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Agudelo Abstract Figural Composition Oil on Canvas
Agudelo Abstract Figural Composition Oil on Canvas

Agudelo Abstract Figural Composition Oil on Canvas

Located in Astoria, NY

Agudelo (XX), Abstract Figural Composition, Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, unframed. 65" H x 65" W x 2.25" D. Provenance: From a Scarsdale, New York Estate.

Category

Mid-20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

GEORGES DAYEZ Etretat (Sailboats Along the French Coast) Cubist 1956 oil canvas
GEORGES DAYEZ Etretat (Sailboats Along the French Coast) Cubist 1956 oil canvas

GEORGES DAYEZ Etretat (Sailboats Along the French Coast) Cubist 1956 oil canvas

By Georges Dayez

Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA

Georges Dayez , born on July 29 , 1907 In Paris where he died in 1991 , is a French painter , engraver and lithographer of the new Ecole de Paris whose works have been regularly exhibited with those of non-figurative painters. Georges Dayez is the eldest son of the editor Jules Dayez, a native of the North and a son of a peasant, who in 1905 had taken over a small-size engraving studio in Paris rue des Marais, printing in particular gravure reproductions of eighteenth- century images E century. His mother, Marie Brard, was born in Neuilly in a Norman family of Bayeux . After the birth of a second son, the family settled in Vaires-sur-Marne in 1909 where Georges Dayez attended the communal school from 1913 , took refuge for two months in Bayeux in 1914 , in Tinténiac ( Brittany ) In 1918 . In 1919 Georges Dayez obtained his certificate of studies and spent his holidays in Vicq , in the mining country of the north of Valenciennes , with his grandfather, the spectacle of the destruction caused by the war impressively him, then returns to the college of Meaux . In 1924 , after spending the first part of the baccalaureate, he stopped studying to start painting, and studied phototypy and intaglio and lithography in his father's studio. He attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière at Montparnasse and the Julian Academy in Saint - Germain - des - Prés , as well as the evening drawing courses of the City of Paris, which Adam also followed. In 1926 he was accepted as a "free pupil" in the studio of Lucien Simon at the Ecole des Beaux Arts . From 1927, he made his military service, assigned to Nanterre then to the Aeronautics Directorate of Paris, and painted in 1928 , on a permission, Le Pont du Pouliguen and Le Croisic...

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1950s Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Signed Post-Cubist Harbor Scene Oil on Canvas
Signed Post-Cubist Harbor Scene Oil on Canvas

Signed Post-Cubist Harbor Scene Oil on Canvas

Located in Astoria, NY

20th Century School, Post-Cubist Harbor Scene, Oil on Canvas, 1991, signed and dated "lil '91" lower left, painted wood frame. Image: 11.5" H x 11.25" W; frame: 17" H x 16.5" W x 1"...

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Late 20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Hold on to the Moment" Figurative Painting 24" x 24" inch by Tasneem El-Meshad

"Hold on to the Moment" Figurative Painting 24" x 24" inch by Tasneem El-Meshad

By Tasneem El Meshad

Located in Culver City, CA

"Hold on to the Moment" Figurative Painting 24" x 24" inch by Tasneem El-Meshad Acrylic on Canvas Academy of Fine Arts Cairo graduate Tasneem El Meshad describes her art, as “a ref...

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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

“Serenade of Lilies” PL-0053
“Serenade of Lilies” PL-0053

“Serenade of Lilies” PL-0053

By Yuroz

Located in Burbank, CA

A graceful interplay of form, texture, and emotion, “Serenade of Lilies” captures the timeless beauty of a quiet moment. This hand-painted ceramic plate by Yuroz transforms a still l...

Category

2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Ceramic

Cubist art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Cubist art 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 art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, yellow and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Pablo Picasso, (after) Pablo Picasso, Borja Guijarro, and Corne Akkers. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Lithograph and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Cubist art, so small editions measuring 1.5 inches across are also available. Prices for art 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 $1 and tops out at $265,000, while the average work sells for $2,400.