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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
Cubist Serenade, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Cubist Serenade, Painting, Acrylic on Paper

Cubist Serenade, Painting, Acrylic on Paper

By Anthony Dunphy

Located in Yardley, PA

"Cubist Serenade" by Anthony Dunphy: A Meditation in Motion Anthony Dunphy’s *Cubist Serenade* is more than a painting—it’s an invitation to pause, breathe, and lose yourse...

Category

2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Juan Gris, Bottle, from Au Soleil du Plafond, 1955 (after)
Juan Gris, Bottle, from Au Soleil du Plafond, 1955 (after)

Juan Gris, Bottle, from Au Soleil du Plafond, 1955 (after)

By Juan Gris

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Juan Gris (1887–1927), titled Bouteille (Bottle), from the folio Au Soleil du Plafond (In the Sunlight of the Ceiling), originates from the 1955 editi...

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1950s Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Juan Gris, The Soup Tureen, from Au Soleil du Plafond, 1955 (after)
Juan Gris, The Soup Tureen, from Au Soleil du Plafond, 1955 (after)

Juan Gris, The Soup Tureen, from Au Soleil du Plafond, 1955 (after)

By Juan Gris

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Juan Gris (1887–1927), titled La Soupiere (The Soup Tureen), from the folio Au Soleil du Plafond (In the Sunlight of the Ceiling), originates from the...

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1950s Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Juan Gris, The Pipe, from Au Soleil du Plafond, 1955 (after)
Juan Gris, The Pipe, from Au Soleil du Plafond, 1955 (after)

Juan Gris, The Pipe, from Au Soleil du Plafond, 1955 (after)

By Juan Gris

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Juan Gris (1887–1927), titled La Pipe (The Pipe), from the folio Au Soleil du Plafond (In the Sunlight of the Ceiling), originates from the 1955 editi...

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1950s Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Neo Deco - 15-01-24, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Neo Deco - 15-01-24, Painting, Oil on Canvas

Neo Deco - 15-01-24, Painting, Oil on Canvas

By Corne Akkers

Located in Yardley, PA

An Elaboration This oil painting ‘Neo deco – 15-01-24’ is an elaboration of a pastel of almost 7 years back. Together with my graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism – 26-05-1...

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2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Oil

Le 14-Juillet au Village

Le 14-Juillet au Village

By Jean-Emile Laboureur

Located in New York, NY

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Le 14-Juillet au Village, engraving and roulette, 1925, signed in pencil lower left and numbered lower right (30/100) [also initialed and dated in t...

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1920s Cubist Art

Materials

Engraving

Neo Deco – 05-03-24, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Neo Deco – 05-03-24, Painting, Oil on Canvas

Neo Deco – 05-03-24, Painting, Oil on Canvas

By Corne Akkers

Located in Yardley, PA

Back in 2014 This oil painting ‘Neo Deco – 05-03-24’ is an elaboration of my pastel drawing ‘Cubist Nude – 28-03-14’. One I was bound to elaborate at some point. I rem...

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2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Oil

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

Vintage American Cubist Bell Pepper Still Life Abstract
Vintage American Cubist Bell Pepper Still Life Abstract

Vintage American Cubist Bell Pepper Still Life Abstract

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American cubist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 32 by 12 inches overall and 30 by 10 inches painting alone. Framed in a wooden molding. Exce...

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20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Sur la Marne

Sur la Marne

By Jean-Emile Laboureur

Located in New York, NY

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Sur la Marne, engraving, 1924, signed in pencil lower right [with the initial lower right in the plate]. Reference: S. Laboureur 277, third state (o...

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1920s Cubist Art

Materials

Engraving

Chez la Fleuriste

Chez la Fleuriste

By Jean-Emile Laboureur

Located in New York, NY

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Chez la Fleuriste, etching, 1919-1920, unsigned [with initials and date in the plate]. Reference: Laboureur 192, second state (of 2), from the editi...

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1910s Cubist Art

Materials

Etching

L'ile Desert

L'ile Desert

By Jean-Emile Laboureur

Located in New York, NY

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), L’ile Desert, etching, 1914, signed in pencil lower left and numbered lower right (33/35). Reference: Laboureur 135, only state, from the edition of...

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1910s Cubist Art

Materials

Etching

Liberté j’écris ton nom.
Liberté j’écris ton nom.

Liberté j’écris ton nom.

By Fernand Léger

Located in New York, NY

Éluard, Paul. Liberté j’écris ton nom. Paris (Seghers), [1953]. Folding broadside (leporello), with continuous color silkscreen by Fernand Léger, integrated with text, extending th...

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1950s Cubist Art

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Screen

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sunrise on the Mediterranean Coast - Landscape
Sunrise on the Mediterranean Coast - Landscape

Sunrise on the Mediterranean Coast - Landscape

Located in Soquel, CA

Vibrant and textured depiction of colorful buildings on the coast by an unknown artist (20th Century). The sky has heavy impasto, adding depth to the composition. The buildings are r...

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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Dynamo (Framed Mid-Century Modern Cubism Painting)
Dynamo (Framed Mid-Century Modern Cubism Painting)

Dynamo (Framed Mid-Century Modern Cubism Painting)

Located in New Orleans, LA

Lech Ostrokow was a Polish painter who, like many artists in the mid-century, picked up the thread of Cubism and created a resurgence of the style. There is a bit of Futurism here as...

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Mid-20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Oil

Roundism – 07-08-22, Painting, Oil on Canvas

Roundism – 07-08-22, Painting, Oil on Canvas

By Corne Akkers

Located in Yardley, PA

A Most Peculiar Photo This work is a conversion of my graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism - 07-08-21 (sold)’ into oil. For the appreciation of the merits of the initial referenc...

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2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Oil

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

Suburban Landscape
Suburban Landscape

Suburban Landscape

By Bela Kadar

Located in London, GB

This is an original ink drawing by the Hungarian artist Bela Kadar. The work is stamped with the "Bela Kadar - Deak Family" stamp at the lower right corner. Provenance: The Istvan a...

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20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

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. ...

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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...

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1970s Cubist Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

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.

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Mid-20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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...

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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

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"...

Category

Late 20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lassitude

Lassitude

By Jean-Emile Laboureur

Located in New York, NY

Jean-Emile Laboureur, Lassitude, 1912, woodcut, signed and numbered (24/35) in pencil. Reference: Sylvain Laboureur 682, third state (of 3). From the edition of about 35, published b...

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1910s Cubist Art

Materials

Woodcut

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