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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
LET PEACE SET YOU FREE
LET PEACE SET YOU FREE

LET PEACE SET YOU FREE

By Alexandra Nechita

Located in Aventura, FL

Serigraph on paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Edition of 229. Image size: 27.5 x 20.5 in. Sheet size: 30.75 x 23.5 in. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certi...

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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

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

Roundism – 04-02-22, Painting, Oil on Other

Roundism – 04-02-22, Painting, Oil on Other

By Corne Akkers

Located in Yardley, PA

Something New This roundism oil painting is quite different from the last roundistic one, called ‘Singularity – 23-12-21’. Whereas the latter was all about the use of shiny ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Oil

Reina (large original painting on canvas)

Reina (large original painting on canvas)

By Fernando Fernandez

Located in Aventura, FL

Original painting on canvas. Hand signed lower front by Fernando Fernandez. Canvas size 36 x 24 inches. Canvas is stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Frame has some minor...

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2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Three Houses on Black, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Three Houses on Black, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By Brian Nash

Located in Yardley, PA

your house or mine? or theirs? :: Painting :: Cubism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Sig...

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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Dragonfly in my garden, , Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Dragonfly in my garden, , Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Dragonfly in my garden, , Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Located in Yardley, PA

Dragonfly in my garden Every afternoon when I come home from school, I invite my friends to the field behind the house to catch dragonflies. Colorful dragonflies flutter around, som...

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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Cards and Chips

Cards and Chips

Located in Los Angeles, CA

We are pleased to offer three works by this artist JANET SNITKOVSKY "HOLDING MASKS" 36 X 36 INCHES OIL PASTEL ON CANVAS Janet Snitkovsky Janet Snitkovsky was born in Chernyakhiv, Ukraine in 1934 and began doing art as a child, but her creativity was temporarily stopped by WWII. After the war, she began her artistic pursiut in high school and eventually enrolled in L’viv Art...

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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel

Joyce Thrice by Grégoire Mathias – Cubist Portrait of James Joyce
Joyce Thrice by Grégoire Mathias – Cubist Portrait of James Joyce

Joyce Thrice by Grégoire Mathias – Cubist Portrait of James Joyce

Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR

Joyce Thrice Acrylic on canvas board 19 × 27 cm (unframed) Signed: Lower right Condition: Excellent, presented in a gilt frame In Joyce Thrice, Grégoire Mathias continues his explor...

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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Green Shoots
Green Shoots

Michael ChanceGreen Shoots, 2021

$2,744Sale Price|68% Off

Green Shoots

Located in Henley-on-Thames, England

Michael Chance (B. 1987) Green Shoots, 2021 Oil on canvas Signed lower left Titled, signed and dated verso 153.5 x 122 cm. Provenance: Michael Chance; Private Collection, United ...

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2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Oil

"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

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...

Category

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

Jeune Fille au Chapeau Blanc

Jeune Fille au Chapeau Blanc

By Jean-Emile Laboureur

Located in New York, NY

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Jeune Fille au Chapeau Blanc, 1921, etching and engraving. Reference: S. Laboureur 223, third state (of 3), edition of 30, about 47 impressions pull...

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1920s Cubist Art

Materials

Engraving, Etching

Paysage au Tunnel

Paysage au Tunnel

By Jean-Emile Laboureur

Located in New York, NY

Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Paysage au Tunnel, etching, 1920, signed in pencil lower left, numbered (19/55 ep) lower right and also titled lower left edge. Reference: Sylvain L...

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1920s 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

Chasseurs de Lion (The Lion Hunters)

Chasseurs de Lion (The Lion Hunters)

By Charles Dufresne

Located in New York, NY

Charles Dufresne (1876-1938), Chasseurs de Lion (The Lion Hunters), etching, aquatint and drypoint, 1921, signed in pencil lower right and numbered (40/40) lower left [also signed in the plate lower center]. Reference: Thomas Dufresne 39. In very good condition, with full margins, on an ivory/tan laid Arches paper, with a (partial) Arches watermark. 11 3/4 x 14 7/8k, the sheet 14 5/8 x 21 3/4 inches. Published by Editions Sagot, with the blindstamp of Edmund Sagot Lugt 2254) bottom margin. A fine rich impression, printed in a brownish/black ink, with substantial drypoint burr. The Lion Hunters is a tour de force of printmaking. Dufresne skillfully utilizes a range of techniques including etching, drypoint, aquatint and perhaps even soft-ground etching. Dufresne’s stunning composition in The Lion Hunters of course shows the influence of both cubism and Parisian School – after all he was born in France and studied at the Edole des Beaux Arts – but it also shows the influence of the years he spent in Africa, and his origins as part of a seafaring family. In 1910 he won the Prix de l’Afrique du Nord...

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1920s Cubist Art

Materials

Drypoint, Aquatint

"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

Tea at Sunset Vibrant Oil On Canvas
Tea at Sunset Vibrant Oil On Canvas

Tea at Sunset Vibrant Oil On Canvas

By Gregor Zamierowski

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Tea at Sunset Vibrant Oil On Canvas, Signed and title. Born 1945 in Poland, lives and active in Canada. His work was exhibited in galleries and Museums of Fine Arts in Canada.

Category

1980s Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"The Loop II" Abstract Figurative Painting 39" x 39" inch by Tasneem El-Meshad
"The Loop II" Abstract Figurative Painting 39" x 39" inch by Tasneem El-Meshad

"The Loop II" Abstract Figurative Painting 39" x 39" inch by Tasneem El-Meshad

By Tasneem El Meshad

Located in Culver City, CA

"The Loop II" Abstract Figurative Painting 39" x 39" inch by Tasneem El-Meshad Acrylic on Canvas Academy of Fine Arts Cairo graduate Tasneem El Meshad describes her art, as “a refl...

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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, 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

Portrait of John F. Kennedy

Portrait of John F. Kennedy

Located in Paonia, CO

Portrait of Kennedy by Cemeli is an original lithograph, limited edition number 52 out of 150 and pencil signed by the artist. Kennedy is portrayed as a sculptured multi-colored hea...

Category

1960s Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Fishing, an elegant summertime hobby., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Fishing, an elegant summertime hobby., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Fishing, an elegant summertime hobby., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Located in Yardley, PA

Fishing, an elegant summertime hobby. Fishing is an elegant pastime. Go fishing, but some people go fishing with the purpose of getting fish. Aim for a quiet, comfortable, distrac...

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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

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

Rote Komposition - Rugg
Rote Komposition - Rugg

Rote Komposition - Rugg

Located in Wien, 9

Fritz Riedl war der Superstar der Textilkunst, der auch international reüssierte und ganz wesentlich dafür verantwortlich ist, dass dieses Genre in Österreich diesen Stellenwert erla...

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20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Wool

"Les Fumeurs", 20th Century Oil on Cardboard by Spanish Artists Francisco Bores
"Les Fumeurs", 20th Century Oil on Cardboard by Spanish Artists Francisco Bores

"Les Fumeurs", 20th Century Oil on Cardboard by Spanish Artists Francisco Bores

By Francisco Bores

Located in Madrid, ES

FRANCISCO BORES Spanish, 1898 - 1972 LES FUMEURS signed & dated "Borès 35" (lower right) titled in pencil "Les Fumeurs", unfinished sketch (head), signed & dated "Bores 36" (on the reverse) oil on cardboard 10-5/8 x 13-3/4 inches (27 x 35 cm.) framed: 15-1/2 x 18-1/2 inches (39.5 x 47 cm.) NOTE: THIS WORK IS ACCOMPANIED BY A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY ISSUED BY “ARCHIVO FRANCISCO BORES”. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Francisco Bores, Reasoned Catalogue, Volume I - Painting 1917-1944, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2003, n° 1935 / 49, reproduced in color p. 281 PROVENANCE Carmen Bores Collection, Francisco Bores daughter Francisco Bores López (Madrid, May 5, 1898 - Paris, May 10, 1972) was a Spanish painter of the so-called New School of Paris. His artistic training originated both in the Cecilio Pla painting academy, where he met Pancho Cossío, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz...

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1930s Cubist Art

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Fantasy
Fantasy

Fantasy

By Bela Kadar

Located in London, GB

BELA KADAR 1877-1956 Budapest 1877-1956 (Hungarian) Title: Fantasy, circa 1940 Technique: Original Hand Signed Gouache on paper size: 46.2 x 29.4 cm / 18.2 x 11.6 in Additional Information: This work is a guache painting by the famous Hungarian artist Bela Kadar. It is hand signed in pencil "Kadar Bela" in the lower right corner of the paper. Exhibitions: New York, Shepherd & Derom Galleries, Hungarian Modernism, 29 April-2 July 2010, no.12. Tel Aviv, Galerie le Minotaure...

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1940s Cubist Art

Materials

Gouache

Pochoir from the Portfolio Les Illuminactions
Pochoir from the Portfolio Les Illuminactions

Pochoir from the Portfolio Les Illuminactions

By Sonia Delaunay

Located in Summit, NJ

Vibrant and bright pochoir on Arches paper by Sonia Delaunay. It is signed and numbered 9/20 in pencil on the front by the artist. On the back, it is stamped: Pochoir exécuté à la ma...

Category

1970s Cubist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Julie by Rene Leroy, French Cubist Figurative Painting on Carton
Julie by Rene Leroy, French Cubist Figurative Painting on Carton

Julie by Rene Leroy, French Cubist Figurative Painting on Carton

Located in Atlanta, GA

Raymond Debieve (1931-2011) Born in northern France as a twin to brother Michel Debieve (who also become an accomplished artist later in life), Raymond painted his entire life. His ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel

JOVEN PRINCESA

JOVEN PRINCESA

By Fernando Fernandez

Located in Aventura, FL

Original painting on canvas. Hand signed lower front by Fernando Fernandez. Canvas is stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reaso...

Category

2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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.