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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
What Kind of Woman is This

What Kind of Woman is This

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Pascal Jarrion was born in Perpignan, France, in 1961. It is a region known for its Catalan culture and an area that has influenced many artists before ...

Category

2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Cubist Nude Bronze Sculpture
Cubist Nude Bronze Sculpture

Cubist Nude Bronze Sculpture

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Cubist Nude Patinated Bronze Sculpture. Dominique Polles' bronze sculptures of female nude edition 2/4 patinated bronze signed and dated 1999. Born in Paris in 1945, young Pollès of...

Category

1990s Cubist Art

Materials

Bronze

Italian City (Cubist cityscape)
Italian City (Cubist cityscape)

Italian City (Cubist cityscape)

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Karl Drerup (1904-2000). Italian City, c.1930. Oil on masonite panel, 24 x 32 inches; 34 x 42 in custom frame. Signed lower right. Minor conservation to loss in margins. Price on request Biography: Born in Borghorst, Germany in 1904, Karl Drerup earned a Master’s Degree in graphic arts working under Hans Meid...

Category

1930s Cubist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Faune et Femme Nue
Faune et Femme Nue

Faune et Femme Nue

By Pablo Picasso

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Faune et Femme Nue" from the portfolio "La Flute Double" published in 1967 is a lithograph on Moulin Richard De Bas paper after artist P...

Category

Mid-20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Song of Europe

Song of Europe

By Maurice Green

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green stu...

Category

1970s Cubist Art

Materials

Oil

Picasso 'Dessins' Original- 1968 Lithograph Vintage
Picasso 'Dessins' Original- 1968 Lithograph Vintage

Picasso 'Dessins' Original- 1968 Lithograph Vintage

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Brooklyn, NY

The Flutiste is an original lithographic poster created by Pablo Picasso in 1968. It was produced to promote a short exhibition of Picasso's works, held at Galerie Louise Leiris from...

Category

1960s Cubist Art

Materials

Offset

Cubist Architectural Ceramic Sculpture by Judy Engel
Cubist Architectural Ceramic Sculpture by Judy Engel

Cubist Architectural Ceramic Sculpture by Judy Engel

By Judy Engel

Located in Hudson, NY

Hand built heavily glazed solid ceramic structure by NY artist Judy Engel. Heavy in weight. Titled: THE STATE DEPARTMENT Solid slabs and sheres create this cubist style sculpture t...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Ceramic, Glaze

Reclining Figure Mid Century Modern Cubist Painting C.1950s
Reclining Figure Mid Century Modern Cubist Painting C.1950s

Reclining Figure Mid Century Modern Cubist Painting C.1950s

Located in San Francisco, CA

Fantastic 1950's Cubist Oil Painting by Mystery Artist. Though undated, this is a classic 1950's painting. A reclining figure under the sun. Original cubist oil painting on masonit...

Category

1950s Cubist Art

Materials

Oil

Cubist Composition, Signed Lithograph by Will Mentor
Cubist Composition, Signed Lithograph by Will Mentor

Cubist Composition, Signed Lithograph by Will Mentor

By Will Mentor

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Will Mentor, American (1958 - ) Title: Cubist Composition Year: 1990 Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 13/75 Paper Size: 33.5 x 24 in. (8...

Category

1990s Cubist Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Sailboats
Sailboats

Sailboats

By Maurice Green

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the day before settling in Los Angeles in the 1930’s. The artist continued his art education and began exhibiting throughout galleries in Southern California. As with many artists, his earliest style was more realist imagery, transitioning through his intense fascination with the cubist avant-garde movement, into specific cubist imagery which became the trademark style of painting for the remainder of his life. This is the first presentation of the paintings of Maurice Green since his death in 1993. "Sailboats ”, is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated 1980, with an image dimension of 20 x 24 inches, set into the original artists wood frame; a painting which clearly defines his talent as a fine cubist artist...

Category

1980s Cubist Art

Materials

Oil

Monumental Cubist Charcoal Drawing Paper on Canvas Signed By Lajos Kantor
Monumental Cubist Charcoal Drawing Paper on Canvas Signed By Lajos Kantor

Monumental Cubist Charcoal Drawing Paper on Canvas Signed By Lajos Kantor

Located in Rome, IT

Outstanding Monumental Artwork Consists of 8 mounted Cubist charcoal drawings mounted on blind canvas frames. Drawing for the Panon University Hall Mosaic Project executed in 1965, City of Veszprem, Hungary. size : 420 x 370 cm cca Lajos Kántor painter, graphic artist 1922 - 2013 Lajos Kántor was a student of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts between 1949 and 1954, where Gyula Hincz, Endre Domanovszky, Bernáth Aurél, and Jenő Barcsay...

Category

1960s Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas

"Shattered Mind" - Colorful Modern Cubist Abstract Mixed Media Self Portrait
"Shattered Mind" - Colorful Modern Cubist Abstract Mixed Media Self Portrait

"Shattered Mind" - Colorful Modern Cubist Abstract Mixed Media Self Portrait

By Masri Hayssam

Located in Carmel, CA

Masri Hayssam (Lebanese, born 1965) "Shattered Mind" 2002 Oil paint, acrylic paint, mixed media, on stretched canvas The artist signed the bottom right and the back of the painting. ...

Category

Early 2000s Cubist Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Kiss, Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture by Mirkò Guida
Kiss, Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture by Mirkò Guida

Kiss, Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture by Mirkò Guida

By Mirko Guida

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Mirkò Guida (Italian, b. 1980) Title: Kiss Year: 2006 Medium: Painted terracotta artistic vase, signed and dated Size: 31 x 19 x 13 in. (78.74 x 48.26 x 33.02 cm)

Category

Early 2000s Cubist Art

Materials

Ceramic, Terracotta

Virility (framed original painting)
Virility (framed original painting)

Virility (framed original painting)

Located in Aventura, FL

Original oil painting on machine made colored paper. Hand signed and dated on front by Ottorino Mancioli. Artwork size: 25.5 x 27.1 inches. Frame size: 37 x 39 inches. The pain...

Category

1930s Cubist Art

Materials

Paper, Oil

Cubist Nude Abstract
Cubist Nude Abstract

CroceCubist Nude Abstract, 1967

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Cubist Nude Abstract

Located in Soquel, CA

Visual texture and colorful cubist nude reminiscent of Picasso's Women of Algiers series. Signed "Croce" lower, right. Unframed. Image, 14"H x 36"W.

Category

1960s Cubist Art

Materials

Crayon, India Ink, Watercolor, Cardboard

At the Cafe, Lithograph by Marcel Mouly

At the Cafe, Lithograph by Marcel Mouly

By Marcel Mouly

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Marcel Mouly, French (1918 - 2008) Title: At the Cafe Year: circa 1977 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 147/225 Size: 29.5 in. x 21 in. (74.93 cm x ...

Category

1970s Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Composition - Lithograph by Ossip Zadkine - 20th Century

Composition - Lithograph by Ossip Zadkine - 20th Century

By Ossip Zadkine

Located in Roma, IT

Composition is a lithograph, realized by Ossip Zadkine Stamped on the lower right. Numbered, edition 43/65 prints. Not signed. Good conditions. The artwork represents an abstract composition through strong strokes in a well-balanced composition. Ossip Zadkine (Vitebsk, 1890 – Neuilly-sur-Seine 1967) , was a Russian-born French naturalized artist. He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs. He was born in present-day Belarus, to a Jewish father and mother of Scottish descent. After attending the London art school, Zadkine settled in Paris around 1910. There he joined the Cubist movement (1914-1925), later he developed his own style, strongly influenced by African art. His best-known work is The Destroyed City (1951-1953), a statue commemorating the destruction of the Dutch city...

Category

20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Profil Grec - original modern lithograph by classical modernist Georges Braque
Profil Grec - original modern lithograph by classical modernist Georges Braque

Profil Grec - original modern lithograph by classical modernist Georges Braque

By Georges Braque

Located in Hamburg, DE

"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...

Category

Mid-20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

The Keeper
The Keeper

The Keeper

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....

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Suzanne Benton, Caught in the Dark Waters of Life, 2024, oil, Spiritualism

Suzanne Benton, Caught in the Dark Waters of Life, 2024, oil, Spiritualism

By Suzanne Benton

Located in Darien, CT

In this ninth decade of life, and as a working artist for nearly70 years, Suzanne Benton has become interested in the concept of Late Style as described by the literary theorist Edward Said. “Each of us can supply evidence of late works, which crown a lifetime of aesthetic endeavor,” Matisse had it with his renowned paper cuts. While nearly blind, Monet created the water lily paintings as his final legacy to the history of art.  Benton's Late Style arrived as a surprise during the Covid pandemic. The resultant aloneness from sheltering in place brought her to an uncanny level of solitude that only painting could voice. She reached for the purest of colors, and entered a celebratory world to create the Neo-Transcendental paintings titled All About Color. The disappeared narrative came as a surprise. It had been the mainstay of the masks and mask tale performances, monoprints and paintings. This time though, the artist needed to bring a vibrancy to canvas, and to make tangible this sense of sheer essence that had pressed into her inner self in that time of stillness. Well educated in color by John Ferren, the abstract expressionist painter who’d taught the year’s color study at Queen College. The sensitivity developed further through four lengthy art-working journeys to India, starting in 1976-77, continuing with a 1992-1993 Fulbright, and additional South Asia residencies in 1995, and 2011. Those and others in Africa brought an ever more attuned palette to decades of monoprints with Chine collé that featured imagery from world culture, as well as her Americana of 19th and 20th century women writers, educators, suffragists, and feminists. These Late Style artworks explore the cosmic realm. Its deceptive simplicity reminds Benton of Buffie Johnson’s late work. She, an early celebrator of Great Goddess imagery turned to circles in her latter years. similarly, Benton had drawn on rich Goddess imagery since the 1970’s...

Category

2010s Cubist Art

Materials

Oil, Board, Gesso, Birch

Pablo Picasso, Untitled, from Carmen, 1949
Pablo Picasso, Untitled, from Carmen, 1949

Pablo Picasso, Untitled, from Carmen, 1949

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite engraving by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Picasso, Carmen (Picasso, Carmen), originates from the 1949 edition published by L...

Category

1940s Cubist Art

Materials

Engraving

Kai Zhang Cubism Original Oil On Canvas "Untitled 4"
Kai Zhang Cubism Original Oil On Canvas "Untitled 4"

Kai Zhang Cubism Original Oil On Canvas "Untitled 4"

Located in New York, NY

Title: Untitled 4 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 24 x 19.5inches Frame: Framing options available! Age: 2000s Condition: Painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Oil

Fernand Leger, Untitled, from Circus, 1950
Fernand Leger, Untitled, from Circus, 1950

Fernand Leger, Untitled, from Circus, 1950

By Fernand Léger

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Fernand Leger (1881–1955), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Cirque, Lithographies Originales (Circus, Original Lithographs), originates from ...

Category

1950s Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

JASPER JOHNS Two Cups Picasso, Lithograph Pop Art Vintage

JASPER JOHNS Two Cups Picasso, Lithograph Pop Art Vintage

By Jasper Johns

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Currently framed in a light wood frame with a face profile width of .5 inch and side profile depth of 1 inches with plexiglass. The overall outside dimensions of the frame are 8.5 X...

Category

1990s Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Geometric Figure #25
Geometric Figure #25

Geometric Figure #25

By Dave Fox

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist: David Fox (American, 1920-2011) Title: Geometric Figure #25 Year: 2002 Medium: Acrylic on paper Paper: Watercolor paper Image size: 8 x 12...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Mythology : Hera
Mythology : Hera

Mythology : Hera

By (after) Georges Braque

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...

Category

Late 20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Spring - American Cubism
Spring - American Cubism

Spring - American Cubism

By Max Weber

Located in Miami, FL

Cubist influence mixed with soft warm colors is on full display in this charming work. Signed twice. 6 Gallery Tags on verso Sotheby's Kennedy Galleries Barbara Mathes Gallery Sid Deutsch Gallery The Downtown Gallery University of Arizona Art...

Category

1910s Cubist Art

Materials

Pastel

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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.