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MODERN STYLE

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
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Ex Libris - Maccel Jonckheece - Woodcut - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Maccel Jonckheece is a Modern Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Woodcut print on paper.  The work is glued on a cardboard. Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Ex Libris - Elis Bejves Bok - Woodcut - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Elis Bejves Bok is a Modern Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Woodcut print on paper.  The work is glued on a cardboard. Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Ex Libris - Hennie Timmer - Woodcut - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Hennie Timmer is a Modern Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Woodcut print on paper.  The work is glued on a cardboard. Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Ex Libris - Simon Bernteen - Woodcut - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Simon Bernteen is a Modern Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Woodcut print on paper.  The work is glued on a cardboard. Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun ! by BATIK Oversize Limited Print
Located in London, GB
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun ! by BATIK BATIK is an increasingly collectable pop artist currently living and working in London. The artist is purposely elusive with their true identit...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Large Venezuelan Modernist Lithograph "The Balcony #3" Color Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Marius Sznajderman was a painter, printmaker and scenic designer living and working in the United States. Born in Paris, France in 1926 his Jewish parents had migrated to France from Poland in 1923. In November 1942 the family fled Nazi-occupied France for Spain before settling in Caracas, Venezuela. He attended the School of Fine Arts in Caracas where his teachers included illustrator Ramon Martin Durban, scenic designer Charles Ventrillon-Horber and painter Rafael Monasterios. and immigrated to the United States in 1949, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in New York. He settled in Hackensack, New Jersey, where he lived and had a studio for more than 50 years before moving to Amherst, Massachusetts in 2015. His work, which includes painting, prints and collages, as well as set designs, is in more than 45 museum and public institution collections in the United States, Latin America and Israel. He held more than 40 solo exhibitions at galleries and museums and participated in more than 75 group shows around the globe. He helped found the Taller Libre de Arte, an experimental workshop for the visual arts, sponsored by the Ministry of Education. The Taller Libre de Arte was a center for young artists to work and to meet with critics and intellectuals to discuss avant-garde ideas and artistic trends from Europe and Latin America. Among the notable artists who participated in the Taller Libre de Arte were Ramón Vásquez Brito, Carlos González Bogen, Luis Guevara Moreno, Mateo Manaure, Virgilio Trómpiz...
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20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Les Pas Perdus - Rare Book illustrated by André Breton - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Edition not available. Partially uncut. Excellent conditions.
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1920s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

Murat Morova - "Dil + Suret Composition" - modern turkish art - ready-to-hang
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Shipping costs on request size per piece 88cm x 57cm Murat Morova "Dil + Suret Composition" set of four. Gouache and mixed media art work collage. Hand-ma...
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20th Century Modern Art

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Mixed Media

Corralled Horse (Artists Proof), 1940s Framed American Modernist Horse Etching
Located in Denver, CO
"Corralled Horse", is an etching on paper by western artist Ethel Magafan (1916-1993) of a single dark horse standing outside in a wooden fenced corral. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 19 x 23 inches. Image size is 10 x 14 inches. This is marked as an Artist Proof Piece is in very good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Provenance: Estate of Artist, Ethel Magafan Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Ethel Magafan Born 1916 Died 1993 The daughter of a Greek immigrant father and a Polish immigrant mother who met and married in Chicago, Ethel Magafan, her identical twin sister Jenne and their elder sister Sophie grew up in Colorado to which their father relocated the family in 1919. They initially lived in Colorado Springs where he worked as a waiter at the Antlers Hotel before moving to Denver in 1930 to be head waiter at the Albany Hotel. Two years later during the Great Depression Ethel and Jenne experienced at sixteen the tragic loss of their father who had encouraged their artistic aspirations. He was proud when Ethel, a student at Morey Junior High School, won top prizes in student poster contests sponsored by the Denver Chamber of Commerce and the Denver Post. At East High School in Denver she and Jenne contributed their art talents to the school’s and by their senior year were co-art editors of the Angelus, the 1933 yearbook. At East they studied art with Helen Perry, herself a student of André Lhote in Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago. Her decision to abandon an arts career to teach high school students served as an important example to Ethel and Jenne, who early on had decided to become artists. In a city-wide Denver competition for high school art students Ethel won an eighteenweek art course in 1932-33 to study at the Kirkland School of Art which artist Vance Kirkland had recently established in the Mile High City. Perry encouraged the Magafan twins’ talent, exposing them to the work of Matisse, Picasso and Cézanne and introducing them to local artists and architects like Frank Mechau and Jacques Benedict whom she invited to speak in her high school art classes. She paid the modest tuition for Ethel and Jenne to study composition, color, mural designing and painting at Mechau’s School of Art in downtown Denver in 1933-34. In the summer of 1934 and for a time in 1936 they apprenticed with him at his studio in Redstone, Colorado. When they returned to Denver in 1934 with no family breadwinner to support them, their mother insisted that they have real jobs so they worked as fashion artists in a Denver department store. When Jenne won the Carter Memorial Art Scholarship ($90.00) two years later, she shared it with Ethel so that both of them could enroll in the Broadmoor Art Academy (now the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) where they studied with Mechau. When the scholarship money ran out after two months, he hired them as his assistants. Along with Edward (Eduardo) Chavez and Polly Duncan, they helped him with his federal government mural commissions. At the Fine Arts Center Ethel also studied with Boardman Robinson and Peppino Mangravite, who hired her and Jenne in 1939 to assist him in his New York studio with two murals commissioned for the post office in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Like their Denver high school art teacher, Robinson also stressed the need to draw from nature in order to "feel" the mountains, which later become the dominant subject matter of Ethel’s mature work after World War II. Mechau trained her and her sister in the complex process of mural painting while they studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, teaching them the compositional techniques of the European Renaissance masters. This also involved library research for historical accuracy, small scale drawing, and Page 2 of 4 the hand-making of paints and other supplies. Ethel recalled that their teacher "was a lovely man but he was a hard worker. He drove us. There was no fooling around." Her apprenticeship with Mechau prepared her to win four national government competitions, beginning at age twenty-two, for large murals in U.S. post offices: Threshing – Auburn, Nebraska (1938), Cotton Pickers – Wynne, Arkansas (1940), Prairie Fire – Madill, Oklahoma (1940), and The Horse Corral – South Denver, Colorado (1942). In preparation for their commissions Ethel and her sister made trips around the country to pending mural locations, driving their beat-up station wagon, dressed in jeans and cowboy boots with art supplies and dogs in tow. She and Jenne combined their talents in the mural, Mountains in Snow, for the Department of Health and Human Services Building in Washington, DC (1942). A year later Ethel executed her own mural, Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814, for the Recorder of Deeds Building, also in Washington, DC. Her first mural commission, Indian Dance, done in 1937 under the Treasury Department Art Project for the Senate Chamber in the United States Capitol, has since disappeared. Ethel and her sister lived and worked in Colorado Springs until 1941 when their residence became determined by the wartime military postings of Jenne’s husband, Edward Chavez. They moved briefly to Los Angeles (1941-42) and then to Cheyenne, Wyoming, while he was stationed at Fort Warren, and then back to Los Angeles for two years in 1943. While in California, Ethel and Jenne executed a floral mural for the Sun Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel and also painted scenes of the ocean which they exhibited at the Raymond and Raymond Galleries in Beverly Hills. While in Los Angeles they met novelist Irving Stone, author of Lust for Life, who told them about Woodstock, as did artists Arnold Blanch and Doris Lee (both of whom previously taught at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center school. In summer of 1945 Ethel, her sister and brother-in-law drove their station wagon across the country to Woodstock which became their permanent home. A year later Ethel married artist and musician, Bruce Currie, whom she met in Woodstock. In 1948 with the help of the GI Bill they purchased an old barn there that also housed their individual studios located at opposite ends of the house. The spatial arrangement mirrors the advice she gave her daughter, Jenne, also an artist: "Make sure you end up with a man who respects your work…The worst thing for an artist is to be in competition with her husband." In 1951 Ethel won a Fulbright Scholarship to Greece where she and her husband spent 1951-52. In addition to extensively traveling, sketching and painting the local landscape, she reconnected with her late father’s family in the area of Messinia on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece. At the same time, her sister Jenne accompanied Chavez on his Fulbright Scholarship to Italy where they spent a productive year painting and visiting museums. Shortly after returning home, Jenne’s career was cut tragically short when she died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age thirty-six. It deeply affected Ethel whose own work took on a somber quality for several years conveyed by a darkish palette, as seen in her tempera painting, Aftermath (circa 1952). In the 1940s Ethel and her sister successfully made the important transition from government patronage to careers as independent artists. Ethel became distinguished for her modernist landscapes. Even though Ethel became a permanent Woodstock resident after World War II, from her childhood in Colorado she retained her love of the Rocky Mountains, her "earliest source of my lifelong passion for mountain landscape." She and her husband began returning to Colorado for annual summer camping trips on which they later were joined by their daughter, Jenne. Ethel did many sketches and drawings of places she found which had special meaning for her. They enabled her to recall their vital qualities which she later painted in her Woodstock studio, conveying her feeling about places remembered. She also produced a number of watercolors and prints of the Colorado landscape that constituted a departure from the American Scene style of her earlier paintings. Her postwar creative output collectively belongs to the category of landscape abstractionists as described by author Sheldon Cheney, although to a greater or lesser degree her work references Colorado’s mountainous terrain. She introduced a palette of stronger pastels in her paintings such as two temperas, Evening Mountains from the 1950s and Springtime in the Mountains from the early 1960s. In 1968 she was elected an Academician by the National Academy of Design in New York. Two years later, based on results of her many summer trips to Colorado, the U.S. Department of the Interior invited her to make on-the-spot sketches of the western United States, helping to document the water resources development and conservation efforts by the Department of the Interior. Her sketches were exhibited at the National Gallery in Washington, DC, and then sent on a national tour by the Smithsonian Institution. Similarly, her previous work as a muralist earned her a final commission at age sixty-three for a 12 by 20 foot Civil War image, Grant in the Wilderness, installed in 1979 in the Chancellorsville Visitors Center at the Fredericksburg National Military Park in Virginia. In the 1970s, too, she taught as Artist-in-Residence at Syracuse University and at the University of Georgia in Athens. Her many awards include, among others, the Stacey Scholarship (1947); Tiffany Fellowship (1949); Fulbright Grant (1951-52, in Greece with her husband); Tiffany Fellowship (1949); Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize, National Academy of Design (1955); Medal of Honor, Audubon, Artists (1962); Henry Ward Granger Fund Purchase Award, National Academy of Design (1964); Childe Hassam Fund Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1970); Silver Medal, Audubon Artists (1983); Champion International Corporation Award, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, Connecticut (1984); John Taylor Award, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1985); Harrison Cady...
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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Paper

Early Drawing and Watercolor Painting Figurative Abstraction
By Mitch Becker
Located in Surfside, FL
Mitchell Mitch Becker, painter, born November 12, 1938, Chicago, Illinois. 1972, Emigrated to Israel. Education 1961 - School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois. Bachelor of Art Education, 1971 - University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Master of Fine Arts, Teaching 1968-1972 High School, Skokie, USA. 1973-1974 Thelma Yellin Art School, Givatayim 1974-1976 Institute of Visual Art, Beersheba 1977-1981 Art Teachers College, Ramat Hasharon 1981-1982 Bezalel, Jerusalem Awards And Prizes 1958-61, Anna Tucson Scholarship, USA Mitchell Becker emerged into the art world of late 1950s Chicago, between gestures of Abstract Expressionism and declarations about the "death of painting." The hot names of his youth, such as Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Larry Rivers, provided him with interest and challenges for years to come, and his awe for them is still evident in his voice to date, many years after drawing away from them. This work is reminiscent of the work of Saul Steinberg and Philip Guston. Heroes - Past and Present, Yad Labanim Museum, Petach-Tikva Artists: Shalom Moskowitz, (Shalom of Safed) Yohanan Simon, Boris Schatz, Motti Mizrachi, Hanan Milner, Mitchell Becker, Edith Samuel, Ludwig Schwerin, Igael Tumarkin, Talia Tokatly. EDUCATION: 1971 Master of Fine Arts,University of Chicago, Illinois 1961 Bachelor of Art Education School...
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1960s Modern Art

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Watercolor

Crying Clown Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Crying Clown Portrait in Oil on Canvas Portrait of a sad clown by San Francisco artist John Peers (American, 1922-2009). This portrait is closely fra...
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1970s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sick - Drawing by Jean Cocteau - 1934
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch realized for the book "Les Enfants Terribles". Unsigned and undated. Matting included. Very good conditions. Ref. Jean Cocteau, Poesia Grafica - Disegni dal 1921 al 1957. 
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1930s Modern Art

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Paper, Ink

'Fishing Boats, Brittany', French Coast, School of Paris, Post-Impressionist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'J M Hubert' (French, 20th century) and painted circa 1965. A mid-century modernist, panoramic view of fishing boats before a sage green light house from this Fr...
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1960s Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

'River View' — 1940s American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'River View, color serigraph, 1942, edition 50, Ryan 159. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled, dated, and annotated '9 COLORS – 50 PRINTS' in the screen,...
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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Horse - Lithograph by Jacques Van Melkebeke - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Horse is a lithograph realize by Jacques Van Melkebeke in 1961. Good conditions. Numbered.Edition 1/25 The artwork is represented through soft strokes.
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Modernist Israeli Judaica Mixed Media Painting Rabbis Walking In Jerusalem
Located in Surfside, FL
Moshe Katz (Romanian Israeli), 1937- an Israeli citizen, studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, as well as at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Although not an exponent of one dominating technique of painting, Moshe has been fascinated in recent months with the textures and expressions he is able to obtain with the pallette knife. Picasso, Cezanne and Gaugin are his idols, and the power of Mexican art has a deep fascination for him. With elements of Folk Art combined with a sophisticated technique. He enjoys working in clay but finds painting in oil his greatest outlet for the stories he has to tell through his pictures. In addition to an outstanding collection of books featuring the works of the great masters, his shelves are lined with texts about hypnosis. Studying about the art of hypnotizing provides him with a mental exercise far removed from his highly developed art of expressing himself on canvas. He has exhibited with the Painters and Sculptors Association in Israel, Haifa and the North along with artists: Yaacov Agam, Sela (Blaustein), Emanuel Pinhassi, Pasternak, Anna, Chaltiel, Joseph Schwartz, Nira Shemer, Aviva, Fadel, Mohamed Bishara, Sana, Menashe Kadishman, Menashe Shalhevet, Yitzchak Frumin, Moshe Rosen, Maureen Moshe was born March 2, 1937 in Bucherest, Romania with his parents, he fled from the Nazis and after stops in many countries, reached Israel. His paintings have been displayed by Arts International...
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20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Le French CanCan from La Ville
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph by Fernand Leger is from the portfolio entitled "La Ville" (The City) which consists of 29 lithographs featuring scenes of people, life and emotions of Paris. The art...
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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Marc Chagall ”La Femme du Peintre”.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marc Chagall (Russia/France 1887‑1985). ”La Femme du Peintre”. Signed and numbered Marc Chagall 35/50. Color lithograph on Arches, Framed 39.25H x 33W x 2D inches Image 63 x ...
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1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

I Have A Dream by BATIK Oversize Limited Print
Located in London, GB
I Have A Dream by BATIK BATIK is an increasingly collectable pop artist currently living and working in London. The artist is purposely elusive with their true identity, sex and ag...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

David Bowie Singing on Stage - Oversize Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
David Bowie Singing on Stage by Globe Photo Archives This color capture features David Bowie singing on stage in 1986. David Bowie was an Englis...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ex libris - Kertész Karoly - Woodcut by József Kiss - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Ex libris - Kertész Karoly is an Artwork realized in 1964, by József Kiss.  Woodcut print on ivory paper.  The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimensions: 21.5x14.5 cm. Good co...
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1960s Modern Art

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Paper, Woodcut

Le Gardien du Feu - Rare Book illustrated by Méheut - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 143 copies. One of 25 copies on pur fil. Near perfect conditions and partially uncut.  Louis Aragon was born in 1897 and died in 1982. He was a French poet and writer,long...
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1920s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

Le Pèse-Nerfs - Rare Book illustrated by Antonin Artaud - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
Antonin Artaud, Le Pèse-Nerfs, suivi des Fragments d'un Journal d'Enfer. Edition ornée d'un frontispice par Andé Masson, Les Cahiers du Sud, Marseille 1927. Uncut. Edition decorated ...
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1920s Modern Art

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Paper

Martha
Located in Waunakee, WI
Martha - 8"x10" Mixed Media Painting on Canvas in Vintage Repurposed Solid Wood Frame My work is inspired by the beauty that I find in the ordinary and imperfect; it tells a short...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Acrylic, Watercolor

Crepapelle - Risate - Rare Book by Luciano Folgore - 1919
Located in Roma, IT
First edition of the famous collection of short stories by L. Folgore (Roma, 1888 – Roma, 1966), one of the most relevant literature personalities in 1900 Italy. Folgore was an impor...
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1920s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

Ex libris - Dr. Gombos Laszlo - Woodcut by Zoltan Perei - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
 Ex libris - Dr. Gombos Laszlo is an Artwork realized in 1974 by the artist Zoltan Perei, from Hungary. Woodcut print on ivory paper. The work is glued on ivory cardboard. Total di...
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1920s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Marthe - Rare Book illustrated by Auguste Brouet - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 221 copies including 29 original etchings by Auguste Brouet. One of the 160 copies on Vélin d'Arches, with the definitive state of etching. Original editorial soft cover o...
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1930s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

A Dream - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
A dream is an artwork realized by Sergio Barletta, 1960s.  Etching, 50 x 34 cm. Edition 2/25 Handsigned lower right bottom. Good conditions
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Ex libris - Maurice Leysen - Etching by Jeff Van Leysen - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex libris -  Maurice  Leysen is an Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century by the Artist Jeff Van Leysen. Woodcut print on ivory paper. Signed on plate on back. The work is glued on or...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Etching

Big Day Coming - Limited Edition
Located in Waunakee, WI
Big Day Coming - 18x24 Hand Signed and Numbered - Number 1 of 10 Limited Edition Giclée Print in 24x36 Vintage Distressed Gold Finish Frame My work is inspired by the beauty that...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Giclée

La Nencia da Barberin - Etching by Luigi Bartolini - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
La Nencia da Barberino is a limited edition book that contains an original precious etching realized by Luigi Bartolini . Published by Bucciarelli. Printed by Tipografia Giovagnoli,...
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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Original Rome Fly TWA Jets vintage American travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Rome Fly TWA Jets vintage travel poster. Conservation linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. This is the earlier edition of the image Before ‘up up and away’! TWA (Trans World Airlines) was formed in 1924 as Transcontinental & Western Air. The airline's first route was from New York to Los Angeles, followed by multiple National routes. The airline expanded to serve Europe, the Middle East, and Asia after WWII when the company was under Howard Hughes's owner's control from 1939 until 1961. Hughes was a dominant force in expanding and promoting his company's routes. The economy was vastly improving, and travel by air for business and pleasure increased, too. Posters were a crucial element in promoting this form of travel and TWA. The airline started a decline in the 1970s, ending in a third bankruptcy that caused its acquisition by American Airlines in 2001. The airline operated in 132 destinations worldwide and had a fleet size of 190. This Rome poster was created by the gifted American artist David Klein (1918 -2005), and depicts a member of the Pontifical Swiss Guard in the center wearing the iconic yellow, blue, and red uniform. The Guard is playing a drum that has the pontifical emblem. In the background, we see a representation of the ancient Roman Coliseum and the Baroque...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Guatemalan Latin American Oil Painting Modernist Porch Scene
By Rolando Aguilar
Located in Surfside, FL
Rolando Aguilar was born in the year 1957. He studied at the Municipal School of Plastic Arts of Quetzaltenango. He has presented personal exhibitions and participated in more than 50 collective exhibitions in Quito, Ecuador, Taiwan, Norway, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Canada. He was director of the Regional School of Art "Humberto Garavito", of Quetzaltenango. He has won Gold and Bronze glyphs at the Art Paiz Biennial (1980, 1982 and 1984) and two awards at the Arturo Martínez Contest. Efrain Recinos...
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1970s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Ponti sull’Oceano-Versi Liberi e Parole... - Rare Book by Luciano Folgore - 1914
Located in Roma, IT
First edition of one of the most important volumes of the Futurist literature. Collection of poems by Luciano Folgore, composed between 1912 and 1914. Includes an hand written ink wr...
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1910s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

Ex Libris - Woodcut - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris is a Modern Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Woodcut print on paper.  The work is glued on a cardboard. Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

La Revolte des Anges - Rare Book illustrated by Siméon - 1921
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful edition of 1000 copies. Copy on Japon Imperial paper. Includes etchings by Siméon. Illustrated cover. Spine lightly damaged in both top and bottom. Uncut and in superb cond...
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1920s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

Origiinal Boston Fly TWA Jets vintage American travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
TWA (Trans World Airlines) was formed in 1924 as Transcontinental & Western Air. The airline's first route was from New York to Los Angeles, followed by multiple National routes. The airline expanded to serve Europe, the Middle East, and Asia after WWII when the company was under Howard Hughes's owner's control from 1939 until 1961. Hughes was a dominant force in expanding and promoting his company's routes. The economy was vastly improving, and travel by air for business and pleasure increased, too. Posters were a crucial element in promoting this form of travel and TWA. The airline started a decline in the 1970s, ending in a third bankruptcy that caused its acquisition by American Airlines in 2001. The airline operated in 132 destinations worldwide and had a fleet size of 190. The Boston FLY TWA shows a three-masted schooner in the background, a large colonial drum in the center with an American Eagle...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Paludes - Rare Book by R. De La Fresnaye - 1921
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 312 copies on Papier Velin Lafuma-Navarre including six original lithographes by R. De La Fresnaye. Perfect Conditions. Partially Uncut.
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1920s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

Ex Libris For Giorgio Balbi - Woodcut - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris For Giorgio balbi, realized by Pietro Parigi in 1947. It includes passepartout, 30 x 24 cm. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin. Good conditions.
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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Palazzo dei Cesari - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo dei Cesari is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century. Titled on the lower. Good conditions except for some foxing.
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Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Almanacco dell'Asino 1902 - Rare Book - 1902
Located in Roma, IT
Almanac of the popular magazine " L'Asino ", founded in 1892 by Guido Podrecca (Goliardo) and Gabriele Galantara (Ratalanga), considered as one of the most important twentieth-centur...
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

Ex libris-Giovanni Botta - Woodcut by Giulio Cisari - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
 Ex libris - Giovanni Botta is an Artwork realized in 1958 by the artist Giulio Cisari. Etching on colored paper. The work is glued on ivory cardboard. Total dimensions: 18x14 cm. ...
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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Ex Libris - G. J. V. D. Veen - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
 Ex Libris - G. J. V. D. Veen is a Modern Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Woodcut print on paper.  The work is glued on a cardboard. Good conditions.
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Chrysler View - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Chrysler View A view of the Chrysler Building from Grand Central Station in New York City, New York. by Stuart Möller Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown ...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Festival of Two Worlds - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Festival of two worlds is an artwork realized by Mino Maccari, in 1960s.  Watercolour, draft number 195.  Handsigned in pencil, lower right margin. 35 x 28 cm, it includes passepa...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Palm Blue House - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Palm Blue House A tall palm tree stretches above the shell of a blue coloured house near Galle, Sri Lanka. by Stuart Möller Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having ...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Poeti allo Specchio - Rare Book by Luciano Folgore - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Collection of parodic texts by Luciano Folgore (Roma, 1888- Roma, 1966), one of the most important futurist poets. The texts are the parodies of the characters and the texts of some ...
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1920s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

I want to be a teddy bear
Located in MAURS, FR
"When I grow up I want to be A TEDY BEAR so everybody wants to cuddle with me, I like hugs When I grow up is an enchanting collection that takes you on an interesting journey, explo...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Clay, Stoneware, Glaze, Underglaze

Great Buffalo Medicine Man
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Great Buffalo Medicine Man Mixed media collage Signed in pencil lower right Title on reverse Sheet size: 47 x 34 inches Condition: Tear in paper along right edge Color fresh Usual wrinkles for a paper collage Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, friend, patron and noted collector of Longstreet Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002) The artist’s own grandchildren attempt to fathom the real life and nature of Stephen Longstreet, prolific author, artist, screenplay writer, and jazz aficionado. Born Chauncy Weiner (sometimes spelled Wiener) in New York City in 1907, Longstreet reinvented himself on a regular basis. Changing his name first to “Henry,” then “Henri,” he started his career as a commercial artist for a department store. In various public biographies he claimed to have studied in New York, London, and Paris, and said he was a student of cartoonist Ralph Barton...
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20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Antique Signed European Framed Village Signed Orientalist Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist abstract village painting. Oil on board. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 24L x 12H. Signed.
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1920s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ex Libris - Wagtman - Woodcut - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Wagtman is a Modern Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Woodcut print on paper.  The work is glued on a cardboard. Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Israeli Modernist Safed Synagogue Interior Folk Art Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
In this piece the artist choice of colors is vibrant, and there is minimal blending of them. The artist takes a naive, Folk Art approach at rendering the subject simplifying the figu...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Ex Libris - M.H. Siepman - Woodcut - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - M.H. Siepman is a Modern Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Woodcut print on paper.  The work is glued on a cardboard. Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
A whimsical fish sits placidly in the center of Pablo Picasso ceramic Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate), 1947 A.R. 21. A sweeping light blue back and a peach colored belly make up the body of the fish. Light blue fins crown the back of the fish and a delicate tail parts off the back. Dashes of yellow encircle the rim of the creamy colored bowl, brightening the entire work and creating a dreamy abstracted pattern around the fish. The colors emit a tropical sensation, reminding the viewer of the warmth of the sun and the salty taste of the ocean air. Picasso, who often riffs on ancient Greek...
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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Clay, Earthenware, Glaze

Bone Diseases - Lithograph By Ottavio Muzzi - 1843
Located in Roma, IT
Bone Diseases is a lithograph hand colored by Ottavio Muzzi for the edition of Antoine Chazal,Human Anatomy, Printers Batelli and Ridolfi, realized in 1843. Signed on plate on the lo...
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1840s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Gilmour Coat of Arms, Watercolour Stained Glass Design, Jane Gray
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of watercolour stained glass designs from Jane Gray's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller...
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Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Oil on Canvas Still Life Painting of Flowers and Lavender Framed and Signed
Located in Plainview, NY
A gorgeous oil on canvas painting in a pastel tone depicting a vase with white flowers and lavenders in a vase. The painting is beautifully framed in a custom gilt carved wood frame ...
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1990s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Massachusetts Mist - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Massachusetts Mist A heron in his chosen hunting spot on a misty New England summer morning in Marion, Massachusetts USA. by Stuart Möller Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-In...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

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