Modern Art
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
Color: Blue
Slim Aarons 'Sea Drive'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Sea Drive
1967
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity.
Film producer Kevin McClory takes his wife Bobo Segrist and th...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Meridian Club'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Swimming Pool at Meridian Club
1981
C-print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The pool at the Meridian Club, owned ...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
Portrait of Mary Magdalene - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Mary Magdalene is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist in the early 20th century.
Original pen drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on colored cardboard ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Pen
Forma II
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Carmen Anzano is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist who works with painting, sculpture and installations to showcase an interpretation of her personal universe of geometry and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Acrylic
Sketch for a Bas-Relief - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Bas-Relief is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist int he early 20th Century.
Original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on colored cardboard ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Pencil
Wild Violets, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This original, abstracted impressionist floral painting is stretched on a textured 1.5" deep gallery wrap canvas. Only the finest professional quality acrylic paints were used in th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Acrylic
Naked of Boy - Original Pen Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Naked of Boy is an original pen drawing realized by an artist of the early 20th Century.
Good condition, no signature.
Mounted on a light blue cardboard passpartout ( 24x21.5 cm).
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Pen
Lake Placid
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born and raised in Sacramento, Stephen Bruce is a talented artist, who has been creating acid paintings on copper for many years.
Patinas on metal can be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Contemporary Cyanotype Monotype of Mid Century Shapes Under Water in Cold Tones
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes.
It's made by layering paper cutouts and different exposures using uv-light.
Details:
+ Title: Mid Century Shapes...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Photogram, Monotype, Color, C Print, Photographic Pap...
Portrait of Christ - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Christ is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist in the early 20th century.
Original pen drawing on ivory-colored paper...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Pen
'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
Produced from the original transpare...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Apocalypse
By Jean Carzou
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Apocalypse" 1957 is a original colors lithograph on Arches paper by noted French artist Jean Carzou, 1907-2000. It is hand signed, dated and inscribed "Epreuve d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Modernist architecture, Andy Burgess, Villa Savoye
By Andy Burgess
Located in London, GB
Signed, dated recto
Acrylic on Canvas over Panel
114.3 x 152.4 cm
45 x 60 in.
(AB281)
Andy Burgess is known for his renditions of modernist and mid-century architecture, panoramic c...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Panel
The Tunic - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Tunic is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist in the early 20th century.
Original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on colored cardboard (21.5 x 24 cm)...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Pencil
'Palm Beach Ladies' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Beach Ladies' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
American socialite Wendy Vanderbilt (right) and another woman wearing Lilly Pulitzer ...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Color
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Sports 1958 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Sports - Oversize
Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Chromogenic print
paper size 30 x 20"...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
C Print, Color
'Stocking Island, Bahamas' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Stocking Island, Bahamas' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A high angle view of people swimming next to the ketch 'Traveler II' , Stock...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Color
Tom Kelley 'Corky Carroll at Zuma Beach'
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Corky Carroll at Zuma beach
c. 1960's
C print
30 x 38 inches
Edition of 25
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster)
estate signed and numbered in the border
Caption: Woman Lying in Bed Portrait
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than four decades: first started as an apprentice in a New York photo studio that catered to the city's upper 400 (i.e. photographing the Vanderbilts, the Astors, the Harrimans, the Morgans, etc.). One of his biggest spot news assignments was covering the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
Coming to California, Kelley was retained to photograph the stars created by David 0. Selznick and Samuel Goldwyn including Ingrid Bergman. A few of his other most famous subjects have been Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Winston Churchill, Bob Hope, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Jack Benny, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt and, of course, Marilyn Monroe, with and without clothes. His easiest photo subject? Clark Gable. His toughest? Joan Bennett.
Following a long and profitable career helping to publicize motion picture personalities, he drifted the commercial advertising/photography field where he has remained as one of the leading exponents in the business. Of course, his most famous image was of Marilyn Monroe nude...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
La Terre, la Merre, el Ciel, et un Bouton d'or
Located in ATLANTA, GA
"In the fullness of pictorial space, to make an absolute statement and impose something of your own reality."
B.T.
Bertrand Tremblay was born in Le...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Tropical Vintage Painting of Duo of Colorful Seaweed, Purple, Yellow, Diptych
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Duo of Colorful Seaweed" is an acrylic painting on high-quality watercolor paper of minimal botanical algae, drawn and painted in the style of Henry Matisse...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache
Brave - Ocean Inspired Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reminiscent of the Fauvist movement and Italian classicism, Italian artist Giuseppe Beddru’s bold outlines, dynamic brushstrokes and contrasting use of color make his work visually e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Plexiglass
Slim Aarons 'Private Island, Philippines' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Private Island, Philippines
1973
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Guests relax on the bea...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
'Sea Drive' 1967 Bahamas Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sea Drive' Bahamas 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Film producer Kevin McClory takes his wife Bobo Sigrist and their family for a drive in an 'Amphicar' across the harbour ...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Henry Fonda by Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days.
Currency fluctuations may cause the price to change.
This is a contemporary print from the Getty Archive using Slim Aarons negatives.
Please contact the gallery for information about other smaller print sizes.
All prints feature a Slim Aarons blindstamp, and are accompanied by a Slim Aarons Certificate of Authentication issued by Getty.
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
"Henry Fonda...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Lambda, C Print
Blues Night, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Karen Moehr
Located in Yardley, PA
BLUES NIGHT is an original modern abstract painting of deep blue/blues, vivid white on canvas. Light bits of impasto create a light texture. Created with acrylics. Framed and ready to hang. White contemporary light wood box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Acrylic
Moses, Vitraux de la Cathédrale de Metz
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Original lithograph poster created for Marc Chagall's "Stained Glass Windows for the Cathedral of Metz" in Reims, France.
Moses, Vitraux de la Cathédrale de Metz
Marc Chagall (after...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Treasure Cay' 1986 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Treasure Cay' 1986 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Treasure Cay resort on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas, March 1986.
Produced from the original transparency
Certifi...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
C Print, Color
Una Esquina Cualquiera, 2012
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Nasce a Piacenza nel 1968,
vive e lavora in Italia e Portogallo.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Cortina D’Ampezzo (1962) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cortina D’Ampezzo (1962) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy,
1962.
Additional Informati...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Marsha Gayle 1985 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marsha Gayle 1985
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Laura Hawk, assistant to the photographer, relaxes by the pool at El Rincon, the von ...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Abstract Composition - Original Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original artwork realized in the mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored pastel on paper.
Unreadable signature of the artist on lower margin.
Includes gilded fr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Pastel
Portraits - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portraits is an original drawing in pen realized by an anonymous artist in the Early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted by perfect hatching with strong strokes.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Pencil
Slim Aarons 'Lake Tahoe Couple'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A couple at a swimming pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California.
Estate stamped and hand numbere...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
'Underwater Drink' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Underwater Drink' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
Pr...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool, 1978
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity.
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backga...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
'Skiing In Vail' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Skiing In Vail' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Skiers pass by a snow covered tree in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
C Print, Color
'Mazatlan Seaside' 1984 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Mazatlan Seaside' 1984 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Holidaymakers at a seaside pool at Mazatlan, Mexico, January 1984.
Produced from the original transparency
Certifi...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
C Print, Color
'BOOM' ski-batics in Colorado poster, c.1970 Skiing USA
Located in London, GB
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'BOOM' Skibatics in Colarado Poster
c.1970
67 x 5...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Castore - Plate 1 - Lithograph by Giorgio De Chirico - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Castore is a black and white artwork realized by Giorgio De Chirico in the half of 20th Century. Rare specimen on light blue paper.
Black and white lithograph.
Hand signed by artis...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Monte Carlo' 1956 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Monte Carlo' 1956 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A man and a woman on jet skis off the coast of Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1956.
Produced from the orig...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
C Print, Color
Dead Christ - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Dead Christ is an original drawing in pencil realized by an anonymous artist in the Early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted by perfe...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Pencil
Innsbruck: Tyrol, Austria Original Vintage Travel Poster - Skiing resort
Located in London, GB
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Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Naiads - Original handsigned lithograph - 199ex
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Baptiste VALADIE
Naiads
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Limited /199copies
On vellum 76 x 56 cm (c. 30 x 22 in)
Excellent condition
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Woman and Snakes - Original China Ink Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman and Snakes is an original China drawing realized by an Italian artist oin the Early 20th Century.
Good condition on a blue cardboard.
The artwork represent a woman with big w...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Ink
'Boating In Antigua' Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Boating In Antigua
1961 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: American actor Hugh O'Brian (left) h...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Potpourri en Ciel
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Title: Potpourri en Ciel
Year: 1975
Medium: Lithograph in colors on wove paper
Edition: 90, plus proofs
Size: 29...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Slim Aarons, Haiti Holiday (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Haiti Holiday, 1981
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A woman wearing a translucent white blouse and holding a cocktail stands in a swimmi...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
'Yacht Holiday' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Yacht Holiday' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Tanned bodies on the deck of Dino Pecci Blunt's yacht in Marbella, 1967. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Im...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
C Print, Color
Islay, Scotland, 2001
By John Dolan
Located in Hudson, NY
John Dolan’s photographs revel in the extraordinary that lies beneath everyday, fleeting occurrences. And in this eloquent collection of twenty images shot in ravishing color and black and white over the past twenty years, the often hidden essences of people, places, and objects are made plain, as if in dreams. Frequently placing his subjects at center, Dolan extracts from them their raw spirit and underlying energies, creating gripping drama within a short story-type form.
A New York-based photographer for the past thirty six years, John Dolan was raised outside of Washington DC. After graduating from Beloit College with a B.A. in Art, he worked as a master printer for Sylvia Plachy and became well known for his photographs of celebrity...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Le Tachier de l’Amateur - Vintage Rare Book Illustrated by Roland Topor - 1971
By Roland Topor
Located in Roma, IT
Le Tachier de l'Amateur is an original modern rare book illustrated by Roland Topor (Paris, 1938 – Paris, 1997) in 1971.
Published by Daily-Bul, La Louvière.
Original First Editio...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped - O'Brians Catch 1961
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
O'Brians Catch 1961 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
American actor Hugh O’Brian returns to the beach with a fish after a snorkelling expedition, Antigua in the West Indies, 1961.
Prod...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Sassi Italian Line Societa di Navigatione Italia Original Vintage Poster Surreal
Located in London, GB
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Sassi
Italian Line...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Autograph Letter of Thanks by Renato Guttuso - 1937 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph Letter of Thanks by Renato Guttuso to Libero de Libero.
Signed. After 1937. In Italian. In 8. One page, double-sided. On light blue colored paper and on letterhead "Galleria Mediterranea / Palazzo de seta...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Fidget Spin 2
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Drawing inspiration from the vibrant California landscape, British artist Paul Westacott creates original abstract artworks that showcase a harmonious blend of minimalist geometry an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Miami Parking Garage, Robert Law Weed and Associates, Miami Fl.
By Ezra Stoller
Located in Miami, FL
Ezra Stroller is perhaps the world's most accomplished Architectural Photographer. In this image " Miami Parking Garage, Robert Law Weed and Associates" ...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Modernist Architecture, Cantilever Pool House, 2016 Oil on Canvas
By Andy Burgess
Located in London, GB
Oil on Canvas
124.5 x 132.1 cm
49 x 52 in.
(AB109)
Andy Burgess is known for his renditions of modernist and mid-century architecture, panoramic cityscape paintings, and elaborate m...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Acrylic Painting on Canvas of Two Parrots in the Rain
By Jessica Rice
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Mid century acrylic painting on canvas of two parrots in a tree with rain drops executed with bold tropical colors and a sense of movement. One can almost hear this painting. Signed ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Acrylic
'Beach At St. Tropez' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Beach At St. Tropez' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Sunbathers on the beach at St. Tropez, France, 1977.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authentici...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
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