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: Gold
Couple
Located in New Orleans, LA
Infused with a crisp modernity and subtle sensuality, this bronze sculpture by Cuban-born artist Agustin Cárdenas is an exceptional example of late-2...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Eugene Caples "Bronze Sculpture I" Abstract Bronze Sculpture
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
This small exquisite "Bronze Sculpture I" is in excellent condition and a perfect example of Eugene Caples craftsmanship. Although it is mainly abstract, there are bits that look figurative either an arm or a leg attempting to emerge from a fold or attempting to hold a pose such as in yoga. It cries out to be touched and held, looked at and caressed. The beautiful patina on the surface gives voice to the many hands that have done these things.
Eugene Caples is a designer and craftsman who worked in Kansas City in the 1960s and later through the early 21st century. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute, earning his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Industrial Design in 1959. In 1963 he was accepted to Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The Cranbrook Academy of Art was designed by architect and faculty member, Eliel Saarinen who collaborated with Charles and Ray Eames on chair and furniture design. Numerous creative artists are alumni of Cranbrook and include: Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, Jack Lenor Larsen, Donald Lipski, Duane Hanson, Nick Cave, Hani Rashid, George Nelson, Urban Jupena (Nationally recognized fiber artist), Artis Lane (the first African-American artist to have her sculpture, "Sojourner Truth," commissioned for the Emancipation Hall in the Capital Visitor Center in Washington DC), Cory Puhlman (televised Pastry Chef extraordinaire), Thom O’Connor (Lithographs), and Paul Evans (Created Brutalist-inspired sculpted metal furnishings.)
Gene worked...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Chaotic Life of a Cock Fight Feather
Located in ATLANTA, GA
With each feather, Alan Derrick has moved his art form into new expressions. He continues to experiment with each stage of the process, producing surprisi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Aspiration
By Tolla Inbar
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Tolla Inbar is an international sculpture artist. Born in Germany in 1958, Tolla attended the Merz school in Stuttgart until 1971. There she specializing in the art of ceramics and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
YOGA II
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Evening Paper, Modern sculpture by Bruno Lucchesi
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Modern figurative sculpture by Bruno Lucchesi of a man reading his even paper with fascination.
Evening Paper
Bruno Lucchesi, Italian (1926)
Date: 1961
Bronze Sculpture, signed
Si...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Modernist Sculpture Portrait, Gertrude Stein by Minna Harkavy WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Minna Rothenberg Harkavy (1895-1987) Estonian-American
signed
bronze portrait bust, marble, stone base.
Minna Harkavy (1887 – 1987) (birth occasionally listed as 1895) was a Jewish American sculptor born in Estonia to Yoel and Hannah Rothenberg and immigrated to the United States around 1900.
She studied at the Art Students League, at Hunter College and in Paris with Antoine Bourdelle.
Harkavy was a WPA Federal Art Project artist, for whom she created a 1942 wood relief piece, Industry and Landscape of Winchendon for the post office in Winchendon, Massachusetts.
She was a founding member of the Sculptors Guild and showed a work, My Children are Desolate Because the Enemy Prevailed in the Second Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition Negro Head in the 1940-1941 and Woman in Thought in 1941.
Harkavy was an early feminist, a founding member of the New York Society of Women Artists. Politically she was known as a leftist and anti-fascist with a strong social consciousness. In 1931 she exhibited a bust of Hall Johnson in the Museum of Western Art in Moscow and the work was purchased for the Pushkin Museum there. Abraham, Walkowitz sat for a portrait by her. In 1932 she represented the John Reed Club at an anti-war conference in Amsterdam.
A bust of Italian- American anti-fascist (and her lover) Carlo Tresca who was assassinated in New York in 1943 was installed in his birthplace of Sulmona, Italy. She showed at Associated American Artists gallery, along with Max
Weber, Waldo Peirce...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Cavallo
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Nicola Domenici was born in 1969 in Viareggio (Lucca). After the University and several experiences in the fields of jewellery and goldsmithery, he dec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Weight Scale, 2008
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Unknown Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Le saut de mouton
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Iron, Bronze
Samuleto, Abstract Aquatint Etching with Gold by Dzevad Hozo
By Dzevad Hozo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dzevad Hozo, Serbian (Yugoslavia) (1938 - )
Title: Samuleto
Year: 1971
Edition: 11/30
Medium: Aquatint Etching with Gold, Signed and numbered in pencil
Image Size: 25.5 x 19 ...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Gold
America's Bronze
Located in ATLANTA, GA
With each feather, Alan Derrick has moved his art form into new expressions. He continues to experiment with each stage of the process, producing surprisi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Loreley
Located in ATLANTA, GA
In life, every time you do or make something you have the opportunity to make something creative and original. Take something, add to it and pass it on; that’s the creative process. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Large Gilt Bronze Sculptures of Herons
Located in Rome, IT
Elegant pair of gilt bronze heron sculptures . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
1990s Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Contortionniste au Masque Minnie
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Garden Angel, 2017
Located in ATLANTA, GA
In life, every time you do or make something you have the opportunity to make something creative and original. Take something, add to it and pass it on; that’s the creative process. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Cheval
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in Melun in 1957, Jager is a French sculptor and painter. Passionate about equitation, he is famous for making representations of horses in plaster and bronze in all their forms. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Dijon and is currently living in France. Rather than just being an artist, he describes himself as a dreamer: unpredictable and passionate. For Frédéric JAGER, beauty is a must. His style, classic, figurative, is stunning in this world of contemporary art. Bringing bronze to life, his works always capture the energy and beauty of the horse “Because unlike men, a horse is always beautiful, always strong, always sad.”
Several large companies, such as HERMES, NINA RICCI, goldsmith MELLERIO, CHEVIGNON, SOCIETE GENERALE, HORSE WOOD, watches PEQUIGNET, SWEATERIE, have called upon him for sculptures, decorative objects, advertising works, or trophies for the races.
He has had numerous solo exhibitions, and has also participated in a myraid of art fairs such as the ‘Salon International de Saumur’, the Animal Sculpture Biennale of Rambouillet, the Derby Horse in Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
La notte lungo i muri
By Hugo Rivas
Located in ATLANTA, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the most eminent and affirmed artist represented by the Frilli Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze, Iron
L'homme oiseau
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Trained with Master ceramic sculptors: statuary technique with Maitre Guémard from the Louvre Museum in Paris, Catherine Benoit sculptor from Saint-Tr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Modern Erotic, Bronze Table Sculpture by Lee Stoliar
By Lee Stoliar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lee Stoliar, American (1956 - )
Title: Untitled
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature inscribed
Size: 6.5 in. x 7 in. x 9 in. (16.51 cm x 17.78 cm x 22.86 cm)
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Reliquia: Omaggio a Simone Martini
By Hugo Rivas
Located in ATLANTA, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
La grande cascade, 2006
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in 1949 in Mézières, Bernard Métranve was convinced from early childhood that he would become a visual artist and that he would follow the path of artists like Brancusi, and Moo...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
La rivière, 1997
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in 1949 in Mézières, Bernard Métranve was convinced from early childhood that he would become a visual artist and that he would follow the path of artists like Brancusi, and M...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
La gatta assise
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Un Monde Bouillonnant
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Béatrice Bissara was born in 1972; the visit of museums and the atmosphere of the auction houses marked her childhood. After her studies in history of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Le piège
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in 1949 in Mézières, Bernard Métranve was convinced from early childhood that he would become a visual artist and that he would follow the path of artists like Brancusi, and Moo...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Emperor's Heads
By Henry Moore
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture by Henry Moore. "Emperor's Heads" is a figurative sculpture, bronze with a brown patina by modern British artist Henry Moore. It is signed on the base, "Moore 2/7" and is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Untitled
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Béatrice Bissara was born in 1972; the visit of museums and the atmosphere of the auction houses marked her childhood. After her studies in history of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Cuando il cielo ti accarezza, 2010
By Hugo Rivas
Located in ATLANTA, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the most eminent and affirmed artist represented by the Frilli Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Iron, Bronze
Iris little study, Auguste Rodin, Bronze, Sculpture, Modern Art, 1970's, Nudes
Located in Geneva, CH
Iris little study, Auguste Rodin, Bronze, Sculpture, Modern Art, 1970's, Nudes
Petite etude pour Iris, douzième épreuve
Ed. 12/12 pcs
1973
Bronze with brown and black patina
Marked...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Looking Into the Past
Located in ATLANTA, GA
For sculptor/ painter/ photographer Roberto Santo, art became a way of life when, at age16, he embarked upon an apprenticeship with Bob Peak, the celebra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Unlocking Spiritual Mysteries
By Tolla Inbar
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Tolla Inbar is an international sculpture artist. Born in Germany in 1958, Tolla attended the Merz school in Stuttgart until 1971. There she specializing in the art of ceramics and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Eté
By Hugo Rivas
Located in ATLANTA, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
La Pensée Volante (The Flying Thought)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This striking conceptualization of "a flying thought" was composed by the famed Cuban-born artist Agustin Cárdenas. Entitled La Pensée Volante (The Fl...
Category
19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pandora's Box, Polished Bronze Sculpture, by Stefan Vladescu 1993
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stefan Matty Vladescu, Romanian/American (1952 - )
Title: Pandora's Box
Year: 1993
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and date inscribed
Size: 34.5 in. x 10 in. x 10 in. (87...
Category
1990s Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Walking Man
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Maxine Kim Stussy, a prolific sculptor and painter from the late 1940’s to present. Maxine led an incredibly artistic life traveling the world with her husband at the time, artist Ja...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Ouvrir les Frontières pour Mr. Olingou
Located in ATLANTA, GA
The universal theme of travel has always inspired Bruno Catalano. Since he started to knead clay, hundreds of “Travellers” went out of his feverish hand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Trapola per Angeli, 2010
By Hugo Rivas
Located in ATLANTA, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Landscape - Etching by Friedi Gold Boille - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape "Rue de Saorge" is an etching on paper realized by Friedi Gold Boille in 1935.
Hand-signed on the lower right. numbered on the lower left, edition of 1/20 prints, titled o...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Combined Effort
By Brad Rude
Located in Denver, CO
Artist Brad Rude was born in Montana and has lived in Walla Walla, Washington most of his life. His journeys through his grandfather's folk art studio left...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Well dressed 2 - Arman, bronze, sculpture, decorative, green, female, figure
By Arman
Located in London, GB
Pierre Arman (1928-2005)
Well dressed 2
2005
bronze with green patina and coat hooks
162 x 52 x 37 cm
signed on base (beside right foot)
numbered 19/30
Price:
£35,000 GBP
Provenanc...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Hen, Gilded Hen in Polished Bronze
Located in Brookville, NY
This Sculpture "Hen" by William Zorach in polished bronze is numbered 3/6 although according to the artist son, only 4 were ever cast. Executed in 1946, signed on the reverse and nu...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Evasion
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Béatrice Bissara was born in 1972; the visit of museums and the atmosphere of the auction houses marked her childhood. After her studies in history of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Iphigenie
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jacques LE BESCOND (born in CAEN in 1945) was young when he started to sculpture. He was particularly fond of wood. His encounter with a craftsman w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Paso
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jacques LE BESCOND (born in CAEN in 1945) was young when he started to sculpture. He was particularly fond of wood. His encounter with a craftsman w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Bilancia
By Hugo Rivas
Located in ATLANTA, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Show of Interest
By Brad Rude
Located in Denver, CO
Artist Brad Rude was born in Montana and has lived in Walla Walla, Washington most of his life. His journeys through his grandfather's folk art studio left...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Located in ATLANTA, GA
With each feather, Alan Derrick has moved his art form into new expressions. He continues to experiment with each stage of the process, producing surprisi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Juno
Located in Greenwich, CT
Abstract sculpture of the ancient Roman goddess Juno.
Artist's proof.
The powerful legacy of Reuben Nakian has earned him a coveted place in the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
A Livre Ouvert
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jacques LE BESCOND (born in CAEN in 1945) was young when he started to sculpture. He was particularly fond of wood. His encounter with a craftsman w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Hormiga con Hoja
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gerardo Fernandez South American Artist set of 10 bronze stick bugs with iron antennas. Some bugs have circles on their feet in order to make an art ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Estasi Napoletana
By Hugo Rivas
Located in ATLANTA, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the most eminent and affirmed artist represented by the Frilli Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Estasi Napoletana
By Hugo Rivas
Located in ATLANTA, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the most eminent and affirmed artist represented by the Frilli Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Elegant
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jean-Louis Corby was born in 1951 and was predominantly influenced creatively by the 1970s. The 1970s were a period of consolidation and growth in the arts, most often characterised ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Niños en cuerda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gerardo Fernandez South American Artist set of 10 bronze stick bugs with iron antennas. Some bugs have circles on their feet in order to make an art ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
"The Prairie School Collection - Rug" Offset Lithograph Poster with Gold Foil
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Prairie School Collection - Rug" is an offset lithograph poster with gold foil. This piece advertises an exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright's designs.
34 7/8" x 22" art
36" x 23...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Terracotta Sculpture by Evert Lindfors, Sweden, Similarities with A.Giacometti
Located in Stockholm, SE
Terracotta Sculpture by Swedish artist Evert Lindfors (1927-2016), made in the 1970s.
Evert moved to France in the 1940s where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He wo...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Check with L, 2006
Located in ATLANTA, GA
For sculptor/ painter/ photographer Roberto Santo, art became a way of life when, at age16, he embarked upon an apprenticeship with Bob Peak, the celebra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Modern art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern 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, red, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Kevin Westenberg, Stuart Möller, Destro, and Christel Haag. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern art, so small editions measuring 0.4 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 $33 and tops out at $390,000, while the average work sells for $1,912.
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