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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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Period: 1990s
Style: Modern
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Robert Plant by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Robert Plant Robert Plant, New York, 1993 by Kevin Westenberg- Signed Limited Edition Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-cl...
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1990s Modern Art

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Archival Pigment

Water Lily, Edition 3/5, Figurative, Linocut on Paper by Haren Das "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Haren Das - Water Lily Linocut on Paper Edition 3/5 7 x 14 inches, 1990 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Born in Dinajpur in present day Bangladesh on 1 February 1921, Das took a diploma in...
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1990s Modern Art

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Paper, Linocut

Erykah Badu - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Erykah Badu - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print American singer-songwriter Erykah Badu, the Queen of Neo-Soul, photographed for the cover of Musik Mag...
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1990s Modern Art

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Archival Pigment, Black and White

Pastel waterfall by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas 27x35 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas by Gilbert Pauli Signed and dated
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1990s Modern Art

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Oil

Pixies - signed Limited Edition Oversize print (1990)
Located in London, GB
Pixies- Signed Limited Edition Oversize print Melody Maker Cover July 20 1990 London (photo Kevin Westenberg) Unframed Signed and numbered by the artist. Limited to an editi...
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1990s Modern Art

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Color, Archival Pigment

Norman Parkinson 'Deborah Harris in a mermaid's tail, 1990'
Located in New York, NY
Deborah Harris is photographed on location in Malaysia wearing a custom-designed mermaid’s tail by Bob Mackie for Town & Country in February of 1990. This story was photographer Norm...
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1990s Modern Art

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C Print

Carl Sagan - Vintage Photograph by Randy O'Rundke - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Carl Sagan by Randy O'Rundke- Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph that was realized in 1991. Good conditions.
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1990s Modern Art

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Photographic Paper

The Loop I (the artist's memories of days at Chicago's Art Institute)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Loop I was created in a small edition of 15. The Loop is a vibrant area featuring eclectic eateries, shops, theaters and parks. Comprised mostly of high-rises, it’s also home to the 108-story Willis Tower. The iconic “Cloud Gate...
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1990s Modern Art

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Etching

Leixlip Castle 1990 Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Leixlip Castle circa 1990 by Christopher Simon Sykes An oil painting, various saddles and an old trunk in Leixlip Castle, County Kildare, 1990s. (Photo by Christopher Simon Sykes) ...
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1990s Modern Art

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C Print, Color

Portrait of Ray Bradbury - Vintage Photograph - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Ray Bradbury Vintage Photo by Mizuno, is a black and white photograph realized in 1996. Good conditions.
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1990s Modern Art

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Photographic Paper

Horn Player
Located in Los Angeles, CA
SEMION RABINKOV "UNICYCLE HORN PLAYER" BRONZE, SIGNED, NUMBERED 1/9 MOLDOVAN-AMERICAN, C.1990'S 27.5 INCHES Semion was born in Chisinau, Moldova, 1954...
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1990s Modern Art

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Bronze

Horn Player
Horn Player
$2,113 Sale Price
34% Off
Waiting to Exhale, Accumulation Cigar Sculpture by Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
A unique sculpture by the French artist, Arman. This collection of world-class cigars encased in clear resin is a quintessential piece from Arman's 'Accumulations' period in which he...
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1990s Modern Art

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Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Found Objects

Heal Heart Heal. Contemporary Mixed Media Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
"Heal Heart Heal" Original Oil and gold leaf on arches paper, cracked varnish finish. Matted Signed and dated Image 5" x 7"
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1990s Modern Art

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Gold Leaf

Portrait of Bjork - signed Limited Edition Oversize print
Located in London, GB
BJORK APRIL 23 1998 NEW YORK. VOX MAGAZINE COVER SHOOT. Exquisite print of the uniquely beautiful Icelandic pop star - close up shot 20x16 inches paper size signed limited editio...
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1990s Modern Art

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Color, Archival Pigment

Trees in Snow, Highway 50, Sierras
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This beautiful vintage silver gelatin photograph is signed and dated in pencil on the front of the mount beneath the image. The artist's studio label bearing the title, numbering and...
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1990s Modern Art

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Silver Gelatin

Lag Baomer Signed Vintage Color Photograph Chicago Judaica Photo Chabad J Wolke
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from a series done about the Habad Hasidic Jewish community in Chicago. This is from the holiday Lag Baomer. Jay Wolke lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. He has had solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University and the California Museum of Photography. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Three monographs of his work have been published: All Around the House: Photographs of American-Jewish Communal Life (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), Along the Divide: Photographs of the Dan Ryan Expressway (Center for American Places, 2004) and Architecture of Resignation: Photographs from the Mezzogiorno (Center for American Places, 2011). Kehrer Verlag will publish his fourth monograph, Same Dream Another Time, in 2017. Wolke received his B.F.A. in Printmaking / Illustration at Washington University, St. Louis, and an M.S. in Photography at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Since 1981 he has taught photography and art at various universities. From 1992-1999 he was Coordinator of Graduate Documentary Photography at the Institute of Design (IIT). In 1999-2000 he was Head of Art and Graduate Studies at Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy. He is currently a Professor of Photography at Columbia College Chicago, where he also served as Chair of the Art and Design Department from 2000-05 and again from 2008-14. Wolke has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, Focus Infinity Fund and the Ruttenberg Arts Foundation. His photographs have appeared in numerous publications including Geo France, New York Times Magazine, Financial Times Magazine, Village Voice, Exposure and Architectural Record. SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 Mostre Marte, Salerno, Italy, “Architecture of Resignation” 2014 PrimoPiano Gallery, Naples, Italy, “Architecture of Resignation” 2014 Foundation Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy, “re-Located” 2014 Ralph Arnold Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago, “re-Located” 2013 Spertus Institute, Chicago, “All Around the House” 2012 University of Indiana Northwest Savanna Center, “Architecture of Resignation” 2010 Sheldon Arts Galleries, St. Louis, MO, “Architecture of Resignation” 2007 California Museum of Photography, Riverside, “Architecture of Resignation” 2006 St. Xavier University SXU Gallery, Chicago, “Architecture of Resignation” 2005 Schneider Gallery, Chicago, “Architecture of Resignation” 2005 City Gallery, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, “Along the Divide” 2002 Foundation Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy, “Architecture of Resignation” 2002 St. Louis Art Museum, "All Around the House" 2000 Comunita Ebraica Salle Servi, Florence , Italy, “All Around the House” 1998 Art Institute of Chicago, "All Around the House" 1995 Harvard University, Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA, "A Jewish View" 1994 Quad City Arts Center, Rock Island, IL "Temporary Usage" 1993 Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, "Temporary Usage" 1992 OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY, " Photographing American Dream Cities" 1991 Mid-Town Y Photography Gallery, New York, NY, "American Dream Cities” 1988 Portland School of Art, Portland, ME, "Las Vegas Portraits" 1987 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, " Vegas Portraits" 1985 Chicago Historical Society, “Dan Ryan Project” SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Le Murate, Florence, Italy, “Arno Collective Imaginary” w. Massimo Vitali, Arno Minkkinen 2015 Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, “Henri Cartier-Bresson e gli altri. I grandi fotografi e l’Italia”, 2014 Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA, “Racial Imaginary” 2014 Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, “Architecture, Landscape” 2014-15 Millennium Park Foundation, Chicago, “An Anatomy in Photographs” 2012 Chicago Cultural Center, “Industry of the Ordinary: 2003–2013” 2009 David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, “Social Landscapes” 2009 Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, “39 Verbs” 2009 University of St. Francis, “The Night Hope Won” 2008-09 Chicago Cultural Center, “Made In Chicago: Photographs from Bank of America Collection” 2006 David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, "7 Documentarians: Berenic Abbott, Walker Evans, Larry Clark, Jim Dow, Danny Lyon, Garry Winogrand, Jay Wolke" 2006 Art Institute of Chicago. “Darkroom to Digital” 2005 Fort Worth Community Arts Center, “Cattle Drive” 2001 Illinois Art Gallery, “The Land Around Us” 1998 Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago, "Chicago Streets" 1996 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, "In Focus" 1995 Madison Arts Center, "Photography from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois" 1994 Chicago Cultural Center, "Broad Spectrum" 1991 ARC Gallery, Chicago, "National Exposure" 1989 Art Institute of Chicago, "The City Inside and Out" 1989 Chicago Historical Society, "Changing Chicago, Public Diversions" 1988 Illinois State Museum, Springfield, "Lenscapes" 1987 Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; Nabisco Corp., NJ; Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA "American Interiors", traveling exhibit curated Lieberman/Saul Gallery, NY 1986 National Endowment for the Arts/ Midwest Arts Alliance, national traveling 1985 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, "New Color Photography" 1985 Society for Cont Photography, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO, "Photo '85" 1984 Art...
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1990s Modern Art

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C Print

Carl Sagan - Vintage Photograph by Randy O'Rundke - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Carl Sagan by Randy O'Rundke- Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph that was realized in the 1980s. Good conditions.
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1990s Modern Art

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Photographic Paper

Portrait of Ray Bradbury - Vintage Photograph - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Ray Bradbury -  Vintage Photo by Mizuno, is a black and white photograph realized in 1996. Good conditions.
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1990s Modern Art

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Photographic Paper

Rare Collage Series, Pen Ink Acrylic Nails Feather by Artist Sunil Das "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - 9 x 14 inches (unframed size) Rare Collage Series, Pen and Ink Plastic Feather Acrylic Foil on paper pasted on board Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Sunil D...
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1990s Modern Art

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Foil

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Los Leones
Located in London, GB
'Los Leones' Los Leones, the home of Catherine and Pero Feric at Pointe Milou on the northern coast of Saint-Barthelemy in the Caribbean, March 1991 Gor...
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1990s Modern Art

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Archival Pigment

Branch Lyric, Cypress Creek, Wimberley, Texas
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson David H. Gibson is a lifelong photographer whose first contact with the medium was in his father's darkroom before he could read. Gibson received a B.A. from Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana, and an M.A. at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. His early work in theater lighting...
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1990s Modern Art

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Silver Gelatin

The Photographer
By Gravleur
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an early, exhibited mixed media painting, “The Photographer”, by French artist Gravleur. "The Photographer steals peoples faces, but does not have one himself" Gravleur This painting was exhibited in 2006 at the world premier exhibition,”Johnny Depp and Trigg Ison...
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1990s Modern Art

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Mixed Media

Stoneware Bowl (Small Sepia Toned Still Life Photograph of White Ceramic Bowl)
Located in Hudson, NY
Vintage style still life photograph of antique white bowl, framed Sepia toned silver gelatin print, vintage uneditioned print Custom black stained wood molding with visible grain 8-...
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1990s Modern Art

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Silver Gelatin

Holy Trinity
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this sculpture I have embodied the idea of the Holy trinity. According to the Bible, God in the form of three angels appeared to Abraham's wife and pre...
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1990s Modern Art

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Metal, Bronze

Seated Woman - PhotoLithograph after Henri Matisse - 1993
Located in Roma, IT
Photolithograph realized in 1993 after Henri Matisse. On Milano handmade paper. It belongs to the edition "H. Matisse, The Color of Light", by Seat Editore.
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1990s Modern Art

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Lithograph

La Gloriette
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The artwork size is 19.5" x 25.5", with watercolor and ink on paper. Signed lower right.
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1990s Modern Art

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Watercolor

Untitled 25 (Figurative Drawing Polaroid Transfer of a Boy in Cowboy Costume)
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative, Polaroid transfer of a young boy in vintage cowboy costume against an orange background PT 25, Made in 1998 Edition 1 of 6 9 x 7 in...
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1990s Modern Art

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Archival Paper, Polaroid

Pearl Jam by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Pearl Jam by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie s...
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1990s Modern Art

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Archival Pigment

Lotus
By Maki Hino
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hino creates a still life of a lotus from an edition of 65. A prominent figure in Buddhist and Egyptian culture, and native flower for both India and Vietnam, the lotus holds enormous symbolic weight. It spans various thousand-year-old Eastern cultures and yet, is still considered one of the most sacred flowers today. So what is it about this mysterious blossom that people find so enrapturing? Its colorful bloom is an obvious suspect, but the lotus also has a life cycle unlike any other. With its roots based in mud, it submerges every night into murky river water, and—undeterred by its dirty environment—it miraculously re-blooms the next morning without residue on its petals. Although cultures have their own interpretations of this daily process, there is a general consensus among ancient texts...
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1990s Modern Art

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Mezzotint

Lotus
Lotus
$85 Sale Price
22% Off
The Wrapped Vestibule, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Christo Title: The Wrapped Vestibule, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Medium: Offset lithograph Date: 1990 Edition: Unnumbered Sheet Size: 29 7/8" x 23" Signature: Han...
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1990s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Harry Sternberg, (Chasing) Girlfriends, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography. The deluxe editions of...
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1990s Modern Art

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Woodcut

American Color Woodcuts: Bounty from the Block, 1890s-1990s' Art Book
Located in Brooklyn, NY
American Color Woodcuts: Bounty from the Block, 1890s–1990s, published in 1993 by the Elvehjem Art Center, Madison, WI, is a softcover book in very good condition, with a tight bindi...
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1990s Modern Art

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Offset

Snow Does (Doe, a deer - a female deer)
Located in New Orleans, LA
An exclusive publication for Stone and Press Gallery, "Snow Does" was created in an edition of 100. It is FIROS #66 in the catalogue raisonne. Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting. In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...
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1990s Modern Art

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Mezzotint

Red Hot Chili Peppers by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Red Hot Chili Peppers 1992 by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, ...
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1990s Modern Art

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Archival Pigment

Durga 97, Mixed Media on Board, Red, Yellow, Green by Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Durga 97 - 10 x 8 inches (unframed size) Durga the Third Eye. Mixed Media on Board Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. In Indian Mythology the Goddess Durga h...
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1990s Modern Art

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Mixed Media, Board, Acrylic

Woman with Book, Lithograph by Branko Bahunek
Located in Long Island City, NY
Branko Bahunek, Croatian (1935 - ) - Woman with Book. Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 175, Size: 27 in. x 22 in. (68.58 cm x 55.88 cm)
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1990s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Untitled Vessel with Void (INV# NP5224) By Richard DeVore
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Richard DeVore Untitled Vessel with Void (INV# NP5224) stoneware, and glaze 4.5 x 14 x 14" date unknown Richard DeVore (1933 - 2006) was one of the most important American ceramicis...
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1990s Modern Art

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Stoneware, Glaze

Still Life - PhotoLithograph after Henri Matisse - 1993
Located in Roma, IT
Photolithograph realized in 1993 after Henri Matisse. On Milano handmade paper. It belongs to the edition "H. Matisse, The Color of Light", by Seat Editore.
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1990s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Hindoue - PhotoLithograph after Henri Matisse - 1993
Located in Roma, IT
Photolithograph realized in 1993 after Henri Matisse. On Milano handmade paper. It belongs to the edition "H. Matisse, The Color of Light", by Seat Editore.
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1990s Modern Art

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Lithograph

New Mother at the Park -- Day 65
Located in Soquel, CA
New Mother at the Park -- Day 65 Artist Kristin Cohen (American, b. 1963) abstract figurative captures quiet moment of new motherhood while ticking off the days. Signed on verso an...
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1990s Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

Eduardo Paolozzi: 'Triangular Construction' plaster sculpture
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you ...
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1990s Modern Art

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Plaster

John Hubbard (1931-2017) American. Sunset Cloud number 3
Located in Frome, Somerset
John Hubbard (1931-2017), American. 'Sunset Cloud number 3'. circa 1995. An evening landscape in Dorsetshire where Hubbard lived for many years. A uniqu...
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1990s Modern Art

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Pigment

Mercado de la Soledad, Cubist Etching by Alfredo Zalce
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alfredo Zalce, Mexican (1908 - 2003) Title: Mercado de la Soledad Year: 1990 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Image Size: 8.25 x 25 inches Size: 16...
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1990s Modern Art

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Etching

Abstract Still Life, Acrylic Painting on Board by Moshe Rosentalis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Moshe Rosentalis, Lithuanian (1922 - 2008) Title: Abstract Still Life Year: 1991 Medium: Gouache on Board, signed and dated Size: 27.5 x 20 inches
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1990s Modern Art

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Acrylic, Board

Flower Arrangement
Located in Long Island City, NY
A contemporary cubist still life painting of vases and flowers in bright oranges and yellows by Brazilian Menelaw Sete from 1999. Framed in cherry wood frame. Artist: Menelaw Sete, Brazilian (1964 - ) Title: Flower Arrangement...
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1990s Modern Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mother Holding Baby Large Clay Sculpture Pre Columbian Style
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Mother Holding Baby, large terra-cotta and clay sculpture. From the Totonaca culture (state of Veracruz). Modern Pre Columbian style large sculpt...
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1990s Modern Art

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Clay, Terracotta, Resin

Robert Farber 'Walking the Bulldog'
Located in New York, NY
Walking the Bulldog, 1994 Archival pigment print 20 x 30 inches Signed and numbered edition of 15 Robert Farber (b. 1944) is a renowned photographer whose five-decade career spans b...
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1990s Modern Art

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Archival Pigment

Terry O'Neill 'Faye Dunaway Oscar', Co-Signed
Located in New York, NY
Faye Dunaway Oscar Outtake (Stare) Los Angeles 1977, Printed Later Silver Gelatin Print 30 x 30 inches (unframed) Co-Signed by Terry O'Neill and Faye Dunaway, hand numbered edition o...
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1990s Modern Art

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C Print

Salon Rojo by Carlos Nadal - Figurative painting, oil on canvas, Modern art
Located in London, GB
Salon Rojo by Carlos Nadal (1917-1998) Oil on canvas 89 x 116 cm (35 x 45 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed lower right, Nadal Signed, titled and dated on the reverse Executed in 1992 This work is...
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1990s Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled, Charcoal on Paper by Artist Jogen Chowdhury "In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury Untitled, Charcoal on Paper 13 x 23 inches (unframed size) 1998 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Style : He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India. J...
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1990s Modern Art

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Paper, Charcoal

BLONDE WITH ART DECO NECKLACE
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biography from the niece of the artist from during his lifetime. Paintings acquired from the artist.s estate. Max Turner 1925 - 2019 Max Lamar Turner Painter, Sculptor, Teacher and Author. Max Turner was born in Omaha, Nebraska on July 28, 1925. His father was Lance Howard Turner and his mother Mary Irene Turner. In 1927, his family moved to Bingham Canyon, Utah where Max's father extracted copper from a creek that he had diverted to pass through his garage. The town was located in a narrow canyon on the eastern face of the Oquirrh Mountains. In 1938, when Max was 13, his family moved to Midvale, Utah. After completing high school, Max went to work laying rail until he was inducted into the U.S. Navy to serve during W.W. II. There he took an aptitude test and was initially assigned to the medical corp., later transferring to the dental unit. Max was stationed at Port Hueneme, Ventura County, California through the end of the war. When he was discharged in 1946, he remained in Southern California, living in the Los Angeles area. He met a man named Larry Torres and they formed a partnership to do silk screen work primarily for the Colby Poster Printing Company. This lasted about 10 years until the Colby building caught fire and burned down. In 1958, Max began working for Slade Novelty company that made doll parts using a product called plastisol. A year later, Max began producing plastic parts through his own business. One day, a couple of kids brought in a shrunken skull they had made and asked Max if he could reproduce it. Max said he could and he looked around for a business to work with for this task. He ultimately decided he could create his own machine shop to make molds. As a result, Max purchased a lathe, drill press, grinder and other tools to create his own machine shop and went into business making molds. He built a clientele and in 1973, he moved his machine shop to Glendale, California. Painter, Sculptor, Teacher and Author: Max recalls the day when his interest in art took a new direction. He happened to be in a paint store to purchase some supplies when he saw a card posted on a wall that read, "Come paint with Connie Marlo". Max had been interested in art since his youth and he was frequently impressed with paintings displayed by local artists at various community events. Consequently, he decided to go to Connie's Saturday morning art class at a studio on North La Brea Avenue (between Sunset and Hollywood) in Los Angeles. But, as fate would have it, he immediately took a detour from this class when he found a piece of paper on the floor of the studio referencing another art class dealing with compositions, patterns, rhythms and color harmony. The instructor's name was Hal Reed, a former art student of the Russian/American Master, Nicolai Fechin. Hal owned the building (previously the Will Foster Studio) and had founded the Art League of Los Angeles. When Max found Hal, he asked Hal if he could join his class. Hal said "No, the class was full" but he said Max could monitor the class in the back of the classroom. Max took him up on the offer and began observing the weekly class. During the class, Hal told his students that they should practice what they were learning by going to "live model" classes. Max began attending these classes where he learned how to draw figures. After a few months, Hal and Max became good friends. Hal was so impressed with Max's work that he offered Max the opportunity to teach at another location that Hal was opening in the San Fernando Valley. Max accepted the offer and began teaching his own art class. For Max, it was a quick jump from learning to teaching. Max then found that several of his students had to commute to his art class from the west end of the "Valley". To better serve this group of students, Max decided to relocate to another studio in Calabasas. Max continued teaching, and at this time he was producing very impressive portraits, both oil paintings and charcoal drawings from live models (Max never worked from photos). Max demonstrated real talent, and the style of his drawings and paintings were being compared to those of Nicolai Fechin. And, like Fechin, Max also had an interest in sculpting. One day, Max decided to design and cast a bronze owl sculpture to put in his Calabasas Fine Art Gallery. Later, someone approached Max when he was at the foundry and asked him about his success selling the owl sculpture. The individual who asked this question was convinced that there was a broader market for these sculptures and he ordered a dozen of the owl sculptures from Max. This encouraged Max to do more castings. Some of the new castings were antique sculptures he found and reproduced. As this new business grew, he decided to establish his own foundry, employing up to 15 workers. The business continued for many years, up until the late 1990's when Max got tired of the foundry business and sold it. Max, who was now in his 70's, decided to move on to his next venture as an artist, dedicating himself to doing the actual sculpting of original art. He loved the creativity of sculpting and he had his sculptures cast at local foundries, ironically the same ones that used to be his competition. Max was now fully engaged in his new artistic direction and, over time, he produced a large body of work. He created very impressive sculptures, including about 100 full-size sculptures. He sold some of these to high-end clientele, the Foundry at SLS Las Vegas, and to Hollywood studios. Even though Max now seemed to be totally in his element, he somehow also found time to continue to teach painting classes at the California Art Institute in Westlake Village in Los Angeles. At the institute, he specialized in figure work. Max continued to draw, paint and teach, but he says he stopped sculpting when he turned 90. Max produced four books showcasing his drawings and paintings. The first is "Faces, The Drawings of Max Turner", copyright 2000, that showcases nearly 100 of his portrait drawings. Within the "Acknowledgements" section, he lists Hal Reed and Joseph Nordmann, two former students of Nicolai Fechin. In 2006, Max produced his second book titled "Figures and Faces", reflecting not only portraits but also figure drawings and paintings. It is a wonderful book of Max's work, but it is currently difficult to find. The third book is titled "Faces 2, The Paintings and Drawings of Max Turner", copyright 2009, which includes 75 portrait paintings and drawings. In the "Preface" of this book, Max describes growing up in a small and isolated mining town during the Great Depression. He states that as a kid, he had little exposure of any culture or view of what the rest of the world was like. His neighbor was the trash collector and Max would sometimes go through his truck looking for anything of value. Among other things, he found magazines like Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Red Book, with covers that frequently showed drawings or paintings of faces. Max states that these images were the very first source of inspiration for him. He says that he began looking more carefully at people's faces and if they had character, he would draw them. By drawing them, Max says that he was making them part of his world, his world of "Faces". In 2018, Max published his newest book showcasing his drawings and paintings. It is titled "Max Turner's Figure Sketches". This softbound book includes 76 pages and over 120 drawings and paintings. In the Introduction, Max explains "I have found that when approaching the figure, one should begin with the gesture. After having captured the essence or feeling of the pose, one can then proceed to build on it." The figure sketches in this wonderful book reflect a Master's work that consistently captures the "gesture"-showing the emotion, movement and expression. Two more books are on the horizon for Max, both dealing with his passion for sculpting. His first, "The Sculpture of Max Turner" is a compilation of his commercial and noncommercial pieces throughout his career. The second, "Terra Cotta Sculpture by Max Turner" is a complete collection of figures done at the California Art Institute. These much anticipated books should be out later in 2018. Max now considers himself primarily a sculptor. But others in the art world are more than impressed with his drawings and paintings as well. His portraits are often described as having a Fechin-esque appearance, referring to the style of Nicolai Fechin. When Max observed those first art classes given by Hal Reed, it should be noted that Hal had previously been a student of the Russian/American Master Nicolai Fechin in the early to mid-1950's. In fact, Hal was a student in the last art class that Fechin taught before he unexpectedly died in 1955. Hal was so strongly influenced by Fechin that he later produced two 30-minute art instruction videos as part his Art Video Productions wherein he specifically described Fechin techniques that he learned in Fechin's class. The Fechin style and techniques were in play when Max later met Hal. Over the years, many of Max's art students, art collectors, gallery owners, as well as the Director of the Monterey Museum of Art have commented on the Fechin-esque qualities of Max's wonderful charcoal drawings and paintings. So, while Max may consider himself primarily a sculptor, his drawings and paintings are also impressive and very much sought after. When Nicolai Fechin died in 1955, three of the nine students in his last art class became life-long friends. Max subsequently became friends with not only Hal Reed, but also with prior Fechin students Joseph Nordmann and Albert Londraville...
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1990s Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

Location Proposal Iris Print Ed. 12 Architectural Study LA CAlifornia Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Cindy Bernard’s career spans nearly three decades and she is best known for photographs and projections that explore the relationship between cinema, memory, and landscape including the widely exhibited series Ask the Dust (1988-92), now in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (21 part set), the Pompidou, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, California Arts Council, Creative Capital, Anonymous Was a Woman, the Harpo Foundation, California Community Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Japan, and was included in the Whitney and Lyon Biennials. In addition to her visual practice, Bernard takes an active interest in the spaces and production of social exchange. She was a director and advisor to Foundation for Art Resources from 1985 to 1990, a founding director of the Coalition for Freedom of Expression, and co-founder of MOCA Mobilization. Bernard is also the founder and director of The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS), an organization she began in response to the need for a flexible and sustainable association dedicated to experimental music in Los Angeles. She has curated and produced more than 50 concerts for SASSAS including Welcome Inn Time Machine for Pacific Standard Time in 2012. Her interest in sound has spurred several projects including a series of photographs of municipal band shells which Bernard sees as an architecture of public exchange and The Inquisitive Musician, an adaptation of a 17th century German satire, Musicus Curiosus, or Battalus, the Inquisitive Musician; the Struggle for Precedence between the Kunst Pfeifer and the Common Players. The Inquisitive Musician pits itinerant “beer fiddlers” against the city sanctioned “Kunstpfeifer” in an argument over who has the right to perform and be compensated. Presented as a staged reading incorporating video and live music, The Inquisitive Musician has been performed in New York, in Los Angeles at the LA County Museum of Art, and most recently at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in June 2013. Current projects include Vinland, a meditation on the complex and continually shifting relationships between spaces, social and economic structures, and personal and collective histories and, more recently, an “episodic” series based on the history of social nudism: Your Personal View of (Social) Nudism. Bernard is a Adjunct Professor of Graduate Fine Art at Art Center College of Art and Design and was appointed the inaugural Ruffin Distinguished Artist-In-Residence at the University of Virginia for the academic year 2013/2014. She was a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow at the MacDowell Colony and will be in residence at the UCross Foundation in 2017. Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow, a sizzling sunset by Peter Alexander, abstract compositions by Pauline Stella Sanchez and Jennifer Steinkamp, text and photo combinations by Bill Barminski and Nancy Dwyer...
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1990s Modern Art

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Color

Mega Chess (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
A giant game of chess in Santa Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, 1993. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (...
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1990s Modern Art

Materials

Lambda

Trout stream in Oxfordshire
Located in Harkstead, GB
A lovely vibrant watercolour capturing a shimmering English river John Newberry (born 1934) Stream at Wytham, Oxford Signed Watercolour 4¼ x 5¾ inches unframed 9 x 11 inches with fr...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Polo Match - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Polo Match A polo match in play, Argentina, December 1990. Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2...
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1990s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Rustic House in Roman Countryside - Etching After Charles Coleman - 1992
Located in Roma, IT
The rustic house in Roman Countryside is an original etching artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992. Signed on the plate. The rare edition of ...
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1990s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Mug
By Jack Earl
Located in Kansas City, MO
Jack Earl Mug Material: Clay, glaze Size: approx. 5.5 x 4.5 x 2 Date unknown Signed by artist Jack Earl (born August 2, 1934 in Uniopolis, Ohio) is an Ameri...
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1990s Modern Art

Materials

Clay, Glaze

Ancient Views of Colombo - Sri Lanka - Original Albumen Prints - 1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Views of Colombo Sri Lanka is a set of 2 original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 25 x 34 cm. Size of photos: 21.5 x 27.5 cm. Good conditions. Caption in Ital...
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1990s Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Female Nude from the Back - Lithograph - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
Female Nude from the Back is an artwork realized in 1990 after a drawing by Egon Schiele realized in 1910 ca. The portfolio, that includes 10 lithographs on Japanese paper (various s...
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1990s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Portrait of Modern Man - Multilayer Woodblock in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Anger - Multilayer Woodblock in Ink on Paper Bold and saturated woodblock print of a screaming man by Michael Dow (American, 20th Century). The man is centered in this m...
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1990s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Woodcut

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