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
Item Ships From: Europe
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Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XI
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XI", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inter...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Still life flowers roses oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Lafuente - Flowers - Oil on canvas
Spanish school signed "Lafuente".
Oil measures 61x50 cm.
Frameless.
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dreaming Girl - Original etching
By Louis Icart
Located in Paris, IDF
Louis Icart
Dreaming Girl
Original etching and stencil
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum 19 x 29 cm (c. 8 x 12 in)
Excellent condition
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst
Located in Cologne, DE
With a socially critical eye and Berlin humor, the prints by Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929) capture the milieu of the "little people" around 1900. The fact that the famous artist was a...
Category
1890s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Eiffel Tower, Black and White, Paris, 1950s, 17, 6 x 12, 8 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This photograph, taken in 1952, captures a tranquil scene in Paris, France, with the iconic Eiffel Tower dominating the background. The photo was taken from the Champ de Mars, showin...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Swatch : Color Explosion - Original lithograph (Mourlot, 1992)
By Sam Francis
Located in Paris, IDF
Sam FRANCIS
Color explosion, 1992
Original lithograph
Unsigned
On Arches vellum 86.5 x 29.5 cm
Numbered on the back
Authenticated by Moulot blind stamp
INFORMATION : Edited by Gale...
Category
1990s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Reclining Nude en Plein Aire
Located in London, GB
'Reclining Nude en Plein Aire', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1960s). The reclining figure is one of the most popular poses in art history...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Monument - Original Pencil on Paper by Mino Maccari - 1985
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Monument is an original modern artwork realized the 1985 by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original pencil drawing on Ivory paper.
Hand-signed in penc...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Pencil
Mid 20th Century French Still Life Oil Painting Pile of Books
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, mid 20th century
Still life of books
oil on board unframed
board: 10.5 x 13.75 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Historical Places Photo- Old Folkestone - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Places Photo- Old Folkestone is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century. It belongs to historical album including masterpieces of historical pl...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst
Located in Cologne, DE
With a socially critical eye and Berlin humor, the prints by Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929) capture the milieu of the "little people" around 1900. The fact that the famous artist was a...
Category
1890s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Figure of a Woman - Original Pencil Drawing by Jean Bernard - 1910 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of a woman is a pencil drawing realized by Jean Bernard on 1910 ca.
In good condition, worn paper on the marginal line, and traces of old scotch on the back.
Atelier's stamp...
Category
1910s Modern Art
Materials
Pencil
Erotic Scene - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good condition.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Charcoal
Bacchanale
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Bacchanale
Lithograph from 1967.
The edition of 89/500 on Auvergne Richard de Bas paper.
With two watermarks - one of the paper, second of the publishe...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
1950's Modernist Painting - Portrait Of Figure On Gold
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Gold Man
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century), stamped verso
original watercolour/gouache painting on paper
overall size: 111.75 x 8.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
'Lounging In Verbier' ( Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Verbier' by Slim Aarons
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964.
This photograph epitomises the Travel, Lifestyle and Glamou...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
French Gouache Painting of Sioux Scalp Dance Ritual in South Dakota
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Sioux Scalp Dance Ritual in South Dakota
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Gouache
Flooded Mall (1934) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Flooded Mall (1934) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by H. F. Davis/Getty Images)
A man crossing a stretch of floodwater with the help of two chairs after a storm caused floodi...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Don Quichote
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Don Quichote
Lithograph with quadrochromy from 1961.
Dimensions of sheet: 37.9 x 27 cm
Dimensions in frame: 53.2 x 43.2 cm
Publisher: Éditions Cercle ...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Windows - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Windows is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century.
Watercolor, ink. and pencil on paper.
Good conditions and aged with foxing.
The work h...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Design for Architectural Fantasy architectural drawing Mid Century Modern
Located in London, GB
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V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012)
An Architectur...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Greece : Man with Bicycle - Original lithograph, 1997
Located in Paris, IDF
Alekos FASSIANOS
Greece : Man with Bicycle
Original lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On heavy paper 92 x 58 cm (c. 37 x 23 inch)
Printed in Atelier Bellini : three-color li...
Category
1990s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Italy 1956 - Boy reading a newspaper
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print from 1998, photo by Erich Andres, 1956,
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of t...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ancient Roman Bust - Original Etching by Filippo Morghen - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Bust, from the Series Antiquities of Herculaneum is an original etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen.
Signed on the plate, on the lower right.
Good conditions ...
Category
Late 18th Century Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Bust of a Man - Sculpture after Aurelio Mistruzzi - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Bust of a man is an original sculpture in bronze realized after Aurelio Mistruzzi in the late 1990s.
Bronze casting.
18 cm height, 24 cm height with wooden base.
Good conditions.
Category
1990s Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Cauliflower - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...
Category
1870s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
White Mistletoe - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...
Category
1870s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Poison Tree - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...
Category
1870s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Gigaro - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...
Category
1870s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Andres: Children playing street soccer, Barcelona 1957.
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Erich Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photographers, who used a Leica. His images today...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White
Shunga - Woodcut attr. Keisai Eisen - Mid-19th Century
By Keisai Eisen
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut shunga print attributed to Keisai Eisen and realized in the early 19th century.
Good condition except for some signs of time.
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Dans L'Atelier de Picasso
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Dans l'Atelier de Picasso
Lithograph from 1957.
The edition 211/275.
Dimensions of work: 44.5 x 33.5 cm
Publisher: Fernand Mourlot Éditeur, Paris.
Re...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Violets - Etching by Luigi Bartolini - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Violets is a modern artwork realzied by Luigi Bartolini in 1936
Black and white etching.
Hand signed, titled and numbered on the lower margin.
Includes frame
Edition of 13/50
Go...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Twiggy In Red Trousers, 1967 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Twiggy – at David Steen’s Home, Surrey,
Lesley Lawson (born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British cultu...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Le Leopard - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Leopard is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Ro...
Category
1770s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst
Located in Cologne, DE
With a socially critical eye and Berlin humor, the prints by Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929) capture the milieu of the "little people" around 1900. The fact that the famous artist was a...
Category
1890s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Still Life with Fruits - Lithograph Signed in the Plate (Mourlot)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY (after)
Still life with fruits
Stone lithograph after a painting (Mourlot workshop)
Signed in the plate
On Arches vellum 50 x 65 cm (c. 20 x 26 in)
Excellent condition
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Rat and the Elephant - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #179
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall
Fables : The Rat and the Elephant, 1952
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On Montval vellum 39 x 30 cm (c. 15.5 x 12 in)
With COA of the gallery and photo...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Mid-Century Modern Geometric Abstract Oil Painting - Mountain Monastery
Located in Bristol, GB
MOUNTAIN MONASTERY
Size: 74 x 52.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A large and captivating mid-century modernist geometric abstract painting, executed in oil onto canvas.
The co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tribute to Design - Original lithograph (Atelier Michel Cassé), 1964
By Le Corbusier
Located in Paris, IDF
Le Corbusier
Tribute to Design, 1964
Original lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
Limited to 250 copies
On vellum 42.5 x 35.5 cm (c. 16.5 x 13.7 in)
Edited by Forces-Vives (P...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Hurki Costume for an opera - Pencil and watercolor drawing by Taho - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Costume for an opera is an original artwork realized by Taho in the 1930s.
Beautiful pencil and watercolor drawing on cardboard.
Good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Jasmines - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...
Category
1870s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Strychnos Tieuté - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...
Category
1870s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Under the Rain - Oil paint by Eliano Fantuzzi - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Under the rain is a contemporary artwork realized by Eliano Fantuzzi.
Mixed colored oil painting.
Hand signed on the lower margin and on the back.
Includes frame.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Oil
On the Beach in Bermuda - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Chinese Herbal Book - Rare Illustrated Book - 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Chinese Herbal Book is a Rare book with beautiful oriental herbal wood prints realized in the 19th century.
In 29 pages.
All titled in Chinese.
In go...
Category
19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Portrait of Reading Man - Original Vintage Poster (1975)
Located in Paris, IDF
David HOCKNEY
Portrait of Reading Man
Original Vintage Poster (offset-lithograph)
Printed in France by Imprimerie Dermont in Paris
64 x 45 cm (c. 25.1 x 17.7 inch)
This poster was created for the exhibition "David Hockney Dessins et Gravures" April 15th - May 24th at Galerie Claude Bernard in Paris. The poster represents Parisian dandy and Karl Lagerfeld's companion, Jacques de Bascher...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Frida
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting "Frida" explores the depths of the human soul through the image of the renowned Mexican artist. Inspired by Frida Kahlo's unique personality, this piece conveys her com...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Andrè Girard - Vintage Catalogue - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Andrè Girard is an original artwork realized by an artist of the mid-20th Century.
Booklet André GIRARD by Bignou GALLERY New YORK.
Titled on the top ce...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Elizabeth Taylor with Sunglasses for Giant - Oversize Limited Print
By Frank Worth
Located in London, GB
Elizabeth Taylor with Sunglasses for "Giant" 1955
by Frank Worth
This iconic and elegant portrait captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth features actress Elizabeth Taylor o...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Huge Spanish Modernist Oil Painting Fisherfolk Drying Nets on the Shore signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Drying Nets
Spanish School, late 20th century
signed lower corner and inscribed verso
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 29.75 x 41 inches
canvas: 28.5 x 29.5 inches
provenance: private c...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Peru : Quiet Square - Original oil on canvas painting - Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Louis Toffoli (1907-1999)
Peru : Quiet Square
Original oil painting
Signed bottom right
On canvas 65 x 92 cm (c. 26 x 36 inch)
Presented in a golden wood frame 84 x 110 cm (c. 33 x ...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Queen's Amaryllis - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...
Category
1870s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Catherine Wilke, 1980 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Rock Tombs Outside Jerusalem - Oil Paint by Carl Schirm - 1884
Located in Roma, IT
Carl Schirm was a German painter of landscapes. Between 1880-1881 he made, together with Eugen Bracht, a long journey to Egypt, Palestine and Syria, at the end of which emerged lands...
Category
1880s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ice World - signed limited edition - fine art abstract landscape
By Tim Graham
Located in London, GB
Huge and exquisite, intensely vivid Archival Pigment print - signed and numbered by photographer on front - this paper size - edition of 5 only this size.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 10...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunflower - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...
Category
1870s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Portraits of Timeless Expressions No. 11' Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s)
Located in London, GB
'Portraits of Timeless Expressions No. 11', oil on canvas mounted on board, by Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has ...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
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