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
Period: 1920s
Untitled (Rendez-Vous) — 1920s modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Rendez-Vous), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. From a suite of 10 lithographs published by the artist ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Yiddish Theatre Cubist Costume Design 1924 Deco Color Field Modernism Broadway
Located in New York, NY
Yiddish Theatre Cubist Costume Design 1924 Deco Color Field Modernism Broadway.
Boris Aronson (1898 – 1980) "Day and Night," 17 ½ x 13 inches. Gouache ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Antique American School Modernist Landscape Signed Western Oil on Paper
Located in Buffalo, NY
Signed illegibly lower left. Oil on paper. 10 x 8.
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Pierre Guastalla - Etching by Halman Hagelstam - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Pierre Guastalla is an original etching on paper realized in 1926 by Halman Hagelstam (1899-1941)
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right in pencil with the dedication ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Laurence Dunn, Drawing of Coastal Tramp Eastleigh, Kent (c.1925) T A Soliffe
Located in London, GB
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Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Walk - Drawing by Louis Jou - Early 20th Century
By Louis Jou
Located in Roma, IT
Walk is an Original Drawing in Pencil realized by Louis Jou (1882-1968).
Good conditions.
Hand-signed.
The Artwork is depicted through strong strokes in a well-balanced compositio...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Pencil
Seated Woman - Original Drawing by Louis Jou - Early 20th Century
By Louis Jou
Located in Roma, IT
Seated Woman is an Original Drawing in Pencil realized by Louis Jou (1882-1968).
Good conditions.
Hand-signed.
The Artwork is depicted through strong strokes in a well-balanced co...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Pencil
Saint Francis - Original Woodcut by Giorgio Wenter Marini - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
Saint Francis is an original Woodcut realized by Giorgio Wenter Marini in 1925.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through perfect hatchi...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
"Ride At The Fair" by General Photographic Agency
Located in London, GB
"Ride At The Fair" by General Photographic Agency
1924: The rollercoaster ride at the fair at Wembley exhibition, London.
Unframed
Paper Size: 12" x 16'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Sil...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White
House of Dolls - Original Etching by Jacques Maret - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
House of Dolls is an Original Etching realized by Jacques Maret in 1929.
The artwork is in good condition on a cream colored paper, included a white cardboard passpartout (34x49 cm)...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Landscape - Charcoal Drawing by Achille Lega - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original modern artwork realized by Achille Lega in 1928.
Black and white charcoal drawing.
Published on the Art Review "Il Selvaggio".
Hand signed and dated on th...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Charcoal
From Knoedler's Window MCMXXXV
Located in Storrs, CT
From Knoedler's Window MCMXXV. 1935. Etching and Aquatint. Fletcher catalog 293 stateiv/v. Image: 5 1/16 x 4 15/16 (sheet 12/7/8 x 9 1/8). Edition 271 in this state (total edition 3...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Paris
Located in Wien, 9
The oil painting by Edgar Chahine shows an alley in Paris in a playful and romantic way. The evening atmosphere is generated by the contrast of cool and warm colours. The alley is on...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist New York City Street Scene Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed original oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1930. Signed illegibly. Image size 20L x 16H. Housed in a period giltwood frame.
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Post Queue" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Post Queue" by Fox Photos
December 1926: Schoolchildren posting letters in the playground of the Red Lion Street School.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White
Figure - Original Watercolor on Paper by R. Cazanove - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Cazanove in 1922.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
In good conditions, with aged margins.
Sheet dimension: 38 x 26...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
View - Drawing by Claude Maillard - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
View is an original Pastel en Gravure realized by Claude Maillard in 1926.
The beautiful little artwork represents a small sailboat on the sea.
Good condition on a cream colored pa...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Pastel
The Conversation of Two Women - Drawing by Bernard Bécan - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
The Conversation of two women is a drawing in mixed media( pencil-watercolor-tempera) realized in the 1920s Century by Bernard Bécan (1890-1943).
Hand-signed on the lower left.
In ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Pencil, Tempera, Watercolor
Composition 24 - Original Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 24 is an original drawing realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is in tempera, in very good conditions and mounted on a cardboard...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Tempera
The River By Meadow - Original Etching by Amadée Feau - 1921
Located in Roma, IT
The River By Meadow is an original etching artwork on creamy-colored paper realized by French artist Amadée Feau (1872-1952) in 1921.
Signed on the plate on the lower right and date...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Panier de Fleurs - Original Drawing by Serguei Vassiliévitch Tchekhonine - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Panier de Fleurs is an Original China Ink on trading paper, realized by Serguei Vassiliévitch Tchekhonine.
Good condition on a trading yellowed paper, included a white cardboard pas...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Les Cheveux Courts, 1st State
Located in ZEIST, UT
Kees van Dongen - Les Cheveux Courts, 1th state, 1924
Edition of only 30 copies on Arches paper.
Signed in the stone and with the artist signature stamp.
Numbered 23/30 in pencil.
Pu...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
‘Le Repos du Modele'
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HENRI MATISSE (French 1869-1954)
LE REPOSE DE LA MODELE 1922 . (Duthuit 416)
Original lithograph, FIRST STATE, on Chine volant paper BEFORE image was reduced at the left edge. An ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Hendrik Glintenkamp, (Farmyard)
Located in New York, NY
More a wood engraving rather than a woodcut, Glintenkamp's Farmyard scene was given all the care and detail of the artist's more complex images. It is signed and numbered in pencil. ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
My Fairy Tales - China ink Drawing by Bruno Angoletta - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
My Fairy Tales is an original China ink drawing realized by Bruno Angoletta (1920).
The drawing is in good conditions on a yellowed checkered paper.
Mounted on a cream coloured car...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Summer - Original Wooodcut, Handsigned
By Paul Vera
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Vera
Summer, 1924
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 25 x 33 cm (c. 9,8 x 12,9 in)
Edited for the 'Imagier de la Gravure sur Bois...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
After Pablo Picasso - The Basket
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
With the printed signature of Picassp and date, as issued
Based on an original composition of 1920, printed in 1946
Picture Dimensions: 21 x 31 cm.
Sheet Dimensions: 31 x 41 cm
Prin...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Antique American Modernist Signed Oil Painting Houses in Winter 1920 Framed
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist view of homes in winter signed Timmens.
Oil on board, circa 1935. Signed.
Displayed in a period modernist frame. Image, 24"L x 20"H, overall 30"L x 25"H.
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Fantasy Nude Women Landscape Horses Boats Belgian 1928 LARGE AMAZING
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Louis Buisseret (Belgian)
Exhibited at the Pittsburgh International (Carnegie Institute) show of 1928 "Composition"
This painting depicts nude women having a picnic in a Surrealist f...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a man by Hans Berger - Pastel on paper 37x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Pastel
La butte de Montmartre et le Sacre-Couer (Sacre Coeur from a Distance)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La butte de Montmartre et le Sacre-Couer (Sacre Coeur from a Distance)
Lithograph, 1926
From Joseph Delteil's "Allo, Paris," published by Quatre Chemins, Paris, 1926
Rare signed proo...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Robert Bonfils Bianchini Ferier 1920 art deco scarf design Bullfighting: pink
Located in London, GB
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Rober...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Gouache, Carbon Pencil
View From My Room, Spain
Located in Greenwich, CT
Waldo Peirce painted View from My Room, Spain while traveling throughout Spain with his good friends, Jack Johnson, a former heavyweight champion, and the...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Old Man - Woodcut by Giuseppe Viviani - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Old is an original colored woodcut print, realized by Giuseppe Viviani in 1927.
Numbered in pencil on the lower-left.
Edition 200 of 200 prints.
Very good conditions.
...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
A L'Abattoir Les Cartellistes - Illustrated Book by Jean-Jacques C. Pennès- 1928
Located in Roma, IT
A L'Abattoir Les Cartellistes, Album- Souvenir des Elections de 22 Avril 1928 is an original colorful illustrated rare pamphlet with a satiric political scen...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Salomé - Rare Illustrated Book by Alastair - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Salomé is an original modern rare book, a versione of Oscar Wilde's Salomé illustrated by Alastair (1887 – 1969) in 1922.
Published by Crès Editeur, Paris.
Original edition.
Format: in 8°.
89 pages with 9 full page engravings in two colors.
Mint conditions.
Alastair (1887 – 1969). Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von Voigt (1887 – 1969), best known by his nickname Alastair, was a German artist, composer, dancer, mime, poet, singer and translator. He is best known as an illustrator, under the nom de plume "Alastair". His career as an artist was launched in 1914, when John Lane...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
A Pair of Modern Impressionist Landscape Oil Paintings Framed Female artist NY
Located in Buffalo, NY
A Pair of Modernist Landscapes by listed female artist Margaret Munro Stratton McLennan.
Margaret was a painter working in the early 20th Century in the Syracuse area. These charmi...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait de Femme
Located in ZEIST, UT
Kees van Dongen- Portrait de Femme
Medium:
Watercolor on cream laid paper
Year:
Executed ca. 1924
Dimensions:
Sheet size: 457 x 304 mm.
Frame size...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Cliffs near Paramé, France, vibrant seascape & landscape watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Cliffs near Paramé, France, c. 1926-7
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
11 x 14.5 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters". In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
The Pont Royal and the Louvre by Pierre Charles Hébert - Oil on canvas 33x41 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Gilded wooden frame
42 x 49,5 x 5 cm
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Make Fast, Plate 2.
Located in Storrs, CT
Make Fast, plate 2. 1929. Etching. Laver catalog number 146; Hurst catalog number 258. Plate: 14 3/8 x 9 13/16 (sheet 17 5/8 x 11 3/4). Trial proof 2, before the edition or 75. Ill...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Les Femmes de ce Temps - Original Woodcut by Louis Jou - 1920s
By Louis Jou
Located in Roma, IT
Les Femmes de ce Temps is an original woodcut realized by Louis Jou in the 1920s .
Good conditions.
Louis Jou (Gracia, 1882 - Baux, 1968), the twentieth-century etcher and wood engraver, was a prolific illustrator of a large number of books in France, authored by big names like Andre Gide...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Christ - Original Lithograph by Jacques Beltrand - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Christ is an original print realized by Jacques Beltrand in 1928. Cromolithograph.
Good conditions except for being aged and some rips on the lower margin and a cutaway on the top l...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
'Times Square' — 1920s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Adriaan Lubbers, 'Times Square', lithograph, 1929, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and editioned '(50)' in pencil. A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Students of Harrow School (1929) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Students of Harrow School (1929) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)
Students of Harrow School are returning to school after Christmas vacations, England, P...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary; Invitation to a party .....
By John Sloan
Located in Middletown, NY
Invitation to a party on the occasion of John and Dolly Sloan's twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
Sante Fe: Printed by Peter J. Platt, 1926. 100. Etching on cr...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Mabel Oliver Rae: Clare Bridge, Clare College, Cambridge
Located in London, GB
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Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Kyoka-Tokaido Station- Woodcut after Utagawa Hiroshige -1925
Located in Roma, IT
Reduced reprint of the series "Tokaido gojusan tsugi" is an original modern artwork realized after Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858) in 1925.
Original Woodcut print Chuban ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Reflections Along the Ohio River, 20th Century Landscape Watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Reflections Along the Ohio River, c. 1920
Watercolor and graphite on board
Signed lower left
22 x 30 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 1...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
City Canal With Boats by Erik Jerken, Oil on Canvas, Signed
By Erik Jerken
Located in Stockholm, SE
Erik Jerken (1898-1947) Sweden
Title: City Canal With Boats
oil on canvas
signed Jerke
frame size 28.74 x 25.59 inches (73 x 65 cm)
canvas size 21.65 x 17.71 inches (55 x 45 cm)
Provenance:
Private collection Sweden
Erik Jerken, born June 17, 1898, in Stockholm, died October 27, 1947, in Stockholm. He was a Swedish painter, graphic artist, illustrator known under the signature Jerke.
Jerken studied at the Technical School 1916–1918, Althin's painting school 1918 and the Academy of Fine Arts 1918–1923. In addition to decoration work for Högalid Church, Stockholm City Hall...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View Towards Christmas Cove, Maine, Early 20th Century East Coast Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
View Towards Christmas Cove, Maine, c. 1923
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
14 x 19.5 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Winter landscape - Drawing by Emilio Longoni - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Mixed media artwork (tempera, watercolor and pencil) on cardboard by Emilio Longoni.
Hand signed by the artist on the lower right margin.
Includes gilded frame.
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera, Pencil
Rainy Embankment (1929) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Fair Fun (1938) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
August 1929: A man standing alone on a rain-drenched pavement on the River Thames Embankment, London...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Rainy Embankment' London (Limited Edition) Oversize
Located in London, GB
A man standing alone on a rain-drenched pavement on the River Thames Embankment, London. August 1929.
(Photo By Fox Photos/ The Getty Images Photographic Archives London, England)
...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Portrait - Charcoal Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1920s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Man is an original modern artwork realized in the first decades of the XX Century by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original charcoal draw...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Charcoal
Mabel Oliver Rae: Chapel Tower of St John's College, Cambridge etching
Located in London, GB
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
"Edward Ray" by Kirby
Located in London, GB
"Edward Ray" by Kirby
26th June 1925: British golfer Edward Ray in action during the 1925 British Open at Prestwick. Prestwick golf course was founded ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White
Femme Debout dans sa Baignoire - Lithograph by Pierre Bonnard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Very rare edition of only 25 prints on vélin fort, numbered and signed by the artist. Redness on left side of the sheet, otherwise excellent conditions and in full margins.
Dry stamp...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
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