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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
Sunspot 133 - Tall Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Autumn Tone Abstract Artwork
Sunspot 133 - Tall Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Autumn Tone Abstract Artwork

Sunspot 133 - Tall Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Autumn Tone Abstract Artwork

By Ricky Hunt

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Love Letters 20 - Abstract Contemporary Resin Minimalist Mixed Media Artwork
Love Letters 20 - Abstract Contemporary Resin Minimalist Mixed Media Artwork

Love Letters 20 - Abstract Contemporary Resin Minimalist Mixed Media Artwork

By Ricky Hunt

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Important Colorful Still Life Oil on Canvas Painting, Fruit-Bowl Motif
Important Colorful Still Life Oil on Canvas Painting, Fruit-Bowl Motif

Important Colorful Still Life Oil on Canvas Painting, Fruit-Bowl Motif

Located in Atlanta, GA

Bursting with color and movement, this vibrant oil‑on‑canvas still life presents a boldly modern interpretation of the classic fruit‑bowl motif. The composition features grapes, appl...

Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Naess Sovereign, lithograph by Laurence Dunn
Naess Sovereign, lithograph by Laurence Dunn

Naess Sovereign, lithograph by Laurence Dunn

By Laurence Dunn

Located in London, GB

We acquired a series of marine works from Laurence Dunn's Archives. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller." Laurence D...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

American Flag Impressionist Signed Horse Track Framed School Equestrian Painting
American Flag Impressionist Signed Horse Track Framed School Equestrian Painting

American Flag Impressionist Signed Horse Track Framed School Equestrian Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American modernist equestrian landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Signed illegibly and dated. Framed. Measuring: 18 x 16 inches overall, and 12.5 x 10.5 painting alone. Ex...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

“Landscape”
“Landscape”

“Landscape”

By Karl Knaths

Located in Southampton, NY

Original watercolor, gouache and conte landscape by the well known American artist, Karl Knaths. Circa 1950. Signed by the artist lower left. Condition is excellent. Strong, vibran...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Conté, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

A Large, Striking 1940s Modern Portrait of a Seated Young Woman in Green Blouse
A Large, Striking 1940s Modern Portrait of a Seated Young Woman in Green Blouse

A Large, Striking 1940s Modern Portrait of a Seated Young Woman in Green Blouse

By Walter Burt Adams

Located in Chicago, IL

A Striking 1940s Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Walter Burt Adams (Am. 1903-1990). A large, well executed, figurative work by the artist, depicting a young woman fashionably dressed in a green blouse anddpatterned scarf seated in profile in a muted studio interior. Titled "Portrait of Ms. Anderson, Student at Northwestern U." the painting exemplifies the artist's adept and practiced skill at portraiture, and was completed at the painting class of the artist's friend and instructor, Arnold Turtle, in Evanston, Illinois Artwork size: 30 x 23 inches, oil on canvas, accompanied with the original Modernist frame (Framed size: 33 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches). Signed "Walter Burt Adams" and dated "46" lower right. Provenance: Estate of the artist. Walter Burt Adams was a dedicated painter of the American Scene and a singular personality among his peers in the Chicago Modern Art community. His no-nonsense manner, devotion to his craft and sardonic sense of humor characterize a man whose paintings capture life in and around Chicago between the early 1920s and the late 1970s. Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin just after the turn of the last century, Walter Burt Adams spent his childhood in Fargo, North Dakota and began his artistic education there through a correspondence cartooning class as a boy. After finishing high school in Fargo, Adams moved to Chicago in 1922 in order to enroll at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago. Adams’ instruction at the school with artists such as George Oberteuffer, Frederick V. Poole, Charles Wilimovsky...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Set of 2 Bright Landscape Studies of 1960's British Modernist Drawings
Set of 2 Bright Landscape Studies of 1960's British Modernist Drawings

Set of 2 Bright Landscape Studies of 1960's British Modernist Drawings

By Irina Hale

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Set of Two Paired Studies 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on light brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed overal...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil Crayon

Journal des Demoiselles - Lithograph - 1900
Journal des Demoiselles - Lithograph - 1900

Journal des Demoiselles - Lithograph - 1900

Located in Roma, IT

Colour lithograph on paper, from the celebrated French fashion periodical Journal des Demoiselles, depicting three elegantly dressed ladies in the height of Belle Époque style. The c...

Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Rockefeller Center" by George Enell

"Rockefeller Center" by George Enell

Located in London, GB

"Rockefeller Center" by George Enell circa 1945: The Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Raymond Hood, it was completed in May 1933. Unframed Paper ...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

Fleurs
Fleurs

Fleurs

By Pablo Picasso

Located in PARIS, FR

• An authenticated work This work is authenticated by Paloma Ruiz Picasso and Diana Widmaier Ruiz Picasso, who issued a certificate of authenticity on October 7, 2024. • A dated wor...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

Chouette (A.R.604)
Chouette (A.R.604)

Chouette (A.R.604)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in PARIS, FR

• Picasso began working with ceramics in 1946 at the Madoura workshop in Vallauris, marking the beginning of an important and highly productive chapter in his career. What initially ...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

Hibou
Hibou

Hibou

By Pablo Picasso

Located in PARIS, FR

• A unique ceramic by Pablo Picasso This work is a unique ceramic by Pablo Picasso, dated on the reverse, reflecting the artist’s direct and personal intervention in the creation of ...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

The Waterfall - Signed Facsimile, Ltd /450
The Waterfall - Signed Facsimile, Ltd /450

The Waterfall - Signed Facsimile, Ltd /450

By M.C. Escher

Located in Paris, IDF

M.C. ESCHER (1898-1972) The Waterfall, 2008 Facsimile after the original woodcut from 1935 Signed in the plate Numbered / 450 copies (the number you can see can be different) On vel...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Color

Modulor
Modulor

Modulor

By Le Corbusier

Located in New York, NY

Color lithograph on cream wove paper, 1956. Edition of 200. Printed by Mourlout, Paris.

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Color

'Avalon South' —— Mid-Century Modernist Signed Wood Engraving
'Avalon South' —— Mid-Century Modernist Signed Wood Engraving

'Avalon South' —— Mid-Century Modernist Signed Wood Engraving

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Morris Blackburn, 'Avalon South', wood engraving, 1951, edition 30. Signed, titled, and numbered '12/30' in pencil. A fine black impression on cream wove Japan paper, with wide margins (1 3/8 to 2 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Image size 5 x 7 inches (127 x 178 mm); sheet size 8 5/8 x 10 7/8 inches (219 x 276 mm). ABOUT THE ARTIST Morris Blackburn was a prominent painter, printmaker, and graphic artist, as well as a respected teacher at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Born in Philadelphia, where he spent most of his career, Blackburn was a descendant of the notable colonial portrait artist Joseph J. Blackburn (c. 1700–1780). He developed an interest in art early on and studied architectural drawing at the Philadelphia Trade School. In 1922, he took classes at the Graphic Sketch Club and later attended the School of Industrial Art. While working for the well-known Philadelphia furniture designer Oscar Mertz, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1925 to 1929. During his studies, he learned painting from Henry Bainbridge McCarter...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Man with Tattooed Forehead
Man with Tattooed Forehead

Man with Tattooed Forehead

By Robert Doisneau

Located in New York, NY

Gelatin silver print, vintage Studio stamp in red ink, verso 12 x 9.5 inches, sheet Robert Doisneau (1912-1994), along with Henri Cartier-Bresson, was a pioneer of photojournalism, ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Cat - Lithograph by Giselle Halff - 1950s

The Cat - Lithograph by Giselle Halff - 1950s

By Giselle Halff

Located in Roma, IT

The Cat is a lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by Giselle Halff in 1950 ca. Hand-signed by pencil on the lower right. Numbered. Edition, 19/20. Good conditions, slight fo...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Is that Gun Loaded?  NRA original vintage gun safety poster
Is that Gun Loaded?  NRA original vintage gun safety poster

Is that Gun Loaded? NRA original vintage gun safety poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original “Is that Gun LOADED?” vintage National Rifle Association of America vintage poster. Archival linen backed in excellent condition, mint, and ready to frame. Printed in 1946 on a thick cardboard stock. Excellent condition, vibrant green and reds. 22 x 14 inches. NO paper loss, no tears. These are images of the exact poster you will receive. The poster shows a careless man incorrectly holding a rifle pointing towards another person. The men’s camping gear...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Italian Poet Tasso in the Madhouse - Etching
The Italian Poet Tasso in the Madhouse - Etching

The Italian Poet Tasso in the Madhouse - Etching

By Eugène Delacroix

Located in Paris, IDF

Eugène DELACROIX (1798-1863) Tasso in the Madhouse Engraving after a drawing Signed on the plate On vellum 38 x 50 cm INFORMATION: In 1839, Delacroix painted his famous painting "T...

Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

LA PARADE
LA PARADE

Georges RouaultLA PARADE, 1932

$1,100Sale Price|43% Off

LA PARADE

By Georges Rouault

Located in Santa Monica, CA

GEORGES ROUAULT (1871 – 1958) La PARADE 1932 (CR.203, W.211) color etching and aquatint 1932. Edition 270. Frontispiece from “Cirque”. Signed in plate as i...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

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.