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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
Josep Navarro Vives – Reclining Female Nude – Watercolor on Paper
Josep Navarro Vives – Reclining Female Nude – Watercolor on Paper

Josep Navarro Vives – Reclining Female Nude – Watercolor on Paper

Located in Sant Celoni, ES

Josep Navarro Vives – Reclining Female Nude – Watercolor on Paper – 14 × 21 cm Delicate figurative watercolor on paper by Spanish artist Josep Navarro Vives (1931–2023), depicting a...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Tiger Lily
Tiger Lily

Tiger Lily

By Nishimura Hodo

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Tiger Lily Color woodcut, 1939 Unsigned (as usual) Publisher: Takemura Hideo (active Yokohama 1926-1940) Condition: Excellent Image/sheet size: 15 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches Provenance: Robert O. Muller Estate Biography Hodo Nishimura...

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1930s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

R2D2 30x40 First Release , Star Wars, Photography Pop Art, 70's Toys, Movie
R2D2 30x40 First Release , Star Wars, Photography Pop Art, 70's Toys, Movie

R2D2 30x40 First Release , Star Wars, Photography Pop Art, 70's Toys, Movie

By Destro

Located in Los Angeles, CA

R2D2 from the original Kenner release of the Star Wars toys in May of 1977 This is pre release is the first release in the much anticipated series "The Toys" "They encapsulate an era...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Théo Tobiasse “Thou Art Fair, My Love” 1975 Signed Litho from Song of Songs...
Théo Tobiasse “Thou Art Fair, My Love” 1975 Signed Litho from Song of Songs...

Théo Tobiasse “Thou Art Fair, My Love” 1975 Signed Litho from Song of Songs...

By Théo Tobiasse

Located in Miami, FL

THÉO TOBIASSE (1927–2012) – “THOU ART FAIR, MY LOVE” Lithograph on Japon Paper ⚜ Hand Signed and Numbered ⚜ Gilt Wood Frame A SENSUOUS HYMN TO BEAUTY, BELOVEDNESS, AND THE POETRY O...

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1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Sunset on the Vineyards - Original Lithograph
Sunset on the Vineyards - Original Lithograph

Sunset on the Vineyards - Original Lithograph

By Raoul Dufy

Located in Paris, IDF

Raoul DUFY Sunset on the Vineyards, 1953 Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor With printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 28 x 38 cm (c. 11 x 15 inch) Excellent con...

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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Figure - Original Woodcut by Mino Maccari - 1969

Figure - Original Woodcut by Mino Maccari - 1969

By Mino Maccari

Located in Roma, IT

"Figures" is an original woodcut artwork realized in 1969 by Mino Maccari (1898-1989). Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil, dated and numbered on the lower left, edition of 48...

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1960s Modern Art

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Woodcut

Still Life
Still Life

Still Life

By Pierre Bisiaux

Located in Dallas, TX

Signed "P. Bisiaux" at lower right The overall dimensions, including the frame, are 29 x 34 7/8 inches

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Air Jordan" 50x60 Nike Michael Jordan, Sneakers, Photography Fine Art Signed
"Air Jordan" 50x60 Nike Michael Jordan, Sneakers, Photography Fine Art Signed

"Air Jordan" 50x60 Nike Michael Jordan, Sneakers, Photography Fine Art Signed

By Destro

Located in Los Angeles, CA

"Air Jordan" is an acrylic photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundre...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

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...

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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Mid Century Modern Original Abstract Figurative Oil Painting -Presence in Shadow
Mid Century Modern Original Abstract Figurative Oil Painting -Presence in Shadow

Mid Century Modern Original Abstract Figurative Oil Painting -Presence in Shadow

Located in Bristol, GB

PRESENCE IN SHADOW Size: 60.5 x 52.5 cm (including frame) Oil on board A compelling and emotive mid-century abstract figurative composition that presents a solitary seated figure r...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Breton fisherman with pipe
Breton fisherman with pipe

Breton fisherman with pipe

Located in Genève, GE

Work on canvas Beige wooden frame 90 x 70 x 4.6 cm Breton fisherman with pipe This captivating portrait shows a fisherman with a bushy beard, deep in thought and smoking his pipe. T...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Sister Kate — Mid-century, Jazz-inspired Modernism
Sister Kate — Mid-century, Jazz-inspired Modernism

Sister Kate — Mid-century, Jazz-inspired Modernism

By James Houston McConnell

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

James Houston McConnell, 'Sister Kate', color serigraph, 1947, edition 24. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '24' in pencil. Annotated '10.00 - 19 colors - 24 copies - #24' in pencil. A fine impression, with vibrant, fresh colors, on heavy tan wove paper, with full margins (11/16 to 1 1/2 inches). Tack holes in the four margin corners, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce. Image size 8 5/8 x 14 1/16 inches (219 x 357 mm); sheet size 11 1/16 x 15 1/2 inches (281 x 393 mm). Another of McConnell's mid-century modernist, jazz-inspired serigraphs, 'Combo', is featured in the British Museum's 2008 publication (and traveling exhibition) 'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock'. ABOUT THE IMAGE "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate", often simply "Sister Kate", is an up-tempo jazz dance song, written by Armand J. Piron and published in 1922. The lyrics of the song are narrated in the first person by Kate's sister, who sings about Kate's impressive dancing skill and her wish to be able to emulate it. She laments that she's not quite "up to date", but believes that dancing like "Sister Kate" will rectify this, and she will be able to impress "all the boys in the neighborhood" like her sister. Over the years this song has been performed and recorded by many artists, including Frances Faye and Rusty Warren, a 1959 version by Shel Silverstein...

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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Cyclist - Original Etching by Giuseppe Viviani - 1955

Cyclist - Original Etching by Giuseppe Viviani - 1955

By Giuseppe Viviani

Located in Roma, IT

Original title: Il Ciclista Cyclist is an original etching realized by Giuseppe Viviani in 1955. Hand signed and dated in pencil on lower right margin "G. Viviani 955", edition of 200 prints. It represents a cyclist who is riding along a tree-lined road. Very good conditions except for foxings and faded paper. - Published on “Giuseppe Viviani Catalogo Generale” cured by Silvio Guarasci Pisa, Editore Saletta d’Arte Viviani s.a.s. Pisa, p.216. Giuseppe Viviani (1898-1965) is a popular Italian artist and engraver. His figures are characterized by stylized silhouettes, big and sad eyes...

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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Park

Park

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Park, 1980, acrylic on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 32 x 48 inches, inscribed verso “Alfred P. Maurice, 2725 A South Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616, ‘Park”, labeled verso ...

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1980s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

La Catedral de San Juan, Puerto Rico
La Catedral de San Juan, Puerto Rico

La Catedral de San Juan, Puerto Rico

Located in Tulsa, OK

The artwork is an vintage architectural lithograph/screenprint depicting "La Catedral de San Juan, Puerto Rico" (Catedral Metropolitana de San Juan Bautista in Old San Juan). It show...

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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Antique American Modernist Nature Study Lake Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Antique American Modernist Nature Study Lake Landscape Framed Oil Painting

Antique American Modernist Nature Study Lake Landscape Framed Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed illegibly lower left. Image size, 36L x 24H. Housed in a period modern frame.

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1940s Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil, Gouache

Antique French Modernist Signed Sunflower Still Life Framed Rare Oil Painting
Antique French Modernist Signed Sunflower Still Life Framed Rare Oil Painting

Antique French Modernist Signed Sunflower Still Life Framed Rare Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage French modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 35 by 20 inches overall. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a modern...

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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hidden Portraits XXXI, Modern Acrylic on Canvas, Framed, Circa 1980s
Hidden Portraits XXXI, Modern Acrylic on Canvas, Framed, Circa 1980s

Hidden Portraits XXXI, Modern Acrylic on Canvas, Framed, Circa 1980s

Located in London, GB

'Hidden Portraits XXXI', acrylic on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an ageing...

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1980s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Board

1930's Modernist Oil Painting Paris Rooftops Hazel Guggenheim Mckinley Fauvist
1930's Modernist Oil Painting Paris Rooftops Hazel Guggenheim Mckinley Fauvist

1930's Modernist Oil Painting Paris Rooftops Hazel Guggenheim Mckinley Fauvist

By Hazel Guggenheim McKinley

Located in Surfside, FL

Hazel Guggenheim King-Farlow McKinley (American, London, New Orleans, 1903-1995), "Paris Rooftops" c. 1930 Oil paint on wood panel Attributed, dated and titled verso (I am not sure in whose hand not signed by the artist herself). Dimensions H.- 18 in., W.- 15 in., Framed- H.- 26 1/2 in., W.- 23 in. Provenance: From an estate New Orleans, Louisiana. Hazel Guggenheim King-Farlow McKinley (born Barbara Hazel Guggenheim; April 30, 1903 – June 10, 1995) was an American painter, art collector, and art benefactor. Hazel Guggenheim was born in New York City to Benjamin Guggenheim and Fleurette (Seligman) Guggenheim. The marriage united two wealthy German-Jewish families. Born into the well-known Guggenheim family, a niece of Solomon Guggenheim who founded the Guggenheim Museum, she grew up in New York, alongside her sisters Benita Guggenheim and Marguerite Peggy Guggenheim who would become the influential gallery proprietor, art collector, museum founder, and midwife to the Abstract Expressionism art movement. Her father Benjamin gave up much of his financial interest in the family's mining business to start his own business in Paris. With his business failing, in 1912 he set out to return to the United States in time for McKinley's ninth birthday on the Titanic. Following the shipwreck, he drowned aged 46; his body was not recovered. McKinley inherited $450,000. She later inherited money on the deaths of her mother, and of her older sister, Benita, who died in childbirth. The loss of her father haunted McKinley for the rest of her life, and in 1969 she recorded "In Memoriam, Titanic Lifeboat Blues." McKinley began painting as a teenager and was a prolific artist throughout her life. When she fled New York for Paris at age 19 she studied at the Sorbonne and became part of 1920's bohemian Paris, France, where she was taught by key modernism artists of the time. Her primary mediums were ink, water color, tempera, and crayon. Some of her work is hand signed and some is not. In 1928 her sister Peggy moved to London and mar­ried the British writer John Holmes. In 1931, McKinley married the Englishman Denys King-Farlow. They settled in Sussex, UK, and had two children, John King-Farlow, who became a philosopher and poet, and Barbara Benita King-Farlow, who became an artist in her own right. In 1938 Peggy opened Guggenheim Jeune, a London gallery of mod­ern art, starring Wassily Kandinsky, Henry Moore, Salvador dali, Constantin Brancusi, Max Ernst, Pablo Pic­asso and Jean Miro with whom they socialized. Whilst living in the south of England with Denys King-Farlow in the 1930s, McKinley was influenced by a group of avant-garde artists, and had her first solo exhibition in London in April 1937 at the Coolings Gallery. She received instruction from British artists Rowland Suddaby, Raymond Coxon, and Edna Ginesi, becoming associated with the London Group and the Euston Road School. She painted primarily in watercolor. Her work included still-life, portraits, townscapes and landscapes. Although her first work was done in a "slightly plain palette," her later work in the 1930s brightened, sometimes falling within the realm of fauvism. "Under the influence of the Surrealist artists, Hazel's paintings after the 1930's became freer, though her work was far more whimsical and humorous than many artists more closely associated with the surrealism movement." In 1939 McKinley fled Europe due to the impending war and returned to the US, living mostly in California. She took brief art lessons from her sister Peggy's one-time husband Max Ernst and much later attended several summer schools taught by muralist and renowned teacher Xavier Gonzalez. In her life in the United States and abroad, McKinley met many prominent artists of the Paris, London, and New York art scenes including Jackson Pollock. McKinley continued to paint, and ran a small gallery of her own in the late 1950s and early 1960s in West Cornwall, Connecticut. One show at her gallery featured the works of British and Irish painters including Rowland Suddaby, Frank Beteson, Tom Nisbett, and Patrick Swift. McKinley showed two of her own works in the same exhibit, a watercolor painted at Positano, Italy and one painted at the Tuileries, Paris. Another featured work was a surrealistic water color portrait of McKinley by London artist Mervyn Peake. McKinley exhibited her work both in Europe and the United States throughout her long career, mostly at smaller venues. An incomplete listing of her exhibits and museum acquisitions of her work include: Berkshire Museum, the Galerie Raymond Duncan in Paris, Stendahl Galleries, the Jake Zeitlin Gallery, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, the Artists' Own Gallery in London, the Manchester City Art Gallery, and Santa Fe Art Museum. McKinley's work was only once included in a show by her sister Peggy. In 1943 McKinley was selected to exhibit a painting in Peggy's infamous show Exhibition by 31 Women in her New York gallery Art of This Century. The exhibition was radical at the time for being one of the first all-woman exhibitions, as well as showing only abstract or Surrealist works. The Exhibition by 31 Women was conceived by Peggy Guggenheim in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp, who is usually credited with suggesting the idea. The participating artists were selected by a jury that included André Breton, Max Ernst Duchamp, and Guggenheim. Advice was sought from Alfred H. Barr Jr., first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, who provided Guggenheim with five names, of which three were included in the exhibition, Suzy Frelinghuysen, Irene Rice Pereira, and Esphyr Slobodkina. Those already known to Guggenheim through their partners included Xenia Cage, wife of the composer John Cage, Frida Kahlo, wife of Diego Rivera, who was noted for his frescoes, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, wife of the sculptor, Hans Jean Arp, and Jacqueline Lamba, ex-wife of the surrealist André Breton. Guggenheim’s sister, Hazel Guggenheim McKinley and her daughter, Pegeen Vail Guggenheim exhibited. Also in the exhibition was the burlesque dancer, Gypsy Rose Lee, another friend of Guggenheim, who was possibly included more to help publicise the event than for her artistic skills. Other artists were friends of Guggenheim or of Max Ernst. One, Dorothea Tanning, was Ernst's lover, leading Guggenheim to say: "I realized that I should have only had thirty women in the show". Only one artist is known to have refused the invitation to submit works, Georgia O'Keeffe, who reportedly responded that she wished to be identified as a painter, and not singled out because of her gender. In the late 1950s, McKinley moved back to Europe for a while, before returning to the United States in 1969. She lived in New Orleans until her death in 1995. On her death, her only living son, John King-Farlow, wrote a poem in his mother's honor, entitled "Eulogy For My Mother (Hazel Guggenheim McKinley, Artist)." A short obituary distributed by the Associated Press noted she was a member of the illustrious New York Guggenheim family, that she was determined to make a name for herself as an artist, that her art works were shown in museums in the United States and Europe, and were in the collections of such celebrities as Greer Garson, Benny Goodman, and Jason Robards. In 1998 after her death, one of her paintings was exhibited in Peggy Guggenheim's Venice home museum the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. Guggenheim’s work in various media and her connections to influential artists and collectors provide glimpses into the complex tapestry of the art world in the first half of the 20th century. In her later life she settled in New Orleans, where she continued painting, exhibiting, and studying art into her eighties at Newcomb College, New Orleans. She was part of a regional art scene that included Ida Kohlmeyer, George Rodrigue, Noel Rockmore and Hunt Slonem. Towards the end of her life while confined to bed, her last works were colored pen drawings and sketches. McKinley collected major contemporary artworks and she donated many of these works to public institutions. She donated over 15 works to Wakefield Art Gallery, UK, in the 1930s, and in 1938 presented the painting Cossacks...

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1930s Modern Art

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Oil, Panel

Formes from the Jazz Portfolio, Modern Lithograph after Henri Matisse
Formes from the Jazz Portfolio, Modern Lithograph after Henri Matisse

Formes from the Jazz Portfolio, Modern Lithograph after Henri Matisse

By (after) Henri Matisse

Located in Long Island City, NY

Formes (Forms) Henri Matisse (After) French (1869–1954) Portfolio: Jazz Date: Of Original: 1947 Year Printed: 1983 Lithograph Image Size: 14.5 x 21 inches Size: 15.25 x 23.5 in. (...

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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Joan Miro und Katalonien - Lithograph by Joan Miró
Joan Miro und Katalonien - Lithograph by Joan Miró

Joan Miro und Katalonien - Lithograph by Joan Miró

By Joan Miró

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) Title: Joan Miro und Katalonien Year: 1969 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed in the plate Size: 20 in. x 26 in. (50.8 cm x 66.04 cm) Frame...

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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Lunch Time" by Bert Hardy

"Lunch Time" by Bert Hardy

By Bert Hardy

Located in London, GB

"Lunch Time" by Bert Hardy Five British models eating lunch in their swimwear on a yacht on the Cote d'Azur. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7850 - Th...

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1950s Modern Art

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Black and White

The Window 376 - Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Burgundy Beige Dual Tone Artwork
The Window 376 - Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Burgundy Beige Dual Tone Artwork

The Window 376 - Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Burgundy Beige Dual Tone 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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Japanese Print, White-billed Pie - Signed Woodcut
Japanese Print, White-billed Pie - Signed Woodcut

Japanese Print, White-billed Pie - Signed Woodcut

By Mokuchu URUSHIBARA

Located in Paris, IDF

Mokuchu URUSHIBARA White-billed Pie, c. 1930 Woodcut after on an ink drawing Signed with the artist's stamp On paper 32 x 26.5 cm (c. 12.59 x 10.23 in) INFORMATION : Engraving pub...

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1930s Modern Art

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Woodcut

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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.