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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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The Drugs Don’t Work - Giant Signed Limited Edition Pop Art Print

The Drugs Don’t Work - Giant Signed Limited Edition Pop Art Print

By BATIK

Located in London, GB

The Drugs Don’t Work by BATIK Archival pigment pop art print of the 1960s supermodel Twiggy signed & limited edition. Giant 60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size signed and n...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ascend, Modern Art, Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
Ascend, Modern Art, Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture

Ascend, Modern Art, Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2022 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Ascend, Size: 14" x 24" x 3.5'' inch, 36x61x...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Metal

Chaim Soutine, Landscape at Cagnes, from Soutine, I, 1966 (after)
Chaim Soutine, Landscape at Cagnes, from Soutine, I, 1966 (after)

Chaim Soutine, Landscape at Cagnes, from Soutine, I, 1966 (after)

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Chaim Soutine (1893–1943), titled Paysage a Cagnes (Landscape at Cagnes), from the folio Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy, 1966, originates from the edition published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, and printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, on October 20, 1966. The work conveys the sweeping emotional vigor and expressive distortions that define Soutines landscape vision, capturing in lithographic form the turbulent rhythm, chromatic intensity, and psychological tension characteristic of his mature periods in Cagnes. Executed as a lithograph on velin d'Arches paper, this work measures 26 x 20 inches. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued. The edition exemplifies the technical mastery of the Mourlot atelier. Artwork Details: Artist: After Chaim Soutine (1893–1943) Title: Paysage a Cagnes (Landscape at Cagnes), from the folio Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy Medium: Lithograph on velin d'Arches paper Dimensions: 26 x 20 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered as issued Date: 1966 Publisher: Fernand Mourlot, Paris Printer: Mourlot Freres, Paris Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the folio Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy, 1966 Notes: Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This album, the first of a series dedicated to Mr. Pierre Levys collection, was printed in DL examples on Arches velin. Printing was finished on October 20, 1966 by Mourlot for lithographs of the canvases of Soutine, and by Fequet and Baudier for Waldemar Georges unpublished text. Fernand Mourlot, Paris 1966. About the Publication: Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy, published in 1966 by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, is the first album in the important series devoted to the Pierre Levy collection, one of the most significant private collections of twentieth century French painting. Conceived as a scholarly and visual record, the album was designed to present key works by Chaim Soutine in lithographic form at a moment of renewed international interest in his oeuvre. Created in collaboration with Mourlot Freres, the foremost lithographic atelier in France, the publication reflects the printers commitment to translating Soutines canvases into richly tonal lithographs that preserve the emotional intensity and structural dynamism of the originals. Issued in a single edition on Arches velin, the album stands as an essential document of postwar art publishing, illuminating the historical partnership between artist, collector, and master printer, and contributing to the larger historiography of modern French Expressionism and museum quality print albums of the mid twentieth century. About the Artist: Chaim Soutine (1893–1943) was a Belarus born French Expressionist painter whose explosive brushwork, emotionally charged distortions, and uncompromising commitment to depicting the psychological intensity of human experience have secured his place as one of the most vital and transformative figures in twentieth century art, creating his legacy within the same revolutionary modernist environment defined by Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray; after leaving his impoverished childhood in Smilavichy and arriving in Paris in 1913, Soutine immersed himself in the School of Paris circle at La Ruche—an incubator of international avant garde talent—where he developed formative friendships with Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Jules Pascin, and other pioneering artists whose daring approaches inspired him to push color, gesture, and form into new emotional territories. His portraits of cooks, choirboys, servants, and village residents; his tempestuous landscapes of Cagnes, Chartres, and Ceret; and his deeply visceral still lifes—most famously his monumental depictions of slaughtered carcasses—reveal a singular ability to transform ordinary subjects into raw, pulsing, almost metaphysical dramas, building on the influence of Rembrandt, Goya, Velazquez, and El Greco while departing radically from academic restraint. His paintings vibrate with psychological tension, their twisted perspectives, molten colors, and trembling outlines capturing an inner world marked by anxiety, longing, resilience, and profound empathy. Soutines originality profoundly shaped the evolution of modern painting: Francis Bacon cited him as one of his greatest influences, Willem de Kooning and the Abstract Expressionists admired his gestural ferocity, and later artists—including Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, and Adrian Ghenie...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Summer : Harvest Time - Original Lithograph
Summer : Harvest Time - Original Lithograph

Summer : Harvest Time - Original Lithograph

By Raoul Dufy

Located in Paris, IDF

Raoul DUFY Summer : Harvest Time, 1953 Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor With printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 28 x 38 cm (c. 11 x 15 inch) Very good condi...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Heartfelt Love Letter - Modern Resin Minimalist Abstract Playful Word Artwork
Heartfelt Love Letter - Modern Resin Minimalist Abstract Playful Word Artwork

Heartfelt Love Letter - Modern Resin Minimalist Abstract Playful Word 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

Original California Figurative Abstract Still Life Ink Drawing Joyce Treiman
Original California Figurative Abstract Still Life Ink Drawing Joyce Treiman

Original California Figurative Abstract Still Life Ink Drawing Joyce Treiman

By Joyce Treiman

Located in Surfside, FL

Joyce Treiman Ink on paper, framed under glass; signed in pencil lower right; Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches; 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches frame. Joyce Wahl Treiman was an American p...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, India Ink

Modernist Collage
Modernist Collage

Modernist Collage

By Reginald Wilson

Located in Surfside, FL

Reginald Wilson was born in 1909 in the small town of Butler, Ohio. Determined from boyhood to be an artist, he arrived at the Art Students League of New York when he was twenty. He ...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Jane Peterson, Signed Still Life Floral Oil Painting
Jane Peterson, Signed Still Life Floral Oil Painting

Jane Peterson, Signed Still Life Floral Oil Painting

By Jane Peterson

Located in Rockport, MA

Dimensions: 24"x24" with frame 32"x32" Signed Lower Left A vibrant and expressive still life by Jane Peterson, "Flowers in a Yellow Vase" exemplifies the artist’s mastery of color, ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Lovers Bronze Sculpture Signed Illegibly edition 2/10
Lovers Bronze Sculpture Signed Illegibly edition 2/10

Lovers Bronze Sculpture Signed Illegibly edition 2/10

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Lovers Figurative Bronze Sculpture Signed Illegibly edition 2/10 Large bronze sculpture signd illegible possible in Hebrew.

Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Bronze

Low Country (South Carolina)
Low Country (South Carolina)

Low Country (South Carolina)

By Elizabeth Verner

Located in Middletown, NY

An enchanting Southern landscape by the mother of the Charleston Renaissance. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, and educated under the tutelage of Thomas Anshutz at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, O'Neill Verner was a teacher, a mother, an artist, an ardent preservationist, and a skilled autodidact. Having previously focused on painting, in the early 1920s she found herself deeply moved by printmaking as a media, and especially so by the simple, peaceful themes and tableaus she discovered in Japanese art. She embarked on a effort to teach herself Japanese printmaking techniques, and in the process, produced the charming images of every day life in Charleston and its environs that earned her recognition as a cultural icon in her day, and in more modern times, as the mother of the Charleston Renaissance, which flourished well into the 1930s. In 1923 she opened a studio in Charleston where she focused on documenting the local color and the architecture and landscape that distinguishes Charleston as one of the South's most beautiful cities, all the while applying the gentle and poetic thematic sensibilities of Japanese printmaking. O'Neill Verner soon found herself in high demand when municipalities and institutions throughout the country sought commissions from her to document the beauty of their grounds and historic buildings. She worked as far north as the campuses of Harvard and Princeton, and extensively across the South, including in Savannah, Georgia, where through sweeping commissions she was able to marry her love of southern preservation and art. O'Neill Verner was a lifelong learner, and continued a path of edification that led her to study etching at the Central School of Art in London, to travel extensively through Europe, and to visit Japan in 1937, where she studied sumi (brush and ink) painting. She was a founding member of the Charleston Etchers Club, and the Southern States Art League. Her works are represented in the permanent collections of leading museums across the American south, and in major national institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston's Museum of Fine Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. O'Neil Verner...

Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Colourful Large Cubist Nude, Nue Allongée
Colourful Large Cubist Nude, Nue Allongée

Colourful Large Cubist Nude, Nue Allongée

Located in Cotignac, FR

Colourful, large, modern Cubist oil on canvas nude by Isabelle Pardoe. The painting is not signed but came directly from the atelier of the artist. Isabell Pardoe trained at the Sl...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Hans Feibusch, Monkeys, S.P.16., from School Prints Ltd., 1946 (after)
Hans Feibusch, Monkeys, S.P.16., from School Prints Ltd., 1946 (after)

Hans Feibusch, Monkeys, S.P.16., from School Prints Ltd., 1946 (after)

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Hans Feibusch (1898–1998), titled Monkeys, S.P.16., originates from the School Prints Ltd. series, published by School Prints Ltd., London, under the ...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Jean Cocteau, Antigone VI, from Theatre, 1957
Jean Cocteau, Antigone VI, from Theatre, 1957

Jean Cocteau, Antigone VI, from Theatre, 1957

By Jean Cocteau

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Antigone VI (Antigone VI), originates from the 1957 album Jean Cocteau de l'Academie francaise, Theatre, Edition ornee p...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Vintage Mid Century Swedish Original Abstract Oil Painting - Windowlight Mosaic
Vintage Mid Century Swedish Original Abstract Oil Painting - Windowlight Mosaic

Vintage Mid Century Swedish Original Abstract Oil Painting - Windowlight Mosaic

Located in Bristol, GB

WINDOWLIGHT MOSAIC Size: 38 x 44 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A radiant mid-century composition that balances abstraction with suggestion, executed in oil onto canvas. This p...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Le Vase
Le Vase

Le Vase

By Jean-Pierre Cassigneul

Located in Mc Lean, VA

Genre Figure Contemporary Elegant Lady with Flowers Oil on canvas Excellent condition Framed in gold leaf frame

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Original New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival vintage poster
Original New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival vintage poster

Original New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival vintage poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original, Linen backed New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival poster from 1983. A fun image with a crawfish holding an umbrella with streamers. 1983 JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL PRO-MO ...

Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Vase Deux Anses Hautes (A.R.213)

Vase Deux Anses Hautes (A.R.213)

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

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

The Lych Gate; Little Church Around the Corner - New York

The Lych Gate; Little Church Around the Corner - New York

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching and sand ground on cream laid paper, 10 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches (262 x 193 mm), full margins. Inscribed "No. 29" in black ink, lower right margin. In good condition with minor tim...

Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Laid Paper

Paul Klee, Perspective-Ghost, from 12 Watercolors, 1964 (after)
Paul Klee, Perspective-Ghost, from 12 Watercolors, 1964 (after)

Paul Klee, Perspective-Ghost, from 12 Watercolors, 1964 (after)

By Paul Klee

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Paul Klee (1879–1940), titled Perspectiv-Spuk (Perspective-Ghost), from the folio Paul Klee, 12 aquarelles (Paul Klee, Twelve Watercolors)...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo - 1950s

Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo - 1950s

Located in Roma, IT

Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo realized in the 1950s. Good conditions and aged.

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Joan Miro, The Acid Melody, from La Melodie acide, 1980
Joan Miro, The Acid Melody, from La Melodie acide, 1980

Joan Miro, The Acid Melody, from La Melodie acide, 1980

By Joan Miró

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled La Melodie acide (The Acid Melody), from the folio 14 original lithographs by Joan Miro "La Melodie acide" (The Acid Melody...

Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Large Scale Modernist Abstract Square and Circle
Large Scale Modernist Abstract Square and Circle

Large Scale Modernist Abstract Square and Circle

Located in Soquel, CA

Wonderful large scale natural toned mixed media abstract comprising a rectangle of antiqued white texturized with gesso'd hemp sacking and set above second ivory rectangle in pale ivory with circle of scumbled grey by British contemporary artist Richard Lawrence...

Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Oil

Jean Cocteau, Untitled, from Recipes for a Friend, 1964
Jean Cocteau, Untitled, from Recipes for a Friend, 1964

Jean Cocteau, Untitled, from Recipes for a Friend, 1964

By Jean Cocteau

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the 1964 album Recettes pour un ami, illustrations de Jean Cocteau (Recipes for a...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Abstract Floral Still Life, 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
Abstract Floral Still Life, 20th Century Cleveland School Artist

Abstract Floral Still Life, 20th Century Cleveland School Artist

By August Biehle

Located in Beachwood, OH

August Frederick Biehle (American, 1885-1979) Abstract Floral Still Life Watercolor and pencil on paper Signed lower right 24 x 19 inches 29.5 x 24.5 inches, framed A versatile pain...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

Antique American Modernist SunFlower Still Life Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Antique American Modernist SunFlower Still Life Framed Landscape Oil Painting

Antique American Modernist SunFlower Still Life Framed Landscape Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American school modernist still life painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a gold giltwood molding. Excellent c...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Superb Original 1960's French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Figurative Blues
Superb Original 1960's French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Figurative Blues

Superb Original 1960's French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Figurative Blues

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Figures in Blue French, circa 1950-1960 period indistinctly signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 29 x 21.5 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very good condi...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

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.