Skip to main content

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.

Find a collection of modern paintings, sculptures, prints and other fine art on 1stDibs.

to
5,610
27,541
10,919
7,351
5,648
4,833
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
1,273
6,401
42,328
6,312
283
463
1,037
2,400
2,088
6,707
7,345
5,780
3,084
1,078
1,143
119,332
64,387
56,317
28,596
14,507
9,585
6,673
6,027
4,210
3,170
2,536
2,319
2,122
580
29,686
20,476
4,382
32,073
16,320
11,896
8,672
8,226
6,296
4,742
4,018
3,724
3,600
3,382
3,219
2,603
2,340
2,124
2,000
1,731
1,693
1,676
1,607
10,713
9,767
9,516
6,006
5,932
6,891
2,494
1,243
432
269
6,029
26,853
35,788
19,684
Style: Modern
Gino Hollander Portrait of a Woman
Gino Hollander Portrait of a Woman

Gino Hollander Portrait of a Woman

By Gino Hollander

Located in San Francisco, CA

Gino Hollander: 1924-2015. Well listed American artist with Auction results over $14,000. He lived in California, Colorado, and Spain. This fabulous mixed media measures 11 1/4 inche...

Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Smart Girl
Smart Girl

Smart Girl

Located in Zofingen, AG

Pink flower power acrylic painting with heart and childlike face Acrylic Painting on canvas One of a kind artwork Size: 90 × 100 × 3 cm (unframe...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Umbrellas, Joint Project for Japan and the U.S.A.
The Umbrellas, Joint Project for Japan and the U.S.A.

The Umbrellas, Joint Project for Japan and the U.S.A.

By Christo

Located in Washington, DC

Artist: Christo Title: The Umbrellas, Joint Project for Japan and the U.S.A. Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on wove paper Date: 1987 Edition: Unnumbered Sheet Size: 36 3/4" x 27...

Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Dali And Gala (1955) Limited Estate Stamped

Dali And Gala (1955) Limited Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Dali And Gala (1955) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Spanish artist Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) enjoying a cup of coffee with his wife Gala (1894 – 1982) on a terra...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Dogmania - Linocut by Mino Maccari - 1951

Dogmania - Linocut by Mino Maccari - 1951

By Mino Maccari

Located in Roma, IT

Dogmania is an Original Linocut Print realized by Mino Maccari in 1951. Very good condition, not signed. Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian writer, painter, engraver and journ...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Linocut

Double Vision 74 - Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Blue & White Dual Tone Artwork
Double Vision 74 - Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Blue & White Dual Tone Artwork

Double Vision 74 - Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Blue & White 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...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Vintage American Impressionist New Orleans Courtyard Framed Landscape Painting
Vintage American Impressionist New Orleans Courtyard Framed Landscape Painting

Vintage American Impressionist New Orleans Courtyard Framed Landscape Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist New Orleans street scene oil painting by Charles Whitfield Richards (1906 - 1992). Oil on canvas. Gallery provenance. Framed. Unsigned. Provenance from a ...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Elephant Long Mount Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Elephant Long Mount Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Located in Middletown, NY

Gelatin silver print mounted on board, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (190 x 241 mm) from the Roland Butler Collection, Press Agent, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1930s-1960s) Roland...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Prozession

Prozession

Located in Wien, 9

Grete Copony attended various art schools in Germany, such as with Moritz Heymann in Munich and the drawing and painting school of the Association of Berlin Women Artists, and the Budapest Art...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Dahlias
Dahlias

Dahlias

By Nishimura Hodo

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Dahlias Color woodcut, 1939 Unsigned (as usual) Format: oban Publisher: Takemura Hideo Stamp verso: "Made in Japan" Provenance: Robert O. Muller Biography Hodo Nishimura...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

"Ali Versus Moptops" by Chris Smith

"Ali Versus Moptops" by Chris Smith

Located in London, GB

"Ali Versus Moptops" by Chris Smith American heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) takes on the Beatles (from left to right, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon ...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

Harry Shokler, Island Harbor
Harry Shokler, Island Harbor

Harry Shokler, Island Harbor

By Harry Shokler

Located in New York, NY

Harry Shokler used serigraphy to great advantage in this landscape. It's colorful and detailed. It is signed in the image at the lower left. When printmakers began making serigraphs...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

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

"Air Jordan" 40x50 Nike, Michael Jordan,  Pop Art  1stDibs Exclusive
"Air Jordan" 40x50 Nike, Michael Jordan,  Pop Art  1stDibs Exclusive

"Air Jordan" 40x50 Nike, Michael Jordan, Pop Art 1stDibs Exclusive

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...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Grand Canal, Venice
The Grand Canal, Venice

The Grand Canal, Venice

By Elias S. Mandel Grossman

Located in Middletown, NY

1926. Etching in sepia ink on Japon paper, 9 5/8 x 11 1/2 inches (245 x 292 mm), full margins with the lower margin slightly notched. Signed, titled and dated in pencil in the lower ...

Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Etching

Femme Torero I
Femme Torero I

Femme Torero I

By Pablo Picasso

Located in OPOLE, PL

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Femme Torero I Etching conceived in 1934, printed in 1939 The edition of 50 on Montval paper. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued. Dimensions of work: ...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Landscape - Drawing - 1964

Landscape - Drawing - 1964

Located in Roma, IT

Landscape is a drawing realized by an italian Artist in 1964. Tempera on paper. Hamd signed and dated on the lower margin Good conditions with slight foxing.

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Tempera

Neighbors

Neighbors

By Norman Barr

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Neighbors, 1939, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 22 x 26 inches Norman Barr was an American Scene painter and muralist known for his poignant depictions of working-clas...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Japanese Print, The Flight of the Crows at Sunset - Signed Woodcut
Japanese Print, The Flight of the Crows at Sunset - Signed Woodcut

Japanese Print, The Flight of the Crows at Sunset - Signed Woodcut

By Mokuchu URUSHIBARA

Located in Paris, IDF

Mokuchu URUSHIBARA The Flight of the Crows at Sunset, c. 1930 Woodcut after on an ink drawing Signed with the artist's stamp On paper 39.5 x 28 cm (c. 15,35 x 11.02 in) INFORMATIO...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Lancaster Castle - Original Lithograph - Mid-19th Cent

Lancaster Castle - Original Lithograph - Mid-19th Cent

Located in Roma, IT

Lancaster Castle is an original modern artwork realized in the Mid-19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower central margin in Capital Letters:...

Category

Mid-19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Still Life Watermelon Monstera
Still Life Watermelon Monstera

Still Life Watermelon Monstera

Located in Zofingen, AG

shipped in roll Acrylic on canvas Size: 80 x 100 x 2 cm Style: Modern interpretation of Fauvist techniques Professional-grade acrylics on canvas Signed by the artist with certificat...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Black Hand. Portrait Photograph, Limited Edition
Black Hand. Portrait Photograph, Limited Edition

Black Hand. Portrait Photograph, Limited Edition

By Lèa Bon

Located in Miami Beach, FL

From space, error is projected onto the focal point, error for man. From within, we modify the language of the elements to compose a reuse of the ordinary and bring it into play in a...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Lluís Mercader – Mid Century Spanish Still Life with Apples, Oil on Canvas 1950s
Lluís Mercader – Mid Century Spanish Still Life with Apples, Oil on Canvas 1950s

Lluís Mercader – Mid Century Spanish Still Life with Apples, Oil on Canvas 1950s

By Lluis Mercader

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Oil on canvas 19 x 24 cm (7.49 x 9.45 in) Framed Signed lower right Good condition A charming mid-century still life by Lluís Mercader, dated circa 1955, depicting two apples render...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ancient View of Niagara Falls - Original Lithograph - 1850

Ancient View of Niagara Falls - Original Lithograph - 1850

Located in Roma, IT

Ancient View of Niagara Falls is an original modern artwork realized in Italy in the first half of the 19th Century. Original Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted in capital lett...

Category

1850s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

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.