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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
Interior (Untitled)

Interior (Untitled)

By Robert Freiman

Located in Los Angeles, CA

nterior (Untitled), 1958, watercolor and ink on paper mounted on cardboard, signed and dated lower right, 11 ½ x 16 ½ inches (sight); 12 x 18 inches (sheet); inscribed lower left “To...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Sea and Land Abstraction

Sea and Land Abstraction

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Sea and Land Abstraction, 1936, oil on canvas board, 16 x 20 inches, signed and dated lower left, exhibited at the 18th Annual Paintings and Sculpture Exhibit at the Los Angeles Muse...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Esel - Lithograph by Paul Klee - 1925
Esel - Lithograph by Paul Klee - 1925

Esel - Lithograph by Paul Klee - 1925

By Paul Klee

Located in Roma, IT

Lithograph on imitation Japan paper, from the book Monatshefte für Bücherfreunde und Graphiksammler, edited by Hans Loubier and Willy Kurth, 1st year 1925. Leipzig, Klinkhardt & Bier...

Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Lonely Road by William Charles Palmer
The Lonely Road by William Charles Palmer

The Lonely Road by William Charles Palmer

Located in Hudson, NY

The Lonely Road (1940) Tempera on panel 12" x 16" 19 1/2" x 23 1/2" x 1 1/2" framed Hand-signed "Palmer '40" lower center. Provenance: Midtown Galleries, New York, NY (labels verso...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Tempera, Panel

Vintage American Modernist Minimal Still Life Interior Scene Framed Oil Painting
Vintage American Modernist Minimal Still Life Interior Scene Framed Oil Painting

Vintage American Modernist Minimal Still Life Interior Scene Framed Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 21 by 29 inches overall. Handsomely framed in whi...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

La Roussette - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771

La Roussette - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771

Located in Roma, IT

La Roussette is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771. It belongs to the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". The Artist's signature is engraved lower right. Good co...

Category

1770s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

English Antique Woodcut Engraving, William Blakes's Milton
English Antique Woodcut Engraving, William Blakes's Milton

English Antique Woodcut Engraving, William Blakes's Milton

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Woodcut Engraving of an extract of William Blake's "Milton" "And did those feet in ancient time...." with two landscape woodcut images, one signed in the impression print, the other ...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Acrylic

"The sea in Winter" by Claude Sauthier - Oil on Wood - 92x65 cm
"The sea in Winter" by Claude Sauthier - Oil on Wood - 92x65 cm

"The sea in Winter" by Claude Sauthier - Oil on Wood - 92x65 cm

Located in Geneva, CH

Claude Sauthier was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1929 and passed away in the same city in 2016. He studied at the Geneva School of Decorative Arts and initially worked as a graphi...

Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Wood, Oil

Old days Photo - Fountain - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century

Old days Photo - Fountain - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century

Located in Roma, IT

Old days Photo - Fountain is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including h...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

L'Asino, Art Magazine, Year 24, no. 29, 1915
L'Asino, Art Magazine, Year 24, no. 29, 1915

L'Asino, Art Magazine, Year 24, no. 29, 1915

Located in Roma, IT

L'Asino, Art Magazine, Year 24, no. 29, 1915, is an original colorful illustrated Italian magazine with a satiric political scene. Published on Sunday 18 Luglio 1915, in 4 pages, do...

Category

1910s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

Mid Century Wood Cut -- Wild Penguins 13/33
Mid Century Wood Cut -- Wild Penguins 13/33

Mid Century Wood Cut -- Wild Penguins 13/33

By Hannah Yakin

Located in Soquel, CA

Wonderful mid century modern wood cut of wild Penguins by Israeli artist Hannah Yakin Hiyze (Dutch/Israeli, b. 1933), 1967. 13/33. Signed, number, dated and titled lower left edge. Condition: some waviness to paper. Presented under glass with vintage painted wood frame. Image size: 14"H x 37"W. Born Hannah van Hulst in Amsterdam, during World War II, Hannah developed her artistic talents, experiencing "happy times in which necessity bore creativity." After the war she went to high school and studied art at Academia Artibus, Utrecht, the Netherlands and in Paris with famous poster designer and graphic artist Paul Colin. In 1956 she emigrated to Israel where she met and married the artist Abraham Yakin...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Woodcut

Modern art painting of a small band of horses
Modern art painting of a small band of horses

Modern art painting of a small band of horses

Located in Colfax, CA

A modern art painting of three horses by artist Theodore Polos, in the manner of Marino Marini. Theodore C. Polos, (1901-1976), was a painter, printmaker and educator, was born in Mytilene, Greece. In 1916 Polos immigrated to the United States, settling in Boston first before moving to San Francisco in 1922. He studied art at the San Francisco Institute of Art, and at the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland with Xavier Martinez...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Pedro Friedeberg, "Hand Foot", unique sculpture
Pedro Friedeberg, "Hand Foot", unique sculpture

Pedro Friedeberg, "Hand Foot", unique sculpture

By Pedro Friedeberg

Located in Chatsworth, CA

Pedro Friedeberg Unique Hand Foot Sculpture Gilt finished wood Signed PEDRO FRIEDEBERG on bottom of the foot 12 inches tall, 6 inches wide (base of hand), 3 inches wide (base of foot...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Wood

Pau Hana
Pau Hana

Pau Hana

By Guy Buffet

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Pau Hana" c.1990 is an original color lithograph on paper by noted French artist Guy Buffet, 1943-2023. It is hand signed and numbered H.C. 1/10 in pencil by the...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Paul Klee, Hammamet with the Mosque, from 12 Watercolors, 1964 (after)
Paul Klee, Hammamet with the Mosque, from 12 Watercolors, 1964 (after)

Paul Klee, Hammamet with the Mosque, from 12 Watercolors, 1964 (after)

By Paul Klee

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Paul Klee (1879–1940), titled Hammamet mit der Moschee (Hammamet with the Mosque), from the folio Paul Klee, 12 aquarelles (Paul Klee, Twe...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Vibrant Still Life With Fruit And Yellow Drapery French Modernist Gouache
Vibrant Still Life With Fruit And Yellow Drapery French Modernist Gouache

Vibrant Still Life With Fruit And Yellow Drapery French Modernist Gouache

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Vibrant Still Life With Fruit And Yellow Drapery French Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 20.5 x 14 inches (height x wi...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Gouache

Vintage Mid Century Swedish Abstract Still Life Oil Painting - Painterly Harvest
Vintage Mid Century Swedish Abstract Still Life Oil Painting - Painterly Harvest

Vintage Mid Century Swedish Abstract Still Life Oil Painting - Painterly Harvest

Located in Bristol, GB

PAINTERLY HARVEST Size: 35.5 x 65 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A vibrant and painterly mid-century abstract still life painting, executed in oil onto canvas. This composition...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Shaken Not Stirred' 1968 Baryta Print

'Shaken Not Stirred' 1968 Baryta Print

By Peter Ruck

Located in London, GB

'Shaken Not Stirred' by Peter Ruck 1968 English actor Roger Moore, downs a Martini, 17th July 1968. Moore has recently been awarded his second Bravo Otto award for most popular te...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

1960s Italian Signed Still Life With Flowers
1960s Italian Signed Still Life With Flowers

1960s Italian Signed Still Life With Flowers

Located in Roma, IT

1960s Italian Signed Still Life With Flowers A beautiful and rare painting by one of Italy's most important avant-garde artists. It depicts a stunning vase of flowers with intense, ...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hollywood

Hollywood

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Hollywood, 1941, oil on board, 18 x 24 inches, signed and dated lower right, illegible writing verso About the Painting From a distance, Beckwith deftly captures the spectacle of a Hollywood premiere. But we have not been invited to the party. Our view is from the shadows of a less glamorous neighborhood with a shaggy, unkept palm tree and rundown buildings in the shadows. We look down through the darkness past a packed parking lot to the bright lights of two iconic Hollywood landmarks, the Pantages Theater and the Broadway Building. Completed in 1930, the Pantages was built as an exuberant Art Deco movie palace, while the Broadway Building housed an upscale department store which catered to entertainment industry elites who were less impacted by the Great Depression than the common man, since movies had become the mainstay of popular culture entertainment during the 1930s with large numbers of Americans looking to immerse themselves in Hollywood escapism. Here, in a rare Los Angeles urban image, Beckwith combines that Hollywood fantasy with the more sobering foreground images which could have been pulled from the L.A. Noire fiction of Raymond Chandler...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

LOTUS FLOWER - ROEDING PARK - Provincetown Style
LOTUS FLOWER - ROEDING PARK - Provincetown Style

LOTUS FLOWER - ROEDING PARK - Provincetown Style

By Mary Travis

Located in Santa Monica, CA

MARY TRAVIS (Active 1935 - 40) LOTUS FLOWER ROEDING PARK. c.1935-40 White line color woodcut. Signed and titled in pencil. Small edition. 10” x 8”. Full sheet. tears in upper margin. Travis worked in Berkeley, California and was probably a follower of William S...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Autumn Streetwalk
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Autumn Streetwalk

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Autumn Streetwalk

Located in Bristol, GB

AUTUMN STREETWALK Oil on board Size: 55 x 49 cm (including frame) A vibrant mid-century modernist street scene composition, executed in oil onto board. The artwork portrays a pathw...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

The Window 335 - Abstract Contemporary Shiny Green Tone Resin Minimalist  Art
The Window 335 - Abstract Contemporary Shiny Green Tone Resin Minimalist  Art

The Window 335 - Abstract Contemporary Shiny Green Tone Resin Minimalist Art

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

Star Wars 1977 Original Vintage Lobby Card 1

Star Wars 1977 Original Vintage Lobby Card 1

Located in London, GB

Star Wars 1977 Original Vintage Lobby Card 1 Size: 28 cm x 36 cm (11 in x 14 in) An original ’11 x 14′ lobby card from 1977 for “Star Wars” now known ...

Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

Queen Anne's Lace, Modern Wood Engraving by Warren Mack
Queen Anne's Lace, Modern Wood Engraving by Warren Mack

Queen Anne's Lace, Modern Wood Engraving by Warren Mack

Located in Long Island City, NY

Warren Mack, American (1896 - 1952) - Queen Anne's Lace, Year: 1947, Medium: Wood Engraving, signed in pencil lower right, Image Size: 7 x 10 inches, Frame Size: 14.75 x 17.25 in...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Engraving

Seated Nude in a Expressive Green Landscape French Modernist Oil Painting
Seated Nude in a Expressive Green Landscape French Modernist Oil Painting

Seated Nude in a Expressive Green Landscape French Modernist Oil Painting

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Seated Nude in a Expressive Green Landscape French Modernist Oil Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Oil on artist paper, unframed Size: 18.5 x 15.75 inches (height x wid...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

"Best of Show" Vintage Signed American Modernist Pig Portrait Framed Painting
"Best of Show" Vintage Signed American Modernist Pig Portrait Framed Painting

"Best of Show" Vintage Signed American Modernist Pig Portrait Framed Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 20 by 16 inches overall. Handsomely framed in white wo...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Le Mariage (The Marriage)
Le Mariage (The Marriage)

Le Mariage (The Marriage)

By Marc Chagall

Located in OPOLE, PL

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Le Mariage (The Marriage) Lithograph from 1965. The edition of 26/30 on Arches paper. Dimensions of work: 76.5 x 56.5 cm. Hand signed. Reference: Mour...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Figures - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960 ca.
Figures - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960 ca.

Figures - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960 ca.

By Mino Maccari

Located in Roma, IT

Mixed media (pencil, tempera, charcoal and watercolor) on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1960 ca. Hand signed lower left. Very good condition.

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor, Mixed Media, Tempera, Color Pencil

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