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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
Huge 1960's French Modernist Oil Painting Lady Seated Playing Guitar
Huge 1960's French Modernist Oil Painting Lady Seated Playing Guitar

Huge 1960's French Modernist Oil Painting Lady Seated Playing Guitar

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

The Guitar Player French Modernist artist, circa 1960's period oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 32 x 39.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

"Young Competitors" by MacGregor

"Young Competitors" by MacGregor

Located in London, GB

"Young Competitors" by MacGregor 11th August 1925: Three young competitors arriving at the courts for the Open Junior Lawn Tennis Tournament at Brockenhurst, Hampshire.. Unframed P...

Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

NATURE - Autumn and Carp - Signed Facsimile, Ltd /450
NATURE - Autumn and Carp - Signed Facsimile, Ltd /450

NATURE - Autumn and Carp - Signed Facsimile, Ltd /450

By M.C. Escher

Located in Paris, IDF

M.C. ESCHER (1898-1972) Birds and Fishes, 2008 Facsimile after the original woodcut from 1943 Signed in the plate Numbered / 450 copies (the number you can see can be different) On ...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Color

Beneath the Surface - contemporary, abstract, three dimensional, wall art
Beneath the Surface - contemporary, abstract, three dimensional, wall art

Beneath the Surface - contemporary, abstract, three dimensional, wall art

By Lucy Maki

Located in Bloomfield, ON

This contemporary abstract mixed media composition is geometric in form. The bold, unique and complex artwork of Lucy Maki challenges the traditional approach to painting. The New Mexico artist has been influenced by modernist abstraction, cubism, and even surrealism. For decades she has explored a distinctive visual language that incorporates mixed media, geometric shapes and architectural elements. Her shaped canvases like Beneath the Surface are an eclectic mix of oil paint and wood framing on canvas—they are both paintings and sculptures. Within the frame of this work, lyrical gestural brushstrokes in green and a creamy white play against a teal backdrop. Thick black patterns framed in geometric shapes add structure. The wood frame of this piece extends beyond the artwork itself extending the picture plane--a signature of Maki’s work. “I am fascinated with the New Mexico’s 1930s...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Wood, Oil

'Counterpoint' — Mid-Century Modernist Abstraction
'Counterpoint' — Mid-Century Modernist Abstraction

'Counterpoint' — Mid-Century Modernist Abstraction

By Edward August Landon

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Edward Landon, 'Counterpoint', color serigraph, 1942, edition 25, Ryan 45. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 25' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream, wove paper; the full sheet with margins (7/8 to 2 1/2 inches). A 1 1/2 inch crease across the top left sheet corner, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 13 9/16 x 14 5/16 inches (344 x 364 mm); sheet size 14 15/16 x 17 inches (379 x 432 mm). Literature: – 'A Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking', David Acton, New York, London, 1990. – 'American Screenprints', Reba and Dave Williams, New York, 1987. – 'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock', Stephen Coppel, The British Museum, 2008. Impressions of this work are held in the following museum collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Edward Landon dropped out of high school to study art at the Hartford Art School. In 1930 and 1931 he was a student of Jean Charlot at the Art Students League in New York, after which he traveled to Mexico to study privately for a year with Carlos Merida. In 1933 he settled near Springfield, Massachusetts, painted murals in the local trade school, and exhibited with the Springfield Art League. His painting 'Memorial Day' won first prize at the fifteenth annual exhibition of the League at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. Landon became an active member of the Artists Union of Western Massachusetts, serving as president from 1934-1938. Landon acquired Anthony Velonis’s instructional pamphlet on the technique of serigraphy in the late 1930s. With colleagues Phillip Hicken, Donald Reichert, and Pauline Stiriss, he began experimenting with screen printing techniques. The artists' groundbreaking work in screen printing as a fine art medium was the subject of the group’s landmark exhibition at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts in 1940. Landon became one of the founding members of the National Serigraph Society and served as editor of its publication, 'Serigraph Quarterly,' in the late 1940s and as its president in 1952 and 1953. The Norlyst Gallery in Manhattan held a one-person show of his prints in 1945. Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1950, Landon traveled to Norway, where he researched the history of local artistic traditions and produced the book 'Scandinavian Design: Picture and Rune Stones...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Original Hell's Angels '69 vintage motorcycle movie poster  half-sheet
Original Hell's Angels '69 vintage motorcycle movie poster  half-sheet

Original Hell's Angels '69 vintage motorcycle movie poster half-sheet

Located in Spokane, WA

Original Hell's Angels '69 vintage half-sheet movie poster. Original horizontal half sheet movie poster from 1969: Hell's Angeles '69. The film stars the original Oakland Hell's Angeles with Tom Stern, Jeremy Slate, Conny Van Dyke; Steve Sandor, Sonny Barger, Terry the Tramp. Am American International Release original. 'For a wild, wicked weekend and the deadliest gamble ever dared!. The left-hand side features the famous landmark hotel signs from Flamingo Sahara, Caesars Palace...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

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

Metallica Homage - handpainted Cup w/ interior & Metallica record playing
Metallica Homage - handpainted Cup w/ interior & Metallica record playing

Metallica Homage - handpainted Cup w/ interior & Metallica record playing

By Melanie Sherman

Located in Kansas City, MO

Melanie Sherman Metallica Homage - hand-painted Cup with mid-century interior and Metallica record playing 2026 Porcelain, Glaze, Underglaze, Overglaze, Vintage Transfers, 23k German...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Luster, Porcelain, Paint, Glaze, Underglaze

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

Rider and Dancer - Original Etching
Rider and Dancer - Original Etching

Rider and Dancer - Original Etching

By Marie Laurencin

Located in Paris, IDF

Marie LAURENCIN Rider and dancer, 1949 Color etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11in) INFORMATION : Created by Laurencin and engraved by Lo...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

The Couple
The Couple

The Couple

Located in Dallas, TX

signed "EJB." at lower right 21 3/4 x 17 inches including frame

Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Uses and Customs - Eating Rite - Lithograph - 1862

Uses and Customs - Eating Rite - Lithograph - 1862

Located in Roma, IT

Uses and Customs - Eating Rite is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the gove...

Category

1860s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Baroness, Watercolor work on paper.
The Baroness, Watercolor work on paper.

The Baroness, Watercolor work on paper.

By Manuel Santelices

Located in Miami Beach, FL

The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Czechoslovak Ballet Dancers French Modernist Poster Style Dance Painting
Czechoslovak Ballet Dancers French Modernist Poster Style Dance Painting

Czechoslovak Ballet Dancers French Modernist Poster Style Dance Painting

By Guy Nicod

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Czechoslovak Ballet Dancers French Modernist Poster Style Dance Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (height x...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Gouache

Sterling Strauser Signed Vintage American Surreal Figural Framed Oil Painting
Sterling Strauser Signed Vintage American Surreal Figural Framed Oil Painting

Sterling Strauser Signed Vintage American Surreal Figural Framed Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist surreal oil painting by Sterling Strauser (1907-1995) . Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Handsomely framed in mod...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Manhattan Scene, New York City by Francis Chapin
A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Manhattan Scene, New York City by Francis Chapin

A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Manhattan Scene, New York City by Francis Chapin

By Francis Chapin

Located in Chicago, IL

A Large, Dynamic 1950s Mid-Century Modern Watercolor of Lower Manhattan, New York City by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). The image is watercolor, pastel and c...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, View of the Pont des Arts, from Views of Paris, 1963
Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, View of the Pont des Arts, from Views of Paris, 1963

Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, View of the Pont des Arts, from Views of Paris, 1963

By André Dunoyer de Segonzac

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), titled Vue du Pont des Arts (View of the Pont des Arts), from Regards Sur Paris (Views of Paris), originates from ...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Remuda

The Remuda

By Mark Maggiori

Located in Draper, UT

Giclee print on 300 gsm archival cotton rag with dimensions of 30 x 40 in. Released in 2021 from an edition of 254. Signed and numbered by Mark Maggiori. Large format stunning print.

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Paper

Woodland Reflection — Mid-Century Modern, Original Watercolor

Woodland Reflection — Mid-Century Modern, Original Watercolor

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Irving Lehman, Untitled (Woodland Reflection), watercolor, c. 1955. Unsigned, with the artist's estate stamp verso: 'Original Artwork By: IRVING G. LEHMAN Russian/American 1900-1982'...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Large Mosaic Style Abstract French Oil Painting c.1980's Bright Colors
Large Mosaic Style Abstract French Oil Painting c.1980's Bright Colors

Large Mosaic Style Abstract French Oil Painting c.1980's Bright Colors

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Mosaic abstract French School, (unsigned) late 20th century work oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 21.5 x 15 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: a few minor surfa...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Jackie Onassis, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960
Jackie Onassis, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960

Jackie Onassis, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960

By Ron Galella

Located in Cologne, DE

Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American socialite, writer, and photographer who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of P...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

36x48 "Goodfellas" VHS Photo Photography Pop Art Photograph Fine Art Signed
36x48 "Goodfellas" VHS Photo Photography Pop Art Photograph Fine Art Signed

36x48 "Goodfellas" VHS Photo Photography Pop Art Photograph Fine Art Signed

By Destro

Located in Los Angeles, CA

"The VHS" by pop Artist Destro. We all remember those iconic nights at the video store. Pop artist DESTRO once again encapsulates one of our favorite past times in a fine art con...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Original Rome Fly TWA Jets vintage American travel poster
Original Rome Fly TWA Jets vintage American travel poster

Original Rome Fly TWA Jets vintage American travel poster

By David Klein

Located in Spokane, WA

Original Rome Fly TWA Jets vintage travel poster. Conservation linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. This is the earlier edition of the image Before ‘up up and away’! TWA (Trans World Airlines) was formed in 1924 as Transcontinental & Western Air. The airline's first route was from New York to Los Angeles, followed by multiple National routes. The airline expanded to serve Europe, the Middle East, and Asia after WWII when the company was under Howard Hughes's owner's control from 1939 until 1961. Hughes was a dominant force in expanding and promoting his company's routes. The economy was vastly improving, and travel by air for business and pleasure increased, too. Posters were a crucial element in promoting this form of travel and TWA. The airline started a decline in the 1970s, ending in a third bankruptcy that caused its acquisition by American Airlines in 2001. The airline operated in 132 destinations worldwide and had a fleet size of 190. This Rome poster was created by the gifted American artist David Klein (1918 -2005), and depicts a member of the Pontifical Swiss Guard in the center wearing the iconic yellow, blue, and red uniform. The Guard is playing a drum that has the pontifical emblem. In the background, we see a representation of the ancient Roman Coliseum and the Baroque...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Àlvar Suñol "La prière du torero" 1963 Large Spanish Modernist Oil Painting
Àlvar Suñol "La prière du torero" 1963 Large Spanish Modernist Oil Painting

Àlvar Suñol "La prière du torero" 1963 Large Spanish Modernist Oil Painting

By Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos

Located in Miami, FL

ÀLVAR SUÑOL – "LA PRIÈRE DU TORERO" (THE BULLFIGHTER'S PRAYER) ⚜ Oil on Canvas ⚜ Hand Signed Lower Left and on Verso; Dated 1963 ⚜ Original Carved Wood Frame A MASTERWORK OF FAITH A...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

New York City Skyline and Ferry, 1960s

New York City Skyline and Ferry, 1960s

By Erich Andres

Located in Cologne, DE

This black-and-white photograph captures the dramatic skyline of New York City, with towering skyscrapers rising above the water. In the foreground, a ferry glides across the river, ...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

Frida at La Rosita Hair Salon, Coyoacán, 1943
Frida at La Rosita Hair Salon, Coyoacán, 1943

Frida at La Rosita Hair Salon, Coyoacán, 1943

By Leo Matiz

Located in Miami Beach, FL

Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

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