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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
Sunlit French Village Street with Red Roofs and Figures Post Impressionist Style
Sunlit French Village Street with Red Roofs and Figures Post Impressionist Style

Sunlit French Village Street with Red Roofs and Figures Post Impressionist Style

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Sunlit French Village Street with Red Roofs and Figures Post Impressionist Style Oil Painting French School, early 20th century signed lower right (indistinct) oil on board, unframed...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Palm Springs Party, 1970 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Color Print
Palm Springs Party, 1970 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Color Print

Palm Springs Party, 1970 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Color Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Palm Springs Party, 1970 by Slim Aarons This Portrait by Swimming Pool at Kaufmann House is a sister image to the now SOLD OUT editions "Poolside Gossip" and "Poolside Glamour", hav...

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20th Century Modern Art

Materials

C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital

"The Artist and his Model"
"The Artist and his Model"

"The Artist and his Model"

By Nicolai Cikovsky

Located in Southampton, NY

Here is a classic oil on canvas painting by Nicholai Cikovsky circa 1960 of the artist and his model. Signed lower right. ACA gallery label verso along with Association of American Artists label verso. Original handcarved frame with wear. Overall size framed 43 by 36 inches. Cikovsky was born in Russia in 1894 where he studied at the Vilna Art School, 1910-1914; the Penza Royal Art School, 1914-1918; and Moscow High Tech Art...

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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Landscape
Landscape

Landscape

By Marcel Emile Cailliet

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Landscape, 1940, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, signed, dated and titled verso: “Marcel Cailliet ’40 – S.C.” and “Marcel Cailliet Landscape”; likely exhibited at the annual juried st...

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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fernand Pierre Mid Century Haitian Painting of a Leopard
Fernand Pierre Mid Century Haitian Painting of a Leopard

Fernand Pierre Mid Century Haitian Painting of a Leopard

By Fernand Pierre

Located in Palm Beach, FL

Fanciful vintage Haitian acrylic painting on canvas of a leopard in a whimsical woodland setting with flowers and trees, executed in a distinctive naive style. Signed F. Pierre and p...

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Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Acrylic

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...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

1930's French Signed Oil Portrait of Danièle Darrieux Elegant Ballroom Dancing
1930's French Signed Oil Portrait of Danièle Darrieux Elegant Ballroom Dancing

1930's French Signed Oil Portrait of Danièle Darrieux Elegant Ballroom Dancing

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Artist: Anita Murphy Medium: Oil on Canvas Date: 1952 Dimensions: 23 x 17.5 inches (canvas) Provenance: Private Collection Condition: Very good and sound condition Signature: Signed ...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Sailing in the Bahamas - Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition C-Type Print
Sailing in the Bahamas - Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition C-Type Print

Sailing in the Bahamas - Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition C-Type Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Sailing in the Bahamas by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Sailing in the Bahamas" is a Limited Edition Estate Stam...

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20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital

Historical Photo of Prison - Vintage photo - 1970s

Historical Photo of Prison - Vintage photo - 1970s

Located in Roma, IT

Historical Photo of Prison  is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions.

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1970s Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Large Mid Century Spanish Female Portrait Oil Painting, Romantic Figurative Art
Large Mid Century Spanish Female Portrait Oil Painting, Romantic Figurative Art

Large Mid Century Spanish Female Portrait Oil Painting, Romantic Figurative Art

By Pascual Bueno Ferrer

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Artist: Pascual Bueno Ferrer (b. 1930) Title: Pensamiento “Nena” (verso inscription) Date: circa 1975 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 81 × 65 cm (31.9 × 25.6 in) Signature: Signed lower right Inscription: Titled and dated on reverse Style: Post-Impressionist Figurative Condition: Good overall condition. Stable paint layer and firm canvas. Minor age wear consistent with period. Frame: Unframed Location: Sitges, Spain Category: Paintings Subcategory: Portraits Materials: Oil, Canvas Color Palette: Soft neutrals, warm cream, muted green, earth tones Orientation: Vertical A large mid-century Spanish female portrait executed in oil on canvas, circa 1975. The composition captures a young woman standing by a window, immersed in quiet introspection. Soft, diffused light enters from the left, gently modeling the figure and enhancing the delicate tonal transitions in her face and dress. The restrained palette of warm creams, muted greens and earthy browns creates a serene, romantic atmosphere. The loose, atmospheric brushwork situates the painting within a post-impressionist figurative tradition, emphasizing mood over strict realism. With its generous scale (81 × 65 cm / 31.9 × 25.6 in), the piece offers strong decorative presence while maintaining an intimate emotional tone. An elegant and affordable example of Spanish mid-20th-century figurative painting, ideal for collectors or refined interior settings. Pascual Bueno Ferrer (b. 1930) is a Catalan painter trained at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. His career includes exhibitions in Spain and abroad, with a body of work centered on portraiture, landscape and still life. His painting combines expressive color with a lyrical, figurative sensibility characteristic of postwar Spanish art. Large female portrait Mid century Spanish art Romantic portrait painting Spanish figurative oil Post impressionist portrait Vintage European portrait 1970s oil painting...

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1970s Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

The Dacha. Contemporary Painting

The Dacha. Contemporary Painting

By Carola Richards

Located in Brecon, Powys

Early work was impressionistic and hard abstract. Carola later developed a more mature way of working in a colourful exploration of the subject. Colour was her main interest and she...

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1990s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Gouache

NATURE -  Intertwined Lizards - Facsimile, Ltd /450
NATURE -  Intertwined Lizards - Facsimile, Ltd /450

NATURE - Intertwined Lizards - Facsimile, Ltd /450

By M.C. Escher

Located in Paris, IDF

M.C. ESCHER (1898-1972) Intertwined Lizards, 2008 Facsimile after the original woodcut from 1938 Unsigned Numbered / 450 copies (the number you can see can be different) On vellum 4...

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20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Color

Couple : The Argument - Original Lithograph
Couple : The Argument - Original Lithograph

Couple : The Argument - Original Lithograph

By Le Corbusier

Located in Paris, IDF

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) Couple : The Argument, 1938 Original lithograph Signature printed in the plate Dated in the plate On light vellum 21 x 27 cm (c. 8 x 11 inch) Very good con...

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1930s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Cameo Pink Seaform with Black Lip Wrap (94.678.s1)
Cameo Pink Seaform with Black Lip Wrap (94.678.s1)

Cameo Pink Seaform with Black Lip Wrap (94.678.s1)

By Dale Chihuly

Located in Missouri, MO

Cameo Pink Seaform with Black Lip Wrap (94.678.s1), 1994 Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941) 14 x 32 x 18 inches Born in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly became the most famous ornate ...

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1990s Modern Art

Materials

Glass, Blown Glass

Original National Florida's Westcoast vintage airline poster, linen-backed
Original National Florida's Westcoast vintage airline poster, linen-backed

Original National Florida's Westcoast vintage airline poster, linen-backed

Located in Spokane, WA

National Florida's West Coast Original Vintage Poster, linen-backed and ready to frame. Grade A condition. No restoration, no damage, no tears. Generally, posters for National Airlin...

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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Mystery Dutch Modernist, Flower Still Life
Mystery Dutch Modernist, Flower Still Life

Mystery Dutch Modernist, Flower Still Life

Located in New York, NY

Unknown Dutch Modernist Flower Piece After the Dutch KMM, c. 1970 Oil on canvas 36 1/2 x 28 1/4 in. Framed: 39 x 29 1/2 in. Signed illegibly verso Inscribed verso: Flower Piece After...

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20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Old Houses, Byres Road, Partick (Scotland)

Old Houses, Byres Road, Partick (Scotland)

By Sir David Young Cameron, R.A.

Located in Middletown, NY

Glasgow: Regality Club, 1894. Etching on cream laid paper with a poppy watermark, 4 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (115 x 148 mm) full margins. Notations in the margins recto, well outside of image area. Scattered very minor light brown foxing in the right-side sheet quadant, virtually invisible on recto. [Rinder 191]. The son of a clergyman, Sir David Young Cameron was born in Glasgow in 1865. After a brief and unhappy dalliance in the fields of business and law, Cameron began attending the prestigious Glasgow School of the Arts in 1881, and later the Edinburgh School of the Arts. At first associated with the Glasgow Boys (John Lavery, Joseph Crawhall...

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Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Laid Paper, Etching

'Psycho' 1960 Original Vintage Lobby Card Unframed

'Psycho' 1960 Original Vintage Lobby Card Unframed

Located in London, GB

Psycho 1960 Unframed Original Vintage Cinema Lobby Card Extra Large 10x14" inches / 25x36 cm paper size Unframed (framing options available - please enquire) Condition: Excellent ...

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1960s Modern Art

Materials

C Print

Modernist Abstract Three Forms Suspended Geometric Composition
Modernist Abstract Three Forms Suspended Geometric Composition

Modernist Abstract Three Forms Suspended Geometric Composition

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Modernist Abstract Three Forms Suspended Geometric Composition by European School (late 20th century, dated 1990) oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 23.5 x 29 inches Inscribed verso Pr...

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Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Dune
Dune

Dune

By Brett Weston

Located in Pacific Grove, CA

This silver gelatin print is signed and dated in pencil on the front of the mount, and again on the back of the mount. Printed in 1961 for inclusion in "Fifteen Photographs" (edition...

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1930s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Raquel. Large format interior with woman portrait and still-life
Raquel. Large format interior with woman portrait and still-life

Raquel. Large format interior with woman portrait and still-life

By Alfredo Roldan

Located in Segovia, ES

"Raquel" is an interior scene of a young woman, stretched out comfortably on a sofa, surrounded by flowers and fruit. She gazes placidly at the artist, who is portraying her dressed in a nightgown and a colorful dressing gown. Oil on canvas. 2003 Measurements: 90 x 200 cm / 35,43 x 78,74" The rich range of colors used and the relaxed gesture of the model envelop the atmosphere of comfort that prevails in the works of this author because, according to his words: “When I use a model I want her to be very comfortable, rested, calm and relaxed. I am not interested in movement in my work, as it always ends up too artificial for my taste and would interfere with the ambiance I am trying to create”. The flattened perspectives, the fractured surfaces, and the graphic stylizations refer to the cubism of Picasso and Juan Gris. There are echoes of Modigliani in the treatment of his female models and we can detect an homage to Gauguin and Matisse, in his playful and sensual manipulation of color. In 2003 Ediciones Sammer publishes in a deluxe edition the book Alfredo Roldán written by the sculptor David Gamella where a large part of his work is reproduced. This painting, Raquel, is reproduced on the cover of the book and also inside on a double page (294-295). ABOUT THE ARTIST Alfredo Roldán (Madrid- Spain, 1965) is a self-taught artist who, at the age of 22, began selling his works at street markets. In 1994 he won the award granted by the City Council of Madrid with the painting “El Baño Azul”, which now hangs in The Museum of Modern Art of Madrid. That year he began to work with the renowned British dealer...

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Early 2000s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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...

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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

“Abstract Figure in Blue”
“Abstract Figure in Blue”

“Abstract Figure in Blue”

By Irene Rice Pereira

Located in Southampton, NY

'Untitled' (Abstract Figure in Blue). 1954. Gouache on archival paper. Signed, inscribed, and dated lower right. Condition is very good. Under glass. Dimensions: Sight size: 23.25 in...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

Original Hand Signed Rock & Roll Photograph Sly & the Family Stone Woodstock
Original Hand Signed Rock & Roll Photograph Sly & the Family Stone Woodstock

Original Hand Signed Rock & Roll Photograph Sly & the Family Stone Woodstock

By Jason Laure

Located in Surfside, FL

Original signed in gold ink Rock And Roll Photo from the Woodstock music festival. A custom print by Ken Lieberman laboratories in New York hand signed by the photographer. Mounted to board. Jason LAURÉ Born: Chehalis, Washington, USA, 1949. Resides in Cape Town. Studied at Columbia University, New York City and Sorbonne, Paris. Awards: Pulitzer Prize finalist; National Book Award, USA. Residency: Nieman Fellowship, Harvard University, USA finalist. Author: photographer of 32 books. Collection: UNICEF Africa Museum of New York; UCLA; Woodstock Museum, New York. Woodstock 1969: The Lasting Impact of the Counterculture by Jason Laure As the fiftieth anniversary of the Woodstock festival nears, Woodstock 1969 stands out for its singular voice. Photojournalist Jason Lauré followed his unerring instinct for being in the right place at the crucial moment. He and coauthor Ettagale Blauer trace the historic events that preceded the festival and then envelop the reader with photographs of the headliner rock stars that performed during the landmark three-day concert including the Who, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick...

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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Color

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.