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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
Vintage Mid Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Abstract Horizon
Vintage Mid Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Abstract Horizon

Vintage Mid Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Abstract Horizon

Located in Bristol, GB

ABSTRACT HORIZON Size: 72 x 91.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A mid-century modernist abstract landscape painting that captures a rugged, windswept terrain through expressive ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

Alex Katz 'Reflection 2'
Alex Katz 'Reflection 2'

Alex Katz 'Reflection 2'

By Alex Katz

Located in New York, NY

Alex Katz (born 1927) Reflection 2 2021 Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper 47 x 39.5 inches (119 x 100.3 cm) Edition of 81/100 With flat plane...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Sofia
Sofia

Sofia

By Alex Radionov

Located in Zofingen, AG

"Sofia" - one of the series "Dreams about Sea". Unique cast bronze sculpture with patina. Representing a woman inspired by the sea. The elongated, stylized form emphasizes elegance...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Stone, Metal, Bronze

Valentin Hugo, Untitled, from Alternation, 1946
Valentin Hugo, Untitled, from Alternation, 1946

Valentin Hugo, Untitled, from Alternation, 1946

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite etching by Valentine Hugo (1887–1968), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Alternance (Alternation), originates from the 1946 edition published by Le Gerbier,...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Engraving

The Solar Woman, 1951 - Original lithograph
The Solar Woman, 1951 - Original lithograph

The Solar Woman, 1951 - Original lithograph

By Françoise Gilot

Located in Paris, IDF

Françoise GILOT (1921) The Solar Woman, 1951 Original lithograph On Marais vellum 28 x 22.5 cm (c. 11 x 9 inches) REFERENCES : Catalog raisonne "Stone Echoes, Original Prints by Francoise Gilot, A catalog Raisonne", Mel Yoakum, #8 From the poetry portfolio "Pages d'Amour" by André VERDET, editions Raison d'être, 1951, printed by Mourlot in 366 copies. Françoise GILOT is a famous french painter...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Man with Cat
Man with Cat

Man with Cat

By Christopher Makos

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Christopher Makos, American Photographer b. 1948. Tattooed Man Holding Cat, ca 1970. Signed in red pencil on verso. Size 8.25 x 10 inches. Unframed and unmounted. This example was...

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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Raoul Dufy, The Regattas, from Raoul Dufy, IV, 1969 (after)
Raoul Dufy, The Regattas, from Raoul Dufy, IV, 1969 (after)

Raoul Dufy, The Regattas, from Raoul Dufy, IV, 1969 (after)

By Raoul Dufy

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), titled Les Regates (The Regattas), from the folio Raoul Dufy, IV (Raoul Dufy, IV), Collection Pierre Levy, 1969, originates fr...

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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original "Bombay" (American President Line) small format vintage travel poster
Original "Bombay" (American President Line) small format vintage travel poster

Original "Bombay" (American President Line) small format vintage travel poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original poster: BOMBAY (American President Lines) Small format without text along the bottom. This is the smaller format for the poster. Archival linen-backed in very fine cond...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

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...

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1990s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Raoul Dufy, Ascot, from Raoul Dufy, IV, 1969 (after)
Raoul Dufy, Ascot, from Raoul Dufy, IV, 1969 (after)

Raoul Dufy, Ascot, from Raoul Dufy, IV, 1969 (after)

By Raoul Dufy

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), titled Ascot, from the folio Raoul Dufy, IV (Raoul Dufy, IV), Collection Pierre Levy, 1969, originates from the edition publis...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Conjuring Spirits (Jungle Drums)
Conjuring Spirits (Jungle Drums)

Conjuring Spirits (Jungle Drums)

By Thomas Hart Benton

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Dynamic jungle drummer scene by unknown NYC American artist. Oil on canvas measuring 20 x 26 inches. Signed "T 42" in ink on verso. Anco stretchers and Grumbacher NYC store stamp con...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Untitled (Geometric Abstraction, Cityscape, Feyninger)
Untitled (Geometric Abstraction, Cityscape, Feyninger)

Untitled (Geometric Abstraction, Cityscape, Feyninger)

Located in Kansas City, MO

Unknown Artist Untitled (Geometric Abstraction, Cityscape, Feyninger) Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: Circa 1970s Size: 39 x 48 inches Framed Size: 39.75 x 48.5 x 1 inches Unsigned Frame...

Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway

Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway

By Adolf Arthur Dehn

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway Litho crayons on illustrator’s board, c. 1932 Signed: Adolf Dehn (VED) lower right corner (signed by Virginia Dehn, the artist’s widow) Tilted along the upper edge of the recto in pencil by the artist Verso inscriptions: “VF 3168.D” in a circle, also annotated in red pencil “32” in a circle and “699 Provenance: Mary Ryan Gallery, exhibition entitled Adolf Dehn Lithographs, 1927-1940, Nov. 16 to Dec. 12, 1982. The original exhibition notice us affixed to the backing board of the frame Note: A drawing intended or used in the publication Vanity Fair, for whom Dehn worked in the mid 1920’s to the 1930’s. Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968 Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art. In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art. If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques. Early Years, 1895-1922 For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Oil Crayon

1988 Modernist Swedish Expressive Landscape Oil Painting - View Across the Lake
1988 Modernist Swedish Expressive Landscape Oil Painting - View Across the Lake

1988 Modernist Swedish Expressive Landscape Oil Painting - View Across the Lake

Located in Bristol, GB

VIEWS ACROSS THE LAKE Size: 53.5 x 48.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A serene and contemplative modernist style painting that captures the tranquil beauty of a lake as seen th...

Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

View of Venice, Oil on Canvas, Late 19th Century, Framed, 60x81 cm
View of Venice, Oil on Canvas, Late 19th Century, Framed, 60x81 cm

View of Venice, Oil on Canvas, Late 19th Century, Framed, 60x81 cm

Located in Roma, IT

View of Venice is an original oil on canvas realized in the late 19th Century by a Master of Italian School. On the reverse: label with inscribed “E. Mareis” The painting represent...

Category

Late 19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Study for a Bas-Relief - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century

Study for a Bas-Relief - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century

Located in Roma, IT

Study for a Bas-Relief is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist, early 20th century. Original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on colored cardboard (23.5 x...

Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Pencil

French 20th Century Modernist Painting Tall White Plant In Vase Still Life
French 20th Century Modernist Painting Tall White Plant In Vase Still Life

French 20th Century Modernist Painting Tall White Plant In Vase Still Life

By Guy Nicod

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

White Flower Still life by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 25 x 19.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a Man in Love, 1951 - Original lithograph
Portrait of a Man in Love, 1951 - Original lithograph

Portrait of a Man in Love, 1951 - Original lithograph

By Françoise Gilot

Located in Paris, IDF

Françoise GILOT (1921) Portrait of a Man in Love, 1951 Original lithograph On Marais vellum 28 x 22.5 cm (c. 11 x 9 inches) REFERENCES : Catalog raisonne "Stone Echoes, Original Prints by Francoise Gilot, A catalog Raisonne", Mel Yoakum, #8 From the poetry portfolio "Pages d'Amour" by André VERDET, editions Raison d'être, 1951, printed by Mourlot in 366 copies. Françoise GILOT is a famous french painter...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Corto Maltese : DIOR - Original Screenprint Ltd /500
Corto Maltese : DIOR - Original Screenprint Ltd /500

Corto Maltese : DIOR - Original Screenprint Ltd /500

By Hugo PRATT

Located in Paris, IDF

Hugo PRATT (1927-1995) 🎨 Corto Maltese "DIOR" 🖨 Original print from an original drawing of Hugo Pratt 🖋 Signed in the plate + embossed seal + official stamp on back 📏 On Innova...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Screen

The Old City of Jerusalem
The Old City of Jerusalem

The Old City of Jerusalem

Located in Surfside, FL

Pencil signed artists proof lithograph or serigraph. Shmuel Katz (Hebrew: שמואל כ"ץ‎) (August 18, 1926 – March 26, 2010) was an Israeli artist, illustrator, and cartoonist. A Holocau...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Women Working -Women's Rights  Photos  - 1960s

Women Working -Women's Rights Photos - 1960s

Located in Roma, IT

Women Working -Women's Rights  Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belongs to album of women rights, protests, manifestation for their r...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Lou Jacobs Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Clown with Giraffe

Lou Jacobs Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Clown with Giraffe

Located in Middletown, NY

Gelatin silver print mounted on board, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (241 x 190 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

Cathedral de Saint Julien le Mans
Cathedral de Saint Julien le Mans

Cathedral de Saint Julien le Mans

By John Taylor Arms

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching on antique cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 9 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (232 x 248 mm); sheet 12 1/8 x 12 3/4 inches (307 x 323 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil in ...

Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

Nude Walking, Early 20th Century Bronze Sculpture, Cleveland School Artist
Nude Walking, Early 20th Century Bronze Sculpture, Cleveland School Artist

Nude Walking, Early 20th Century Bronze Sculpture, Cleveland School Artist

By Max Kalish

Located in Beachwood, OH

Max Kalish (American, 1891-1945) Nude Walking, 1930 Bronze Signed and dated on base 17 x 9 x 4 inches Born in Poland March 1, 1891, figurative sculptor Max Kalish came to the United States in 1894, his family settling in Ohio. A talented youth, Kalish enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art as a fifteen-year-old, receiving a first-place award for modeling the figure during studies with Herman Matzen. Kalish went to New York City following graduation, studying with Isidore Konti and Herbert Adams...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Bronze

Frida Kahlo in Blue Silk Dress
Frida Kahlo in Blue Silk Dress

Frida Kahlo in Blue Silk Dress

By Nickolas Muray

Located in Denton, TX

Edition of 30 Titled, dated, numbered, and signed by Nickolas Muray's Estate Nickolas Muray Photo Archives Paper size: 19 x 16 in., Image size: 12 2/3 x 9 3/4 in. "Muray and Kahlo were at the height of their on-again, off-again, ten-year relationship when these pictures were taken. Their affair had started in 1931, after Muray was divorced from his second wife, and shortly after Kahlo’s marriage to Mexican muralist...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Carbon Pigment

Portrait (Untitled)

Portrait (Untitled)

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Portrait (Untitled), c. mid 1930s, hammered copper, 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches Beryl McCarthy Wynnyk was a California-based painter, sculptor, and craftsperson. She studied at the Califo...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Copper

"Mini Car Mini Skirt" by Michael Webb

"Mini Car Mini Skirt" by Michael Webb

By Michael Webb

Located in London, GB

"Mini Car Mini Skirt" by Michael Webb Brigitte Bardot during a break from filming, 'Two Weeks in September' in Whitehall, London. Leaning against a mini she is wearing boots, a belt...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

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