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.
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Style: Modern
Period: 1920s
Architecture and Art Photo - San Zaccaria Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - San Zaccaria Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captu...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Zachary Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Zachary Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously capture...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Zachary Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Zachary Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously capture...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - Miracoli Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - Miracoli Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captured....
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - Gesuati Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - Gesuati Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captured.
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
"And There Was Light" from the Genesis portfolio old testament bible landscape
By Abel Pann
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"And There Was Light" is a reproduction giclée print on watercolor paper. It is based after the original lithograph made by Abel Pann. From Abel Pann's portfolio, "The Bible - Genes...
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1920s Modern Art
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Giclée
Architecture and Art Photo -Virginie with Child and Saints - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo -Virginie with Child and Saints, is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticul...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Princess Alexandra of Kent - Historical Photo - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Princess Alexandra- Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to historical album including photo repo...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - Murano - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - Murano is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captured.
With It...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo -Church of Zachary, Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo -Church of Zachary, Venice is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously ...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - Church of Frari - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - Church of Frari is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captured....
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo- Church of Friar by Tiziano - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo- Church of Friar by Tiziano is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - Venezia by Tintoretto - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - Venezia by Tintoretto is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album, meticulously ca...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Princess Alessandra of Kent, London -Historical Photo - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Princess Alessandra of Kent, London -Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historic...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - Miracoli Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - Miracoli Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captured....
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - Madonna dell'Orto Church . Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - Madonna dell'Orto Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria de Friar Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria de Friar Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously ...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Ex-Libris-Still Life - Woodcut by Ruda Kubicek - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Still Life is an Artwork realized in 1920 s., by the Czech Artist Ruda Kubicek (1891-1983)
Woodcut B./W. print on paper. Signed on plate on the left corner.
The work is ...
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1920s Modern Art
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Woodcut
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Salvatore Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Salvatore Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captu...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria dei Miracoli Church - Venice- 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria dei Miracoli Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulou...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Agata by Bellini - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Agata by Bellini is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captu...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - San Zaccaria Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - San Zaccaria Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captu...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
American Modernist "Chow Line" Ashcan School Rare California Surreal Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior scene of figures eating lunch by the shovel full. Really well painted and unusual scene. A rare early work by Justin Murray (1912 - 1987). Sign...
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1920s Modern Art
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Oil, Canvas
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Apostoli, Santa Lucia Church- 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Apostoli, Santa Lucia Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticu...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Pietro Martire Church - Vintage Photo - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Pietro Martire Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously ...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria dei Miracoli Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria dei Miracoli Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulou...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria dei Miracoli Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria dei Miracoli Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulou...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria dei Miracoli Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria dei Miracoli Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulo...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria dei Miracoli Church - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria dei Miracoli Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulo...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - Triumph of Saint George - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - Triumph of Saint George is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously ...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - Saint George Fights the Dragon - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - Saint George fights the dragon is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticu...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - School of Carmini - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - School of Carmini is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously capture...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Zaccaria Church in Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Zaccaria Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captur...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria de Frari Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria de Frari Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously ...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - Last Supper by Tintoretto - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - Last Supper by Tintoretto is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Giovanni e Paolo Church - Vintage Photo - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Giovanni e Paolo Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulousl...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Giovanni e Paolo Church - Vintage Photo- 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Giovanni e Paolo Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulousl...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Pietro Martire Church - - Vintage Photo - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Pietro Martire Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously ...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Giovanni in Bragora Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Giovanni in Bragora Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulo...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Giovanni e Paolo Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Giovanni e Paolo Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulousl...
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1920s Modern Art
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Photographic Paper
Femme a la Cruche (Woman with Jug)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Exhibited for the first time in 1928 at Galerie Bernhiem-Jeune, Paris, this work was published by Bernheim-Jeune and printed under the direction of Villon. Assuming a pose resembling...
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Engraving, Aquatint
Käthe Kollwitz Lithograph, "Germany's Children Are Starving"
Located in Larchmont, NY
Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867-1945)
Deutschlands Kindern Hungern (Germany's Children Are Starving), 1924
Lithograph on paper after original charcoal drawing
Sight: 17 1/2 x 12 in.
Fr...
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1920s Modern Art
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Lithograph
Antique American Modernist WPA Mural Study Signed Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed mural study oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed.
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Erotic Scene - Lithograph by Toyen - 1927
By Toyen
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an artwork realized by Toyen in 1927.
Mixed colored watercolored lithograph.
The artwork is an illustration from the book Pybrac written by Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925...
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1920s Modern Art
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Lithograph
Les Facheux - Rare Book illustrated by Jean Cocteau - 1924
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
First Edition 2 vols. Copy on vélin d'Arches with slipcase. Photography portrait on frontispice of Braque by Man Ray, 22 photographic plates, portrait of Auric by Cocteau, facsimile ...
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1920s Modern Art
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Paper
Cat - Original woodcut, Handsigned and Numbered /160 - Buisson #27-03
Located in Paris, FR
Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA
Cat, 1927
Original woodcut
Handsigned with ink
Numbered /160
Bears the blind stamp of the editor (Lugt 1140a)
On Vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 inch)
R...
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Erotic Scene - Lithograph by Toyen - 1927
By Toyen
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an artwork realized by Toyen in 1923.
Mixed colored watercolored lithograph.
The artwork is an illustration from the book Pybrac written by Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Synchromist Abstraction watercolor by Jay Van Everen
Located in Hudson, NY
Jay Van Everen was a pioneering early American abstractionist known for his affiliation with the Synchromists. His abstract color studies would take him to the forefront of the Ameri...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
JOSHUA TREE
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCES H. GEARHART (American, 1869-1958)
JOSHUA TREE c. 1925-30
Color block print. Signed in pencil. 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Edition unknown, bur likely ab...
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Linocut, Woodcut
Madame Knaublich avec collier, Nu
By André Derain
Located in GLEN IRIS, AU
André Derain
Madame Knaublich avec collier, Nu
ink, signed with estate stamp, 33 x 15.5cm
Provenance: Atelier Derain; André Charlemagne Derain; the sale of Madame Raymonde Knaublich (the model in the picture) Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 23 & 24 March 2002: Galerie Schmit...
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Pen
Composition 16 - Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 16 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera and in very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 32...
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Tempera
The Helmsman
Located in Storrs, CT
The Helmsman. 1925. Etching. Hurst 130. 7 x 10 7/8 (sheet 11 x 5). Trial proof, apart from the edition of 75 An extremely rich impression printed cream wove paper. An exceptionally r...
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
"Harbor competition" by Louis Henri Salzmann - Watercolor
Located in Geneva, CH
Swiss Painter
Painter born in 1887.
Died in 1955.
designer
Work on paper
Beige wooden frame with glass pane
35 x 71 x 2,5 cm
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Headland & Rocks, White Island, Maine, early 20th century watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Headland & Rocks, White Island, Maine, c. 1923
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left
15 x 19.5 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox...
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a lithograph realized by Raoul Dufy in 1920.
Good conditions.
Edition of 110.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Feuilles de Route - Rare Book illustrated by Tarsila do Amaral - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Volume I, "La Formose". Edition of 800 copies. One of the only 20 copies on Hollande paper. Illustrated by reproductions of drawings by the famous brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral....
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Damenportrait
Located in Wien, 9
Die Arbeit von Albert Bertalan war ein Spontankauf aufgrund der offensichtlichen Qualität der Arbeit, noch bevor ich etwas über den Künstler recherchieren konnte. Das Label „Ecole de...
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Letter, Female Portrait, 20th Century German Artist, Signed and dated 1928
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 19'28'
Image size: 19 x 49 inches (48 x 124.5 cm)
Original Gilt frame
Johann Vincenz Cissarz
Johann Vincenz Cissarz was born on January 22nd 1873, Dan...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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