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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
Untitled (Elevated Platform)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our current exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Untitled (Elevated Platform), 1950, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 30 x...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stay On Target! II by BATIK Oversize Limited Print Star Wars
Located in London, GB
Stay On Target! II by BATIK BATIK is an increasingly collectable pop artist currently living and working in London. The artist is purposely elusive with their true identity, sex an...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

H. M. Bateman Don’t be Fuel-ish original vintage poster World War 2 Home Front
Located in London, GB
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Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Save Fuel for Battle original vintage poster by HM Bateman WW2 Home Front
Located in London, GB
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Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Old days Photo - The Tree - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - The Tree 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

Léger, Verdun: La Grille En Fer, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, Elements Mécaniques, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, Aux Alentours De Verdun, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, Intérieur D'hôpital, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, Soldat Assis, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, Dans L'hôpital, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, Le Sapeur, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, Soldats dans un Abri, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, Soldats Jouant Aux Cartes, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, Soldats Jouant Aux Cartes, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, Soldats Au Repos, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, Deux Soldats Dans Un Abri, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, Soldats Au Repos, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, Verdun Détruit, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

James Rosenquist Original Etching & Aquatint, 1979
Located in Larchmont, NY
James Rosenquist (1933 - 2017) Swing Screen, 1979 Etching and aquatint (two state) Sight: 17 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (image) Framed: 30 1/2 x 59 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. Edition 21/78 Inscribed, si...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

William Fisher Classic American Illustration on Canvas
Located in Larchmont, NY
William Fisher (American, 1891-1985) Untitled, 20th Century Oil on canvas/illustration 23 3/4 x 29 3/4 in. Framed: 31 x 37 1/4 x 1 in. Signed lower right: William Fisher William Fis...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Léger, Verdun: La Place D'armes, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Le Maria, La Femme, et le Voleur - Lithograph - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Le Maria, La Femme, et le Voleur is a Lithograph print on paper realized in the late 19th Century. Three narratives in three frames are represented with the title in French on the l...
Category

1850s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, Paysage En Argonne, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Léger, La Cuisine Roulante, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1956. Plates rendered by l'atelier Daniel Jacom...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Signed Yaacov Agam Silkscreen Print
Located in Larchmont, NY
Yaacov Agam (b. 1928) Untitled, c. 1980 Silkscreen print Sight: 33 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (image) Framed: 52 x 29 1/8 x 1 in. Signed lower right Inscribed verso Yaacov Agam was born Yaac...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Brunch At Brennans - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Brunch At Brennans Sunday brunch at Brennan’s restaurant, New Orleans. A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print Printed 2024 Slim Aarons Estate Edition Pr...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

C Print, Color

A Tina Modotti photograph of a Diego Rivera Mural
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1920s Tina Modotti photograph of a Diego Rivera mural, depicting the Agricultural School in Chapingo, Mexico. Stamped “Photographs-Tina Modotti Mexico, D.F.” on reverse. Tina Mod...
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Guéridon et Guitare, Cubist Lithograph by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Guéridon et Guitare". The original painting was completed in 1920. In the 1970's after Picass...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Don't be Fuel-ish original vintage poster by HM Bateman WW2 Home Front
Located in London, GB
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Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Piazza di Spagna - Italy - Lithograph - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Spagna Square - Italy is an etching print on paper in the Late 19th century. Titled on the plate Good conditions with slight foxing and folding.
Category

Late 19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

View of Paris XV-XVI - Lithograph - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
View of Paris XV-XVI is a lithograph print on paper realized in the Late 19th century Signed on the plate Good conditions. From the suite of "France Pittoresques, including costum...
Category

Late 19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Pantheon Temple - Etching by G. Della Longa - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Pantheon Temple is an etching print on paper in the Late 19th century realized by G. Della Longa. Signed on the plate, titled. Good conditions with slight foxing and a pen mark...
Category

Late 19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Sleeping - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping is a pencil drawing on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s. Good conditions with slight folding.
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Pencil

Portrait of Fletcher Harper - Lithograph by F. Halpin - 1885
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Fletcher Harper is a lithograph print on paper realized by F. Halpin in 1885. Signed and Titled on the plate Good conditions with slight foxing and folding.
Category

1880s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Don’t leave it all to your fuel watcher Original Vintage Poster WW2 Home Front
Located in London, GB
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Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Daniel Arsham - FUTURE RELIC 06 POLAROID CAMERA Limited Sculpture Modern Design
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Daniel Arsham - FUTURE RELIC 06 - POLAROID CAMERA Date of creation: 2016 Medium: Plaster and crushed glass Edition number: 251/500 Size: 12.7 × 14.6 × 14 cm Condition: In mint condi...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Glass, Plaster

St John’s College, Oxford Front Quad drawing by Bryan de Grineau
Located in London, GB
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Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Pencil

To Roads in Unknown Places from the Rilke Portfolio, lithograph by Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Shahn, American (1898 - 1969) Title: To Roads in Unknown Places from the Rilke Portfolio Year: 1968 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed in the plate Edition: 750 Size: 2...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Madrid - Etching - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Madrid is an etching print on paper realized in the late 19th Century. Titled on the plate Good conditions with slight cutting and folding on margins.
Category

1850s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Architectural - Maison Donne - Etching - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Architectural- Maison Donne is an etching print on paper realized in the late 19th Century. Titled on the plate and signed. Good conditions.
Category

1850s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

View of Paris - Lithograph - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
View of Paris is a lithograph print on paper in the Late 19th century.. Signed on the plate Good conditions with slight foxing. From the suite of "France Pittoresques, including c...
Category

Late 19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

1967 Vintage Mid-Century Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Nature Dwellings
Located in Bristol, GB
NATURE DWELLINGS Size: 42.5 x 68 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A brilliantly executed semi-abstract composition, painted in oil onto canvas and dated 1967. In this abstract na...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Tomorrow is a Better Day
Located in Detroit, MI
Hope inspired this work with its beginnings in a city dating back to the seventh century, Krakow, Poland. Nestled within this UNESCO World Heritage Site, known as Old Town, within th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Metal

Wave Form II (Wellenform) (Triangle, Wavy, Modern, Mid-Century) (~50% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Hannes Grosse Wave Form II (Wellenform) Oil and Acrylic on Canvas Year: 1971 Size: 33.46 x 33.46 x 31.49 inches (85,5 x 85,5 x 80 cm) Framed (simply wood frame) - ready to hang COA ...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Samuel J. Woolf Antique Litho: First Aid Station at Seicheprey
Located in Larchmont, NY
Samuel J. Woolf (American, 1880-1948) First Aid Station at Seicheprey Lithograph Sight: 11 x 14 1/2 in. Framed: 20 x 23 x 1 in. Signed lower right: S. J. Woolf Numbered lower left: 23/150 This print is based on Woolf 1918 oil painting: Front Line Dressing Station...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Norman Rockwell "Bottom Of The Sixth" Seriolithograph
Located in Larchmont, NY
Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978) Bottom of The Sixth Original painting produced 1948, authorized postumous estate print produced 2005 Seriolithograph Sight: 20 1/4 x 19 in. Fram...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

1950's Modernist Painting Hands Threading The Needle
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Threading The Needle by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour on artist paper mounted in card frame size: 12 x 16 inches condition: very good and ready to be e...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

1995 Marc Chagall 'Paris Opera Ceiling'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 25.25 x 35 inches ( 64.135 x 88.9 cm ) Image Size: 25.25 x 35 inches ( 64.135 x 88.9 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Five color offset lithog...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Family at the Beach WPA Modernism American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Family at the Beach WPA Modernism American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century William Gropper (1898 - 1977) "Family at the Beach" 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches Mixed media on paper, c. ...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Gouache, Watercolor, Ink, Paper

Cindy Kane 1985 Original Painting on Plywood
Located in Larchmont, NY
Cindy Kane (American, b. 1957) Untitled, 1985 Oil on plywood Sight: 31 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. Framed: 39 3/4 x 36 x 2 in. Signed lower right: KANE Signed, titled, dated verso: Cindy Kane, Untitled, 1985 Cindy Kane (American, 1957-) grew up in Washington DC during the Vietnam War era, absorbing the period's powerful political climate. She is a self-taught artist whose multi media work is born out of a deep sense of connection to the political and environmental issues of our times. Her early work was influenced by the experience of living and working at the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park, where she had the opportunity to document Anasazi Indian pictographs in pen and ink drawings. These images would inform her work for years to come. She draws on personal narrative and experience to create her paintings of maps, birds, toys, and artifacts from nature, often collaging bits of newspaper headlines, pieces of her children's homework, and pages of sheet music beneath layers of color and imagery. In a review of her work, author and critic John Loughery wrote; "Kane leads us into a peculiar netherworld, a hard to place area that's both reassuringly ancient, and anxiously modern. This is a painter who is interested in the unconscious and the archetypal, and utilizes her own private, (but not inaccessible) vocabulary and imagery." In a submission to AskART, Diana Wilson...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Plywood, Oil

Modernist Portrait of a Child by NY Artist Syril Frank
Located in Larchmont, NY
Syril Frank (American, 1929-2021) Untitled, c. 1960s Oil on canvas 35 7/8 x 23 3/4 x 3/4 in. Provenance: Estate of the Artist Syril Harriet Frank was born in Brooklyn to Israel and...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Picasso & Villers, Composition, Diurnes Découpages et Photographies (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Phototype and Stencil on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Diurnes Découpages et Photographies, 1962. Published by Berggruen, Par...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Stencil, Photogravure

Homage to Leger
By Jean Kellogg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s. Homage to Leger, 1941, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 14 x 17 inches; inscribed ...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1962 Rubenesque Nude Pastel, titled "Black Flemish Leather"
Located in Larchmont, NY
Flemish Black Leather, 1962 Pastel on paper 16 x 18 in. Framed: 21 1/2 x 23 3/4 x 1 in. Signed and dated lower right Inscribed verso
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Petite Fille a la Robe Verte, Cubist Lithograph by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Petite Fille a la Robe Verte (Paloma Picasso)". The original painting was completed in 1956. ...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Window 292 - Modern Monochromatic Resin Artwork
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

Old days Photo - On the Boat - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - On the Boat is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album includ...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

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