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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
Bright & Colorful French Modernist Signed oil Oriental Lamp Bowl of Fruit
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Ambiance a la Lampe Galle" by Bernard Fouchet (French 1932-2013) signed lower corner, titled verso in original frame with the artists monogram as part of the moulding canvas: 15 x 18 inches framed: 24 x 27 inches provenance: private collection, France Absolutely beautiful original painting by Bernard Fouchet (French 1932-2013). The work is signed to the front and back and titled verso too. Very rarely, it looks like the frame was custom made for or by the artist - as the monogram of BF is part of the moulding. The painting radiates colour and vibrancy, with this eclectic mix of still life objects on a table, set against this red/ orange backdrop of colours. Beautiful. Condition report: the painting is in very good condition. The frame has a couple of 'nibbles' to the corners but is fine. Bernard Fouchet was born in Cerdon-du-Loiret, France. He was the student of Augustine Memin who worked with Utrillo and Alfred Chagniot...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Grand Tier and the Met
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Grand Tier at the Met Etching, 1939 From: Reginald Marsh, Thirty Etchings and Engravings Published by the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969 Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edit...
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1930s Modern Art

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Etching

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 173, 1968. Published by Aimé Mae...
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1960s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Harbor View with Merchants and a Mosque - 19th Century - Painting - Modern
Located in Roma, IT
Harbor View with Merchants and a Mosque, Greek-Roman Buildings and Ships on Background. In excellent conditions. Includes a beautiful contemporary wooden gilded frame...
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19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

In the Blazing Sun at George Airfield
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson In the Blazing Sun at George Airfield, 1951 C print 20 x 16 inches Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso British fashion model Wenda Parkinson wearing...
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1950s Modern Art

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C Print

Couple - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal and watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century. Hand signed in pencil lower right. Very good condition.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Charcoal, Watercolor

Huge 1980's French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Nude Model Man in Top Hat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Nu Aux Voiles Bleus' by Henri Fuss (French, 1930-1985) signed, dated and titled oil on canvas framed: 43 x 59 inches canvas: 35 x 51 inches Provenance: private collection, France Co...
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1980s Modern Art

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Oil, Canvas

Sam's Art, from the New York International portfolio, signed/n lithograph 1966
Located in New York, NY
Saul Steinberg Sam's Art, from The New York International Portfolio), 1966 Lithograph on wove paper with blind stamp Pencil signed and numbered 12/225 on the front Published by Tanglewood Press, Knickerbocker Machine and Foundry, Inc., New York Printed by Irwin Hollander with blind stamp Unframed This Steinberg lithograph is titled Sam's Art, which of course refers to Uncle Sam, the nickname for the United States government. It features his version of the motto seen on our dollar bills, "Annuit Coeptis", which is one of the mottoes found on the Great Seal of the United States. It is directly underneath the "Eye of Providence" and is translated by the US Treasury and State Department as "God (or Providence) favors our undertakings". American President Abraham Lincoln, sitting in front of an easel, is also depicted as an artist in this telling 1960s work. Commentary: "In Saul Steinberg’s lithograph ‘Sam’s Art’, Abraham Lincoln, in stove-pipe hat, poses as the artist in front of his canvas. While his attention looks fixed on rendering the slightly wobbly pyramid with an eye, the Masonic motif from the back of the one dollar bill, the line from his brush has floated off the canvas to become a cubist-futurist cloud in the sky. The American Eagle looks on, perched on a civil war cannon...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Kabukie - The Province of Rokuok - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunikazu - 1862
By Utagawa Kunikazu
Located in Roma, IT
Kabukie - The Province of Rokuoku is an original artwork realized in 1862 by Utagawa Kunikazu (1830 - 1919) Chuban. From the series "Dai Nippon rokuju of Rikuoku" (60 provinces of Glorious Japan), The Province of Rokuoku. Meeting of the two rivals in the forest at night, Tanigoro with sumo apron and fan with the national colours. Signed: Kunikazu. Good impression, backed, glued at corners, oxidation, centrefold, a little bit rubbed. Utagawa Kunikazu (1830 - 1919) was a printmaker from Osaka. He had a famous teacher, the ukiyo-e artist Kunisada Utagawa...
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1860s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Mid Century Modern Swedish Original Oil Painting - Still Life with Green Bottles
Located in Bristol, GB
STILL LIFE WITH GREEN BOTTLES Size: 49.5 x 58.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A charming modernist still life painting that captures a domestic tabletop scene with pared-down e...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Daphne, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Art...
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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Fan Mail, 1950 - Marilyn Monroe Silk Lace Gown The Asphalt Jungle Fan Mail
Located in Brighton, GB
Fan Mail, 1950 - Marilyn Monroe Silk Lace Gown The Asphalt Jungle Fan Mail by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. Pleas...
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20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital

Framed Colorado Springs Mountain Landscape, Original Oil Painting on Board
Located in Denver, CO
Mountain Landscape, Near Colorado Springs, Colorado is an original oil on board painting by acclaimed American modernist Mary Cane Robinson. Executed ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

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Oil

Derain, Composition, Les Peintres mes amis (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Peintres mes amis, 1965. Published by Éditions d'art Les Heures Cla...
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1960s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Alas Tres, Acto Uno, Series. Male Nude Black and White Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Cohete's ritual with movement and the male dancer formations, inhabits his black and white theater-like habitat. Like light; always in motion. The harsh lights and shadows in the wa...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Café de la Place
Located in London, GB
'Café de la Place', gouache on paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1970s). A solitary stroller in a small French town crosses the street in front of a café al...
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1970s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Mein Weg mit dem Weib, plate 10
Located in Roma, IT
Drypoint and aquatint (brown ink) on cream paper. Signed "Rehn" in pencil on the lower right margin. Titled and numbered in pencil on the lower left margin. Edition of 25 prints. Fro...
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1910s Modern Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

The Deer, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.336)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Deer is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8.15 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers). Catalogue - Cramer #37 The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work. Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential. For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate). These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...
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20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Drypoint, Aquatint

The Mother and Child - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Mother and Child is an original Drawing in charcoal on ivory-colored paper realized by An anonymous artist in the early 20th century. Monogrammed on the lower right. Good condi...
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Early 20th Century Modern Art

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Charcoal

Untitled (Lord Rama’s reunion), Figurative by Raja Ravi Verma "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Raja Ravi Varma - Untitled (Lord Rama’s reunion) Oleograph 14.5 x 10.1 inches, Circa ( Framed & Delivered ) Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian painter an...
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1890s Modern Art

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Paper, Mixed Media

Infinite Horizon
Located in Westport, CT
DAVID DUNLOP is a modern-day old master whose luminous paintings draw from both Renaissance techniques and contemporary science. His paintings have been shown internationally and a...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Jumping A Hurdle (1886) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Jumping A Hurdle (1886) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Eadweard J. Muybridge/George Eastman Museum/Getty Images). Jumping a hurdle; saddle; bay horse, Daisy, between 1884 a...
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1880s Modern Art

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Still Life of Two Pears French Modernist Original 20th Century Painting Framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life by Max Toutain (French 1935-2006) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 10 x 12 inches canvas : 7 x 9 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have for sale by this artist h...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

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Oil

Original North Coast Wine Country California vintage vineyard travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original North Coast Wine Country California vintage vineyard travel poster. The artist Earl Thollander. Size 24.25” x 30”. Archival linen backed in good condition. Grade A- A repaired tear along the bottom was restored during linen backing and is inconspicuous. Celebrate Your Passion for Wine: Show off your love for wine culture while honoring California's North Coast’s rich history as one of the world’s premier wine regions. This poster represents the artistry and heritage behind each glass of wine you enjoy. Capture the Essence of California Wine Culture in 1975 Transport yourself to the golden era of wine-making with this authentic vintage 1975 North Coast Wine Country poster, a must-have for those who love wine, history, and timeless art. Featuring a design that exudes classic California vineyard...
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1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

La Garçonne
Located in OPOLE, PL
Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968) - La Garçonne Original Lithograph, pochoir from 1925. Arches paper (no watermark). Dimensions of work: 23.5 x 18 cm Publisher: E. Flammarion Éditeur. ...
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1920s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Hand Signed in Pencil Etching Cafe de Paris Visage de Maisons Maurice Vlaminck
Located in Surfside, FL
Maurice Vlaminck Le Cafe de Paris, Pl. X, from Visage des Maisons, c. 1927 (Walterskirchen 132) Etching on Van Gelder laid paper, signed in pencil, trial proof with the blindstamp o...
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1920s Modern Art

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Etching

Virgin Islands Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Inez McCombs (1895-1975). Virgin Islands, ca. 1950. Alkyd on paper mounted to masonite panel. Measuring 13 x 16 inches; 18 x 21 inches framed. Signed lower right. Philadelphia-...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

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Masonite, Paper, Alkyd

Television Americana (Americana, Midwest, Classic, Vintage, TV, ~26% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kelly Ludwig Television Americana Archival Pigment Print Year: 2024 Visible Size: 11.5 x 15.5 inches Framed: 18 x 22 inches Signed: On Label COA provided *Black frame with standar...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Landscape with Boats - Paint by Mustapha Yehya - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
 Realized by Mustapha Yehya in the mid-20th century. Hand signed. In excellent condition, it includes a coeval wooden frame.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pablo Picasso 'Femme du barbu' (A. R. 193) Madoura Pitcher 1953
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Femme du barbu (A. R. 193) Terre de faïence pitcher, 1953, from the edition of 500, inscribed 'Edition Picasso', partially glazed and painted, with the E...
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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware

Portrait of Helene Sardeau (The Artist’s Wife)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan) Fresco, 20 x 16 inches unframed, 22 x 18 inch...
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1930s Modern Art

Materials

Plaster, Mixed Media

Sculptural Objects, School Prints, Henry Moore
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on English cartridge paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Published by School Prints Ltd., London; Printe...
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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Donde va Mama from Los Caprichos - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1799
Located in Roma, IT
Donde va Mama from Los Caprichos is an original artwork realized by the artist Francisco Goya and published for the first time in 1799. Etching and aqua...
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1790s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

The Tender Nurse's Care - Etching by Thomas Rowlandson - 1817
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and aquatint realized by Thomas Rowlandson in 1817. Plate from "The Dance of Life" by William Combe. Very good condition. Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) was an english artis...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Sister Kate — Mid-century, Jazz-inspired Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Houston McConnell, 'Sister Kate', color serigraph, 1947, edition 24. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '24' in pencil. Annotated '10.00 - 19 colors - 24 copies - #24' in pencil. A fine impression, with vibrant, fresh colors, on heavy tan wove paper, with full margins (11/16 to 1 1/2 inches). Tack holes in the four margin corners, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce. Another of McConnell's mid-century modernist, jazz-inspired serigraphs, 'Combo', is featured in the British Museum's 2008 publication (and traveling exhibition) 'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock'. ABOUT THE IMAGE "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate", often simply "Sister Kate", is an up-tempo jazz dance song, written by Armand J. Piron and published in 1922. The lyrics of the song are narrated in the first person by Kate's sister, who sings about Kate's impressive dancing skill and her wish to be able to emulate it. She laments that she's not quite "up to date", but believes that dancing like "Sister Kate" will rectify this, and she will be able to impress "all the boys in the neighborhood" like her sister. Over the years this song has been performed and recorded by many artists, including Frances Faye and Rusty Warren, a 1959 version by Shel Silverstein...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Reflection IV, Modern Monoprint by Manuel Rodriguez Jr.
Located in Long Island City, NY
Manuel Rodriguez Jr., Filipino (1942 - ) - Reflection IV, Medium: Monoprint and Mixed Media on BFK Rives, signed and titled in pencil, Edition: 1/1...
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Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Monoprint

Christopher Street (abstract Greenwich Village cityscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965). Christopher Street, 1939. Watercolor on Arches wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil by artist lower margin. Sheet measures 15.5 x 20 inches. Window in matting measures 15 x 19 inches. Framed measurement: 23 x 30 inched. Bears fragment of original label affixed on verso. Incredibly vibrant and saturated color with no fading or toning of sheet. Provenance: Babcock Galleries, NYC Exhibited: The American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition. From the facade of The Waverly at Christopher is depicted One Christopher Street, the 16-story Art Deco residential building erected in 1931. It is not a casual coincidence that the structure appears in this cityscape: 1 Christopher Street is the subject. The original intention of this project was to transform the neighborhood, bring a bit of affluence and make a bid to rival the Upper West Side. Margules, a sensitive aesthete, understood how a massive piece of architecture such as One changes a neighborhood. Sound, scale and focal points are forever altered. A pedestrian's sense of depth and distance becomes pronounced. All of these factors contribute to the intent behind this image. Tall buildings disrupt the human scale, change the skyline and carve up space. In this piece, negative space conforms to the man-made geometries. Clouds become gems fixed in settings. De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965) was a Romanian-American "abstract realist" painter who crossed paths with many major American artistic and intellectual figures of the first half of the 20th century. Elaine de Kooning said that he was "[w]idely recognized as one of the most gifted and erudite watercolorists in the country". The New York Times critic Howard Devree stated in 1938 that "Margules uses color in a breath-taking manner. A keen observer, he eliminates scrupulously without distortion of his material." Devree later called Margules "one of our most daring experimentalists in the medium" Margules was also a well-known participant in the bohemian culture of New York City's Greenwich Village, where he was widely known as the "Baron" of Greenwich Village.[1] The New York Times described him as "one of Greenwich Village's best-known personalities" and "one of the best known and most buoyant characters about Greenwich Village. Early Life De Hirsh Margules was born in 1899 in the Romanian city of Iași (also known as Iasse, Jassy, or Jasse). When Margules was 10 weeks old, his family immigrated to New York City. Both of his parents were active in the Yiddish theater, His father was Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, a "renowned Jewish actor-impresario and founder of the Yiddish stage." Margules' mother, Rosa, thirty-nine years younger than his father, was an actress in the Yiddish theater and later in vaudeville. Although Margules appeared as a child actor with the Adler Family[11] and Bertha Kalich, his sister, Annette Margules, somewhat dubiously continued in family theater and vaudeville tradition, creating the blackface role of the lightly-clad Tondelayo (a part later played on film Hedy Lamarr) in Earl Carroll's 1924 Broadway exoticist hit, White Cargo. Annette herself faced stereotyping as an exotic flower: writing about her publicist Charles Bouchert stated that "Romania produces a stormy, temperamental type of woman---a type admirably fitted to portray emotion." His brother Samuel became a noted magician who appeared under the name "Rami-Sami." Samuel later became a lawyer, representing magician Horace Goldin, among others. A family portrait including a young De Hirsh, a portrait of Rosa and Annette together, and individual photos of Rosa and Edward can be found on the Museum of the City of New York website. At around age 9 or 10, Margules took art classes with the Boys Club on East Tenth Street, and his first taste of exhibition was at a student art show presented by the club. By age 11, he had won a city-wide prize (a box camera) at a children's art show presented by the department store Wanamakers. As a young teenager, Margules was already displaying a characteristic kindness and loyalty. Upon hearing that two friends (one of them was author Alexander King), were in trouble for breaking a school microscope, the nearly broke Margules gave them five dollars to repair the microscope . Margules had to approach a wealthy man that Margules had once saved on the subway from a heart attack. Margules didn't reveal the source of the five dollars to King until twenty-five years later. In his late teens, Margules studied for a couple of months in Pittsburgh with Edwin Randby, a follower of Western painter Frederic Remington. Thereafter he pursued a two-year course of studies in architecture, design and decoration at the New York Evening School of Art and Design, while working as a clerk during the day at Stern's Department Store. He was encouraged in these artistic pursuits by his neighbor, the painter Benno Greenstein (who later went by the name of Benjamin Benno). Artistic career In 1922, Margules began work as a police reporter for the City News Association of New York .Margules then considered himself something of an expert on art, and the painter Myron Lechay is said to have responded to some unsolicited analysis of his work with the remark "Since you seem to know so much about it, why don't you paint yourself?" This led to study with Lechay and a flurry of painting. Margules' first show was in 1922 at Jane Heap's Little Review Gallery. Thereafter Margules began to participate in shows with a group including Stuart Davis, Jan Matulka, Buckminster Fuller (exhibiting depictions of his "Dymaxion house") in a gallery run by art-lover and restaurateur Romany Marie on the floor above her cafe. Jane Heap, left, with Mina Loy and Ezra Pound During the 1920s, Margules traveled outside of the country a number of times. In 1922, with the intent of reaching Bali, he took a job as a "'wiper on a tramp steamer where [he] played nursemaid to the engine." He reached Rotterdam before he turned back. He would return to Rotterdam shortly thereafter. In 1927, Margules took a lengthy leave of absence from his day job as a police reporter in order to travel to Paris, where he "set up a studio in Montmartre's Place du Tertre, on the top floor of an almost deserted hotel, a shabby establishment, lacking both heat and running water." He studied at the Louvre and traveled to paint landscapes in provincial France and North Africa. Margules also joined the "Noctambulist" movement and experimented with painting and showing his artwork in low light.Jonathan Cott wrote that: the painter De Hirsch Margulies sat on the quays of the Seine and painted pictures in the dark. In fact, the first exhibition of these paintings, which could be seen only in a darkened room, took place in [ Walter Lowenfels'] Paris apartment. Elaine de Kooning remarked that studying the works of the Noctambulists confirmed Margules' "direction toward the use of primary colors for perverse effects of heavy shadow." It was also in Paris that Margules initially conceived his idea of "Time Painting", where a painting is divided into sectors, each representing a different time of day, with color choices meant to evoke that time of day. In Paris, his social circle included Lowenfels, photographer Berenice Abbott, publisher Jane Heap, composer George Anthiel, sculptor Thelma Wood, painter André Favory, writer Norman Douglas, writer and editor George Davis, composer and writer Max Ewing, and writer Michael Fraenkel. Upon his return to New York in 1929, Margules attended an exhibition of John Marin's paintings. While at the exhibition, he "launched into an eloquent explanation of Marin to two nearby women", and was overheard by an impressed Alfred Stieglitz. The famous photographer and art promoter invited Margules to dine with his wife, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and his assistant, painter Emil Zoler. Stieglitz thereafter became a friend and mentor to Margules, becoming for him "what Socrates was to his friends." Alfred Stieglitz Stieglitz introduced Margules to John Marin, who quickly became the most important painterly influence upon Margules. Elaine de Kooning later noted that Margules was "indebted to Marin and through Marin to Cézanne for his initial conceptual approach - for his constructions of scenes with no negative elements, for skies that loom with the impact of mountains." Margules himself said that Marin was his "father and ... academy." The admiration was by no means unreciprocated: Marin said that Margules was "an art lover with abounding faith and sincerity, with much intelligence and quick seeing." Stieglitz also introduced Margules to many other artistic and intellectual figures in New York. With the encouragement of Alfred Stieglitz, Margules in 1936 opened a two-room gallery at 43 West 8th Street called "Another Place." Over the following two years there were fourteen solo exhibitions by Margules and others, and the gallery was well-respected by the press. It was in this gallery that the painter James Lechay, Myron's brother, exhibited his first painting. In 1936, Margules first saw recognition by major art museums when both the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston purchased his works. In 1942, Margules gave up working as a police reporter, and apparently dedicated himself thereafter solely to an artistic vocation. "The Baron of Greenwich Village"[edit] Margules made his mark not only as an artist, but also as an outsized personality known throughout Greenwich Village and beyond. To local residents, Margules was known as the "Baron", after Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a prominent German Jewish philanthropist. Margules was easily recognizable by the beret he routinely wore over his long hair. Writer Charles Norman said that he "dressed with a flair for sloppiness." He was said to "know everybody" in Greenwich Village, to the extent that when the novelist and poet Maxwell Bodenheim was murdered, Margules was the first one the police sought to identify the body. Margules' letters show him interacting with art world figures such as Sacha Kolin, John Marin and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as with prominent figures outside the art world such as polymath Buckminster Fuller and writer Henry Miller. Most of his friends and acquaintances found Margules a generous and voluble man, given to broadly emotionally expressive gestures and acts of kindness and loyalty. In 1929, he exhibited an example of this loyalty and fellow-feeling when he appeared in court to fight what the wrongful commitment of his friend, writer and sculptor Alfred Dreyfuss, who appeared to have been a victim of an illicit attempt to block an inheritance. The Greenwich Village chronicler Charles Norman described the bone-crushing hugs that Margules would routinely bestow on his friends and acquaintances, and speaks of the "persuasive theatricality" that Margules seemed to have inherited from his actor parents. Norman also wrote about Margules' routine acts of kindness, taking in homeless artists, constantly feeding his friends and providing the salvatory loan where needed. Norman also notes that Margules was blessed with a loud and good voice, and was apt to sing an operatic air without provocation. The writer and television personality Alexander King said I think the outstanding characteristics of my friend's personality are affirmation, emphasis, and overemphasis. He chooses to express himself predominantly in superlatives and the gestures which accompany his utterances are sometimes dangerous to life and limb. Of the bystanders, I mean. King also spoke with affectionate amusement about Margules' pride in his cooking, speaking of how "if he should ever invite you to dinner, he may serve you a hamburger with onions, in his kitchen-living room, with such an air of gastronomic protocol, such mysterious hints and ogliing innuendoes, as if César Ritz and Brillat-Savarin had sneaked out, only a moment before, with his secret recipe in their pockets." Margules was such a memorable New York personality that comic book writer Alvin Schwartz imagined him at the Sixth Avenue Cafeteria in a risible yet poignant debate with Clark Kent about whether Superman had the ability to stop Hitler. Margules' entrenchment in the Greenwich Village milieu can be seen in a photograph from Fred McDarrah's "Beat Generation Album" of a January 13, 1961 writers' and poets' meeting to discuss "The Funeral of the Beat Generation", in Robert Cordier [fr]'s railroad flat at 85 Christopher Street. Among the people in the same photograph are Shel Silverstein...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor, Rag Paper

Villajoyosa, Spain #2 by Alexandre de Spengler - Oil on canvas 46x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Alexandre de Spengler (1893–1973) was a Swiss painter and engraver active in Geneva and Paris. He is known for his land and seascapes, as well as...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Passion Flower - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored. Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...
Category

1870s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Mid Century Modern Dancers Oil Painting; Listed Artist Albert Michini, ca 1970’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
If you have an association with dance, yoga or working out, this unusual modernist painting might be an interesting addition to your space. Artist Albert Michini used several models ...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Antique American School Modernist Winter Landscape Signed Framed Oil Painting
By Rosario Urbino Gerbino
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape abstraction. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size 30L x 25H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Signpost - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931. On Hollande van Gelder paper. Edition of 300. Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Cowboy Hunting Pronghorn Deer ("American Antelope") in Watercolor and Gouache
Located in Soquel, CA
Cowboy Hunting Pronghorn Deer ("American Antelope") in Watercolor and Gouache Detailed western scene by H. Rich (American, 20th Century). A cowboy is on a ridge, with two horses, ha...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

1940's California Hills Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Substantial and period mid-century modern American Scene watercolor of the Oakland, California countryside by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999), 1944. Signed lower right "Earl Loran...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Watercolor

Nude
Located in Cologne, DE
Silvergelatinprint
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Nude
Nude
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Before the Storm
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor on paper by American modernist Charles E. Burchfield, created in 1916. This work comes in an archival frame presentation and has been authenticated by the Bur...
Category

1910s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Beauty in a Dream - Original lithograph, Handsigned and Numbered /100
Located in Paris, IDF
Alain BONNEFOIT Beauty in a Dream, 1975 Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 100 On vellum 38 x 55 cm (c. 15 x 22 inch) Excellent condition
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

after Henri Matisse - Sleeping Blue Nude - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri MATISSE Edition of 200 with the printed signature, as issued 76 x 56 cm With stamp of the Succession Matisse References : Artvalue - Succession Matisse
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Paintbrushes in a Pitcher - Still Life Etching by Don Weygandt (#20/150)
Located in Soquel, CA
Paintbrushes in a Pitcher - Still Life Etching by Don Weygandt (#20/150) Elegant lithograph of a pitcher holding paintbrushes by Don Weygandt (American, 1926-2018). This piece has a...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Etching

'Morning Sun', San Francisco Bay Area Modernist Harbor Scene, Seascape, Seafood
By Jack Wilson
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Morning Sun', San Francisco Bay Area Harbor Scene, Seascape, Seafood Signed lower right, 'Jack Wilson' (American, 1919-1988) and painted circa 1965; additionally signed, verso, ti...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Boy in Bloomers
Located in London, GB
'French Boy in Bloomers', gouache on art paper (circa 1960s-70s), by Raymond Debiève. A young boy emerges from a beach cabana wearing a bloomer bathing costume that was still in use ...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Original Victor Victoria linen backed 1982 vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Victor Victoria vintage movie poster. Professional archival linen backed and in very good condition, ready to frame. NSS: 820018 • Original 1982 release poster • Size...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Acrobats at Play
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Acrobats at Play Original Lithograph from 1960. Dimensions of work: 32 x 24 cm. Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition.
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Red Grain Bins (Americana, Pop Art, Midwest, Vibrant, 28% OFF- LIMITED TIME)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Jason Dailey Red Grain Bins Archival Pigment Print Year: 2024 Visible Size: 9.5 x 9.5 inches Framed: 12.875 x 12.875 inches Signed: On Label COA provided *White frame with standard ...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Young Woman Wearing a Copper Scarf', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Brittany, Skagen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'W. Schwartz' for Walter Erwin Otto Schwartz (Danish, 1889-1958), dated 1935 and inscribed 'Skagen' lower right. A substantial, psychologically penetrating portrait of a young woman with braids, shown dressed in a charcoal wool coat and wearing a copper-colored neck-scarf. The self-possessed sitter stands and meets the viewers gaze directly, proving herself an unusually confident subject for this noted Danish Modernist. Nephew of the Danish academic artist, Frans Schwartz, Walter Schwartz grew up surrounded by the painters who frequented the Danish art colony on the picturesque island of Skagen. Walter first studied formally (1904-8) with Michael Ancher...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Eros 2 - Oil Paint by Mino Meno - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on plywood realized in 1980s. Titled and signed on rear. Very good condition.
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photo -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation for their r...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Espiral Dos & Espiral. Diptych. Male Nudes. Black and White Photographs
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Vignette of a dancer creating shapes and folds in the sunlight. Rocket's favorite lighting source. The harsh lights and shadows in the warm Florida weather led Ricky Rocket to explo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Bijinga - Woodcut by Utagawa Toyohiro - Early 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bijinga (New year festivities) is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Toyohiro in the Early 19th Century. Woodcut Print Oban Format New year festivities, two elegant la...
Category

19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Bruno Zach Deco Bronze Sculpture, 1925, Native American Subject
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Beautifully cast deco Austrian bronze titled: “Indian Brave on Charging Horse.” Sitz on a marble plinth. The figure has a cold painted buckskin colored shirt and pant. Signed on base...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Bronze

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