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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
President Jimmy Carter
Located in New York, NY
President Jimmy Carter Archival pigment print 14 x 14 inches Signed and numbered edition of 15 William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principal...
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1980s Modern Art

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Archival Pigment

La ronde des cavaliers by André Brasilier
Located in New Orleans, LA
André Brasilier b. 1929 French La ronde des cavaliers Signed "André Brasilier" (lower right) Oil on canvas "I always try to give the quintessence of a subject, to say a great dea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

Kennedy, Jackie sits at JFK’s Senate Desk, 1959
Located in New York, NY
Jackie sits at JFK’s senate desk in 1959 nb_048. Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited edit...
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1950s Modern Art

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Giclée

Train Station - Oil Paint by Eliano Fantuzzi - 1953
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Fantuzzi in 1952. Hand signed lower left and on rear.
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1950s Modern Art

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Oil

Olivetti
Located in New York, NY
Pintori, Giovanni. Olivetti. 1967. 2nd printing. 1st Printing 1946. Offset Lithograph. Rare Giovanni Pintori (1912 – 1999) was an Italian graphic designer and painter. His most famous works are the advertisement posters for Olivetti typewriters...
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1960s Modern Art

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Offset

Marc Chagall “Le Nu” The Nude - Color Lithograph 1978 - Framed - Signed - Angel
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Marc Chagall "Le Nu" Lithograph in colors on Arches paper 21.25 x 14 in. (image size) 25.5 x 18.38 in (sheet size) ​​​​​​​Edition of 50 + Épreuve d'artiste Signed in pencil lower rig...
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1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Archival Paper

Eifeltower, Paris, 1955
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1955. Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
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1950s Modern Art

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Silver Gelatin

Horses : Horse Riding in Autumn - Original Lithograph, HANDSIGNED & Ltd /250
Located in Paris, IDF
Serge LASSUS (1933-) Horses : Horse Riding in Autumn, 1983 Original Lithograph Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 250 (the number you can see can be different) On Vellum 56 x 76 cm (c....
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1980s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Paul Jouve - Chimpanzee - Original Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jouve - Chimpanzee - Original Engraving Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950. Copy on velin creme de Rives Artwork by Paul Jouve. Original copper engraving ...
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1950s Modern Art

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Engraving

Kandinsky, Tableau avec formes blanches, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 133-134, 1962. Published by...
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1960s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Contemporary Mid Century Inspired Blue & Green Toned Neighborhood Aerial Pastel
Located in Houston, TX
Mid century inspired aerial landscape pastel drawing by contemporary artist R. Michael Wommack. The work features a birds eye view of a planned neighborhood at night with glowing swi...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Two Fine Prints from the David Suite by Edna Hibel, 1978
Located in New York, NY
Edna Hibel (American, 1917-2015) Two Lithographs from the David Suite, 1978 Hand pulled original lithograph on Japanese rice paper Sheet: 26 x 20 in. Signed lower right: Hibel Number...
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1970s Modern Art

Materials

Rice Paper, Lithograph

Marc Chagall 'Moses receives the Ten Commandments, 1966' original lithograph
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: MARC CHAGALL Title: Moses receives the Ten Commandments (FROM STORY OF THE EXODUS) Medium: Lithograph on arches paper Image Size: 18.50x13.50 inches paper size: 20 x 15 inche...
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1960s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Obra inèdita recent
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph. Initialed and numbered 73/100 in pencil by Miro. Published by Sala Gaspar, Barcelona. From the same-titled suite.
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1960s Modern Art

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Color, Lithograph

Braque, Composition, Braque Espaces, 13 Dessins, Lavis, Aquarelles (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin papier a la cuve du moulin richard de bas specialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued....
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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Mr. Magoo Original Vintage Animation Cel Hand Drawing Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in 1918 in Budapest, Hungary, Engel began his professional career in animation as a color designer at the Walt Disney studio. Although his credits include work on such classics as Disney’s Bambi...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Calder, Composition, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Calder. Published and printed by Musée National d'Art Moderne, Par...
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1960s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Ancient Greek Sculptures - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Greek Sculptures is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the univers...
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1860s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Women - Mixed media - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Women is a contemporary artwork realized by Artist of the mid-20th century Mixed media Includes frame
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

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Mixed Media

Josef Albers LP Cover Art, set of 7 (Josef Albers album art)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Josef Albers Album Art complete set of 7 circa late 1950s: A set of 7 vinyl record covers (containing their records) brilliantly designed by Josef Albers between 1958 and 1960. The s...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

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Offset

The Chinotto - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Molds - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph. Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable plants o...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Coffee - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Lardaro Fig and Trojan Fig - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Tomatoes Plants - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Nepenthes in Ampolla - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Nepenthe in Amphora - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Menispermaceae - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Cincona Calisaia - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Cauliflower - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

The Broccoli - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Broccoli Turnip - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

White-Lilac Achimene - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Saxifrage - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Oak Mistletoe - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

White Mistletoe - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

The Poison Tree - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Smilaceae - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

The Coke - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

The Gigaro - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

The Leek - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Convolvulus Scamonea - 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

The Scammonea - 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...
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1870s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Vintage American Modernist Interior Scene Signed Framed Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist interior scene with figures by Carol Lauttenbauch. Oil on canvas. Large scale work. Amazing detail and an intricate composition. Very impressive in per...
Category

1990s Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

Acto Dos, From the series Acto Uno. Male Nude Limited Edition B&W Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Acto Dos, by Ricky Cohete From the series "Acto Uno" Archival Pigment print Small size: 30 in H x 20 in W. Edition of 13 + 1AP Unframed 2020 Black and White Photograph All prices a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Figure - Original Pencil on Paper by Charles Landelle - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a pencil drawing on brown paper by Charles Landelle (1812-1908). The state of preservation is good. The sheet is mounted on a cardboard pas...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

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Pencil

Lovers of the Champs de Mars - Original Lithograph (Mourlot)
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Paris, Lovers of the Champs de Mars, 1965 Original lithograph after a watercolor (Mourlot Workshop) Printed signature in the plate On vellum 30 x 24 cm (c...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Nude - Original Pencil on Paper by André Meaux-Saint-Marc - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude woman is an original pencil drawing realized by André Meaux-Saint-Marc (1885 - 1941). Pencil drawing on brown paper in good conditions.
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Early 20th Century Modern Art

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Paper, Pencil

La Ley de Fugas (Shot for Fleeing from the Law) — Anti-Fascist Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Helios Gomez, 'La Ley de Fugas (Shot for Fleeing from the Law)', letterpress, 1929-1930. Signed in the matrix, lower left and numbered '15', upper left corner. Letterpress relief print after the original drawing, with text in black ink on buff, wove paper; the full sheet with margins. Slight toning at the sheet edges, otherwise in very good condition. From the vintage suite of 23 numbered prints, titled in five languages with Spanish verses in linotype. Matted to museum standards, unframed. As published in 'Días de Ira' (Days of Wrath), a portfolio of 23 drawings and poems on the “Spanish White Terror” by Spanish artist Helios Gómez, his first publication. Accompanied by an introduction by the 'Socialist International' and with a foreword by Romain Rolland. Printed in Berlín in 1930. Image size 7 3/4 x 5 7/16 inches; sheet size 12 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches. ABOUT THE ARTIST "Free art from representational conventions and make it live from its own dynamism; make the spectator feel the emotion of an idea thanks to pure abstract plastic art: that is, in short, my artistic aspiration... I wanted to touch the people through art". — Helios Gómez. Helios Gómez (1905–1956) was born in Triana, Seville, into a working-class Calé (gypsy) family. He received his training at the Seville Industrial Arts and Crafts School and the Cartuja factory as a painter and decorator of ceramics. His initial works were published in the anarchist Páginas Libres, and he illustrated books by local authors like Rafael Laffon and Felipe Alaiz. In 1925, he showcased his work for the first time at the Kursaal in Seville, followed by exhibitions in Madrid at the Ateneo and in Barcelona at the Dalmau Gallery the subsequent year. Gómez became increasingly aware of the need for political change, aligning himself with anarchist groups and committing to express his political beliefs through his art, writing, and speeches. His artistic career allowed him some acceptance in broader Spanish society, which still primarily viewed Romani identity as acceptable only through creative expression. Unfortunately, anti-Romani sentiment persisted, reflected in critical reviews and media coverage. His early illustrations for anarchist writer Felipe Alaiz and exhibitions at radical spaces like Café Kursaal marked the beginning of his activism. In 1927, due to his political involvement, he had to flee Spain and travel across Western Europe, connecting with avant-garde art movements and the labor movement. This experience significantly influenced his work, which incorporated elements of cubism, expressionism, and futurism. Upon returning to Spain in 1930, he settled in Barcelona and collaborated as a printmaker with the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo. Gómez later renounced anarchism and joined the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), believing that the international communist movement was the most effectively organized force opposing the rise of fascism. He participated in communist rallies and was imprisoned in Barcelona's Model prison. During the Spanish Civil War, he fought with the Communist Party. He gave an interview to the leftist magazine Crónica, where he spoke about the anti-fascist cause and praised the Soviet Union for its integration of Romani people. By 1938, he had rejoined the anarchist movement and worked on the design of the newspaper El Frente. After fleeing the country during the Nationalists' Catalonia Offensive, he was interned in French concentration camps. In the aftermath of the war, as details of the Romani Holocaust started to emerge, he embraced his Romani identity more openly, especially after his imprisonment under the Franco dictatorship. He spent time in Model prison from 1945 to 1946 and again from 1948 to 1954, during which he focused on writing. He produced two essays, including one on Romani art...
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1920s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

Cat and Mouse : Original etching, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Mordecai MOREH Cat and Mouse, 1982 Original etching Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 300 On vellum 9 x 21 cm (c. 4 x 8 inch) INFORMATION : This etching was created for the Greeting ...
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1980s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Rare Large Original British Illustration Art Watercolor Painting "Horse Races"
Located in Surfside, FL
Sue Macartney-Snape Watercolor painting (with highlights of gold metallic paint) titled on label "Goodwood Races" Signed with initials verso. Info on label verso Dimensions: H 38.75...
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1980s Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Bacon, Three Studies for Portrait of Lucian Freud, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition, with trifold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 162. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, P...
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1960s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Melancholic Muses VI
Located in London, GB
'Melancholic Muses', one of a poignant set of six signed artist proof lithographs by the celebrated Spanish artist from Barcelona, Vicenç Caraltó (circa 1960s). This collection of li...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

City - Mixed Media by N. Czinober - mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
City is an original drawing in pencil made by the Hungarian artist Nicolas Czinober in the mid-20th century.The state of preservation is good, the paper presents some small stains. ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor, Pencil

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph of a Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper a reproduction lithograph after the drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph. James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor” Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro. These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great. Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War. Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work. In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending. Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles. Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968). In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale. One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas." Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...
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1930s Modern Art

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Lithograph

'Sculpturegraph' — Modernist Abstraction, Contemporary African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Rogers, 'Sculpturegraph' (Black, Gray, and Silver), color sculpturegraph, edition 40, 1984. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '25/40' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, pain...
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1980s Modern Art

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Monoprint

The Red Garden, Illustration Style in Red Tones, Wild Dandelion, Pink Leaves
Located in Barcelona, ES
"The Red Garden" is an abstract expressionist painting by Romina Milano where a dance of black gestures unfolds across colorful brushstrokes infused with raw emotion. Romina Milano...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

Elio, 2. Male Nude. Sepia Limited Edition Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Elio Dos, by Ricky Cohete Archival Pigment Print Small size: 30 in H x 20 in W. Edition of 13 + 1AP Unframed Exploring color in the darkness, inspired by the Italian and Dutch renai...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

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