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
Recognized Seller Listings
Growing #3
By Keith Haring
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1988, on Lenox Museum Board, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 100, published by Martin Lawrence Limited Editions, New York, with their blindstamp, 75.9 x 101.9 cm. (29 7/8 x 40 1/8 in.)
This piece is part of Keith Haring’s ‘Growing...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Growing #2
By Keith Haring
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1988, on Lenox Museum Board, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 100, published by Martin Lawrence Limited Editions, New York, with their blindstamp, 75.9 x 101.9 cm. (29 7/8 x 40 1/8 in.)
This piece is part of Keith Haring’s ‘Growing...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Gretchen & Eric
By Robert Longo
Located in New York, NY
From the artist’s iconic, Men in the Cities series, Robert Longo created Gretchen & Eric in 1985, each as an original lithograph measuring 72 x 35 7/8 in. (182.9 x 91.1 cm), unframed...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Cherry Blossom 2
Located in Rye, NY
Ali Hasmut graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Baghdad with a degree of Bachelor of Plastic Arts, in Iraq in 1997. After graduation, he moved to Jordan to pursue a painting...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Rain Symphony
Located in Rye, NY
Ali Hasmut graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Baghdad with a degree of Bachelor of Plastic Arts, in Iraq in 1997. After graduation, he moved to Jordan to pursue a painting...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Cross Walk
Located in Rye, NY
Ali Hasmut graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Baghdad with a degree of Bachelor of Plastic Arts, in Iraq in 1997. After graduation, he moved to Jordan to pursue a painting...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Businessman
Located in Rye, NY
This sort of satirical and narrative depictions which generally appears in my work, provides intimacy, and the interpretation of my work comes with ease. Furthermore, all elements wh...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Stainless Steel
Visage
Located in New York, NY
An early and stunningly beautiful hand-painted ceramic bowl created by Picasso in 1955, Visage measures 5 inches (12.8 cm) in diameter and is Inscribed 'Edition Picasso/Madoura' (bot...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Flatiron Building
Located in New York, NY
William Kentridge (b. 1955), Flatiron Building, (also known as I Am Still Learning), drypoint, 1985, on Rives paper with their watermark, signed, dated and dedicated For Hermine from...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Drypoint
Santa Teresa
Located in Fairfield, CT
Framed dimensions 38.5 x 46.25 in.
Woven museum quality archival print
Photograph was taken by the late Fernando Bengoechea and hand-woven by br...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Karma Tree 1
Located in Fairfield, CT
Framed dimensions 46.25 x 38.5 in.
Woven museum quality archival print
Photograph was taken by the late Fernando Bengoechea and hand-woven by br...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Circulo 15
Located in Rye, NY
The “Círculo Series” is inspired by what I consider the most relevant geometric shape. From the shape of Planet Earth representations, to transportation, to sports, the circle is pro...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Resin, Acrylic
Woodstock
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Signed (in white gouache, at lower left): Winold Reiss; (with estate stamp, at lower right): Winold /
Reiss
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Ink, India Ink
Portrait of Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943)
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): WINOLD/REISS
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Pastel
Japanese Girl
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): WINOLD/REISS
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Pastel
Separated Spear Woman in Snake Headress
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Mixed media on Whatman board. Signed (at lower right): WINOLD/REISS
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Henry Whitford
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Mixed media on Whatman board. Signed (at lower left): WINOLD/REISS
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Mixed Media
"Les trois oiseaux en vol"
Located in Köln, DE
One of the main motifs in Georges Braques late printmaking oeuvre is the bird. By depicting the bird as itself or the flight of birds, Braque found what he called the "still life of ...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Aquatint
no title / "Oiseau bleu"
Located in Köln, DE
One of the main motifs in Georges Braques late printmaking oeuvre is the bird. By depicting the bird as itself or the flight of birds, Braque found what he called the "still life of ...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Aquatint
Model Shelly Napier in Schiaparelli with Brancusi Sculptures, MOMA, New York
Located in New York, NY
This photograph was likely taken during the Museum of Modern Art’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition, which also celebrated the museum’s new home at 11 West 53rd Street. Pictured with the model are “Bird in Space...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, New York
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Print
Signed by the photographer
Pratt Institute is a private university in Brooklyn, New York which was founded in 1887 and is primarily know...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Christian Dior Haute Couture (Spring/Summer 2011), Musée Rodin, Paris
Located in New York, NY
Demarchelier’s model poses behind glass among the masterpieces in “The Marble Gallery” of the Musée Rodin. The Spring/Summer 2011 Dior Haute Couture colle...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mats Gustafson (illustrator) and Linda Evangelista in Christian Lacroix
Located in New York, NY
“Linda has slanted, almond-shaped eyes, extremely beautiful nostrils that tilt another way, and a mouth that angled in a third direction – femininity combined with strength, womanliness mixed with girlishness. I think this why we all respond so much to Linda – we read into her face all those received charismatic images. With these images and all the preexisting pictures of Linda in the back of my mind, I found it easy to distill her features to a very simple form.”
-Mats Gustafson...
Category
1990s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Le Fox-Terrier du Pont de Arts
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Keke Lindgard, Vogue España
Located in New York, NY
Elgort photographed Lindgard at the Soniat House Hotel in New Orleans in front of the 1892 painting Pagliacci by the French artist Leon Henri Antoine Loire. The painting, which was t...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Minami Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Frajndlich met the performance artist Minami Azu as she was performing Japanese butoh dance at a subway station in downtown New York. Butoh dance is typically performed in white body makeup and usually includes hyper-controlled gestures and grotesque and absurd imagery and environments. Despite their language barrier, Azu and Frajndlich began a long and productive collaboration and travelled through New York, Italy, and Japan together. Frajndlich, well-known for his photographs of artists...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rosebud Conway, Georgia O’Keefe, Chicago
Located in New York, NY
Frajndlich, well-known for his photographs of artists, met the aspiring actress and performer Rosebud Conway in 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio. They beca...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bust with Ties, Paris
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Goya Fashion: Mrs. Stanley Mortimer, Jr. and Mrs. Desmond Fitzgerald, Balenciaga
Located in New York, NY
Although credited by their married names at the time of publication, both subjects would re-marry and became better known as Babe Paley, the stylish socialite and “swan” of Truman Capote, and Marietta Peabody Tree, a United States Representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and mother of historian Frances FitzGerald and model Penelope Tree...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Woman), Palm Springs, CA
By Kali
Located in New York, NY
“Kali” was born Joan Marie Archibald in 1932 in Long Island, New York. Her beloved stepfather encouraged Kali’s interest and education in art. Because of Kali’s faith, she was part...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Art in Fashion: Model in Balenciaga in front of painting by Miró
Located in New York, NY
From the collection of and signed by Horst
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Painting + Coffee: Simone D'Aillencourt, Fabiani
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the artist
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
David and Amanda, New York
Located in New York, NY
Amanda Lepore’s birth name was Armand Lepore. In the early 1980’s, three decades before transgender rights became a social issue, she began her devotion to the plastic surgery that would transform her in to a downtown New York icon and frequent muse to photographer David LaChapelle.
Filmmaker Joel Schumacher has called Lepore a “moving sculpture...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Fish Stick: Devon Aoki in Agent Provocateur, London
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 7 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
Signed by the photographer
Category
1990s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Rebirth of Venus
Located in New York, NY
Sandro Botticelli’s iconic painting The Birth of Venus (click here) was created in the late 15th century and depicts the mythological origin of the goddess Aphrodite (known also as Venus, the goddess of love and sex), who was born an adult woman from sea foam. Although this myth was very popular with artists beginning in the 16th century, Botticelli’s painting...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
The Passion of Rome: Fendi
Located in New York, NY
“We were shooting in Rome for a new Fendi fragrance. Fendi had arranged paperwork to permit us to shoot in a museum garden. However, when we arrived the guard denied our permit, claiming that the garden was an “interior” (as it was behind the entrance gate) and that we were only allowed to shoot in the parking lot.
We decided to meet at Alda Fendi’s home to make an alternate plan. When we arrived, we were greeted by Alda. In the vestibule of the entrance on a table sat the incredible ancient marble bust...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Laetitia
Located in New York, NY
“My kids went to Steiner School, on 79th, between 5th and Madison. We often visited the galleries. I borrowed furniture, vases, and paintings from the dealers for my pictures – they all trusted me. We were considered friends. It was as simple as taking the Jean Arp sculpture...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bernini: Caroline Benezet, Borghese Gallery, Rome, Condé Nast Traveler
Located in New York, NY
The Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini was only 23 years old when he was was commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese to create Ratto di Proserpina (Rape of Proserpina), 1621-1622...
Category
1990s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jessie Mann as Frida Kahlo (Plate 67), Virginia
By Len Prince
Located in New York, NY
Len Prince and Jessie Mann embarked on a collaboration in which Mann assumed a range of guises that draw on historical persons and iconic images. Mann, the...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cottonwood Tree (Near Abiquiu), New Mexico
By Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Georgia O'Keeffe . "Cottonwood Tree (Near Abiquiu), New Mexico" is a modern art oil on canvas by American female artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O’Keeffe was among the most influential figures in Modernism, best known for her large-format paintings of natural forms, especially flowers and bones, and for her depictions of New York City skyscrapers and architectural and landscape forms unique to northern New Mexico.
Provenance:
An American Place, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Max Ascoli, New York, 1944
Descended in family
Harold Diamond, New York, c. 1975
Gerald Peters...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sculptural Ideas 4
By Henry Moore
Located in London, GB
Etching and aquatint on Fabriano paper.
Signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 50 recto.
Printed by 2 RC Editrice, Rome and published by Raymond Spencer Company for the...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Sculptural Ideas 3
By Henry Moore
Located in London, GB
Etching and aquatint on Fabriano paper.
Signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 50 recto.
Printed by 2 RC Editrice, Rome and published by Raymond Spencer Company for the...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Reclining Figures
By Henry Moore
Located in London, GB
Henry Moore
Reclining Figures
1940
Chalk, pen and watercolour on paper
25.4 x 43.2 cms (10 x 17 ins)
HM15852
Provenance:
Willard Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York, ac...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor, Color Pencil
Untitled from the Westwood Paintings
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
Untitled (The Westwood Paintings)
1989
Acrylic on canvas
61 x 71.1 cms (24 x 28 ins)
WT9778
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Acrylic
Columbus Circle
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ARNOLD RONNEBECK (1885 – 1947)
COLUMBUS CIRCLE ca. 1929
Lithograph, edition probably 50. Signed and titled in pencil, 12 ½” x 8 ¼” In very good condit...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled, by Cy Twombly
By Cy Twombly
Located in New York, NY
In both the content and process of his art, Twombly was interested in the layering of time and history, and of various meanings and associations. His art situates itself in the context of the history of Western civilization as well as the process-oriented aspects of Abstract Expressionism. Created by Cy Twombly...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Pamela (Blue)
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
An image of uncommon delicacy, Pamela (Blue) by Alex Katz is an early and stunningly beautiful work of art. Created by the artist in 1976 as a screenprint & lithograph in colors, thi...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Nature morte à l’oeuf - Roger de la Fresnaye, still life, modern, french, fruit
Located in London, GB
Roger de la Fresnaye (1885-1925)
Nature morte à l’oeuf
1910
oil on board mounted on panel
66.2 x 50.9 cm
signed and dated ‘R de la Fresnaye.10’ (upper right)
Price:
$157,500 USD (in...
Category
1910s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Panel, Board
UNTITLED No. 26
Located in New York, NY
Avant-Garde
Argentine
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal, Watercolor, Pencil
Venice, Afternoon, Howard Hodgkin
Located in New York, NY
A large image with wonderful presence, Venice, Afternoon was created by British colorist, Howard Hodgkin in 1995 as a hand-painted etching and aquatint with carborundum on 16 sheets ...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
David's Pool at Night, Howard Hodgkin
Located in New York, NY
Executed by the artist between 1979 and 1985, David’s Pool at Night is an etching and aquatint with hand-coloring by British colorist, Howard Hodgkin. The artwork measures 25 1/8 x...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
15 year old Chinese Soldier Prior to Departing ...
By Robert Capa
Located in Denton, TX
15 year old Chinese Soldier Prior to Departing for the Sino-Japanese Battle Front, 1938
Gelatin silver print
9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
Copyright stamps, ICP, ...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Central Park (people sitting with pigeons)
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Titled, dated and artist stamp on verso.
Vintage gelatin silver print
Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921 finding work alm...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Shine Please!
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Vintage gelatin silver print
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on mount margin.
Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921 find...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Flop
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Shower Study II, 20th Century, David Hockney, Drawing, Modern British
Located in London, GB
David Hockney
Shower Study 2, 1963
signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'Shower Study 2 DH. '63' (lower right)
wax crayon and graphite on paper
12 3/8 x 9 7/8 in (31.4...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Wax Crayon, Graphite
Black Smith Anger
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1990s Modern Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Three Small Watchers Miniatures
Located in London, GB
Lynn Chadwick
1914-2003
Three Small Watchers Miniatures, 1976
bronze, polished faces
height 5 cm (2")
Edition 27 of 30
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
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