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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
Origiinal Piedmont "Take Off and Paint the Town" vintage airlines travel poster
Origiinal Piedmont "Take Off and Paint the Town" vintage airlines travel poster

Origiinal Piedmont "Take Off and Paint the Town" vintage airlines travel poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original Piedmont, Take Off and Paint the Town vintage airlines travel poster. Archival linen backing in very good condition, ready to frame. This is a serigraph, so it features rich...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Japanese Print, Rearing Horse - Signed Woodcut
Japanese Print, Rearing Horse - Signed Woodcut

Japanese Print, Rearing Horse - Signed Woodcut

By Mokuchu URUSHIBARA

Located in Paris, IDF

Mokuchu URUSHIBARA Rearing Horse, c. 1930 Woodcut after on an ink drawing Signed with the artist's stamp On paper 26 x 32 cm (c. 10,2 x 12.5 in) INFORMATION : Engraving published b...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Zebras Watercolor Painting, Modern Style, Circa 1940s, Framed

Zebras Watercolor Painting, Modern Style, Circa 1940s, Framed

Located in New Orleans, LA

A rare Walter Anderson of zebras in the Audubon zoo in New Orleans. Circa 1940 to 1950. One of a pair. They both have a slightly burned edge from when he tried to set his work on fir...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Kazakh Steppes
Kazakh Steppes

Kazakh Steppes

By Richard Claude Ziemann

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Kazakh Steppes" 1965, is an original etching on Wove paper by noted American artist Richard Claude Ziemann, b.1932. It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Fine French Still Life Oil Painting Bouquet of Roses in Vase signed original
Fine French Still Life Oil Painting Bouquet of Roses in Vase signed original

Fine French Still Life Oil Painting Bouquet of Roses in Vase signed original

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Bouquet de Roses by Leon Garraud (French 1877-1967) signed oil on board, framed framed: 19 x 16 inches board: 15.5 x 12 inches inscribed verso to label provenance: private collection...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Ex-Libris-Still Life - Woodcut by Ruda Kubicek - 1920s

Ex-Libris-Still Life - Woodcut by Ruda Kubicek - 1920s

Located in Roma, IT

Ex Libris Still Life is an Artwork realized in 1920 s., by the Czech Artist Ruda Kubicek (1891-1983) Woodcut B./W. print on paper. Signed on plate on the left corner.  The work is ...

Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Mid Century Modernist Geometric Sailboat Abstract Oil Painting
Mid Century Modernist Geometric Sailboat Abstract Oil Painting

Mid Century Modernist Geometric Sailboat Abstract Oil Painting

Located in Soquel, CA

Mid Century Modernist Sailboat Geometric Abstract Oil Painting This dynamic mid-century piece features bold geometry and a strong sense of movement. White triangular shapes parade a...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Linen, Masonite, Oil

Acrobats
Acrobats

Acrobats

By Mihail Chemiakin

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Acrobats" c.1990, is an original colors lithograph by renown Russian artist Mihail Chemiakin, b.1943. It is hand signed and numbered 283/300 in pencil by the art...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

c. 1920s German Portrait Signed B. Zickler
c. 1920s German Portrait Signed B. Zickler

c. 1920s German Portrait Signed B. Zickler

Located in New York, NY

B. Zickler Msrienbad (Marienbad?), c. 1920s Oil on wood panel 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. Framed: 17 x 14 x 1 in. This painting was likely executed by a German artist, who is only known to ...

Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Sophia Loren in A Countess" by John Springer

"Sophia Loren in A Countess" by John Springer

Located in London, GB

"Sophia Loren in A Countess from Hong Kong" by John Springer Sophia Loren stars as the Russian countess turned Hong Kong hostess Natascha in the film A Countess from Hong Kong. Movi...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

Raoul Dufy, Paddock, from Twelve Contemporaries, 1959 (after)
Raoul Dufy, Paddock, from Twelve Contemporaries, 1959 (after)

Raoul Dufy, Paddock, from Twelve Contemporaries, 1959 (after)

By Raoul Dufy

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), titled Paddock, from the album Douze Contemporains (Twelve Contemporaries), originates from the 1959 edition publi...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Scène de Tauromachie
Scène de Tauromachie

Scène de Tauromachie

By Pablo Picasso

Located in PARIS, FR

An authenticated work Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Paloma Ruiz-Picasso and Diana Widmaier-Ruiz-Picasso, dated October 9, 2025. A signed, dated and stamped ...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

Frida Kahlo in Blue Silk Dress
Frida Kahlo in Blue Silk Dress

Frida Kahlo in Blue Silk Dress

By Nickolas Muray

Located in Denton, TX

Edition of 30 Titled, dated, numbered, and signed by Nickolas Muray's Estate Nickolas Muray Photo Archives Paper size: 19 x 16 in., Image size: 12 2/3 x 9 3/4 in. "Muray and Kahlo were at the height of their on-again, off-again, ten-year relationship when these pictures were taken. Their affair had started in 1931, after Muray was divorced from his second wife, and shortly after Kahlo’s marriage to Mexican muralist...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Carbon Pigment

Wheelbarrow Race
Wheelbarrow Race

Wheelbarrow Race

By Edmund Blampied

Located in Plano, TX

1925-26. Drypoint. Appleby 114. 8 9/16 x 12 (sheet 12 x 17). Edition 100, #10. An excellent impression with burr, printed with plate tone on the full sheet of 'VGI' laid paper with ...

Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Asleep Model - Original oil on canvas - Signed
Asleep Model - Original oil on canvas - Signed

Asleep Model - Original oil on canvas - Signed

By Claude Gaveau

Located in Paris, IDF

Claude Gaveau Asleep Model, 1975 Original oil on canvas Signed in the lower right corner Signed again on the back On canvas 60 x 73 cm (c. 24 x 29 in) Very good condition

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Vase Deux Anses Hautes (A.R. 141)
Vase Deux Anses Hautes (A.R. 141)

Vase Deux Anses Hautes (A.R. 141)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in PARIS, FR

• Picasso began working with ceramics in 1946 at the Madoura workshop in Vallauris, marking the beginning of an important and highly productive chapter in his career. What initially ...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

De Piero a Picasso
De Piero a Picasso

De Piero a Picasso

By Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos

Located in Atlanta, GA

This graphite drawing on paper is in excellent condition and and has only been shown in a gallery setting. The size dimensions do not include the frame. Alvar pays homage to two of his favorite artists in De Piero a Picasso. Early Renaissance Italian painter Piero della Francesca and twentieth-century Modern artist Pablo Picasso frequently appear as sources of inspiration in Alvar’s homage works. Piero, nowadays celebrated as an artist, was regarded as a mathematician and geometer to his contemporaries in the fifteenth century. Alvar recognizes Piero’s advanced knowledge of perspective and color, his geometric orderliness, and skill in pictorial construction by including a reference to Piero’s History of the True Cross in the lower left corner. The sequence of frescoes painted by Piero circa 1451-1466 is considered an early Renaissance masterpiece. Creative muses in the center of the painting form a symbolic connection between Piero and Picasso, another artist from which Alvar receives continuing inspiration. A muse upholds a recreation of Picasso’s 1901...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Graphite

Coffee Pot
Coffee Pot

Tom BingerCoffee Pot, 2018

$1,250Sale Price|34% Off

Coffee Pot

By Tom Binger

Located in Kansas City, MO

Tom Binger "Coffee Pot" Medium: Mixed Media Year: 2018, Signed Size: 18.25 x 11.25 x 2 inches Tom Binger finds it interesting that during a time in which th...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Metal

French North African Orientalist Oil Painting Hareem Interior Two Ladies
French North African Orientalist Oil Painting Hareem Interior Two Ladies

French North African Orientalist Oil Painting Hareem Interior Two Ladies

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

The Hareem Interior French Orientalist School, late 20th century (painted after an earlier style) oil on canvas, framed framed: 30 x 34 inches canvas: 20 x 24 inches provenance: priv...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Solace of My Native Land - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Africa
Solace of My Native Land - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Africa

Solace of My Native Land - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Africa

By Ademola Clement Ajayi

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (issued by The Gal...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil

20th Century French Modernist Gouache Painting Colorful Orchastra Of Cellos
20th Century French Modernist Gouache Painting Colorful Orchastra Of Cellos

20th Century French Modernist Gouache Painting Colorful Orchastra Of Cellos

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Gouache

Il Pellicano Beach
Il Pellicano Beach

Il Pellicano Beach

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Il Pellicano Beach, 1973 Chromogenic Lambda print A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 19...

Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lambda

"Hydrangeas, " Walter Inglis Anderson, Mississippi Southern Illustrator, Flowers
"Hydrangeas, " Walter Inglis Anderson, Mississippi Southern Illustrator, Flowers

"Hydrangeas, " Walter Inglis Anderson, Mississippi Southern Illustrator, Flowers

Located in New York, NY

Walter Anderson ( American, 1903 - 1965) Hydrangeas, circa 1950 Mixed media on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches Provenance: Luise Ross Gallery, New York Private Collection, New Jersey Acquired from the estate of the above, 2021 Walter Anderson firmly believed that quality art was an important part of life and should be made available to everyone. As he said, "There should be simple, good decorations, to be sold at prices to rival the five-and-ten." Noticing that only poor quality art was available in stores and little was available for children, he resolved to make art which could be reproduced easily and sell inexpensively — linoleum block prints. This technique enabled him to provide affordable, quality art. The technique of linoleum block printing is a simple concept; however, it requires much skill and talent to actually produce memorable art. Anderson purchased surplus "battleship linoleum," thicker than ordinary linoleum with a burlap backing for better support, to create his blocks. During the mid-1940s, he created almost 300 linocuts working in the attic of the sea-side plantation house, Oldfields, his wife's family home in Gautier. Masses of linoleum chips accumulated at the foot of the attic stairs as he often worked night and day. He began with sketching out a design directly on the linoleum. Once he had carved the image into the surface, he used the back of faded, surplus stock wallpaper that a friend sent him, laying long strips on top of the inked linoleum. A roller made of sewer pipe filled with sand served as his press. When the print was completed, he often colored it by hand with bold strokes and vivid colors. The prints were sold at Shearwater Pottery, the family business, for a mere dollar a foot. But "what about a well-designed fairy tale for a child's room?" he asked himself. Since there was a lack of affordable art for children, much of his work with linoleum blocks focused on subjects for children. He depicted fables and fairy tales ranging from Arabian Nights, to Germany and the Grimm Brothers' Rapunzel, to the French story of The White Cat, to the Greek tales such as Europa and the Bull, and to tales from China, India, and other cultures. Anderson also created "mini" books featuring the alphabet and Robinson Cat. The blocks are not only alive with the story being depicted, but they are also filled with designs taken from Best-Maugard's Method for Creative Design. Swirls, half-circles and zig-zag lines fill every available space on the linoleum block making them come alive and capture their audience. But fairy tales, children's verses and the "mini" books, consisting of about 90 blocks, were not the sole subject of Anderson's linoleum block prints. In total, he created approximately 300 linoleum blocks with subjects ranging from coastal flora and fauna, coastal animals, and sports and other coastal activities. Anderson even created linoleum blocks to be used to print tablecloths and clothing, some worn by his own children. Color and subjects of the linoleum block prints were not the only things that got them noticed. In 1945 when Anderson was creating these prints, the standard size of linoleum block prints was only 12 by 18 inches. These small dimensions were due to the common size of the paper available and the restrictions made by national competitions. Since Anderson used wallpaper...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Crayon

Blushing Roses in a Golden Vase Still Life Large Scale Classical Oil Painting
Blushing Roses in a Golden Vase Still Life Large Scale Classical Oil Painting

Blushing Roses in a Golden Vase Still Life Large Scale Classical Oil Painting

By Continental School

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Blushing Roses in a Golden Vase Continental School, late 20th century most likely a pastiche work after an earlier composition oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 36 x 24 inches provena...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vega and Prince
Vega and Prince

Vega and Prince

By Brooke Major

Located in Atlanta, GA

A passion for horses, equestrian pursuits, and painting define Brooke Major's life and career. A native of Atlanta, GA, Brooke Major has been living and working as a professional art...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modern art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Modern art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Kevin Westenberg, Stuart Möller, Destro, and Christel Haag. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern art, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $33 and tops out at $390,000, while the average work sells for $1,912.