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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
Translucent Purple Bubbles, Mid-Century Shapes in Warm Tones, Overlapping Layers
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Translucent Purple Bubbles" is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. These painting, influenced by modernist artists of the 50's, 6...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

Algarve Sunbathers (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Holidaymakers in the Algarve, Portugal, August 1973 Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons Estate. Slim Aarons (...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

The Whore of Babylon
Located in Middletown, NY
A scarce impression by Dehn, the spirit of sedultive culture personified. Lithograph on white wove paper with deckle edges, 13 1/2 x 17 1/8 inches (343 x 435 mm), full margins. Sign...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Lithograph

' Rain II ' SIGNED Limited Edition Oversize print
Located in London, GB
' Rain II ' SIGNED Limited Edition Oversize print by Stuart Möller Beautiful large print of rain falling onto water. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size - signed and numbere...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

POISE
Located in Aventura, FL
Offset lithograph in colors. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Edition of 48. All reasonable off...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph, Offset

POISE
POISE
$6,375 Sale Price
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Erotic Scene - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower, with another drawing on the rear. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, ...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Pen

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. ...
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

La Garçonne
La Garçonne
$463 Sale Price
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Francis Bacon, Portraits of George Dyer, Derriere le Miroir, 1966 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Francis Bacon (1909–1992), titled Portraits of George Dyer, originates from the historic 1966 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 162. Published by Maeght E...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Skeleton of the Buffalo - Etching by Jean C. Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771. It belongs to the first edition of the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". Good conditions with slight foxing.
Category

1770s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

You are my Light (Oil Painting, Impasto, Impressionism, Colorful, Vibrant, Warm)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Genevieve Hamel You are my Light Oil on Wood Panel Year: 2024 Size: 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches Signed by hand COA provided *wired and ready to hang Genevieve Hamel’s passions for design...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Paris 1920's : Animated Street near Bois de Boulogne - Original etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Chas LABORDE Paris 1920's : Animated Street near Bois de Boulogne Original etching with aquatint On vellum 44 x 56.5 cm (c. 17 x 22 in) Edited by Chalcogra...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Frida, Xochimilco, 1941
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

Divided By Time, Large Modern Abstract Painting
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Robert Sealock (American, 20th Century) Signed: RWS 93 (Canvas Verso) " Divided By Time ", 1993 Oil on Canvas 48 1/4" x 40" This large modern painting is in nice original condi...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist New Orleans Street Scene Original Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape painting by Kamil Kubik. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Unframed. Image size, 30L x 24H.
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Berggruen abstract lithographic poster by Wassily Kandinsky, 1972
Located in New York, NY
This colorful modern lithographic poster by Wassily Kandinsky was printed in 1972 at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris to promote an exhibition of his watercolors and drawings at the Gale...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Agony, Motif - Drawing by Arshile Gorky - 1946
By Arshile Gorky
Located in Roma, IT
Agony, Motif is a contemporary artwork realized by Arshile Gorky in 1946. Ink, pen and wax crayon on paper. Incudes frame: 41.5 x 38.5 Good conditions (little tears and shading of...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Wax Crayon, Ink, Pen

Adonis, pastel drawing on oversize black paper, muscular male nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These recently discovered 1983-84 oversize pastels on archival papers were created working quickly, in pastel. The series shows the last existing obs...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Pastel, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

'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...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Monoprint

Contemporary Semi-Abstract Figurative Oil Painting - The Unspoken Between Us
Located in Bristol, GB
The Unspoken Between Us 41.5 x 33.5 cm (including frame) Oil on Board An enigmatic contemporary figurative painting that presents two semi-abstracted figures, rendered in broad, raw...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

"Farm in Winter - 3" by Claude Sauthier - Oil on Wood - 92x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Claude Sauthier was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1929 and passed away in the same city in 2016. He studied at the Geneva School of Decorative Arts and initially worked as a graphi...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Wood, Oil

Original Lido 'Pour Vous' vintage 1961 French Cabaret linen backed poster.
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Lido "Pour Vous"; artist: Rene Gruau (Renato De Zavagli, 1910-2004); size: 15.25 x 23 1/8". Archival linen backed the original Lido Cabaret poster in excellent c...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Raoul Dufy, The Three Graces, from Esprit de la fleur et du fruit, 1954 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), titled Les Trois Graces (The Three Graces), from the folio Eaux-de-vie, Esprit de la fleur et du fruit (Spirits, Essence of th...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Palm Springs Party Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Palm Springs Party 1970 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edga...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

A Sandstorm on the Little Colorado River, Arizona
Located in Storrs, CT
A Sandstorm on the Little Colorado River, Arizona. 1920. Soft-ground etching. Seeber 189. 6 7/8 x 9 3/4 (sheet 9 5/8 x 13). Edition 40, #6. Series: Desert Set. Illustrated: American ...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Kelly, Composition (Axsom 180, IE), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin Chiffon de Mandeure paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Lithographies et Eaux-Fortes Originales, Livres Illustres Or...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Azul" Wall Sculpture-wood, minimalism, mid century modern, blue, mcm
Located in Marmora, NJ
"Azul"- From the Small Pops Collection "Azul" is a minimalist and modernist solid wood wall sculpture that brings bold statement to wherever it is placed. The piece was inspired by ...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Wood, Paint

The House - Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The House is a modern artwork realized by in the 19 th century Charcoal drawings. Good conditions 
Category

19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Le Cocuqar - Etching by Jean C. Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 1771. It belongs to the first edition of the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". Good conditions with slight foxing.
Category

1770s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Le Lagopede - Etching by Carl Guttenberg - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 1771. It belongs to the first edition of the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". Good conditions with slight foxing.
Category

1770s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Le Ganga - Etching by Jean C. Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 1771. It belongs to the first edition of the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". Good conditions with slight foxing.
Category

1770s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

La Gélinote - Etching by Jean C. Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 1771. It belongs to the first edition of the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". Good conditions with slight foxing.
Category

1770s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

"French Economy" by Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"French Economy" by Bert Hardy 14th June 1952: A young French girl holding a large loaf of bread while reading a sign about a possible decrease in bakery prices in the home town of ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

Skeletons - Etching after Jacques De seve - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Etching realized in 1771. It belongs to the first edition of the suite "Histoire Naturelle de Buffon". Good conditions with slight foxing.
Category

1770s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Original Caribbean - South America Cruise vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Caribbean South America Holland America Cruises vintage poster. S.S. Rotterdam and the S.S. Statedam cruise ships. Artist: David Klein. Archivally linen-backed and ready to frame. In excellent condition. Note that his poster was printed with a shiny surface. David Klein was the notable artist that created most of TWA’s travel posters...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Large Contemporary Female American Modernist Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful large abstract painting by Betty Weiss. Oil on canvas. Signed with her married name "Betty Perez". Measuring 60 by 72 inches. Artist Bio: Betty Weiss has been a Ne...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fisherman's Island, Boothbay, Maine, early 20th century landscape watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Fisherman's Island, Boothbay, Maine, c. 1925 Watercolor on paper Signed lower left 15 x 20 inches 20.75 x 25.75 inches, framed Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox...
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Portrait of the Artist by Francis Bacon, Richard Hamilton modernist photograph
Located in New York, NY
This haunting portrait of Richard Hamilton is layered with textured lavender surrounding his form. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “In 1969, at the end of a characteris...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Original Targa Florio 1965 Porsche factory vintage poster, linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
Original factory-issued, acid-free archival linen backed: Very fine condition. Porsche Targa Florio 1965 Classifica Assoluta Categoria Prototipi 2 litr...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Mapplethorpe Z Portfolio, Dan S 1980 Male Nude Unique Gelatin Silver Print Photo
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
"Dan S" is a well-known photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe, created in 1980 and part of the Z Portfolio. It is part of his body of work that explores themes of identity, sexuality, an...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Original 'Is YOUR trip necessary?' vintage WWII poster World War II
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster. Is Your Trip Necessary? Original American military poster: Millions of troops are on the move... Is YOUR trip necessary? ...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

1950s "Figure in Shadow" Figurative Gouache Painting America Modernist
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy "Figure in Shadow" c.1950s Gouache paint on paper 24" x 18" unframed Unsigned Came from artist's estate Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey Studied: Newark School of Fine Art The Art Students League Pratt Graphic Arts Center University of Paris 1953-54 University of Aix-en-Provence 1954-55 Faculty: Art Department of the New School Museum of Modern Art School of Visual Arts Stacy Studio Workshop Exhibitions: Grand Central Moderns George Wittenborn The New School Print Exhibitions, Chicago University of Oklahoma Honolulu Museum Monclair Museum Wisconsin State College Louisiana Art...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

The castle way by Armand Leleux - Oil on wood 20x28 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
French painter Work on wood Silver wood frame 37 x 27 x 3 cm
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Skiers in Lech 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Skiers in Lech 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers line up for a hike to ski resort Zurs from Lech, Austria, February 1979 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Estate Sta...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Modernist French Oil Painting Group of Women in an Interior Setting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modern French Oil Painting Group of Women in an Interior Setting by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size: 7.75 inch...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

On the Attention! - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
On the Attention! is a china ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome,...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Ink

Belgium Blue #1. Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Zoltan Gerliczki took advantage of global circumstances to emerge as an artist who crosses borders. Gerliczki's images are a continuation of the artist's journey from the unknown to ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment

The Artist's Wife oil painting by Hans Burkhardt
Located in Hudson, NY
Hans Burkhardt The Artist's Wife (1930) Oil on canvas, 20" x 16" 24" x 20 ½" x 1 ½" framed Dated 1930 lower right recto. Annotated "To Elsa HB Louise Burkhardt 1930. HB" verso. ...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Landscape by Pierre Eugène Vibert - Oil on canvas 60x73 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas without frame Painter, illustrator born in 1875 in Geneva - Died in 1937
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

He Repeated the Letters of the Alphabet
Located in Missouri, MO
Sister Mary Corita Kent (American, 1918-1986) He Repeated the Letters of the Alphabet... Color Screenprint 22.5 x 38.75 inches Signed Lower Right Sister Mary Corita Kent, once the n...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Color, Screen

Great White Heron - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Hawk Owl is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870. Nam...
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1870s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Eden Rock 1973
Located in London, GB
Eden Rock The mansion of Remy de Haenen on a peninsula in the bay of St. Jean at Eden Rock on the Caribbean island of St Barts (Saint-Barthelemy), March 197...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Posing Nudes - Charcoal Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Nudes is a drawing realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1950s. Charcoal on paper. Good Conditions. The artworks are represented through strong deft strokes and nudes whil...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Charcoal

Jon Corbino, Montana Earthquake, 1936, lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Works by Jon Corbino (1905-1964) feature drama. Here he's showing us the chaos produced by a major earthquake in rural Montana in 1936 -- an actual historical event. The horses (ear...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

View of St. Mark's Square... - Oil Paint by Georg Brandes - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View of St. Mark's Square and Doge's Palace in Venice is an artwork realized by Georg Brandes (1878 - 1952). Oil Painting, Early 20th Century. 56x68 c...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Alberto Giacometti, Portrait of a Man, from Derriere le miroir, 1957 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), titled Portrait d'homme (Portrait of a Man), from the folio Derriere le miroir, No. 98, originates from the 1957 editi...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Mariel Hemingway (Black and White, Photography, Hemingway, Portrait, New York)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joe Kelly Mariel Hemingway Black and White Photograph Year: circa late 70s Image Size: 10x7in Sheet Size: 10x8in Unsigned Ref.: 924802-1712 Tags: B&W, Black and White, Photography,...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

The Knight and the Lady - 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. Some minor signs of the time on edgex.
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

The Drugs Don’t Work - Giant Signed Limited Edition Pop Art Print
Located in London, GB
The Drugs Don’t Work by BATIK Archival pigment pop art print of the 1960s supermodel Twiggy signed & limited edition. Giant 60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size signed and n...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

French Painting Of Flowers Beside Windowsill In A Blue Gloomy Scene
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

A Large Mid-Century Harbor Scene with Boats by French Artist Georges Rocher
Located in Chicago, IL
A large tonal, Mid-Century harbor scene with boats by French artist Georges Rocher. Artwork size: 24" x 30". Framed size: 31" x 36". Georges Rocher was born in Casablanca, Moroc...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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