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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
Miroir

Miroir

By Mithé Espelt 1

Located in PARIS, FR

Sublime glazed ceramic mirror by French ceramist Mithé Espelt, 24.5 cm in diameter

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

Visage
Visage

Visage

By Pablo Picasso

Located in PARIS, FR

An authenticated work Authenticated by Claude Ruiz Picasso on February 1, 2021, the piece comes directly from the Marina Picasso Collection. A prestigious provenance A provenance fr...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

Paris 1952 , a picturesque moment

Paris 1952 , a picturesque moment

By Erich Andres

Located in Cologne, DE

This black-and-white photograph, taken in 1952 in Paris along the Seine River, captures a tranquil and picturesque moment. In the foreground, a man wearing a light-colored straw hat ...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

Grim Orvieto
Grim Orvieto

Grim Orvieto

By John Taylor Arms

Located in Middletown, NY

Etching on watermarked FJ Head cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 11 1/8 x 8 3/4 inches (283 x 223 mm); sheet 14 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (374 x 292 mm), full margins. Signed and dated ...

Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper

Mid Century Desert Mesa Landscape with Cacti in Oil on Canvas
Mid Century Desert Mesa Landscape with Cacti in Oil on Canvas

Mid Century Desert Mesa Landscape with Cacti in Oil on Canvas

By Vina McPheeters

Located in Soquel, CA

Mid Century Desert Mesa Landscape with Cacti in Oil on Canvas Colorful mid century desert landscape with beautiful cacti by Vina McPheeters (American, 1892-1964). Colorful cacti are dotted throughout the foreground, lush with yellow and pink blooms. In the distance, dramatic mesas rise to meet a cloud-filled sky. Signed "Vina McPheeters" in the lower right corner. Presented in an antiqued bronze-colored frame. Frame size: 25.75"H x 29.75"W Image size: 20"H x 24"W Vina Pearl McPheeters (American, 1892-1964) was born in Iowa on October 7, 1892. Vina was the wife of Robert Guy...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Provincetown (Sunbathing)
Provincetown (Sunbathing)

Provincetown (Sunbathing)

By Peter Grippe

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Provincetown (Sunbathing) Sepia ink on tan paper, 1966 Signed in ink lower center (see photo) Exhibited: Art from Lexington Homes, Lincoln Massachusetts, May 14-22, 1966 (see label) ...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Ink

French 20th Century Modernist Painting Artists Paint Room Still Life
French 20th Century Modernist Painting Artists Paint Room Still Life

French 20th Century Modernist Painting Artists Paint Room Still Life

By Guy Nicod

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Artists Room by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 19.75 x 24 inches stamped verso provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and s...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Original Stone Garden - psychedelic pop-art 1960s vintage poster
Original Stone Garden - psychedelic pop-art 1960s vintage poster

Original Stone Garden - psychedelic pop-art 1960s vintage poster

Located in Spokane, WA

The original Stone Garden vintage psychedelic 1960s poster is in excellent condition. The artist is Wilfred Satty (1939 – 1982). German-born collage artist and graphic designer ...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

C’est Comme ça Dada

C’est Comme ça Dada

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

Opening No. 50 (Abstract Landscape Painting on Canvas in Romanticist Style)
Opening No. 50 (Abstract Landscape Painting on Canvas in Romanticist Style)

Opening No. 50 (Abstract Landscape Painting on Canvas in Romanticist Style)

By Leigh Palmer

Located in Hudson, NY

Contemporary, abstracted landscape reminiscent of Hudson River School & Romanticist painters oil on canvas 40 x 48 inches Romantic (yet modern) Hudson River oil landscape painting of a vast field in the foreground with a red and blue sunset sky in the background. This painting is of a horizontal orientation and is finished with an olive green border painted directly onto the canvas. The edges are finished with the same color, so no additional frame required here. Once a hard edge realist painter, the artist eschews those details, letting the stroke of his brush and moody palette leave an abstract implication of the landscape. In the Openings series, Palmer integrates the frame into the painting. This element contributes to the narrative, suggesting the viewer is inside looking out. We are not a part of the landscape, rather we are a peaceful witnesses to nature that will transcend even our own existence and continue to change with the seasons long after we have passed. We are romanced by Leigh Palmer's unique ability to pare down and find the true essence of the landscape, gently veiled through his own soul. We are proud to have exhibited his work since the inception in 1991. Artist Statement: My paintings are based on observation of the landscape in the Hudson River Valley where I live, and are improvised in the studio; the images are found or discovered in my memory of familiar places and developed during the painting process. Human beings do not appear, but their presence is felt in the marks left on the ground (furrows, fence rows, roads), and sometimes in the air (smoke, haze). About the artist: In 1987, Leigh Palmer moved with his family from suburban Duxbury, Massachusetts, to Tivoli, New York, a quiet town on the Hudson River, north of New York City. His subject matter shifted to the sprawling hills and countryside of the Hudson Valley. “I wanted to respond to the new landscape I was seeing, to catch something of the feeling I had just before dark,” says Palmer. “I took a lot of photographs, but I was happier with the paintings I created from memory.” Leigh Palmer has been represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY for over 25 years. Resume: EXHIBITIONS 2013 - 2017 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY 2011 Graficas Gallery, Nantucket MA 2010 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY 2009 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT 2008 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT Four Starr Gallery, Stonington CT 2007 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY 2005 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT 2004 Segalas Gallery, Bernardsville NJ 2003, 04 Bachelier-Cardonsky, Gallery Kent CT 2000, 01, 03 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY 1999 Barbara Singer Fine Art, Cambridge MA 1999, 98 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY 1997 The Main Street Gallery, Nantucket MA 1996 Randall Tuttle Fine Arts, Woodbury CT 1995 James Cox...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bob, Mick and Pete 1978
Bob, Mick and Pete 1978

Bob, Mick and Pete 1978

By Michael Putland

Located in London, GB

© Michael Putland Bob, Mick and Pete Bob Marley, Mick Jagger and Peter Tosh backstage after Rolling Stones concert at the Palladium Theatre, New York 1978 Bob Marley, Mick Jagger,...

Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

1955 Modernist Swedish Abstract Cubist Landscape Oil Painting - Woodland Rhythm
1955 Modernist Swedish Abstract Cubist Landscape Oil Painting - Woodland Rhythm

1955 Modernist Swedish Abstract Cubist Landscape Oil Painting - Woodland Rhythm

Located in Bristol, GB

WOODLAND RHYTHM Size: 32.5 x 38.5 cm (including frame) Oil on board A dynamic mid-century artwork that can be read as an abstracted woodland scene, where slender tree trunks and clu...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

"Still Life with Fruits" by Marie Lefèvre - Oil on Canvas - 45x53.5 cm
"Still Life with Fruits" by Marie Lefèvre - Oil on Canvas - 45x53.5 cm

"Still Life with Fruits" by Marie Lefèvre - Oil on Canvas - 45x53.5 cm

By Marie Lefevre

Located in Geneva, CH

Artwork sold with frame (62.5x53.5 cm) Marie Lefevre (born in 1840) was a French painter renowned for her poetic genre scenes and tranquil landscapes, particularly those capturing t...

Category

Late 19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Figures Under a Parasol French Modernist Market Scene Watercolour Gouache
Figures Under a Parasol French Modernist Market Scene Watercolour Gouache

Figures Under a Parasol French Modernist Market Scene Watercolour Gouache

By Guy Nicod

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: SStill Life with Calla Lilies and Ceramic Vase French Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 10.75 x 14.5 inches (height x w...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Gouache

The Loop II (the artist's memories of days at Chicago's Art Institute)
The Loop II (the artist's memories of days at Chicago's Art Institute)

The Loop II (the artist's memories of days at Chicago's Art Institute)

By Richard Gilbert

Located in New Orleans, LA

The Loop II was created in a small edition of 15. The Loop is a vibrant area featuring eclectic eateries, shops, theaters and parks. Comprised mostly of high-rises, it’s also home to the 108-story Willis Tower. The iconic “Cloud Gate...

Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Superman 2 Comme X
Superman 2 Comme X

Superman 2 Comme X

By Christophe Stouvenel

Located in Saint-Didier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

2021 collages of vignettes from erotic comics of the 70s and 80s, small formats and pieces of puzzles of characters from series or superheroes and trashing with spray cans. on recycled aerosol can...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Adhesive

Garrapata Beach
Garrapata Beach

Garrapata Beach

By Brett Weston

Located in Pacific Grove, CA

This silver gelatin print is signed and dated in pencil on the front of the mount. Accompanied by a sheet that's titled and dated in pencil by Robert K. Byers, a long time friend and...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

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

Flooded Mall (1934) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print

Flooded Mall (1934) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print

Located in London, GB

Flooded Mall (1934) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by H. F. Davis/Getty Images) A man crossing a stretch of floodwater with the help of two chairs after a storm caused floodi...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Icart, Composition, Le Sopha (after)
Icart, Composition, Le Sopha (after)

Icart, Composition, Le Sopha (after)

By Louis Icart

Located in Southampton, NY

La pointe sèche etching on vélin de Rives filigrané à notre nom paper. Paper size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches; image size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. No...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Original You buy 'em  We'll fly 'em! Defense Bonds vintage WW2 poster
Original You buy 'em  We'll fly 'em! Defense Bonds vintage WW2 poster

Original You buy 'em We'll fly 'em! Defense Bonds vintage WW2 poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original vintage poster: "You buy 'em We'll fly 'em!" Artists: J. Walter Wilkinson and his son Walter G. Wilkinson. (1917 - 1971). Linen backed with original WW2 U.S. military with original issued fold marks restored. Excellent condition. Touchup pinhole in the four corners. Excellent colors. Ready to frame. A flying ace pilot smiles and gives the thumbs up to the viewer to promote war bonds, saying, "You Buy 'Em, We'll Fly' Em" in this 1942 WWII poster by J. Walter Wilkinson and his son Walter G. Wilkinson. The artwork features a squadron of Douglas SBD Dauntless, which the US Navy used as scout planes and dive bombers. The seal at the bottom of the poster reads, "The More Bonds You Buy- The More Planes Will Fly." This poster is one in a series of six created by the award-winning father-son team for the United States Treasury Department. J. Walter Wilkinson (1892-1988) and his son Walter G. Wilkinson (1917-1971) created several posters for the United States Department of Treasury during the Second World War. J. Walter Wilkinson was an academic painter who studied in Italy and worked for advertising agencies in Philadelphia. He specialized in outdoor landscapes and created many commercial artworks for advertising campaigns, including Ivory Soap, Pabst Beer...

Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

The Light House, Aberdeen - Etching by W. H.Bartlett - 1845

The Light House, Aberdeen - Etching by W. H.Bartlett - 1845

Located in Roma, IT

The Light House, Aberdeen is an etching realized in 1845 by W. H. Bartlett. Signed on the plate. Titled on the lower center. Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is b...

Category

1840s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

"Sade Adu" by Express Newspapers

"Sade Adu" by Express Newspapers

Located in London, GB

"Sade Ade" by Express Newspapers Nigerian-born British singer and songwriter Sade (Helen Folasade). Unframed Paper Size: 24"x 20'' (inches) Printed 2022 Silver Gelatin Fibre Print

Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

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.