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
Period: 1930s
Signed Early 20th Century Modernist Male Lovers Gay Erotic Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed modernist nude male landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 18L x 14H.
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Standing Male Nude, Arms Upraised (Kouros)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Male Nude, Arms upraised (Kouros)
Graphite on wove paper, c. 1930
Signed lower right (see photo)
Possibly exhibited in May 8-June 1,1973 at Alan Stone Gallery entitled Eroti...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Graphite
Ex-Libris - Elizabeth - Woodcut by William Simmons - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex- Libris - Elizabeth is an Artwork realized in 1930s, by the American Artist, William Simmons.
Woodcut B./W. print on ivory paper. Signed on plate on the right margin. The work i...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Niagara Falls
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Niagara Falls
Lithograph, 1931
Signed lower right (see photo)
Titled/edition lower left. (see photo)
Edition of 25
Provenance: the Estate of the Artist
Condition: Excellent
Image si...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ma de Proverbis
By Joan Miró
Located in Chicago, IL
Color lithograph on Arches, 1970. Signed and numbered 37/75 in pencil (there was also a deluxe edition of 25 in Roman numerals on Japon). Published by Edicions Polígrafa, Barcelona.
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Abstraction
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated in ink lower center
Provenance:
Charlotte Bergman, noted collector and patron of Walkowitz. See photo for additional information.
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Ink, Pen
The Cyclops (Ulysses, PL.205)
Located in Greenwich, CT
This etching on paper, 11.75 x 8.25" image size, is signed ‘Henri Matisse’ lower right, numbered lower left, and framed in a beautiful, custom gold-leaf frame. From the edition of 15...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Paper
London Underground Map of London Christmas poster by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis
Located in London, GB
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Clifford and Rosemary Ellis
London Underground Map...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograp...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Circe Episode (Ulysses, PL.203)
Located in Greenwich, CT
This etching on paper, 11.75 x 8.25" image size, is signed ‘Henri Matisse’ lower right, numbered lower left, and framed in a beautiful, custom gold-leaf frame. From the edition of 15...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Paper
Sick - Drawing by Jean Cocteau - 1934
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch realized for the book "Les Enfants Terribles".
Unsigned and undated. Matting included.
Very good conditions.
Ref. Jean Cocteau, Poesia Grafica - Disegni dal 1921 al 1957.
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Ex libris - G. Kreyenberg - Woodcut by M. Ialyahovski - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex libris - G. Kreyenberg is an Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century, by M. Ialyahovski.
Woodcut print on ivory paper. Hand Signed on back. The work is glued on colored cardboard.
...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Scene in Front of a Burning House
Located in Wien, 9
In diesem Katalog soll es auch ein paar Entdeckungen geben, denn sie sind der Antrieb für alle Kunstaficionados und somit auch für mich als Galerist. Diese wunderbar reduzierte Arbei...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Glass
Lower Manhattan American Modernism NYC Cityscape Social Realism WPA 20th Century
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Lower Manhattan American Modernism NYC Cityscape Social Realism WPA 20th Century
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Lower Manhattan
34 1/4 x 42 ½ inches
Oil on canvas c. 1...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Male Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Male Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938.
Charcoal on paper.
Hand-signed on the lower and dated.
In good conditions
The artwork is represented through deft strok...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Ex libris - Wiktora Podoski Ego - Woodcut by Wiktor Podoski - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex libris - Wiktora Podoski Ego is an Artwork realized in 1930s, by the Artist Wiktor Podoski (1901-1970).
Woodcut print on ivory paper. Hand Signed on back. Good conditions.
The ...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
L'Immaculée Conception - Rare Book illustrated by André Breton - 1930
By André Breton
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 2111 copies. Copy on Imponderable Sorel-Moussel paper. Original paperback cover. First edition. Beautiful copy of the relevant experimental work by Breton and Eluard. Very...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
The Calypso Episode (Ulysses, PL.201)
Located in Greenwich, CT
This etching on paper, 11.75 x 8.25", is signed ‘Henri Matisse’ lower right, numbered lower left, and framed in a beautiful, custom gold-leaf frame. From the edition of 150, numbered...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Paper
Ex libris - Nagy József Könyve - Woodcut by Istvàn Olàh - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Ex libris - Nagy József Könyve is an Artwork realized in 1932, by the Artist Istvàn Olàh , from Hungary.
Woodcut print on ivory paper. Signed on plate and dated on back. The wor...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
“Trinity Church, Wall Street”
By Leon Dolice
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil pastel on archival paper by the well known American artist, Leon Dolice. The painting depicts Trinity Church with several of the more contemporary buildings of Wall Stre...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Autumn Day Drive oil painting by Arnold Friedman
Located in Hudson, NY
Painting size 12 ½" x 14 ½", framed 18" x 20 ¼" x 2"
Signed "Friedman" lower right
Inscribed verso: "Title: Autumn Day Drive. Associated impressions of two drives Hudson River and F...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique American School Surreal Female Portrait Symbolic Rural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist surreal oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marthe - Rare Book illustrated by Auguste Brouet - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 221 copies including 29 original etchings by Auguste Brouet. One of the 160 copies on Vélin d'Arches, with the definitive state of etching. Original editorial soft cover o...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
La Trappola Colorata - Rare Book by Luciano Folgore - 1934
Located in Roma, IT
Original editorial softcover, binding unglued, excellent conditions inside.Luciano Folgore was an Italian poet. He adhered to Futurism in 1909 after he met Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Myth III - British 1936 Modern art tempera painting Ida Graves poet family
Located in London, GB
This superb British 1930's modern art tempera painting is by noted interwar artist Blair Hughes-Stanton. Painted in 1936 it is part of the myth se...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Egg Tempera
Ariane - Rare Book by Renee de Brimont - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 154 copies published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the “Cent Une Femmes Bibliophile” association. Copy number 81, printed for Countess Pecci-Blunt. Includes ...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Dali ou l'Anti-Obscurantisme - Rare Book illustrated by René Crevel - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 615 copies. Copy on velin blanc. Lightly damaged on cover and binding replaced with a protection.
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Portrait - Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli, 1930s.
H 160 x 110 cm.
Oil paiting on canvas.
Hand signed lower left margin.
Good conditions!
Antonio Feltrinelli (Mil...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Good Health Week" American Scene Modern Social Realism Double Sided WPA Era
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Good Health Week" American Scene Modern Social Realism Double Sided WPA Era
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Good Health Week – double sided
13 3/4 x 20 1/2 in...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Ink
Chagall et l'Ame Juive - Rare Book by René Schwob - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Limited edition. Specimen number 91 of 565 copies so divided: 50 numbered copies (1-50) on Holland paper including two original etchings; 500 numbered copies (51-550) on Alfa paper; ...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Sette Sassi - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Sette sassi is a rare first edition with hand-written dedication by the author to Giorgio De Chirico .
Specimen number 505 of 1337.
In-8º, in Italian, pp. 161, cm 21.2 x 1 x 14.5, 1...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
The Couple - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Couple is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s
Ink and Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good condition with slight foxing.
The artwork is represented through def...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Les Beaux Quartiers - Rare Book illustrated by Louis Aragon - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 143 copies. One of 25 copies on pur fil. Near perfect conditions and partially uncut. Louis Aragon was born in 1897 and died in 1982. He was a French poet and writer,long-...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Le Ludions - Rare Book illustrated by Marie Monnier - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Léon Paul Fargue, Les Ludions de Léon Paul Fargue illustrés par Marie Monnier, Paris, Éditions J.O. Fourcade, 1930.
Vol. in 4°, cm 31.5 x 1.5 x 21.5, pp. n....
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
The Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s.
Charcoal on paper
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Alberto ...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse), c. 1930s, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, signed lower right; presented in a newer silver painted frame
About the Painting
Writing about an exhibition of Charles W. Adams’ work at the Eighth Street Art Gallery in the mid-1930s, Emily Grenauer observed in The World-Telegram that the artist’s paintings were “distinguished for their solid form, well organized design and sumptuous color” and the art critic for The Herald Tribune found Adam’s work “a strong, formal realization of his subject . . . he paints with vital emphasis on structure and composition.” Although we do not know which works these critics referenced, it is likely they were writing about paintings like Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse). With its carefully designed reality, strong angles, solid forms, and well-disciplined puffs of smoke in the background, Adams presents a highly structured version of the Greenwich Village landmark, the Jefferson Market Library, which was a courthouse at the time Adams completed this work. The Jefferson Market Library was a prized subject for downtown painters, including the Ashcan School painter, John Sloan, the modernist, Stuart Davis, and the precisionist, Francis Criss...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Seated Female Nude
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) stands as one of the most important artists of the 20th century. She is renowned for her monochromatic sculptural wooden constructions.
However, it is im...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Pencil
Untitled (Still Life with Plate and Ceramic Jug)
Located in Chicago, IL
A vibrant Precisionist still-life painting of a jug & a plate by artist Harold Haydon, dating from 1932.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. H...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Frog - Drawing in pencil by Emmanuel Gondouin - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Frog is a drawing in pencil realized in the early 1930s by Emmanuel Gondouin, (Versailles, 1883 - Parigi, 1934)
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes.
Emmanuel Gondouin is a French Cubist...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Pencil
Deux Fragments Inédits - Rare Book illustrated by Giorgio De Chirico - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Rare Original Edition of “Deux Fragments Inédits”, Booklet by G. de Chirico, Paris, Parisot, 1938. Paperback publishing. Later binding in Real brown leather withauthor, titleand orna...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Mother and Child [With Arms Outstretched].
By Eric Gill
Located in Storrs, CT
Wood engraving. Physick catalog 917. Image: 3 3/4 x 2 5/16 (sheet 7 3/8 x 5 1/2). A fine impression printed on Japanese mulberry paper. Signed and numbered '5' in pencil. Housed in ...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut, Engraving
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The Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Alberto Ziveri (Rome,1908 – 1...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Sleeping Woman - Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping woman is an artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Oil on canvas, 110 x 160 cm.
Very good conditions
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 - Gargnano, 1942) wa...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Calligrammes - Rare Book illustrated by Giorgio De Chirico - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 131 copies including 66 original b/w and colour lithographs by Giorgio De Chirico, plus repeats on title-page and front wrapper.
One of the 88 copies on papier de Chine, w...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Adolescence. (Kathleen Nancy Woodward).
Located in Storrs, CT
Adolescence. (Kathleen Nancy Woodward). 1932. Etching. Fletcher 75 state vi. Image: 14 3/8 x 10 7/16 (sheet 16 3/8 x 12 1/4. Total edition 91). Illustrated: Guichard, British Etchers...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
The Nude Man - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude Man is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s
Ink on paper.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Alberto Ziveri (Rome,1908 – 1990), the Italia...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Ink, Paper
Hesiod Theogony - Artemis - Original Etching Hand Signed Numbered /50
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Hesiod's theogony : Artémis
Original etching, 1932
Hand signed in pencil
Numbered /50 copies
On Hollande vellum size 49 x 38.5 cm (c. 19 x 15 in)
Publishe...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
The Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Charcoal and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good condition.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes m...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
1930 Americana Still Life by Mystery Artist
Located in Larchmont, NY
Mystery American Artist
Untitled, 1930
Oil on canvas
29 1/2 x 23 3/4 in.
Framed: 34 1/2 x 28 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.
Signed and dated lower left
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938
Ink and Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good condition with slight foxing.
The artwork is represented through de...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
The Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Ink on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good condition with foxing and stain on the right margin.
The artwork is represented ...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Ink, Paper
Summer : Surrealist Figures with the Moon - Lithograph, Plate Signed #MOURLOT
By Joan Miró
Located in Paris, FR
Joan MIRO (1893-1983)
Summer : Surrealist Figures with the Moon, 1938
Lithograph in colors
Printed signature in the plate
Printed in Mourlot workshop and published by Teriade for "V...
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1930s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Seated Nude - Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Seated Nude is an artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli, in 1930s.
Oil on canvas, 108 x 75 cm.
Provenance: Galleria Pesaro, Milan.
Good conditions!
The nudes and portraits w...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ex libris - Ali Broecknoven - Stapel - Woodcut - 1939
Located in Roma, IT
Ex libris - Ali Broecknoven - Stapel is an Artwork realized in 1939.
Woodcut print on ivory paper.
Good conditions.
The artwork represents a minimalistic, clean design, through...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Ex libris - Manuel Garcia de la Cruz - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Ex libris - Manuel Garcia de la Cruz is an Artwork realized in 1963 by the Czeck Artist Vojtech Cinybulk
Woodcut print on ivory paper. The work is glued on red cardboard.
Total di...
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1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Large George Grosz 1923 Lithograph Die Rauber German Expressionism WPA Realism
By George Grosz
Located in Surfside, FL
From The robbers. lithographs by George Grosz for the drama of the same name.
photolithography on watermarked paper. 19 X 25.5 inches (sheet size). This is not hand signed or numbe...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Carriage - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Carriage is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s
Ink and Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good condition with slight foxing.
The artwork is represented through d...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Southern California Foothills oil by Anni Baldaugh
Located in Hudson, NY
Canvas measures 24" x 30" and framed 30" x 36" x 3"
About this artist: Anni Baldaugh was the daughter of Anthonius Hendricus Schade van Westrum. With a father who was a naval officer, the van Westrum family spent significant amounts of time in the Dutch East Indies. After returning to Europe, Baldaugh studied art with various teachers in Vienna, Munich and Paris.
She and her husband ended up living in Los Angeles, though they suffered financial losses during World War I.
While in Los Angeles, Baldaugh joined the California Watercolor Club, the California Society of Miniature Painters, the Bookplate Association International, the Laguna Beach Art Association, and the San Diego Fine Arts Society. She also became a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. During the Great Depression...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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