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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
Period: 1940s
Klee, Two Nudes in the Lake, Prints of Paul Klee (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Etching on vellum paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Edition: 2,000. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Prints of Paul Klee, 1947. Published by...
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1940s Modern Art

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Etching

Kollwitz, Brotherhood (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Kathe Kollwitz, Ten Lithographs. Published by Henry C. Kleemann and...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Matisse, Couverture, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. VI, N° 21-22, 19...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1,370. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Published by Tériade, Editions de la Revue Verve, Paris; printed by Draeger Freres, Paris, 1943. GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958) French painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and maker of stained glass who, drawing inspiration from French medieval masters, united religious and secular traditions divorced since the Renaissance. Rouault was born in a cellar in Paris during a bombardment of the city by the forces opposed to the Commune. His father was a cabinetmaker. A grandfather took an interest in art and owned a collection of Honoré Daumier’s lithographs...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Arp, Composition, Arp: On My Way (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Woodcut on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent Condition. Notes: From the folio, The Documents of Modern Art. Arp: On My Way, Poet...
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1940s Modern Art

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Woodcut

Klee, Garden, Prints of Paul Klee (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Etching on vellum paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Edition: 2,000. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Prints of Paul Klee, 1947. Published by...
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1940s Modern Art

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Etching

Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1,370. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Published by Tériade, Editions de la Revue Verve, Paris; printed by Draeger Freres, Paris, 1943. GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958) French painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and maker of stained glass who, drawing inspiration from French medieval masters, united religious and secular traditions divorced since the Renaissance. Rouault was born in a cellar in Paris during a bombardment of the city by the forces opposed to the Commune. His father was a cabinetmaker. A grandfather took an interest in art and owned a collection of Honoré Daumier’s lithographs...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1,370. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Published by Tériade, Editions de la Revue Verve, Paris; printed by Draeger Freres, Paris, 1943. GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958) French painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and maker of stained glass who, drawing inspiration from French medieval masters, united religious and secular traditions divorced since the Renaissance. Rouault was born in a cellar in Paris during a bombardment of the city by the forces opposed to the Commune. His father was a cabinetmaker. A grandfather took an interest in art and owned a collection of Honoré Daumier’s lithographs...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1,370. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Publishe...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Antique American School Modernist Nautical Cityscape Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage mid century abstract painting. Feels like an abstract cityscape of New York City. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signe...
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1940s Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

De Amicis's Sons - Woodcut Print by Mino Maccari - 1943
Located in Roma, IT
De Amicis's sons is an Artwork realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in 1943. Colored woodcut on paper. Hand-signed on the lower, numbered 4/89 specimens and titled on the left marg...
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1940s Modern Art

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Woodcut

Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1,370. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Publishe...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1,370. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Publishe...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Klee, Comedian, Prints of Paul Klee (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Etching on vellum paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Edition: 2,000. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Prints of Paul Klee, 1947. Published by...
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1940s Modern Art

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Etching

Kollwitz, Death seizes the Children (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Kathe Kollwitz, Ten Lithographs. Published by Henry C. Kleemann and...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Matisse, Couverture, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IV, N° 13, November 1945. P...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1,370. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Publishe...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1,370. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Published by Tériade, Editions de la Revue Verve, Paris; printed by Draeger Freres, Paris, 1943. GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958) French painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and maker of stained glass who, drawing inspiration from French medieval masters, united religious and secular traditions divorced since the Renaissance. Rouault was born in a cellar in Paris during a bombardment of the city by the forces opposed to the Commune. His father was a cabinetmaker. A grandfather took an interest in art and owned a collection of Honoré Daumier’s lithographs...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Matisse, La Chute d'Icare (Duthuit 74), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IV, N° 13, Novem...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1,370. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Published by Tériade, Editions de la Revue Verve, Paris; printed by Draeger Freres, Paris, 1943. GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958) French painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and maker of stained glass who, drawing inspiration from French medieval masters, united religious and secular traditions divorced since the Renaissance. Rouault was born in a cellar in Paris during a bombardment of the city by the forces opposed to the Commune. His father was a cabinetmaker. A grandfather took an interest in art and owned a collection of Honoré Daumier’s lithographs...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Rouault, Portrait, Divertissement (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Edition: 1,370. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Divertissement, 1943. Publishe...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Antique American School Fall Cat Still Life Framed Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life with a cat. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1940s Modern Art

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Oil, Canvas

Matisse, De la Couleur, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IV, N° 13, Novem...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism Henry Schnakenberg (1982 - 1970) Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 sight Oil on Canvas Signed lower left 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, Framed Bio In many cases, American artists visited the Armory Show in New York in 1913, and returned to their studios to react to or against what they saw. However, for Henry Ernest Schnakenberg it was much more life altering. Prior to visiting this important exhibition of American and European modernist art...
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1940s Modern Art

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Oil, Canvas

National Savings 1949 original vintage calendar poster
Located in London, GB
National Savings calendar poster (1949) Lithographic poster 50 x 37 cm Printed for HMSO by Mardon, Son & Hall Ltd, Bristol. An original lithographic poster advertising the National...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Bert Hardy Gorbals Boys 1948 - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Gorbals Boys (1948) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Bert Hardy/Getty Images Archive London) Possibly Bert Hardy's most famous image. Two boys in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. The Gorbals tenements were built quickly and cheaply in the 1840s, providing housing for Glasgow's burgeoning population of industrial workers. Conditions were appalling; overcrowding was standard and sewage and water facilities inadequate. The tenements housed about 40,000 people with up to eight family members sharing a single room, 30 residents sharing a toilet and 40 sharing a tap. By the time this photograph was taken 850 tenements had been demolished since 1920. Redevelopment of the area began in the late 1950s and the tenements were replaced with a modern tower block complex in the sixties. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4499 - The Forgotten Gorbals - pub. 1948 Additional Information: Unframed Paper Size: 20 x 16'' inches / 51 x 41 cm Printed 2024 Silver Gelatin Fibre Print Limited edition issued and stamped on front by the Getty Archive London Edition size 300 only NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE 10 x 8'' 10 x 12'' 12 x 16'' 16 x 20'' 20 x 24'' FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST Bert Hardy Albert William Thomas Hardy (19 May 1913 – 3 July 1995) was an English documentary and press photographer known for his work published in the Picture Post magazine between 1941 and 1957. Life and work Born in Blackfriars, Bert Hardy rose from humble working class origins in Southwark, London. The eldest of seven children, he left school at age 14 to work for a chemist who also processed photos. His first big sale came in 1936 when he photographed King George V and Queen Mary in a passing carriage during the Silver Jubilee celebrations, and sold 200 small prints of his best view of the King. His first assignment, at age 23, was to photograph Hungarian actor Sakall at the Mayfair Hotel. Hardy freelanced for The Bicycle magazine, and bought his first small-format 35 mm Leica. He signed on with the General Photographic Agency as a Leica photographer, later founding his own freelance firm, Criterion. General Photographic Agency General Photographic Agency a Fleet Street, London agency, sold photos at least between 1880-1950. Picture Post and World War II In 1941, Hardy was recruited by the then editor Tom Hopkinson of the leading picture publication of the 1930s to the 1950s, Picture Post. Founded in 1938 and funded by publisher Edward Hulton, the magazine's first editor was Hungarian émigré Stefan Lorant (1901–97) assisted by Hopkinson, who took over as editor from 1940. The picture-centric, left-leaning and reasonably-priced publication was highly successful and circulation soon rose to over a million. Hardy's photographer colleagues included Felix H. Man (aka Hans Baumann...
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1940s Modern Art

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Signed 1956 Antique American School Modernist Abstract Indian Space Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive and large mid century abstract painting. Signed and dated illegibly lower right. Oil on canvas.
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1940s Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life
Located in Chicago, IL
A diminutive and charming painting of a porcelain pitcher by French/American Artist Andre Delfau. The painting is framed to 11 3/4" x 13 1/2". Born in Paris, France in 1914, Andre ...
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1940s Modern Art

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Oil, Panel

Matisse, Vence III, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. VI, N° 21-22, 1948. Published by Éditions de la revue Verve, ...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Still Life
Located in Chicago, IL
A large and wonderful Modernist still life of a cast iron pot, squash and ladle by artist Flora Schofield. Framed to 24" x 26". A painter, print maker and sculptor, Flora Schofield (Schoenfield), was born in Lanark, Illinois. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught Saturday classes there until 1904. Schoenfield also studied with Charles Hawthorne, B.J.O Nordfeldt and William Zorach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She studied with Albert Gleizes, Fernand Leger and Natalia Goncharova in Paris, France. In 1923, Schofield’s abstractions caused a split at the venerable Chicago Society of Artists. When her artwork was was accepted by the jury, the notable Impressionist painter Pauline Palmer and the notable Modernist painter Carl Hoeckner got into a row that ended-up splitting the group. The Impressionists then broke away into their own organization called the ”Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors”. Paintings by Flora Schofield have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Salon d’Automne and Salon de Independants, Paris; the Salons of America; the Society of Independent Artists, New York; the Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita; Gallery Carmine, Paris; the National Arts Club Galleries, New York; Marshall Fields Galleries...
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1940s Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Abstract Cubist Flower Still Life Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very well painted period cubist still life. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.
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1940s Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modernist Abstract Houses Architecture Precisionist NY Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1940s Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Ashcan Street Impressionist Nocturnal Cityscape Burlington Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive and well painted street scene by Mildred Bunting Miller (1892 - 1964). Titled Burlington City. Housed in a great giltwood frame. Has the feel of a Hopper!! Oil ...
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1940s Modern Art

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Canvas, Oil

Biet Mariam: Plans and Perspective Details by Lino Bianchi Barriviera - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Biet Mariam: plans and perspective details is a modern artwork realized by Lino Bianchi Barriviera in 1947. Black and white etching. Signed and dated on plate. Plate n.15 (as repo...
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1940s Modern Art

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Etching

Mariam Biet Section - Etching by Lino Bianchi Barriviera - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Mariam Biet Section is a modern artwork realized by Lino Bianchi Barriviera in 1948. Black and white etching. Signed on plate. Plate n.14 (as reported on the higher margin). The ...
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1940s Modern Art

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Etching

Still Life by Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in Hudson, NY
A fantastic mid-century modernist still life by Vaclav Vytlacil. This piece comes from the estate of the Artist, which was handled by Martin Diamond Fine Arts. Still Life (1946) Ca...
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1940s Modern Art

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Paper, Tempera, Casein

Marital Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Savinio - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Marital portrait is a modern artwork realized by Alberto Savinio in 1948. Pencil on paper. Hand signed by the artist and dedicated to Raffaele Carrieri. Certificate of authenticity by Ruggero Savinio...
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1940s Modern Art

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Paper, Pencil

Reclining Nude — Mid-Century Modernism, African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Blackburn, Untitled (Reclining Nude), brush and ink, c. 1948, unsigned. A fine, spontaneous work, on cream wove paper. Slight toning to the sheet edges; otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 18 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches (476 x 597 mm). Provenance: Adrienne E. Wheeler Collection, acquired from the artist. ABOUT THE ARTIST Robert Blackburn (1920 - 2003) participated in the rich mix of art programs and creative groups available in Harlem as he grew up, including Charles Alston's Harlem Arts Workshop, the Harlem YMCA, and later the Harlem Artist's Guild. In 1937 he joined the WPA at the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest New York center for instruction in the arts. There he was exposed to Harlem's most prominent artists, Aaron Douglas, William Henry Johnson...
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1940s Modern Art

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Ink

Ethiopian Churches - Etching by Lino Bianchi Barriviera - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Ethiopian Churches is a modern artwork realized by Lino Bianchi Barriviera in 1947. Black and white etching. Signed and dated on plate. Plate n.13 (as reported on the higher margi...
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1940s Modern Art

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Etching

Original "Fire Away! Buy Extra Bonds, 5th War Loan" vintage submarine poster.
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War 2 Fire Away! Buy Extra Bonds. Linen backed. Color poster of two sailors on a Navy ship at sea. One sailor uses a searchlight, and the other is looking through binoculars. The sailors wear blue jackets and knitted "watch caps". A U.S. flag can be seen on the ship deck below. "In memory, U.S.S. Dorado"--At the upper left corner of the picture. Logo near the bottom of the poster: "5th 'V' War Loan". Artist George Schrieber (1904-1977) designed this war bond poster after the U.S.S. Dorado, a Gato-class submarine, was sunk off the coast of Cuba by a German land mine. Georges Schreiber (1904-1977) commemorates the sinking of the USS Dorado submarine in this 1944 War Bonds poster entitled Fire Away for the Fifth War Loan. Schreiber sailed aboard the ship in the summer of 1943 and had a personal connection to the tragedy. USS Dorado (SS-248) was a Gato-class submarine. Her keel was laid down on 27 August 1942 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut and was commissioned on 28 August 1943 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Earle Caffrey Schneider. The USS Dorado sailed for the Panama Canal for use in the East Asia war effort. The submarine was sunk off the coast of Cuba due to a minefield left by a German-Nazi U Boat. This is an Original Vintage Poster; it is not a reproduction. "U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944-O-581636". "WFD 908-A" USS Eldorado (AGC-11) was named after a mountain range in Nevada. The ship was designed as an amphibious force flagship, a floating command post...
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1940s Modern Art

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Offset

Mural Study
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful, period mural study of an interior by artist Edgar Ewing.
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1940s Modern Art

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Paper, Gouache

Portrait of Ludmilla Barta
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 59.5 x 51.5 x 5.5 cm
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1940s Modern Art

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Oil

1944 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Pasture Houses
Located in Bristol, GB
PASTURE HOUSES Size: 56 x 67.5 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A richly coloured mid-century modernist landscape composition, painted in oil onto board and dated 1944. Featuring ...
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1940s Modern Art

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Board, Oil

Perspective and Section of Biet Golgotha Micael - Selassie - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Perspective and section of Biet Golgotha Micael - Selassie  is a modern artwork realized by Lino Bianchi Barriviera in 1947. Black and white etching. Signed and dated on plate. Pl...
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1940s Modern Art

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Etching

Ethiopian Churches Floor Plans - Etching by Lino Bianchi Barriviera - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Ethiopian Churches floor plans is a modern artwork realized by Lino Bianchi Barriviera in 1948. Black and white etching. Signed and dated on plate. Plate n.11 (as reported on the ...
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1940s Modern Art

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Etching

Original "The 3rd Man" 1949 original first printing vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “The 3rd Man”, 1949, linen-backed vintage one-sheet movie poster "The 3rd Man". NSS: # 49/452. Excellent condition with restored original fold m...
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1940s Modern Art

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Offset

Original "Save Waste Fats for Explosives" vintage poster 1943
Located in Spokane, WA
Original: "Save waste fats for explosives. Take them to your meat dealer" vintage poster—original World War II Acid-free, archival linen-backed, ready-to-frame. The Original "Save...
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1940s Modern Art

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Offset

Vintage Comic Porcelain Ashtray, Catchall, Tray
Located in East Quogue, NY
A charming, kitsch comical post-war porcelain ashtray or catchall, vide-poche. Made in Japan during the late 1940s or early 1950s. The original "Japan" label is affixed to the back. ...
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1940s Modern Art

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Porcelain, Ceramic

Untitled oil painting of children playing by Eugenie Schein
Located in Hudson, NY
Eugenie Schein was both a dancer and an artist. Her artwork subjects revolved primarily around dancers and dancing, though she also captured everyday scenes in New York. Both Midto...
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1940s Modern Art

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Oil, Canvas

Historical Photo - Royal Family of England - Vintage Photo - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
A rare photo of the Royal Family of England in 1940s, with George VI, Queen Mary, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Early George Bowes-Lyon, a young Queen Elizab...
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1940s Modern Art

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Photographic Paper

Tip of Manhattan
By Nat Lowell
Located in Chicago, IL
An etching of a view of the Manhattan skyline by artist Nat Lowell. Signed and titled in pencil, ca. 1940.
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1940s Modern Art

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Etching

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Dinner Jazz 1949
Located in London, GB
Dinner Jazz American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome. Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estat...
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1940s Modern Art

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Original "Think American" USA World War II vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: For a Country Where We Are Still Masters of Our Own Destinies, Let's Be Truly Thankful. Silk-screened patriotism. This is a poster meant to appeal to the American f...
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1940s Modern Art

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Screen

Marie Laurencin - Woman Angel - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marie Laurencin - Woman Angel - Original Etching Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946 Edition of 340 Signed in the plate
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1940s Modern Art

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Etching

Internal perspective of Biet... - Etching by Lino Bianchi Barriviera - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Plan and section of Biet Golgotha Micael is a modern artwork realized by Lino Bianchi Barriviera in 1947. Black and white etching. Signed and dated on plate. Plate n.8 (as reporte...
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1940s Modern Art

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Etching

Russian Aircraft Identification Poster World War II Allied aeroplanes
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller". Russian Aircraft...
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1940s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Internal Perspective of Biet... - Etching by Lino Bianchi Barriviera - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Internal perspective of Biet Golghotha-Micael is a modern artwork realized by Lino Bianchi Barriviera in 1947. Black and white etching. Signed and dated on plate. Plate n.9 (as re...
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1940s Modern Art

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Etching

Adam's Tomb and Biet Golgotha-Micae - Etching by Lino Bianchi Barriviera - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Adam's Tomb and Biet Golgotha-Micael - Elevation and sections is a modern artwork realized by Lino Bianchi Barriviera in 1947. Black and white etching. Signed and dated on plate. ...
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1940s Modern Art

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Etching

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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.

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