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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
Cinq Boules et Deux Serpents, Alexander Calder
Cinq Boules et Deux Serpents, Alexander Calder

Cinq Boules et Deux Serpents, Alexander Calder

By Alexander Calder

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Title: Cinq Boules et Deux Serpents Year: 1965 Medium: Lithograph in colors on wove paper Edition: 90, plus proofs Size: 20.5 x 28.75 inches Cond...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original The Rocky Horror Picture Show US 1 sheet movie poster, on linen, 1975
Original The Rocky Horror Picture Show US 1 sheet movie poster, on linen, 1975

Original The Rocky Horror Picture Show US 1 sheet movie poster, on linen, 1975

Located in Spokane, WA

Original The Rocky Horror Picture Show vintage movie poster, professionally linen backed with original fold marks restored, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. A different set of jaws. ...

Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Pool Patterns, Nautical Abstract Seascape Triptych, Blue Cyanotype Print
Pool Patterns, Nautical Abstract Seascape Triptych, Blue Cyanotype Print

Pool Patterns, Nautical Abstract Seascape Triptych, Blue Cyanotype Print

By Kind of Cyan

Located in Barcelona, ES

This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition of a cyanotype. This beautiful triptych is called "Fresh California Pool patterns", which shows the semi-abstract movements of light reflecting in a California swimming pool. Details: + Edition Size: only 20 + Medium: Cyanotype Print on Watercolor Paper + Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity provided. + Measurements : 100x210 cm (40 x 84 in.) Each paper measures 100cm x 70cm (about 40 in. x 28 in.) each. , a standard frame size. + All cyanotype prints...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Spring Snowfall Seattle

Spring Snowfall Seattle

By Zama Vanessa Helder

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Spring Snowfall Seattle, 1937, watercolor on paper mounted on panel, signed lower right, 16 ½ x 17 ½ inches (image) 17 x 22 ½ inches (panel), ), title, measurements and Helder’s addr...

Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor, Illustration Board

Pink Tulips and Purple Morning
Pink Tulips and Purple Morning

Pink Tulips and Purple Morning

Located in Zofingen, AG

Matisse style pastel tulips in vase on kitchen table Oil pastel drawing on paper One of a kind artwork Size: 50 × 65 × 0,1 cm It is original hand drawing on 250 gsm acid-free paper...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel

Untitled, Nude
Untitled, Nude

Untitled, Nude

By June Felter

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist: June Felter (1919-2019) Title: Untitled Year: 1964 Medium: Watercolor Sight size: 20 x 14.25 inches. Framed size: 29.25 x 23 inches Signature: Si...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

RECLINGING WOMAN
RECLINGING WOMAN

RECLINGING WOMAN

By Antoniucci Volti

Located in Los Angeles, CA

ANTONIUCCI VOLTI "RECLINGING WOMAN" BRONZE, SIGNED, NUMBERED 2/6 VALSUANI FOUNDRY ITALiAN, WORKED IN PARIS, C.1960 6.5 X 18.5 X 10.5 INCHES Antoniucci Volti 1915-1989 Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Antoniucci Volti was born in Albano, Italy, in 1915. His family lived in Italy until 1920 when the family moved to France. Volti studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Nice from 1928 to 1920. By 1932 the young artist had won a gold medal for two polychrome bas-reliefs before going to Paris, where he entered the studio of Jean Boucher at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of only fifteen. After serving in the Second World War, when he was interned as a prisoner of war in Bavaria, he returned in poor health to Paris, only to find his studio destroyed. From 1947 he showed work at various Paris Salons and, in 1954 and 1955 at the Brussels and Antwerp Biennales. In 1957 a retrospective of his work was organized at the Museum Rodin in Paris. He died in Paris in 1989 Works by Volti are in leading museums such as the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris. Antoniucci Volti is one of the most important Late Modern...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Bronze

The Scribe, Rabbi Writing A Torah, Judaica Artists Proof
The Scribe, Rabbi Writing A Torah, Judaica Artists Proof

The Scribe, Rabbi Writing A Torah, Judaica Artists Proof

By Emanuel Schary

Located in Surfside, FL

EMANUEL SCHARY Israel, b. 1924, d. 1994 A lively affection for humanity characterizes the work of the Israeli-American artist Emanuel Schary (1924-1994). Working in a range of media,...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

'Diptych' —  Modernist Abstraction, Atelier 17
'Diptych' —  Modernist Abstraction, Atelier 17

'Diptych' — Modernist Abstraction, Atelier 17

By Stanley William Hayter

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Stanley William Hayter, 'Diptych', color engraving and scorper, 1967, edition 50, Black & Moorhead 314. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '10/50' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh, vibrant colors on antique-white wove BFK Rives paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches). Minor skinning and tape residue on the top and bottom sheet edges, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 13 7/8 x 19 1/2 inches (146 x 108 mm); sheet size 19 7/8 x 25 3/8 inches (394 x 292 mm). Hayter created this work using engraving and scorper on 2 plates, printed side by side. He used alkali blue, printed intaglio, and a phthalo green with a hard roller on the surface. The proofing was in three states, the first with engraving (a single proof); the second adding further engraving and scorper (a single proof); the third added further engraving and editioned: color trial proofs, 5 artist's proofs, edition of 50. The edition was completed in three printings: 8 in 1967; then Hector Saunier printed numbers 9 through 18 in 1968, and numbers 19 through 50 in 1969. This impression is from the Saunier 1968 printing. Note: the online image cannot accurately convey the vibrancy of the printed alkali blue/phthalo green. An impression of this work is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris, now known as Atelier Contrepoint. Among the artists he is credited with influencing are Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall. The hallmark of the workshop was its egalitarian structure, breaking sharply with the traditional French engraving studios by insisting on a cooperative approach to labor and technical discoveries. In 1929 Hayter was introduced to Surrealism by Yves Tanguy and André Masson, who, with other Surrealists, worked with Hayter at Atelier 17. The often violent imagery of Hayter’s Surrealist period was stimulated in part by his passionate response to the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Fascism. He organized portfolios of graphic works to raise funds for the Spanish cause, including Solidarité (Paris, 1938), a portfolio of seven prints, one of them by Picasso. Hayter frequently exhibited with the Surrealists during the 1930s but left the movement when Paul Eluard was expelled. Eluard’s poem Facile Proie (1939) was written in response to a set of Hayter’s engravings. Other writers with whom Hayter collaborated in this way included Samuel Beckett and Georges Hugnet. Hayter joined the exile of the Parisian avant-garde in 1939, moving with his second wife, the American sculptor Helen...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Engraving

Return of the Jedi 1983 Original Vintage Poster

Return of the Jedi 1983 Original Vintage Poster

Located in London, GB

Return of the Jedi 1983 Original Vintage Poster measures 27×41" inches / 68 x 104 cm unfolded rolled excellent condition Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI ...

Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, C Print

Mary Magdalene - Oil on Canvas by Italian School 19th cent.
Mary Magdalene - Oil on Canvas by Italian School 19th cent.

Mary Magdalene - Oil on Canvas by Italian School 19th cent.

Located in Roma, IT

Oil on canvas. cm 60.5 x 2 x 50 Nice Oil painting (Italian School of XIX century) with a rapid sign and intense colors backgrpound. Some color cracking on left margin and top edge, ...

Category

18th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Tall Sunspot 66 - Contemporary Resin Minimalist Warm Dual Tone Abstract Artwork
Tall Sunspot 66 - Contemporary Resin Minimalist Warm Dual Tone Abstract Artwork

Tall Sunspot 66 - Contemporary Resin Minimalist Warm Dual Tone Abstract Artwork

By Ricky Hunt

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Sailing Boats in South of France Harbor Vintage French Oil Painting 20th Century
Sailing Boats in South of France Harbor Vintage French Oil Painting 20th Century

Sailing Boats in South of France Harbor Vintage French Oil Painting 20th Century

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Sailing Boats French School, 20th century oil on board, framed inscribed verso framed: 20 x 24.5 inches board: 17 x 21 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very g...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Acrylic

Tennis in The Bahamas, 1957 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print
Tennis in The Bahamas, 1957 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print

Tennis in The Bahamas, 1957 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Tennis in The Bahamas, 1957 by Slim Aarons 16 x 16" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Tennis in the Bahamas, 1957" is a beautiful Limited...

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital

Kui, Modern Woodcut Print by Stephen White
Kui, Modern Woodcut Print by Stephen White

Kui, Modern Woodcut Print by Stephen White

By Stephen White

Located in Long Island City, NY

Stephen White - Kui, Year: 1981, Medium: Woodblock on Japon, signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 16/20, Size: 36 x 24.5 in. (91.44 x 62.23 cm)

Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Portrait of Roby - Etching (Bloch #680)
Portrait of Roby - Etching (Bloch #680)

Portrait of Roby - Etching (Bloch #680)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Paris, IDF

Pablo PICASSO (after) Portrait of Roby, c. 1950 Restrike etching Printed signature in the plate On Japan paper 33 x 25 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) REFERENCE : Catalog raisonne Bloch #680 Fr...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Composition VII, from: Gaudí - Spanish Surrealism
Composition VII, from: Gaudí - Spanish Surrealism

Composition VII, from: Gaudí - Spanish Surrealism

By Joan Miró

Located in London, GB

Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching with Aquatint on Arches Wove Paper Paper size: 66 x 50 cm. / 26 x 19.7 in. Additional Information: This etching is hand signed in pencil ...

Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

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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.