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: 1920s
Ettore Tito: Quatres Proverbes Par Tito - four hand-coloured pochoir prints
By Ettore Tito
Located in London, GB
After Ettore Tito (1859-1941)
c.1920s
A set of four pochoir prints: 'Les paroles s'envolent les ecrits restent'; 'On a souvent besoin d'un plus petit que soi'; 'Qui trop embrasse...'...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Color
Waiting Man - Woodcut by Mino Maccari - 1926
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Waiting Man is a woodcut print on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1926.
Hand-signed on the lower in pencil
Good conditions with minor foxing.
Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian writer, painter, engraver, and journalist, winner the Feltrinelli Prize for painting on 1963. For his pictorial work rich in evident chromatic accentuations and quick brushstrokes, the violent drawing combined with the living line of the graphic sign...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Laurence Dunn, SS Zrinski (c.1925) Merchantman Tramp Steamer
Located in London, GB
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Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Composition 20 - Original Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 20 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera, in very good conditions and mounted on a cardboard (49x34).
Image Dimension...
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Tempera
Story of a Boy - Pen Drawing by Filiberto Scarpelli - 1910
Located in Roma, IT
Story of a Boy is a modern artwork realized in 1910 by the Italian artist Filiberto Scarpelli (Naples, 1870 - Rome, 1933).
Two Original drawings realized in China ink on paper.
...
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Pen
"Rainy Embankment" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Rainy Embankment" by Fox Photos
August 1929: A man standing alone on a rain-drenched pavement on the River Thames Embankment, London.
Unframed
Paper Size:...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White
The Box at 'Faustus'
By Diana Thorne
Located in Storrs, CT
The Box at 'Faustus'. 1929. Drypoint. 11 x 8 7/8. Edition 100, #39. Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil. A rich impression printed on the full sheet of pale blue/green-toned wove paper. Signed in pencil. A tongue-in-cheek image of the devil in the opera box...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Laurence Dunn, SS Denmark Maru (c.1927) Merchantman Tramp Steamer painting
Located in London, GB
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Young woman seated with pearl necklace
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
75.5 x 61.5 x 4 cm
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Erotic Scene - Lithograph by Albert Marquet - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a beautiful lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized in the 1920s by Albert Marquet (Bordeaux, 1875 - Paris,1947).
Monogrammed on the plate on the lower margin. ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Cendrillon - Rare Book illustrated by Jules Pascin - 1920
By Jules Pascin
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 88 copies including a preface by André Salmon and 5 original full-pagecoloured etchings by Pascin. Includes jacket and slipcase on blue cardboard.
Copy on papier d'Arches. One of the most beautiful illustratedversionof this novel and probably the most famous illustrated book by Pascin. Copy in perfect conditions with original softcover on light pink paper.
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
Blowing Bubbles /// Antique Female Children Etching Cute Figurative British Art
By Eileen Soper
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Eileen Alice Soper (English, 1905-1990)
Title: "Blowing Bubbles"
*Signed by Soper in pencil lower right
Year: 1924 (fourth state of four)
Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper
Limited edition: 240
Printer: Likely printed by Eva Soper, London, UK
Publisher: H C Dickens, London, UK
Reference: "The Catalogue Raisonne of Prints and Etchings of George and Eileen Soper" - Beetles No. 67, page 117, 141, 157
Framing: Recently framed in a Louis XV style frame with matting from Holland and Museum glass
Framed size: 13.25" x 15.13"
Sheet size: 7.25" x 9.63"
Image size: 4.5" x 7"
Condition: In very good condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Boulder, CO.
Biography:
Eileen Soper was born in 1905 in the Municipal Borough of Enfield and moved to the house where she was to spend the rest of her life in Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside in 1908. The house she later named "Wildings" was built by her father, the artist George Soper...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Intaglio
Woman's Head
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Edition of 50 printed by Charles White in 1951 for the estate
Bibliography:
Lincoln Kirstein, Elie Nademan (New York: The Eakins Press, 1973),, 20
Elie Nadelman
Born 1882, Warsaw...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Drypoint
Woman from Behind - Pencil by Auguste Jean Baptiste Roubille - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Woman from Behind is a drawing in pencil realized in 1926 by the French painter, illustrator, designer, and cartoonist Auguste Jean Baptiste Roubille.
Th...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Pencil
'The Pont Neuf, Sunset', Paris, Académie Colarossi, Oakland, NYMOMA, SFMOMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Rinaldo Cuneo' (American, 1877-1939) and painted circa 1925.
Provenance: Private collection, Illinois. Previously in the collection of Frank E. Cummings. (accompanied by Butterfield & Butterfield documentation)
A lyrical, early twentieth-century view of the Seine and this beloved Parisian landmark with laborers and pedestrians shown walking home beneath dramatic sunset clouds. Undated but likely painted between 1911-1913, when the artist was studying in Paris at the Académie Colarossi.
Rinaldo Cuneo first studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute under Gottardo Piazzoni and Arthur Matthews. He subsequently furthered his studies in London and, later, at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. Cuneo exhibited with success worldwide, including at the Panama Pacific...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Nude Drawing on Gray Paper
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Standing Nude drawing on gray paper
Pencil signed and dated April 8, 21.
Printmaker, painter and illustrator, George Kenneth Hartwell was born in Fitchburg 1891-1949, Massachusetts. He studied at the Art Students' League in New York City under Kenneth Hayes Miller, Edward Hopper, and George Bellows.
His work was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1923), the Society of Independent Artists (1923), Salons of America (1928 and 1934), Library of Congress (1944-46), the Laguna Beach Art...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Paper
Young man sitting white collar and polka dot sweater
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Molded frame in wood and gilded plaster
96.5 x 79.5 x 4.5 cm
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Erotic Scene - Lithograph by Albert Marquet - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a beautiful lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized in the 1920s by Albert Marquet (Bordeaux, 1875 - Paris,1947).
Monogrammed on the plate on the lower margin. ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Dance - Original Etching by Louis Jou - Early 20th Century
By Louis Jou
Located in Roma, IT
The Dance is an original etching realized by Louis Jou in the Early 20th Century.
Monogrammed on the lower.
Good conditions with some foxing.
Louis Jou (Gracia, 1882 - Baux, 1968), the twentieth-century etcher and wood engraver, was a prolific illustrator of a large number of books in France, authored by big names like Andre Gide...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Nude - Original Pencil Drawing by Tibor Gertler - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pencil applied on paper realized by Tibor Gertler in 1946.
In good condition except for some folding and stains and a rip on the lower margin.
Hand-s...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Pencil, Paper
The Little Siren - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
The Little Siren of the Arts Bridge is an Original Etching and aquatint realized by Edouard Chimot in 1922.
The artwork is in good condition on the yellowed paper, included a cardbo...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Woman's Head - Woman's Head in Profile (left) (Havard)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman's Head - Woman's Head in Profile (left) (Havard)
Drypoint, 1920
Unsigned (as issued)
From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, proof from th...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Drypoint
Composition 9 - Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 9 is a painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera and in very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 43.5x31 cm.
...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Tempera
"Bird" Bradley Walker Tomlin, American Modernist, Animal, Dove Illustration LGBT
Located in New York, NY
Bradley Walker Tomlin
Bird, circa 1927
Signed upper center
Oil on brown paper
22 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches
Provenance:
Miss Dorothy MacTeague, Chester...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Portrait of a Woman with Red Hat, Paris, " Isabella Howland
Located in New York, NY
Isabella Howland
Portrait of a Woman, Paris, 1925
Oil on canvas laid on board
19 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches
Provenance:
Hammer Galleries, New York
Private C...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Le grande Baigneuse (The large Bather)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in ZEIST, UT
Raoul Dufy- Le grande Baigneuse (The large Bather)
Lithograph, 1928
Signed in pencil and numbered 28/40 in pencil
Paper size: 67.3 × 51.4 cm
Frame size: 96.0 x 78.0 cm
This work being the largest color lithograph Raoul Dufy made
Framed in a beautiful handmade frame with museum glas.
Provenance: From the collection of Jonathan Shaw (a renowned counter-culture opinion maker, author and artist) who inherited the work from his parents; actress Dorothy Dowling and Artie Shaw.
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
View of Cologny, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
57.5 x 74 x 5 cm
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Oil
What a Life
Located in Los Angeles, CA
What a Life, c. 1930, mixed media on board, 18 x 24 inches, signed lower left; titled on label; exhibited at The San Francisco Art Association Fifty-Second Annual Exhibition at the P...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Gardener - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
Gardener is a vintage lithograph realized after Raoul Dufy in 1920.
Good conditions.
Edition of 110.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Lady with Flower
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "E.JB." at lower right
21 7/8 x 17 inches including frame
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Walk - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
Walk is a lithograph realized by Raoul Dufy in 1920.
Good conditions.
Edition of 110. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued.
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Sotto Portico, Venice.
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Sotto Portico, Venice. 1928. Etching. Hardie/Carter 235. 12 1/2 x 8 3/4 (sheet 8 1/4 x 11 3/8). Edition 80, #39. A rich impression printed in black/brown ink with subtle tonal wiping...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Erotic Scene - Lithograph by Albert Marquet - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a beautiful lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized in the 1920s by Albert Marquet (Bordeaux, 1875 - Paris,1947).
Monogrammed on the plate on the lower margin. ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Antique American School Modernist Southwest Signed Desert Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American Western landscape modernist oil painting . Oil on canvas, circa 1920. Signed. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Ima...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Break of the Haze
By Aaron Henry Gorson
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: AH Gorson
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Trawler
Located in Storrs, CT
The Trawler. 1926. Etching. Hurst 176. 9 7/8 x 13 7/8 (sheet 11 3/8 x 15 3/4). Edition 75, #71. Mat line outside the image; otherwise excellent condition.A fine impression with plate tone, printed on antique cream laid paper. Signed and numbered in ink. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
In 1899 Briscoe acquired a studio in Malden, Essex, and bought a 3 ton cutter which, with his young family, he would spend eight or nine months a year, sailing to Calais, along the Belgian coast and through the Dutch waterways, constantly sketching and painting in both oil and watercolor.
In 1922, after a meeting with the etcher James McBey, Briscoe returned to etching once more producing plates of some of his sea sketches. The two artists sailed together in Briscoe's, forty-ton yacht, the "Golden Vanity...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Building and city skyline
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Molded gilt wood frame
67.2 x 59.3 x 6.5 cm
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Oil
'Derby Spectator' Giant Oversize Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Derby Spectator
A spectator looking through binoculars at the Derby horse races, Epsom, Surrey, June 1923. (Photo by Hulton / Getty Archive)
Darkro...
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Couple
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "EJB." at lower right
21 3/4 x 17 inches including frame
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Travel Companions - Original Drawing - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
Travel Companions is a China Ink and Watercolor realized by an italian artist as theatrical project in 1925.
Good condition on a yellowed paper, included a white cardboard passparto...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Ink
Dublin Crowd (1920) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Dublin Crowd (1920) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Walshe/Getty Images)
After signing the Treaty establishing the Free State, Irish politician and Sinn Fein leader Michael Collins (1890 - 1922) addresses the Dublin crowd at College Green...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
The Couple
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "EJB" at lower left
21 13/16 x 17 inches including frame
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Erotic Scene - Lithograph by Albert Marquet - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a beautiful lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized in the 1920s by Albert Marquet (Bordeaux, 1875 - Paris,1947).
Monogrammed on the plate on the lower margin. ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Tea Time - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
Tea Time is a lithograph realized by Raoul Dufy in 1920.
Good conditions.
Edition of 110.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Pioneer Family" WPA American Modernism Plaster Maquette Realism 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
"Pioneer Family," 23 1/2 x 16 1/4 x 10 3/4 inPlaster. c. 1927. Unsigned. Realism
The Smithsonian has a cast of this sculpture in its collection. Pictured on the cover of “The Sculpt...
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1920s Modern Art
Materials
Plaster
The Dance - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
The Dance is a vintage lithograph realized after Raoul Dufy in 1920.
Good conditions.
Edition of 110.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composit...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Pianist - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
The Pianist is a lithograph realized by Raoul Dufy in 1920.
Good conditions.
Edition of 110. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes i...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Story of a Boy - Pen Drawing by Filiberto Scarpelli - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
The King of Sardinia is a modern artwork realized in 1925 by the Italian artist Filiberto Scarpelli (Naples, 1870 - Rome, 1933).
Three drawings rea...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Paper
Gentlemen - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
Gentlemen is a vintage lithograph realized by Raoul Dufy in 1920.
Good conditions.
Edition of 110. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued.
The artwork is depicted through confident str...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Art Deco : The Harvest - Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice De LAMBERT
Art Deco : The Harvest, 1927
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp of the editor 'Imagier de la Gravure sur Bois...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
"Jean Cocteau" by Keystone-France
Located in London, GB
"Jean Cocteau" by Keystone-France
Portrait in the 1920s or 1930s of the writer Jean Cocteau in a decor that relates to his passion for Greek tragedy. Co...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White
Mostar Bridge
By Willi Geiger
Located in Wien, 9
Willi Geiger's art is on the pulse of the times between a neo-objective look and expressive strokes. Pictures of his personal perception emerge, some wit...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Venice
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Molded frame in wood and gilded plaster
68 x 59 x 7 cm
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Nude of Woman - Mixed Media - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an original drawing in mixed media -pencil, pastel and watercolor- on ivory-colorated paper, realized by Anonymous Artist of the early 2...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Profile Bust of a Girl - Woman's Head in Profile (Havard)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Profile Bust of a Girl - Woman's Head in Profile (Havard)
Drypoint, 1920
Unsigned (as issued)
From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, proof from ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Drypoint
Grapes
Located in New York, NY
A superb, richly-inked impression of this early, very scarce lithograph. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio Watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, 1929
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lowe...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
London Bridge on Thames View - Drawing by Herbert John Finn- 1927
Located in Roma, IT
London Thames View is a modern artwork realized by Herbert John Finn (1860-1942).
Mixed colored ink, pastel and watercolor on paper.
Includes gileded frame
Hand signed and dated o...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Ink, Pastel, Watercolor
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