Modern Paintings
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
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XXI
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XXI", oil on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inter...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Seated Nude in the Studio – A Modernist Study from the 1920s
Located in Stockholm, SE
This evocative oil painting, titled Studio Muse, depicts a seated nude in a quiet moment of contemplation. The model is shown in profile, resting on a simple wooden stool against a n...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XXV
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XXV", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inte...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XVII
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XVII", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an int...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XVIII
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XVIII", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an in...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
De Boottrekker - Paint by Jef De Pauw - 1925
By Jef de Pauw
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Jef De Pauw (1888-1930) in 1925.
Hand signed and dated.
Includes a beautiful wooden frame cm. 83x103.
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series V
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series V", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an interm...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series VI
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series VI", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inter...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series IX
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series IX", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inter...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Fauvist Still Life with Fruits and Flowers - Original Oil on Canvas, SIGNED
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert ZAVARO (1925-)
Fauvist Still Life with Fruits and Flowers, 1967
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right corner
On canvas 60 x 73 cm (c. 24 x 29 in)
PROVENANCE: Galerie Framond, Par...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XI
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XI", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inter...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
French Gouache Painting of Native American Mustang Hunt in Nevada
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Native American Mustang Hunt in Nevada
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
S...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series I (circa 1980s-90s)
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series I", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an interm...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Vintage Signed American Modernist Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting. Signed and Exhibited. Oil on canvas. Measuring 17 by 31 inches overall and 16 x 30 painting alone. In excellent original condition,...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Near to Romont, Vaud" by Claude Sauthier - Oil on Canvas - 130x130 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Claude Sauthier was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1929 and passed away in the same city in 2016. He studied at the Geneva School of Decorative Arts and initially worked as a graphi...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern Abstract Tropical Yellow Toned Landscape Painting of Three Horse Riders
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract tropical landscape painting by the iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. The work features a group of three figures riding horses through palm trees against a ye...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Saraswati, Figurative, Mythology by Raja Ravi Verma "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Raja Ravi Varma - Laxmi, 19 x 14 inches
Oleograph with embellishments, Circa
(Unframed & Delivered)
Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian painter and artist...
Category
1890s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Antique American Modernist Mid Century Figural Abstract Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring 30 by 36 inches overall and 22 by 28 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Handso...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
In Full Bloom, original painting, landscape, abstract
Located in Deddington, GB
I created this abstract painting inspired by flowers and light colours to capture a sense of calm, renewal, and gentle energy. Rather than focusing on detailed forms, I wanted to exp...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Plein Air American Oil Painting Rainstorm Signed Original Modern Impressionist
Located in Buffalo, NY
nknown Artist (Signed “Kaufman”)
Untitled (Pastoral Horizon), mid-20th century
Oil on board
Framed dimensions: 25 in. H × 21 in. W
Original cream-toned carved wood frame
This expres...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Isabel Moncayo Signed Ashcan School "Window Shopping" Framed Modernist Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive ashcan school modernist street scene painting. Oil on canvas. Rare ashcan school modernist street scene by Isabel Moncayo. In excellent original condition. Handsomely f...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Monterey Foothill Pond in Summer Original Oil Landscape Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Monterey Foothill Pond in Summer Original Oil Landscape Painting by Louise Cunningham
Bright summer scene of pond in Monterey foothills by Santa Cruz, California artist ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Modern French Oil Painting Two Reclining Nudes on a Red Bed with Sunlit Window
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modern French Oil Painting Two Reclining Nudes on a Red Bed with Sunlit Window
by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933)
Unsigned
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed
Painting s...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Figural Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Eugene Arcieri (1914 - 2005). Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring 15 by 19 inches overall and 14 by 18 painting alone. In exce...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1960s French Large Modernist Signed Oil Painting Sun Scorched Provence Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sun Scorched Provencal Landscape
French Modernist artist, circa 1960's
indistinctly signed 'Vignon'?
oil on canvas, framed in original French frame of the period
framed: 25.5 x 45.5 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century California Oak Tree in Summer Original Oil Landscape Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century California Oak Tree Original Oil Painting by Louise Cunningham
Iconic California Oak tree during summer with golden tones and olive green foliage by Santa Cruz, California artist Louise H. Grosset Cunningham (American, 1881-1983) circa 1960. Displayed in a new carved giltwood frame. A gem of a California landscape painting by one of the six Monterey Bay area distinguished women artists.
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Signed lower right "Louise Cunningham"
Condition: Excellent
Presented in new, gold gilt-toned wood frame
Image, 16"H x 20"L.
Framed size: 22"H x 26"W x 2.50"D
A painter / architect/ pasteli, Louise Cunningham was born in Berkeley, California on May 4, 1881 of French parents. (Her uncle, Jules Jacques, was a distinguished Paris artist and a member of the French Royal Academy.)
Louise Grossett began her art studies at age eleven at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco a program run by UC Berkley. She then spent most of her life as a resident of California, Berkley, San Francisco, Mt Lassen, Yosemite and then retired to Felton CA in 1955, She ran art classes from her studio on Lazy Woods Rd.
She was the wife of Robert Cunningham...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Untitled (Vishnu and Lakshmi meeting), Figurative by Raja Ravi Verma "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Raja Ravi Varma - Untitled (Vishnu and Lakshmi meeting)
Oleograph
14.5 x 10.1 inches, Circa
(Framed & Delivered)
Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian paint...
Category
1890s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
'Portraits of Timeless Expressions No. 11' Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s)
Located in London, GB
'Portraits of Timeless Expressions No. 11', oil on canvas mounted on board, by Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has ...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
the promise
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting depicts two women covered by a colorful blanket. One of them looks directly at the viewer, while the other is lost in her thoughts. It’s about the desire to protect som...
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Cattleya Orchids" Jane Peterson, Modernist Bright Flowers, Female Impressionist
Located in New York, NY
Jane Peterson
Cattleya Orchids, circa 1940s
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
32 x 32 inches
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Artist’s estate sale, Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1960s
Priva...
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge Portrait of a Lady after Modigliani, Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Woman
after Modigliani (see details verso)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 36 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: a few minor scuffs but over...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pointer Dogs - Oil on Canvas - 39x31 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Artwork sold with frame (50 x 58 x 4 cm)
Category
19th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stuart Somerville oil painting, Portrait study of a nude black woman
By Stuart Somerville
Located in Harkstead, GB
A really striking and stylish portrait of a young black woman, painted with great panache and intimacy. Very attractively presented in a matt and silver frame: ready to hang.
Stuart...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Lost and Found Chickens
Located in Carmel, CA
A Hawaiian tropical painting features colorful chickens embedded, if not camouflaged in the verdant jungle.
Category
2010s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
L.S. Lowry, Street Scene, 1965
Located in Manchester, GB
L.S. Lowry, Street Scene, 1965
Oil on canvas
50.8 x 60.9 cm (20 x 24 in)
Hand-signed and dated 'L.S. LOWRY 1965' (lower right) and titled 'STREET SCENE' (on the canvas overlap)
E...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Big Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Figures Gathered
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on paper mounted on card
size: 18.75 x 24 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Floral Still Life with Grapes and Bird's Nest Classic Composition of Peonies
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Floral Arrangement,
Continental School, late 20th century
most likely a pastiche work after an earlier composition
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 24 x 20 inches
provenance: private...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Victorians" Impasto Oil Landscape Painting 20th Century
Located in Arp, TX
Unidentifiable signature
"Victorians"
c. 1960s
Oil impasto paint on canvas
17.5"x60" black period wood frame 18.25"x61.25"
Signed in paint lower right
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Brooklyn Transfer East River Crossing, Oil on Canvas Painting Frederick Reimers
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bklyn Transfer, East River Crossing" by Frederick Reimers (1911–1994)
This unique, captivating cityscape painting by Frederick Reimers (USA, 1911–1994) offers a dynamic view of the ...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Honfleur Harbor Scene Mid-Century Modernist French Oil Painting Thickly Painted
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Honfleur
by Henri Auguin (French b. 1934)
titled verso
signed oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 27.5 x 31.5 inches
Canvas: 22 x 26 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Large, The Fungi Collectors, Cubist art
By George Large
Located in Harkstead, GB
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George Large, R.I. (born 1936)
Edible Fungi
Signed and dated (19)91
Watercolour over traces of pencil
26¾ x 14¾
37 x 24½ with frame
George Large is a painter in watercolour and oil, born in Islington, London in 1936. He studied at Hornsey College of Art (1958-63), teachers including Maurice de Sausmarez, John Titchell and Alfred Daniels. Large spent some time in the display department of Simpson’s, Piccadilly, was part-time at Hornsey College of Art, then head of department at St Julian...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Original Oil Painting American Modern Mediterranean Village Colorful Cityscape
Located in Buffalo, NY
Dorothy Rivo
Untitled (Mediterranean Village), c. 1960s–70s
Oil on canvas
Framed dimensions: 24 in. H × 36 in. W
Presented in a contemporary white floater frame
In Untitled (Mediter...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XXIII
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XXIII", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an in...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Vibrant French Gouache Painting of Navajo Jewelry Makers in Albuquerque
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vibrant French Gouache Painting of Navajo Jewelry Makers in Albuquerque
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Time Zone 5 - Modern Resin Minimalist Colorful Geometric Abstraction Artwork
By Ricky Hunt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed-media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past, which led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acryl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Sunspot 124 - Modern Resin Muted Colorful Stripe Minimalist 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 Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Farm in Winter" by Claude Sauthier - Oil on Wood - 43x43 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Claude Sauthier was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1929 and passed away in the same city in 2016. He studied at the Geneva School of Decorative Arts and initially worked as a graphi...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Board
Cityscape Mid-20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Regionalism WPA
Located in New York, NY
Cityscape Mid-20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Regionalism WPA
Samuel Thal (1903 to 1964)
"Cityscene"
12 x 16 inches
Oil on board, c. 1940s
Signed verso
Framed: 19...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
French Gouache Painting of Native American Antelope Hunt in Utah
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Native American Antelope Hunt in Utah
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
Si...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series VII
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series VII", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inte...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Laxmi, Figurative, Mythology by Raja Ravi Verma "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Raja Ravi Varma - Laxmi, 19 x 14 inches
Oleograph with embellishments, Circa
(Unframed & Delivered)
Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian painter and artist...
Category
1890s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Antique American Modernist Framed Flower Fauvist Still Life Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist flower still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 12H by 10L.
Category
1930s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Divided By Time, Large Modern Abstract Painting
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Robert Sealock (American, 20th Century)
Signed: RWS 93 (Canvas Verso)
" Divided By Time ", 1993
Oil on Canvas
48 1/4" x 40"
This large modern painting is in nice original condi...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled, Gouache on Paper, Red, Blue, Yelow by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
KG Subramanyan
Untitled , Gouache on Paper
8 x 11.5 inches 20.3 x 29.2 cm
2007
( Framed & Delivered )
Style : K G Subramanyan was one of the leading artists who was part of Ind...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Mixed Media
Signed Lowell Herrero Beach Scene Painting
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Herrero (American, 1921-2015)
Untitled, c. Late 20th-Early 21st Century
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 in.
Framed: 19 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.
Signed lower right:...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large New England Modernist Framed Fall Modernist Barn Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed verso. Framed. Measuring 34 by 44 inches overall and 28 by 37 painting alone. In excellent original conditio...
Category
1990s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
English mid century oil painting Portrait of Miniature Black Poodle
Located in Woodbury, CT
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a Miniature Poodle
Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last half of the 20th century. She also painted flower subj...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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