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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 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...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

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.
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1920s Modern Paintings

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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...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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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...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Pointer Dogs - Oil on Canvas - 39x31 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Artwork sold with frame (50 x 58 x 4 cm)
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19th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XIV
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XIV", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inte...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

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...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Modern Oil Painting Geometric Architectural Interior with Light and Shadow
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modern Oil Painting Geometric Architectural Interior with Light and Shadow by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size:...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

French Gouache Painting of Pueblo Bread Baking in Taos New Mexico
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Pueblo Bread Baking in Taos New Mexico by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French) Signed: Yes Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper, S...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

School of Paris, Sleeping Woman, Nude, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on Canvas by Fortunato Pirazzini (1907-2003), School of Paris, c. 1950 - "Sleeping Woman, Nude". This captivating oil painting, titled "Sleeping Woman, Nude", was created by Fort...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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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...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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,...
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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 ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

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...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Red House, Hampstead - Mid 20th Century Modern British London Landscape Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful mid 20th century Modern British oil on canvas depicting a red house on Hampstead Haeath, by Arnold Auerbach. The work is signed upper right and presented in a painted wo...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Les Alpilles Range in Provence
Located in London, GB
'Les Alpilles Range in Provence', oil on panel, by Auguste Chabaud (1951). This artwork depicts the chain of the 'Little Alps', which is a small range of low mountains in Provence, F...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Francis Bacon 'Portrait of Michel Leiris', 2017, Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a reproduction of a Francis Bacon's painting Portrait of Michel Leiris, originally created in 1976. This work is a notable example of Bacon's ability to capture the psycholog...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Offset

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...
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1890s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

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...
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1890s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Le Soleil Blanc, Modern Oil Painting and Sand on Canvas by Claude Venard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Claude Venard, French (1913 - 1999) - Le Soleil Blanc, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil and Sand on Canvas, signed lower left and titled on verso, Size: 20 x 28.75 in. (50.8 x 73.03 ...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Oil

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...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

'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 ...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Sunspot 124 - Modern Resin Muted Colorful Stripe Minimalist Artwork
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

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 ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Untitled (Lord Rama’s reunion), Figurative by Raja Ravi Verma "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Raja Ravi Varma - Untitled (Lord Rama’s reunion) Oleograph 14.5 x 10.1 inches, Circa ( Framed & Delivered ) Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian painter an...
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1890s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Huge Contemporary French Expressionist Abstract Modernist Still Life Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Modernist Still Life by Andree de Fremont (French, contemporary) signed painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 39.5 x 39.5 inches Provenance: from a collection in France Condition: ver...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Acrylic

Modern Impressionist French Oil Painting Lush Garden Scene with Seated Figure
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modern Impressionist French Oil Painting Lush Garden Scene with Seated Figure by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting si...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

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...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

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...
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

R. QUEYRIE, Walking the Streets, Oil on Hardboard, 1950s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on hardboard signed R. QUEYRIE, France, 1950s. "Walking the streets". With frame: 55x47 cm - 21.65x18.5 inches - without frame: 46x38cm - 18.1x15 inches. 8F format. Signed "R. Qu...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Wild Mushrooms Harvest, Autumn, Magic Nature, Illustration Style, Orange Tones
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Wild Mushrooms IV" is an abstract expressionist painting by Romina Milano where a dance of black gestures unfolds across colorful brushstrokes infused with raw emotion. Romina Mil...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic, India Ink, Rag Paper

Vibrant Pastoral Landscape with Lush Greens and Pathway Through Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Jill Jackson (British, contemporary) Title: Vibrant Pastoral Landscape Medium: oil on un stretched canvas, unframed Painting : 26 x 18 inches Provenance: all th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

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Oil

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...
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1890s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

1970's French Modernist Signed Oil Nude Lady on Beach Superb Quality Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Place Privee' by Danie Gruau ( 20th Century French School) signed oil on canvas, unframed dated 76' canvas: 15 x 24 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very goo...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

How To Capture This Feeling - Whimsical Figurative Watercolor Graphite Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

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...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large French Post Impressionist Oil on Canvas, The Port of Cannes at Crépuscule
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large French Post Impressionist oil on canvas view of the Port of Cannes in the South of France by Moroccan Monegasque painter Emmanuel Bellini. The painting is signed bottom left an...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Seoul, Korea
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Seoul, Korea, 1954 - 56, watercolor on paper, signed lower right 21 x 28 inches (sight), Midtown Galleries label with artist’s name and title verso, likely exhibited at Kingman’s solo exhibition, Midtown Galleries, 1956, literature: Gruskin, Alan D., Saroyan, William (introduction), The Watercolors of Dong Kingman and How The Artist Works, The Studio Publications, Inc. in association with Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York and London (1958), p. 54 (illustrated) (“In Seoul on April 27th and 28th Kingman did some mountain sketching [see reproduction, on page 54, of handsome Kingman painting, “Seoul,” owned by Robert Clary...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

"Fortified Farm of Soujet" 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...
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1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"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...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Fabulous, Abstract 1960s Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Sleeping Female Nude
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fabulous, Abstract 1960s Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Sleeping Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. A sensuous, intimate studio depiction of a sleeping nude femal...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lost and Found Chickens
Located in Carmel, CA
A Hawaiian tropical painting features colorful chickens embedded, if not camouflaged in the verdant jungle.
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Landscape painting Cote d'Azur France MENTON Marine painter 20th Modern Art
Located in PARIS, FR
Lucien LAURENT-GESLL Paris, 1860 – Paris, 1944 View of the Bay of Menton on the Cote d'Azur Oil on canvas 81 x 100 cm Signed lower right “Laurent Gsell” Lucien Laurent-Gsell is the ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

French Gouache Painting of Sioux Scalp Dance Ritual in South Dakota
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Sioux Scalp Dance Ritual in South Dakota by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French) Signed: Yes Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

'Cubist Still Life', Italian School (circa 1940s)
Located in London, GB
'Cubist Still Life', gouache on paper, from the Italian School of artists (circa 1940s). Surely this very attractive piece was inspired by Juan Gris (1887-1927) and Georges Braque's ...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Charles Kvapil, "On the edge of the lake", ca.1920
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Charles Kvapil, France, ca.1920. "On the edge of the lake". with frame: 78x58.5x6 cm - 30.7x23x2.4 inches - without frame: 65x46 cm - 25.6x18.1 inches. 15M format. Signed lower left "Kvapil" Charles Kvapil was born in Czechoslovakia on November 1, 1884, and died in Paris in 1957. He takes courses at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. His first works are exhibited in 1908, at the Salon of Antwerp. In 1911, he exhibits in Munich; his works show a definite cubist influence in a well-tempered, organization and simplification bill. Arrived at a young age in Paris, he sets up his studio in Montmartre in the Hamlet of Artists, between Lepic Street and No. 11 Junot Avenue near those of Utrillo and Valadon; it is there that he will die. In 1912, he exhibits at the Salon des Independants. In 1914, he presents his works again in Belgium at the Brussels Triennal. After the war, he lives a very poor life but, with an optimistic temperament, he hopes to break through; he has to work to survive and he paints especially in the evening, especially during his first years in Paris. It is at the Salon des Independants in 1920 that Kvapil is revealed to the Parisian public. He exhibits six paintings: "My campaign", "portrait of woman", "Houseboat", "Poplars", "Bras St. Jean (landscape)" and "Still Life". He is domiciled at 233, rue d'Alésia in Montparnasse." "In the wake of the legendary figures of Montparnasse, in their shadow, and by them held at a relative discretion (the behavior of artists entering many into the brilliance of their career and the exclusive attachment to their production, without extension" social " " condemning them to darkness), is Charles Kvapil. He frequents the Parnassus café [...] and is exhibited there in a small group organized by A. Clergé, "the Company of professional painters and sculptors", which manifests itself in 1921. The preface is written by Romoff. A second follows shortly. It includes 102 participants, including Friesz, Lagar, Zorate Ortiz, Scouëzec, Astoy, Roysen, Loutreuil, Krémègne, Gallien, Goncharova, Lebedeff, Ramey, Kvapil. He remains attached to the folklore of the Bohemian painter whose Montparnasse is the field of exploits and the model of life "(Jean Jacques Lévêque" The Roaring Twenties, 1918-1939 - The Triumph of Modern Art ", 1992). He exhibits at the gallery Colette Weill. In 1923, his works are hung at Marcel Bernheim, then at Dalpeyrat, in Limoges, where he shows mostly landscapes. Subsequently, he participates in the Salon d'Automne; to that of 1941, he presents "Phlox", and in 1944 "At the window". In 1951, at the same Salon, he exhibites "Plaisir d'été" and "Le Goûter". He exhibits during his lifetime in Paris, Munich, Brussels, Geneva, Italy, Stockholm, London and New York. He is now represented in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the museums of Le Havre, Libourne, Rouen, Saint-Etienne, Amsterdam and Tunis. Charles Kvapil is known mainly as a painter of characters, especially for his representations of naked women for which his friend Ginette often served as a model; he painted models in the studio, sometimes in front of his window with the Montmartre hill in the background; often bathers or female nudes placed in groups of characters, in the manner of Courbet and the Impressionists at their beginning. He is also creator of many portraits; but he did not disdain either the still lifes, especially the bouquets of flowers, or the landscapes, which form an important part of his work. He painted many regions, including Corrèze, where he "knew how to grasp the character of the country that is not his, with his usual mastery" (SSHA Bulletin Corrèze), the Mediterranean coast, Corsica, where he stays regularly in the 1920s and 1930s; in Paris he participated in exhibitions of painters of Corsica in 1925 and 1933. In 1939, at a new exhibition of Art Corse, at the Gallery The Team, still in Paris, he presented two paintings titled "Costa Brugiata, Cap Corsica "and" View of Rogliano ". He is also the creator of "On the Island" (1923), "Querciolo, Rogliano" (1923), "Corsican Woman" (1924), "Landscape of Corsica" (1933) (information Cronica di a Corsica). Charles Kvapil was influenced by fauvism and a very temperate cubism; Paul Cézanne and to a certain extent Matisse (as a colorist), also marked his style. The desire of construction of the artists of the group to which Kvapil belongs, "did not lead to distortion, except once or twice at Kvapil" .... Kvapil and his friends "thus engaged in thorough technical studies according to the masters, all without exception have loved the beautiful solid and dense material. Their work is related, moreover, not to the classical tradition of transparent painting, but to that of the opaque painting of Frans Hals, Rembrandt and Chardin, almost alone in force since the beginning of the nineteenth century [...] so they paint all in dense pasta but without excessive excess "... (Germain Bazin," the love of art ", 1934). Charles Kvapil's paintings are original and modern, his nudes and bouquets of flowers are strong and powerful. His palette is rich in cobalt blue and warm colors. His technique is voluntary and powerful. His works in oil are often of modest size, sometimes painted on panels, or on cardboard. He also practiced with great skill the technique of pastel. P. Béran, in a study he has dedicated to him, praises the richness of his material and all that his art owes to the joy of living. "A work modeled on a life totally devoted to the pleasure of painting. (Jean Jacques Lévêque, ibid.) He was an indefatigable worker, and this is what he says: "the painter must speak little, but he must comb a lot" Bibliography Jean-Daniel Maublanc, Charles Kvapil, painter of figures, 72 p. Jean-Daniel Maublanc (preface by Louis Parrot), Perspectives - Marcel Lemar, François Eberl, Marcel Roche, Jacques Villon, Charles Kvapil, Charles Jacquemot, Pierre Bach...
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1920s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Family Farm in France
Located in London, GB
'Family Farm in France', gouache on art paper, by Michel Debiève (circa 1970s). An extremely endearing depiction of a French family farm, the delight is...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

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...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Classical Still Life Oil Painting Ornate Flowers on Stone Plinth Large Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life of Flowers on a Stone Plinth European artist, late 20th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 24 x 36 inches provenance: private collection, south west of England condi...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Original Mid Century San Francisco Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Mid Century San Francisco Oil Abstract Expressionist Painting of Coffee House Musician by Jean Hyson Vivid abstract expressionist painting by Jean...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Untitled, Krishna complaining to Yashoda, Figurative by Raja Ravi Verma-In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Raja Ravi Varma - Laxmi, 14.5 x 10.1 inches Oleograph, Circa (Framed & Delivered) Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian painter and artist. He is considered...
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1890s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Modern paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Modern paintings 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 paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Bernard Labbe, Christel Haag, Sunil Das, and Antonio Feltrinelli. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint 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 paintings, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available.

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