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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
Slapende jonge kat (Sleeping kitten)
Slapende jonge kat (Sleeping kitten)

Slapende jonge kat (Sleeping kitten)

Located in Middletown, NY

Lithograph on cream wove paper with a large, modern geometric watermark, 10 x 9 5/8 inches (255 x 245 mm), the full sheet. Signed, dated and numbered 4/25 in pencil in the lower right.

Category

Late 19th Century Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Laid Paper, Etching

Original "Wonderful Copenhagen" vintage travel poster
Original "Wonderful Copenhagen" vintage travel poster

Original "Wonderful Copenhagen" vintage travel poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original vintage poster: WONDERFUL COPENHAGEN created by the artist Viggo Vagnby. This antique poster is archival linen-backed, in excellent condition, and ready to frame. No da...

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1950s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Japanese Print, White-billed Pie - Signed Woodcut
Japanese Print, White-billed Pie - Signed Woodcut

Japanese Print, White-billed Pie - Signed Woodcut

By Mokuchu URUSHIBARA

Located in Paris, IDF

Mokuchu URUSHIBARA White-billed Pie, c. 1930 Woodcut after on an ink drawing Signed with the artist's stamp On paper 32 x 26.5 cm (c. 12.59 x 10.23 in) INFORMATION : Engraving pub...

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1930s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Horse
Horse

Horse

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "Horse" 1971, is an original etching on Wove paper by Japanese artist Akio Yamao, b.1933. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 13/50 in pencil by the artist. The artwor...

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Late 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Etching

Fir Play Intaglio Print, American Modern, Artist Proof #4/5, 2010+
Fir Play Intaglio Print, American Modern, Artist Proof #4/5, 2010+

Fir Play Intaglio Print, American Modern, Artist Proof #4/5, 2010+

By Carol Wax

Located in New Orleans, LA

A series of prints was commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum in New York in a regular edition of 40. This impression is from an edition of 5 artist proofs. This impression is #4/5. Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting. In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...

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2010s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Intaglio

Japanese Print, Crows on a Branch - Signed Woodcut
Japanese Print, Crows on a Branch - Signed Woodcut

Japanese Print, Crows on a Branch - Signed Woodcut

By Mokuchu URUSHIBARA

Located in Paris, IDF

Mokuchu URUSHIBARA Crows on a branch, c. 1930 Woodcut after on an ink drawing Signed with the artist's stamp On paper 38.5 x 28 cm (c. 15,15 x 11.02 in) INFORMATION : Engraving pu...

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1930s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Au Repos
Au Repos

Au Repos

By Graciela Rodo Boulanger

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Au Repos (At Rest)" 1983 is an original color lithograph on paper by noted Bolivian artist Graciela Rodo Boulanger, b.1935. It is hand signed and numbered 157/20...

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Late 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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...

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1960s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Cat and Mouse : Original etching, Handsigned
Cat and Mouse : Original etching, Handsigned

Cat and Mouse : Original etching, Handsigned

By Mordecai Moreh

Located in Paris, IDF

Mordecai MOREH Cat and Mouse, 1982 Original etching Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 300 On vellum 9 x 21 cm (c. 4 x 8 inch) INFORMATION : This etching was created for the Greeting ...

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1980s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Etching

The Monkey - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854

The Monkey - Original Lithograph by Paul Gervais - 1854

By Paul Gervais

Located in Roma, IT

The Monkey is an original lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by Paul Gervais (1816-1879). The artwork is from The Series of "Les Trois Règnes de la Nature", and was publishe...

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1850s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Japanese Print, Rearing Horse - Signed Woodcut
Japanese Print, Rearing Horse - Signed Woodcut

Japanese Print, Rearing Horse - Signed Woodcut

By Mokuchu URUSHIBARA

Located in Paris, IDF

Mokuchu URUSHIBARA Rearing Horse, c. 1930 Woodcut after on an ink drawing Signed with the artist's stamp On paper 26 x 32 cm (c. 10,2 x 12.5 in) INFORMATION : Engraving published b...

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1930s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Japanese Print, Pair of horses playing (red) - Signed Woodcut
Japanese Print, Pair of horses playing (red) - Signed Woodcut

Japanese Print, Pair of horses playing (red) - Signed Woodcut

By Mokuchu URUSHIBARA

Located in Paris, IDF

Mokuchu URUSHIBARA Pair of horses playing (red), c. 1930 Woodcut after on an ink drawing Signed with the artist's stamp On paper 28 x 39 cm (c. 11.02 x 15.35 in) INFORMATION : Engr...

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1930s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Japanese Print, Herons - Signed Woodcut
Japanese Print, Herons - Signed Woodcut

Japanese Print, Herons - Signed Woodcut

By Mokuchu URUSHIBARA

Located in Paris, IDF

Mokuchu URUSHIBARA Herons, c. 1930 Woodcut after on an ink drawing Signed with the artist's stamp On paper 32.5 x 22 cm (c. 12.59 x 8.66 in) INFORMATION : Engraving published by Mo...

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1930s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Woodcut

THE INTRUDER - Arts and Crafts Woodcut
THE INTRUDER - Arts and Crafts Woodcut

THE INTRUDER - Arts and Crafts Woodcut

By Jessie Arms Botke

Located in Santa Monica, CA

JESSIE ARMS BOTKE (1883 – 1971) THE INTRUDER c. 1930 Color woodcut, signed, titled and inscribed “Botke prints” Image 9 ¾ x 11”, sheet 11 7/8 x 14 3/4" On cream laid paper. Califor...

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1930s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Color

Japanese Print, The Flight of the Crows at Sunset - Signed Woodcut
Japanese Print, The Flight of the Crows at Sunset - Signed Woodcut

Japanese Print, The Flight of the Crows at Sunset - Signed Woodcut

By Mokuchu URUSHIBARA

Located in Paris, IDF

Mokuchu URUSHIBARA The Flight of the Crows at Sunset, c. 1930 Woodcut after on an ink drawing Signed with the artist's stamp On paper 39.5 x 28 cm (c. 15,35 x 11.02 in) INFORMATIO...

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1930s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Japanese Print, Koi Carp - Signed Woodcut
Japanese Print, Koi Carp - Signed Woodcut

Japanese Print, Koi Carp - Signed Woodcut

By Mokuchu URUSHIBARA

Located in Paris, IDF

Mokuchu URUSHIBARA Koi Carp, c. 1930 Woodcut after on an ink drawing Signed with the artist's stamp On paper 30 x 24 cm (c. 11.81 x 9.44 in) INFORMATION : Engraving published by Mo...

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1930s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Woodcut

The Leap  - Etching by  Henry Alke - 1846

The Leap - Etching by Henry Alke - 1846

By Henry Alken

Located in Roma, IT

Etching and aquatint realized by Henry Alken in 1846. Plate from "The Analysis of the Hunting Field". Very good condition. Henry Alken (1765-1851) was en english painter and engrav...

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Mid-19th Century Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Japanese Print, Horse Bowing - Signed Woodcut
Japanese Print, Horse Bowing - Signed Woodcut

Japanese Print, Horse Bowing - Signed Woodcut

By Mokuchu URUSHIBARA

Located in Paris, IDF

Mokuchu URUSHIBARA Horse bowing, c. 1930 Woodcut after on an ink drawing Signed with the artist's stamp On paper 26 x 35 cm (c. 10.2 x 13.7 in) INFORMATION : Engraving published by...

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1930s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Woodcut

The Cat - Lithograph by Giselle Halff - 1950s

The Cat - Lithograph by Giselle Halff - 1950s

By Giselle Halff

Located in Roma, IT

The Cat is a lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by Giselle Halff in 1950 ca. Hand-signed by pencil on the lower right. Numbered. Edition, 19/20. Good conditions, slight fo...

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1950s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing

Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing

By (after) Alexander Calder

Located in Surfside, FL

(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in the 1930's) these range slightly in size but they are all about 13 X 17 inches (with minor variations in size as issued.) These have never been framed. The outer folio is not included just the one lithograph. James Sweeny from the introduction “The fame of Calder’s circus spread quickly between the years 1927 and 1930. All the Paris art world came to know it. It brought him his first great personal success. But what was more important, the circus also provided the first steps in Calder’s development as an original sculptor” Clive Gray wrote ”A visit to the studio of Alexander Calder led to the chance discovery of some hundred masterful circus drawings completed over thirty years ago. We publish, for the first time, a choice of sixteen from that group.” With signed introduction by Miro. These whimsical drawings, done in the style of wire sculpture, include acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeeze artists, an elephant, dog and lion. they are great. Alexander Calder is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic. Born into a family of accomplished artists, Calder's work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943. Major retrospectives were also held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974). Calder’s work is in many permanent collections, most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie International prize winner 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport) Spirale (UNESCO in Paris, 1958), Flamingo and Universe (both in Chicago, 1974), and Mountains and Clouds (Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1976). Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children’s book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestry and rug works, and political posters. Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War. Calder moved to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton, George Luks, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan. While a student, he worked for the National Police Gazette where, in 1925, one of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Calder became fascinated with the action of the circus, a theme that would reappear in his later work. In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, enrolled in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Fernand Léger, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Cirque Calder (on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art at present) became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. He also invented wire sculpture, or "drawing in space," and in 1929 he had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet. Hi! (Two Acrobats) in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an early example of the artist's wire sculpture. The painter Jules Pascin, a friend of Calder's from the cafes of Montparnasse, wrote the preface to the catalog. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending. Dating from 1931, Calder’s sculptures of discrete movable parts powered by motors were christened “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp, a French pun meaning both "motion" and "motive." At the same time, Calder was also experimenting with self-supporting, static, abstract sculptures, dubbed "stabiles" by Jean Arp in 1932 to differentiate them from mobiles. Public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are .125 for JFK Airport in 1957, Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and Trois disques, commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Calder's largest sculpture at 25.7 meters high was El Sol Rojo, constructed outside the Aztec Stadium for the 1968 Summer Olympics "Cultural Olympiad" events in Mexico City. Many of his public works were commissioned by renowned architects; I.M. Pei commissioned his La Grande Voile (1966), a 25-ton, 40-foot high stabile for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of Calder's repertoire includes pivotal stage sets for more than a dozen theatrical productions, including Nucléa, Horizon, and most notably, Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935), a production of the Erik Satie symphonic drama Socrate (1936), and later, Works in Progress (1968). In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals.As Calder’s professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings hit the market, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available for sale. One of Calder's most celebrated and unconventional undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas." Calder created over 2,000 pieces of jewelry over the course of his career, many of them as gifts for friends and relatives. For his lifelong friend Joan Miró, he set a shard of a broken porcelain vessel in a brass ring. Peggy Guggenheim received enormous silver mobile earrings and later commissioned a hammered silver headboard...

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1930s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Elephant Family" Large original serigraph.
"Elephant Family" Large original serigraph.

"Elephant Family" Large original serigraph.

By LeRoy Neiman

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Elephant Family" 1983 is an original large color serigraph on paper by noted American artist Leroy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 63/300 in pe...

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Late 20th Century Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Owl - Plamienka Driemavá Etching, Modern E.A. 1/1, Unframed

Owl - Plamienka Driemavá Etching, Modern E.A. 1/1, Unframed

Located in Slovak Republic, SK

Etching on fine art paper, E.A. 1/1 from the cycle " Botanical Dream Nr. 11", presented in the Danubiana Meulenstein Art Museum in Bratislava/2021..

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Animal Prints

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Etching

Modern animal prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Modern animal prints 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 animal prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, yellow, blue, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Jean Jeacques Grandville, Louis Legrand, TURPIN, P[ierre Jean Francois], and Pablo Picasso. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Etching 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 animal prints, so small editions measuring 1.5 inches across are also available. Prices for animal prints 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 $36 and tops out at $35,000, while the average work sells for $176.