$27,500
"Woman Recumbent" Sally Michel Avery, Vibrant Blue, Modernist Nude, Interior
Located in New York, NY
Roberta Smith wrote "Without Sally Michel there would have been no Milton Avery, or at least not as much.
Oil, Board
Seated Figure
Located in Rockland, ME
Sally Michel Biography American, 1902-2003 Sally Michel Avery was an American painter known for her lyrical depictions of everyday life.
Oil
"Taking in the Nets" March Avery, 1967 Abstracted Sea Scape With Fishermen
By March Avery
Located in New York, NY
March Avery Taking in the Nets, 1967 Signed, titled and dated on the stretcher Oil on canvas 16 x 22 inches March Avery was born in New York in 1932 to painters Milton Avery and Sa...
Canvas, Oil
$322,000
White Hen
By Milton Avery
Located in London, GB
Avery moved to New York in 1925 and in 1926 married Sally Michel, whose earnings as an illustrator enabled him to concentrate more fully on painting.
Mixed Media, Board
Unavailable
H 27 in W 41 in
"Five Birches" by Sally Michel Avery, Oil on canvas, 1977
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in Abilene, TX
It is hand-signed by the artist. Sally Michel Avery (1902 - 2003) Five Birches, 1977 Oil on canvas 27 x 41 in. 28 ⅜ x 42 ⅜ in. framed Signed lower right: 'Sally Michel 1977' Sig...
Canvas, Oil
Unavailable
H 39 in W 39 in
"Stream Side" by Sally Michel Avery, Oil on canvas, 1976
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in Abilene, TX
A large square landscape oil painting by Sally Michel Avery, in her signature style of simplified forms and playful color palettes.
Canvas, Oil
Unavailable
H 11.5 in W 15.5 in
"Quiet Cove" by Sally Michel Avery, Oil on canvas board, 1974
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in Abilene, TX
A horizontal seascape oil painting in vibrant red, blue, tan, and green by Sally Michel Avery. This work, like much of Michel-Avery's, straddles the line between representational and...
Canvas, Oil, Board
Unavailable
H 12 in W 16 in
"Various Trees" by Sally Michel Avery, Oil on canvas board, 1985
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in Abilene, TX
It is hand-signed by the artist. Sally Michel Avery Various Trees, 1985 Oil on canvas board 12 x 16 in 13 x 17 in framed Provenance: Estate of the artist Private Collection, USA...
Canvas, Oil, Board
Unavailable
H 30 in W 36 in
Sally Michel Avery Original Painting Oil On Board Signed Floral Framed Artwork
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in Bloomington, MN
You do not want to miss this authentic item from the master of modern art, Sally Michel Avery. Sally Michel Avery (1902 - 2003): An American born modernist painter who was studied ...
Oil, Board
Spring Landscape
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Sally Michel painted alongside her husband Milton Avery over the nearly forty years of their marriage.
Board, Oil
Wooded Shore
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Sally Michel painted alongside her husband Milton Avery over the nearly forty years of their marriage.
Board, Oil
Autumn Fantasy
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Sally Michel painted alongside her husband Milton Avery over the nearly forty years of their marriage.
Canvas, Oil
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H 52 in W 36 in
"Rushing Brook #2, " Abstract Mid-Century Modern Landscape, Sally Michel Avery
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Roberta Smith wrote "Without Sally Michel there would have been no Milton Avery, or at least not as much.
Canvas, Oil
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H 23.25 in W 19.25 in
"Lady with Cat" Figurative Female with Kitten, American Modernism
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Sally Michel Avery (1902 - 2003) Seated Lady with Cat, 1989 Oil on canvasboard 15 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation has seen this painting in person and...
Canvas, Oil, Board
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H 12.25 in W 18.25 in D 0.75 in
Milton Avery Female Odalisque Signed Modern Woodcut Artist's Proof 1953 Framed
By Milton Avery
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
He was the husband of artist Sally Michel Avery and the father of artist March Avery.
Paper
Small Trees, Big Mountains
By Milton Avery
Located in White Plains, NY
Moving to New York in 1925, his wife the artist Sally Michel Avery supported the two of them by working as a commercial illustrator in the city.
Paper, Oil
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H 14 in W 17 in
"Bucolic Landscape" Sally Michel Avery, Female American Modernist Bright Pastel
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Roberta Smith wrote "Without Sally Michel there would have been no Milton Avery, or at least not as much.
Canvas, Oil, Board
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H 23.5 in W 27.5 in
"Floral Still Life, " Sally Michel Avery, Female American Modernist Bright Pastel
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Roberta Smith wrote "Without Sally Michel there would have been no Milton Avery, or at least not as much.
Canvas, Oil, Board
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H 23.25 in W 19.25 in
"Best Friend, " Sally Michel Avery, American Modernist Art, Woman with Cat
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Roberta Smith wrote "Without Sally Michel there would have been no Milton Avery, or at least not as much.
Oil, Board
Sally Michel Avery Signed Oil on Canvas "Grazing Horses", 1989
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Michel's works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Corcoran Gallery among others in the USA and worldwide.
Canvas
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H 30.5 in W 40.5 in
'Flight' offset lithograph poster with birds after painting by Milton Avery
By Milton Avery
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In 1917 he began working night jobs in order to paint in the daytime. In 1924 he met Sally Michel, a young art student, and in 1926 they married; her income as an illustrator enable...
Lithograph, Offset
“The Music Player” by Milton Avery
By Milton Avery
Located in Sheffield, MA
He continued his studies in art at the School of the Art Society of Hartford and eventually became a member of the Connecticut Academy of the Fine Arts. Soon after meeting Sally Mic...
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H 31.375 in W 42 in
"Flight, " Expressionist Landscape with Birds Poster by Milton Avery
By Milton Avery
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In 1917 he began working night jobs in order to paint in the daytime. In 1924 he met Sally Michel, a young art student, and in 1926 they married; her income as an illustrator enabled...
Other Medium
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H 35.5 in W 47 in
"Hills and Trees" by Sally Michel Avery, Oil on canvas, 1980
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in Abilene, TX
It comes in a simple, light-colored wood frame. Sally Michel Avery (American, 1902 - 2003) Hills and Trees, 1980 Oil on canvas 35 ½ x 47 in. 38 x 50 in. framed Signed and dated ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 24 in W 30 in
Sally Michel Avery Oil Painting On Board Signed Large Landscape Original Artwork
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in Bloomington, MN
You do not want to miss this authentic item from the master of modern art, Sally Michel Avery. Sally Michel Avery (1902 - 2003): An American born modernist painter who was studied ...
Canvas, Oil
Field in Hilly Landscape
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Sally Michel painted alongside her husband Milton Avery over the nearly forty years of their marriage.
Board, Oil
Hilly Shore with Rocks
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Sally Michel painted alongside her husband Milton Avery over the nearly forty years of their marriage.
Board, Oil
Stone Wall
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Sally Michel painted alongside her husband Milton Avery over the nearly forty years of their marriage.
Board, Oil
Forest Edge
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Sally Michel painted alongside her husband Milton Avery over the nearly forty years of their marriage.
Board, Oil
Path Through Spring Woods
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Sally Michel painted alongside her husband Milton Avery over the nearly forty years of their marriage.
Board, Oil
Woman by the Lake
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in New York, NY
Sally Michel painted alongside her husband Milton Avery over the nearly forty years of their marriage.
Board, Oil
Woman by the Lake, 1953
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in Concord, MA
SALLY MICHEL AVERY Woman by the Lake, 1953 Oil on board 23 7/8 x 23 3/4 inches Estate stamp verso PROVENANCE The artist The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, New York, New Yo...
Oil
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H 28 in W 42 in
Sally Michel Avery Original Painting Oil On Canvas Signed Large Floral Artwork
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in Bloomington, MN
You do not want to miss this authentic item from the master of modern art, Sally Michel Avery. Sally Michel Avery (1902 - 2003): An American born modernist painter who was studied ...
Canvas, Oil
Spring Forest, 1956
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in Concord, MA
SALLY MICHEL AVERY Spring Forest, 1956 Oil on board 24 x 24 inches Signed and dated at lower right: Sally Michel / 1956 PROVENANCE The artist The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Found...
Oil
Milton Avery Artist with Arms Folded
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in Rego Park, NY
Portrait of the artist Milton Avery in chair with folded arms by his wife Sally Michel Avery (1902-2003). A modernist painter and illustrator, Sally Michel, also known as Sally Aver...
Paper, Mixed Media
Aegean Sea
By Sally Michel-Avery
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated lower right: "Sally Michel/ 1967".
Oil
Geometric Mid Century Open Bookcase
Located in Westwood, NJ
Finished in Batavia Black with a Sandbar finish interior, this bookcase showcases rhythmic, crescent-shaped oval cut-outs that form an architectural silhouette—an homage to the sculp...
Wood
$15,439 / item
H 32.68 in W 110.24 in D 40.56 in
Art Deco Sofa by Munna Design Studio with Velvet Upholstery
By Munna Design Studio
Located in New York, NY
This sofa features a wonderfully elegant fan-shaped motif, with its accentuated curvy lines with decadent and lavish finish. The feminine curves are ravishingly enhanced by the diffe...
Velvet
$4,825Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 23.63 in Dm 27.56 in
Rezzonico chandelier 5 arms clear Murano glass, multicolor details by Multiforme
By Multiforme
Located in Venezia, Veneto
Kia Ora chandelier 5 lights clear Murano glass with blue and ruby trims, multicolour vitreous paste details. Kia Ora is the combination of the traditional Venetian structure with g...
Blown Glass, Art Glass, Murano Glass
$2,052 / item
H 40 in W 30 in D 0.03 in
"Les Terrains" Signed Limited Edition Art Print by Christiane Lemieux - 30"x40"
Located in New York, NY
Our first limited edition fine art print “Les Terrains” is an emotive abstract landscape translated in gouache, charcoal and pastel. Created by artist Christiane Lemieux, there will ...
Paper
Untitled
By Richard Pousette-Dart
Located in Miami, FL
Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the firs...
Masonite, Acrylic
$164,086
H 23.63 in W 28.75 in
'Agay, le château et le Sémaphore'. Oil on canvas. Signed.
By Armand Guillaumin
Located in Paris, FR
'Agay, le château et le Sémaphore'. Oil on canvas. +/- 1922 Signed lower right Measurements : 60 x 73 cm. This painting will be recorded in the second volume of the Catalogue Raisonn...
Oil
$401Sale Price|26% Off
H 24.02 in W 19.69 in
Boat Spain Oil on Canvas Painting, Photorealist, Framed, 1990s
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez Frame size 75x64 cm.
Canvas, Oil
Airplane in landscape - landscape painting
By Jeroen Allart
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful painting by Jeroen Allart is part of his minimalist landscape and animal painting he did in his home country the Netherlands. 'A farm stands before you on the horizon....
Canvas, Oil
L'hymne du Roi David (King David's Dream)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Boca Raton, FL
L'hymne du Roi David (King David's Dream) Oil on wood by Marc Chagall c late 70's Comes with Numbered and Verified Certificate of Authenticity from Comite Chagall in Paris signed and...
Oil
$95,000
H 27 in W 33 in
The Red Shoes (Erotic), Ink and Watercolor Painting by George Grosz
By George Grosz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Grosz, German (1893 - 1959) Title: Sex Scene in Red Shoes (Erotic) Year: circa 1940 Medium: Watercolor, Pen and Ink on Paper, signed Size: 17 x 22 in. (43.18 x 55.88 c...
Ink, Watercolor
$14,000
H 25.5 in W 21 in
"Untitled" Edward Zutrau, 1963 Post-Painterly Abstraction Expressionist Work
By Edward Zutrau
Located in New York, NY
Edward Zutrau Untitled, 2/17/1963 Signed and dated on verso Oil on linen 25 1/2 x 21 inches Edward Zutrau is among the American artists who worked within the whirlwind of diverse a...
Linen, Oil
Corps de Ballet
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Signed, original, 1994, oil–on-canvas painting, Corps de Ballet by significant American artist, Wolf Kahn (b. 1927). Winner: Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships. Award in Art from...
Canvas, Oil
"Country Haircut"
By Milton Avery
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by Milton Avery (1885 – 1965). Milton Avery was a prominent Modernist painter whose work combined abstraction and...
Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
Untitled
By Milton Avery
Located in PARIS, FR
Milton Avery, in full Milton Clark Avery, (born March 7, 1893, Altmar, New York, U.S.—died January 3, 1965, New York City), painter noted in his later years for depicting the human f...
Pencil, Paper, Ink
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.
Find a collection of modern paintings, sculptures, prints and other fine art on 1stDibs.
Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, explore and communicate ideas and express themselves. To bring abstract paintings, landscape paintings, still-life paintings and other original paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.
When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Like every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly see and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.
Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs.
Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.
No matter your preference, whether you favor Post-Impressionist paintings, animal paintings, Surrealism, Pop art or another movement or specific period, arranging art on a blank wall allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests. A symmetrical wall arrangement may comprise a grid of four to six pieces or, for an odd number of works, a horizontal row. Asymmetrical arrangements, which may be small clusters of art or large, salon-style gallery walls, have a more collected and eclectic feel.
Download the 1stDibs app, which includes a handy “View on Wall” feature that allows you to see how a particular artwork will look on a particular wall, and read about how to arrange wall art. And if you’re searching for the perfect palette for your interior design project, what better place to turn than to the art world’s masters of color?
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