Modern Paintings
MODERN STYLE
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
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Style: Modern
Pair Unusual Framed Oil on Board Interior Scenes with Cats
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An unusual pair framed oil paintings on board of interior scenes with cats, one signed Edward Andrews and the other Emiliano Jnr and dated 1992. The almost square shaped paintings ar...
Category
1990s British Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood
Painting - Portrait of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Dog - by Robert Detrixhe
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful painting, a portrait of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel dog.
The painting was made by the Belgian artist Robert Detrixhe. The painter was born in 1935 and was particularl...
Category
1980s Belgian Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Painting - Portrait of a Collie Dog - by Robert Detrixhe
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful painting, a portrait of Collie dog.
The painting was made by the Belgian artist Robert Detrixhe. The painter was born in 1935 and was particularly active at the end of th...
Category
1980s Belgian Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Painting - Portrait of a Chihuahua Dog - By Robert Detrixhe
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful painting, a portrait of a Chihuahua dog.
The painting was made by the Belgian artist Robert Detrixhe. The painter was born in 1935 and was particularly active at the end ...
Category
1980s Belgian Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
3 Seated Dalmatian Neoclassical Interior, Anderson School /Workshop, Unframed
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Three Seated Dalmatians in Neoclassical Interior, Anderson School / Workshop, Unframed, 20th Century
This monumental painting, titled Three Seated Dalmatians in Neoclassical Interi...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Watercolor Painting Chanel No. 5 Perfume
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful watercolor painting of the iconic Chanel No. 5 perfume bottle, signed by artist, 2012, New York, USA. A beautiful and well-done watercolor painting of the iconic Chanel N...
Category
2010s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Metal
WWII Private Theater: Gay American Soldier in Reflection
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
WWII, how are you? Private Theater: Gay American Soldier in Reflection, Original WWII-Era Gouache, Signed CSG
A highly nuanced, emotionally layered, and visually accomplished original painting in gouache and watercolor on Whatman drawing board, signed CSG lower right. This rare mid-20th-century work portrays a seated U.S. Army Air Forces officer—smiling faintly, cigarette in hand, and with a small black-bound diary resting on his lap—lost in reverie as smoke from his cigarette rises and transforms into the visages of three idealized male figures. Rendered in an illustrative realist style with tonal sensitivity and surreal suggestion, the composition invites interpretation as an interior portrait of desire, intimacy, and memory—quietly coded, emotionally sincere, and possibly autobiographical.
The figure wears a regulation-issue A-2 leather flight jacket, iconic of U.S. Army Air Forces personnel during WWII. The jacket is detailed with a personalized, hand-painted circular patch depicting a lion rampant in a blue roundel—a heraldic symbol of power, pride, and possibly self-invention. An American flag patch is affixed to the left shoulder. The jacket, traditionally worn by bomber crews, officers, and pilots, functions here not only as a marker of military identity but as a gendered and cultural signifier—suggesting the complex intersection of duty, masculinity, and private identity. The slightly open collar, relaxed posture, and cigarette suggest the officer is off-duty—physically grounded but mentally elsewhere.
The seated figure’s companions—summoned in smoke—appear above and behind him in a dreamlike procession: a helmeted infantryman, a pilot in goggles, and a hat-wearing civilian (?) man posed in pin-up style. Each face is rendered with tenderness and idealization, not as ghosts or casualties, but as romantic or erotic conquests: remembered lovers, fleeting encounters, or imagined partners. Their expressions, softly lit and emotionally present, reflect a form of desire neither tormented nor tragic. This is not a meditation on loss but on intimacy remembered, perhaps treasured.
On the table beside him rests a small bronze Buddha...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Glass, Giltwood, Paper
Peter Keil, Untitled Portrait - II
By Peter Keil
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Peter Keil, Untitled Portrait - II, Berlin, 1970s
Oil on Board, Unframed,Artist Board 39" x 27"
This captivating piece, titled "Untitled Portrait - II," was created by the distingui...
Category
20th Century German Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood
$1,160 Sale Price
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Lundy Siegrest Abstract “Green Horizon” c1971
Located in Oakland, CA
Incredible beautiful textured painting by California artist, Lundy Siegriest c1971. Hard to capture the wonderful texture in this painting. The medium is oil paint and plaster. It's ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paint
Gérard Calvet French, (b. 1926) Expressionist Gruissan Mountainous Landscape
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Gérard Calvet French (b. 1926)
Expressionist Gruissan Mountainous Landscape
French painter and sculptor (1926–2017)
An exquisite oil on canvas by renowned French painter and sculpt...
Category
20th Century French Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
$3,160 Sale Price
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Three Shells - Still Life with Sea Shells and a Glass Vessel, Oil on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
The simplicity of "Three Shells is deceptive. Upon closer look, the viewer sees the faint shadows cast onto the reflective surface of the table along with the delicate surface of the...
Category
2010s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Large Acrylic on Canvas, Pascal Magis (1955-2011)
By Pascal Magis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Truly a spectacular piece, this acrylic on canvas is by French artist, Pascal Magis. Known for his use of color, Magis uses acrylics as though the paint h...
Category
1990s French Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
20th Century Constructivist Mixed Technique Russian Painting
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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20th-century constructivist mixed technique Russian painting...
Category
1920s Russian Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
'Chucho' Reyes Signed Gouache on Paper of a Colorful Rooster
Located in Sharon, CT
Beautiful gouache painting on un-mounted tracing paper by the famous Mexican Artist Jesus 'Chucho' Reyes Ferreria (1882-1977). 29x19", signed lower left, framed 42x32".
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Clearing Up" Original Painting by Ira Barkoff
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Oil on canvas signed in the upper right. Measurements listed include the frame. The canvas measures 30" x 40". It is in excellent condition and ready to hang.
Born in 1934 in B...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Vintage Tropical Beachscape Painting by John Kiraly
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Striking tropical acrylic painting on canvas of a beach with palm trees, flowers, sand and sky sprayed with sunlight and shade, executed in a bold modern technique. Signed John Kiral...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Painting by Mexican Artist Jesus Leuus, Mexico 1983, Signed & Dated
By Jesus Leuus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Introducing a true masterpiece from renowned Mexican artist Jesus Leuus, this exquisite painting captures the essence of Mexican culture with its vibrant colors and exceptional atten...
Category
1980s Mexican Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite
Painting by Jill Troutman
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
An interesting floral painting by Jill Troutman (Born 1939, active Mebane, North Carolina). Framed.
Category
1970s American Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Original Modern Abstract Painting by Shannon Weir
Located in Houston, TX
Original contemporary black and white painting acrylic on panel in antique gold frame. Signed on the bottom right.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood, Masonite, Paint
Michael Qvarsebo, listed Swedish artist. Oil on board. Abstract composition
Located in København, Copenhagen
Michael Qvarsebo (born 1945), listed Swedish artist.
Oil on board.
Abstract composition with impasto brushstrokes.
In perfect condition.
Signed and d...
Category
1960s Swedish Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Other
Dutch Mixed Media Lady
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A recently made painting of a lady by an unknown Dutch artist. The mixed media collection of materials on canvas depicts a lady's face and is framed in a simple wood frame. Be sure t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
French Vintage Framed Painting of Poppies
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A French early to mid-20th century oil on panel still life painting in a modern and vibrant palette of gold, orange, red, and purple to capture the vase of poppies set before a windo...
Category
20th Century French Modern Paintings
Materials
Linen, Paint
Australian Aboriginal Painting by Kathleen Petyarre with Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
A contemporary aboriginal painting by Kathleen Petyarre (1940-2018). The highly collectible painting was from 2012. It is stretched (no frame but ready to hang) and comes with a copy...
Category
2010s Australian Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood
Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime Painting Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa
Located in Atlanta, GA
A stunning abstract painting by Australian Aboriginal artist Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (also known as Mrs. Bennett; 1935-2013). Acrylic on Belgium Linen and painted in 2006. Untitled, t...
Category
Early 2000s Australian Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
1960 Agostino Piazza Tino da Noale Italian Art Naif Big Paint Wood
Located in Brescia, IT
Big Hand-painted panel
Agostino Piazza
Italy, 1960
Colorfull Art Naif by Agostino Piazza.
Paint on wood
Very good condiction
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood
Nils Johansson, Sweden, Oil on Board, Abstract Composition
Located in København, Copenhagen
Nils Johansson (1922-2014), Sweden. Oil on board.
Abstract composition. Dated 1961.
The board measures: 40 x 32 cm.
The frame measures: 1.5 cm.
In ...
Category
1960s Swedish Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Other
Jan Voss, Mixed Media
Located in Kastrup, DK
Jan Voss, born in 1936 in Hamburg (Germany) and have been living in Paris since 1960.
Mixed media on paper, watercolor, 1984.
Title: '"Après l'averse"'
Signed Voss...
Category
Late 20th Century French Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
$2,600
Paul VerBurg Ageless Signed Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A contemporary Abstract Expressionist oil painting on canvas titled "Ageless" by Paul VerBurg. Hand signed lower right. A richly textured abstract composition that evokes both natura...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Georges Braque Framed 'Paysage à l'Estaque' Color Lithography, circa 1906
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Step into the enchanting world of Georges Braque with the original 'Paysage à l'Estaque' color lithograph, a masterpiece painted in France circa 1906. This lithograph, edited and printed in France in the 1970s, captures the essence of Braque's artistic brilliance and is a testament to his significant contributions to Fauvism and the development of Cubism.
Framed to perfection and signed in the stone, this lithograph is not just a piece of art; it's a window into the mind of a major 20th-century French painter. Georges Braque's work between 1908 and 1912 is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso, and this piece reflects the indistinguishable nature of their Cubist works...
Category
1970s French Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
Pablo Picasso Collectible Art Book First Edition, 1955
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage, 1955, first edition, Picasso, S.P.A.D.E.M. Paris, Boeck and Sabartes,
Vintage, Pablo Picasso, First Edition, 1955.
Pablo Picasso, Library or Coffee Table Book,.
Description:...
Category
20th Century Spanish Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
Mid 20th Century Modern Artwork - Still Life - Oil Paint on Canvas
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful modern oil painting by the French artist Jean Amiot. Oil on canvas. The artwork is signed lower right.
Framed in a beautiful wooden frame, proba...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Victor Isbrand, Danish Modernist Still Life with Flowers, Oil on Canvas, 1945
Located in Kastrup, DK
A vibrant and distinctive still life painting depicting a blooming bouquet in an ornamented jug alongside a decorated bowl, arranged on a lively striped surface with a deep blue back...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Oil Painting Abstract post impressionist from Venitian Palace, Italy Venise 1970
Located in La xara, VC
Exceptional oil on wood panel period abstract gift 1970, large format approaching an impressionist atmosphere ... water lily. work commissioned for a palace on the Italian coast near...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
$11,365 Sale Price
52% Off
"Tree Talk" by Ren Hui
By Ren Hui
Located in Chicago, IL
Entitled "Tree Talk," this exquisite painting by Chinese artist Ren Hui celebrates the beauty of nature with an abstracted view of a tangle of tree branches. Using a style he calls “...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
$6,880
Huge Oil painting on canvas - Louis Cane, France 1983
By Louis Cane
Located in Stockholm, SE
A stunning oil painting on a canvas by the French artist Louis Cane, dated 1983. The painting is 130 x 104 cm and is namned "Picknick in the green". It is in excellent condition and ...
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mojin Nagasaki Abstract Nude 1952 Japan
Located in Oakland, CA
Stunning vintage Japanese abstract nude by Morin Nagasaki c1952. Acquired in Tokyo. Amazing texture and execution. Wonderfully framed.
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
Massive Abstract Acrylic on Canvas, Pascal Magis (1955-2011)
By Pascal Magis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is an absolutely beautiful acrylic on canvas by French artist, Pascal Magnis. A master of color, Magnis creates a canvas in which the colors and shapes appear to be jumping off the canvas. At the grand size of 9'10" x 6'9" this would ignite that drab wall! The artwork is signed in the lower right corner.
Below From: Wimbledon Fine Art
"Pascal Magis...
Category
1990s French Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vintage Oil Painting - 1960s Nude Female Figure
Located in San Carlos, CA
🌟 For Sale: Stunning Vintage Oil Painting - 1960s Nude Female Figure 🌟
Add a touch of timeless artistry to your space with this fantastic, large oil painting on canvas. This strik...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Set of Two Framed Sylvia Schuster Portraits
Located in Chicago, IL
This set of Sylvia Schuster portraits, each depicting a face in three-quarter profile rendered in black ink on paper, are quintessential examples of her profound ability to distill t...
Category
1970s American Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Clemmen Clemmens Painting Flowers in Vase oil on canvas, Denmark 1960
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Modern Clemmen Clemmensen painting oil on canvas. 70 x 66 cm (27,5" x 26"), Denmark circa 1960. The painting is painted in a classic modern style with a slightly expressive character...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Large Framed 20th Century Dutch School Winter Scene, John Haanstra, Oil on Board
Located in Morristown, NJ
John Haanstra (Dutch, b. 1940), signed and dated 1985 on lower right. A charming oil painting, showing a winter landscape. Skaters are enjoying seasonal fun on a frozen canal while others go about their daily activities. A typical Dutch windmill can be seen in the background. Typical Dutch style housing can be seen in the foreground. The sky seems to be laden with more snow, creating the sense of more winter fun...
Category
1980s Dutch Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Ignacio Burgos "El Abrazo(The Hug)" Mixed Media Painting, Spain
By Ignacio Burgos
Located in Miami, FL
Ignacio Burgos "El Abrazo(The Hug)" Mixed Media Painting, Spain
Offered for sale is a mixed media on canvas titled "El Abrazo" which translates to "The Hug" from a series of the sa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Australian Aboriginal Painting by Emily Kame Kngwarreye Provenance
By Emily Kngwarreye
Located in Atlanta, GA
A stunning large painting by one of the best-known aboriginal painters from Australia Emily Kame Kngwarreye. It was created in 1990s and depicts one of her dreaming "Wildflower Dream...
Category
Late 20th Century Australian Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Celadon Shadow" Kite by Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Bamboo, Paint, Paper
André Derain Framed 'Paysage à l'Estaque' Color Lithography, circa 1972
By André Derain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Original 'Hyde Park' color lithograph by André Derain.
Lithograph printed from an original painting made by the author in France in 1906.
Published by Fernand Mourlot in Les Fauves. Paris, circa 1972.
Framed and signed in the stone.
Frame will be slightly different from the one on the photos, each piece will be framed once it sells, this is an exhibition frame.
In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina.
About the Artist:
André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.
Derain and Matisse worked together through the summer of 1905 in the Mediterranean village of Collioure and later that year displayed their highly innovative paintings at the Salon d'Automne. The vivid, unnatural colors led the critic Louis Vauxcelles to derisively dub their works as les Fauves, or "the wild beasts", marking the start of the Fauvist movement. In March 1906, the noted art dealer Ambroise Vollard sent Derain to London to produce a series of paintings with the city as subject. In 30 paintings (29 of which are still extant), Derain presented a portrait of London that was radically different from anything done by previous painters of the city such as Whistler or Monet. With bold colors and compositions, Derain painted multiple pictures of the Thames and Tower Bridge. These London paintings remain among his most popular work. Art critic T. G Rosenthal: "Not since Monet has anyone made London seem so fresh and yet remain quintessentially English.
Some of his views of the Thames use the Pointillist technique of multiple dots, although by this time, because the dots have become much larger, it is rather more simply the separation of colours called Divisionism and it is peculiarly effective in conveying the fragmentation of colour in moving water in sunlight."
He experimented with stone sculpture and moved to Montmartre to be near his friend Pablo Picasso and other noted artists. Fernande Olivier...
Category
1970s French Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
Peter Buchman "Just another thing hanging over your head.", 2017
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary New York artist Peter Buchman's "Just another thing hanging over your head." is made of enamel, house paint, pla...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Enamel, Gold Leaf
Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Painting by Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa
Located in Atlanta, GA
Entitled "Two Kuniya (Pythons) During Tingari Cycle", this mesmerizing painting was painted by Australian aboriginal artist Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Modern Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
'Summer Landscape' by Beverly Myers Modern Painter, School of Wolf Kahn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
'Summer Landscape' by Beverly Myers Modern Painter, School of Wolf Kahn
USA, Post 2015
"Summer Landscape" is a stunning example of Beverly Myers' maste...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
Painting Scenery from Greenland by Eva Weis Bentzon
Located in Kastrup, DK
The painting depicts the Greenland ice sheet with several icebergs.
One of Eva's last big project was to paint motifs from the arctic.
This painting is from her estate and there...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Still Life With Flowers By Frederick Arthur Jessup (1920-2007) Oil On Canvas
Located in LE CANNET, FR
Still life by Frederick Arthur Jessup entitled " Garden gourds ". Framed and signed work.
Born in Victoria in 1920, Frederick Arthur JESSUP educated at East Sydney Tecnichal College ...
Category
1960s Australian Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Jorge Castillo American Contemporary Still Life Painting of Fruit
Located in Queens, NY
Spanish Contemporary oil painting of a stylized still life of fruit resting on a pedestal in a black frame (signed: [Jorge] CASTILLO 83 NY)
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Australian Aboriginal Painting Rain Dreaming Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Located in Atlanta, GA
A contemporary painting by Australian Aboriginal artist Ronnie Tjampitjinpa (1943-2023). Entitled "Rain Dreaming", the artwork was acrylic on canvas and painted in 1999
Fully documented: originally purchased in 1999 from Kimberley Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, cat. no. KA 708/99; The in the collection of The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica; It was exhibited in: "G'Day LA" Australia Week, in partnership with the Australian Consulate Los Angeles, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA, 15-25 January 2004. It is housed in a black thin wood frame.
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was born in Pintupi land at Muyinnga, about 100 kilometres west of the Kintore Range, just across the Western Australian border. He is the son of Uta Uta Tjangala’s older brother, Minpuru Tjangala (c.1899–1976).
Artist's Biography (Courtesy of Art Gallery NSW)
After his initiation into Pintupi law at the site of Yumari, Tjampitjinpa and his younger brother Smithy Zimran Tjampitjinpa walked into the Aboriginal community of Yuendumu. They later joined their parents and other siblings – who had come in to Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) in 1956 from the Dover Hills/Yumari area – at the new settlement of Papunya. Tjampitjinpa worked as a labourer, assisting with the fencing of the aerodromes at Papunya and Ikuntji. He was one of the youngest of the group of men who began painting at the start of the Western Desert art movement in 1971, and was a founder of Paunya Tula Artists.
During the 1970s, Tjampitjinpa was preoccupied with returning to his traditional lands and became a strong advocate for the outstation movement, travelling between meetings in Papunya, Yuendumu, Wirrimanu (Balgo) and Mount Doreen Station. His goal was finally achieved with the establishment of the Walungurru (Kintore) settlement in 1981. Tjampitjinpa moved there with his young family in 1983, establishing an outstation at Ininti (Redbank) and serving as chairman of the Kintore Outstation Council. During this period, he emerged as one of Papunya Tula Artists’ major painters, pioneering the bold, scaled-up, linear style that came to dominate many of the Walungurru painters’ work during the 1990s. His distinctive aesthetic preoccupa-tion is exemplified in the untitled works of 1994 and 2001. Now one of the last founding members of Papunya Tula Artists, Tjampitjinpa’s career spans more than 40 years. He has had six solo exhibitions since 1989 in Australia, most recently at Utopia Art, Sydney.
Throughout the 1980s Tjampitjinpa worked devotedly on a land claim for Ininti, holding meetings in Darwin, Warmun (Turkey Creek...
Category
1990s Australian Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Aythamy Armas Painting, circa 2022, Spain
Located in Girona, Spain
Aythamy Armas painting.
Vertical Format.
Mixed technic on canvas.
Signed by the artist.
Circa 2022, Spain.
Very good condition.
Bachelor of fine ar...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Bustamante School, Surrealist Painting Women in Landscape, Mexico C. 1980s
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Bustamante School, Surrealist Painting Women in Landscape, Mexico C. 1980s
This captivating Surrealist oil painting, of the Bustamante School, was painted in Mexico circa the 1980s...
Category
20th Century Mexican Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Modern Abstract Painting by John Byle
Located in Miami, FL
A striking abstract painting by John Byle.
John Byle was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied art in Chicago and immigrated to Israel in 1951. Byle was th...
Category
20th Century Israeli Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Ted Jones Dublin Ireland Irish Oil Painting Canvas Music Teacher with Student
Located in Dublin, Ireland
This beautiful Painting titled “The Recital” by Ted Jones (Irish 1952-2017) depicts a young girl in Traditional Irish Costume seated beside her music teacher. Wonderful oil on Canvas...
Category
20th Century Irish Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Large Stunning Australian Aboriginal Painting by Naata Nungurrayi
By Naata Nungurrayi
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large and stunning contemporary abstract painting by celebrated Australian Aboriginal artist Naata Nungurrayi (1932-2021), stretched and ready for display. A rare masterpiece of the museum quality dating from the peak of the artist's creative output in 2003. The canvas is singular in both the impressive size and tine quality, and it comes with full provenance and step by step photos (100 in total) recording the creation of this significant piece of work.
The artist used fine dots as the sole element to compose a complex dreamtime landscape where Women's Ceremony took place in her ancestral time. The place is located at Marrapinti and its surrounds, where many water soakage holes were located. Dots in brilliant shifting and contrasting colors form ceremonial Tingari symbols performed by the women, black crawling tracks that may be associated with a site called Karilywarra (two carpet snakes) and mesmerizing Tali (sandhill) movements surrounding the canvas. The work is of the signature style of the artist, singular and easily recognizable. The fine quality of this work is exemplary.
Medium: acrylic on Belgium Linen
Cat no. NN200315
Provenance: Yanda Aboriginal Art, NT.
The painting comes with a COA letter and an artist biograph issued by Yanda Aboriginal Art and a presentation album with 100 photos that documented the entire process of the creation of this large work of art. The edge of the painting bears name of the artist as well as the stamp of the gallery as shown.
Reference and further reading:
For a relevant work by the artist, See Plate 88 and Page 220-222 in the book "Past and Present Together: Fifty Years of Papunya Tula Artists" by Meyers and Skerritt.
Another similar work is illustrated on plate 13 in "Pintupi" by Hamiltons.
Artist's biography:
Naata Nungurrayi (1932-2021) is an Australian Aboriginal artist who was born at the site of Kumil, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. She is from the Pintupi group from Kintore, Northern Territory and is one of the senior elders of the Kintore women artist movement. Naata is the sister of George Tjungurrayi and Nancy Nungurrayi, and her son is Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Peter Buchman "Once Upon a Time", Voice-Over Paintings Series, 2025
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary New York artist Peter Buchman's "Once Upon a Time" is made of laser cut plexiglass, acrylic medium and enamel on wood. It's a part of his Voice-Over series. To explain that Buchman’s word paintings are ‘A Figure Of Speech’ is underestimating the level of soulfulness at which these works reside. They are markings directly from the artist’s hand yet are indications of many people before him. These are words from familiar phrases, music albums, his funny brand of irony and the human form itself. For this piece, in a manner of speaking, we are all running out of time, however Buchman’s soliloquy and ironic eye has fun with the notion that with humor and self effacement in a street-run-on sentence kind of rap he can get away with making fun and pointing out the obvious. Which isn’t always so obvious. Signed and dated en verso. This is a commissioned piece and will ship directly from the artist's studio.
American artist Peter Buchman has BFA in Illustration from The Rhode Island School of Design and did a Sculpture Residency at The School of Visual Arts in New York. Peter's artwork has been exhibited throughout the US since 1981 including the Parrish Art Museum (Southampton, NY), Cooperstown Museum (NY), Delaware Museum of Art, Kidder Smith Gallery (MA) and Vered Gallery (East Hampton, NY). His work is included in the portfolios of collectors including Beth Rudin DeWoody, Nicole Miller, David Yurman and Howard Schultz...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Modern Portrait of Three Rabbits, in the Style of Hunt Slonem
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Modern Portrait of Three Rabbits, in the style of Hunt Slonem
USA, 20th century
Oil on canvas
A whimsical portrait study of three seated rabbit...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood
$2,360 Sale Price
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Painting by Peter Keil, Mid-Century Modern Art, Fall Colors, Oil on Canvas, 1977
By Peter Keil
Located in New York, NY
Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also an artistically talented woman, took her son and struggled her way to West Berlin...
Category
1970s German Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$4,875 Sale Price
25% Off
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