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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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
Large Pink and Red Contemporary Abstract Painting by Rebecca Ruoff 2024
Located in Bedford Hills, NY
Large pink and red contemporary abstract painting by Rebecca Ruoff, 2024
Oil/Acrylic on canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Painting Green Black Contemporary Geometric Futuristic Acrylic Spray on Wood A14
By Las Animas
Located in Seville, ES
"ATLAS 14"
"Atlas" proposes a disruptive vision of the space-time concept, as a reflection between the ancestral and the comic, making us wander about the connection between both ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Reflections Abstract Photograph
By Deann Arce
Located in Queens, NY
Contemporary abstract photograph of light reflecting on water reverse printed on glass in a white box frame titled "Reflections" (by DEANN ARCE) (Similar piece: DEA002)
Category
20th Century Unknown Modern Paintings
Materials
Glass
Pol Mariën (1932) - Les attributs du graveur
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Pol Mariën (1932)
Les attributs du graveur
huile sur toile marouflée sur panneau
signé
30 x 40 cm
Category
20th Century Belgian Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Handpainted Wallpaper "Bamboo"
By Buenaventura
Located in Madrid, ES
This charming and sophisticated wall decoration has been entirely hand-painted on 100% natural cotton paper, using the sumi-e technique inspired by ancient Korean paintings. Particul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Acrylic, Paper
Painting Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn - Ankrum Gallery
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1931 - 2022
Original artwork.
Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn was an obscure artist and socialite that lived in the Hollywood Hills.
She lived a long and ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract painting by Gian Cesare Battaini, Visual art acrylic on canvas
By Remo Bianco
Located in Milano, IT
Italian Artist - 50's Painting - Modern Italian Artwork Painting Gian Cesare Battaini
the small canvas framed into the larger frame measure 20 cm x 15 cm
Giancesare Battaini (Mila...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Modern Resin Art by Andreas Anastasis
Located in West Hollywood, CA
From the series e·the·re·al, this work captures a moment suspended between materiality and dissolution. A deep violet form pools at the base, anchoring the composition with weight an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Epoxy Resin
Scandinavian artist. Oil on canvas. Still life in cubist style. Approx. 1960s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Scandinavian artist. Oil on canvas. Still life in cubist style.
Approximately from the 1960s.
In excellent condition with a few minimal flakes.
Not signed.
Dimensions: W 50.0 cm x H ...
Category
1960s Scandinavian Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
André Derain Framed 'Big Ben' Color Lithography, circa 1972
By André Derain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Original 'Big Ben' color lithograph by André Derain.
Lithograph printed from an original painting made by the author in France, circa 1906.
Published by Fernand Mourlot in Les ...
Category
1970s French Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
Chinese Water Color Painting of Riverside Village with Boat
Located in Greenwich, CT
Framed Chinese water color of riverside village with boat with one artist seal.
Overall size: 19.5 width, 26" high Image size: 14 1/4" width, 20" ...
Category
1980s Chinese Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
Vintage Figural Oil Painting of Ballet Dancers
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Figural Oil Painting of Ballet Dancers Wall Art
This monochromatic oil painting captures the graceful movement of ballet dancers. The...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Omar Ananias Acrylic On Canvas
Located in West Palm Beach, US
BIO
The career of Peruvian-Palestinian artist Omar Ananias:
Ananias's artistic career began with sculpture and drawing under the guidance of his mother as his principal mentor, following in the footsteps of his family's long tradition of opera singers, musicians, classical dancers, painters, writers, and other artists. She owns "The House of Nymphs," an exquisite oceanfront artist retreat in Peru with a very unique private collection of artists, including friends, relatives, and Omar's earliest works.
Omar has also trained as a professional contemporary dancer and a yoga/mindfulness teacher since he was fifteen years old and, as a result, sought accreditation as an art therapist.
His work with sexual workers, the disabled, indigenous populations living in the Amazon Rainforest, prisons, and orphanages has brought him well-known recognition. He has worked for more than 20 years with various governments and organizations all over the world.
Techniques and inspiration used by Ananias:
His artwork has drawn inspiration from various sources including: the natural world, his personal encounters with marginalized communities, and the indigenous knowledge of the rain forest. Additional inspiration is drawn from Kris Gebhardt, Viviana Quea, Gam Klutier, Hideaki Yamanobe, and Carola Kastman.
Omar Ananias's love of the natural world also inspires him to create landscape designs and live plant sculptures made of clay, glass, and wood, in addition to his digital portraits and mixed-media abstract paintings on canvas.
He uses many self-made and unconventional instruments/materials for his paintings such as condor feathers, Peruvian gold...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Duane Armstrong Oil on Paper, Signed c.1982
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
Duane Armstrong original artwork, oil on paper, signed and dated in pencil.
CREATOR Duane Armstrong (1938).
DATE OF MANUFACTURE 1982.
MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Oi...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Paint
J. Böréss. Oil on canvas. Southern French landscape in fauvist style.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
J. Böréss, Swedish artist.
Oil on canvas.
Southern French landscape in fauvist style.
Coloristic palette.
Ca. 1930s.
Exhibition label on the back.
Signed illegible: John Böréss.
In p...
Category
1930s Swedish Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Blue Chairs Mixed-Media Modern Painting Oil on Linen Abstract Expressionism
By Alex Lazard
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
This ceiling to floor large-scale painting is an intimate portrait of Lazard's workspace and creativity. "That is how I spend my time all the time," says Lazard. Part of the genius o...
Category
2010s Mexican Modern Paintings
Materials
Marble
Personaje Sentado / Tinta / Painting / José Luis Cuevas
Located in COYOACAN, DF
José Luis Cuevas Novelo (Mexico City, February 26, 1934-July 3, 2017) 2 known as José Luis Cuevas, was a Mexican painter, draftsman, writer, engraver,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary North American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
Vintage Italian Watercolor Landscape Painting
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A dreamy Italian watercolor painting of a picturesque landscape that will transport you to Tuscany. In a palette of greens and terracotta, the scene captures the full scope of the to...
Category
20th Century Italian Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
Abstraction on Paper by Nell Blaine
Located in Long Island City, NY
Abstraction with India ink on paper by Nell Blaine.
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
Walking in Are Place Digital Painting
Located in Milan, IT
Female sacredness is recurrent in this artist's pop-surrealist works. The splendid priestess crosses the metaphysical architecture of her palace, embodying the archaic mystery of femininity. On a panel of fine cotton pictorial canvas, the piece is complete with an American box frame in basswood. Signed and numbered limited edition...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton, Wood
Sheila Denaburg, Contemporary Mixed Media Painting, Signed, Canada, C. 2011
Located in Chatham, ON
Sheila Denaburg - Contemporary Expressionist style double sided mixed media painting on paper - extraordinary quality and composition - untitled - unframed - signed - Canada - circa ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Mixed Media Painting of a Lady Face
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Enrico Della Torre Large Painting in Black Charcoal, 2017
Located in Barcelona, ES
Painting in charcoal on linen made by Enrico Della Torre. The expressive vision of Enrico is an exploration of space in the painting, an attempt to bring to the limits its capacit...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Paintings
Materials
Linen
An ABSTRACT BRUTALIST Rustic Modern PAINTING on Canvas, France 2001
Located in PARIS, FR
An elegant work on canvas, of Japanese inspiration, in relief, Post-Modernist, Brutalist, Lyrical and Graphic Abstraction, aerial composition of dried blades of herbs arranged on a g...
Category
Early 2000s French Modern Paintings
Materials
Composition
Bob Matheny Abstract Painting with Pencil
By Bob Matheny
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Acrylic painting on hardwood by San Diego artist, Bob Matheny. The textured painting ranges in pastel colors of blue pink and green with a slight iridescence.
The San Diego conceptual artist and educator helped define the San Diego art scene in the 1960s and ’70s alongside other artist such as Richard Allen Morris...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Funny Comedienne Phyllis Diller Original Oil Painting on Canvas with 2 Titles
Located in Tustin, CA
Humorous original oil on canvas with black ink, painting by deceased American comedienne, Phyllis Diller (1917-2012), which she titled, “Two Idiots On A...
Category
1980s American Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Abstract Painting "Snowball Effect", Acrylic On Canvas, signed by MS, AT 2011
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
From time to time we are offering our customers not only fine antiques but also very selected contemporary/ modern masterpieces. In this case we are very proud to offer you some real...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood
Angela de la Cruz Contemporary Artwork Canvas Pinch, 2015
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
"Pinch" by Angela de la Cruz in 2015.
Edition of 50 + 18 A.P. + 2 P.P.
We offer free shipping for this piece.
Acrylic on canvas.
The docu...
Category
2010s British Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Dappled Light" 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
Fabric, Paper, Bamboo, Paint
Modern Painting by Anna Khodorovsky Lipkind
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A colorful abstract painting by Anna Khodorovsky Lipkind, a Jewish artist in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem. This modern painting is oil on canvas framed in a whit...
Category
20th Century French Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Post Impressionist Acrylic Landscape Painting, Signed, Canada, 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Post Impressionist acrylic landscape painting on stretched canvas - featuring a large tree in the foreground - finished with a fabric matte with composite gilt filet - copper giltwoo...
Category
Late 20th Century Canadian Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Mexican Artist Laurencia Evans Oil Painting on Canvas, Signed, Titled and Dated
Located in Miami, FL
Mexican Artist Laurencia Evans Oil Painting on Canvas, Signed, Titled and Dated
Offered for sale is an extraordinary figurative oil painting on canvas by Mexico City artist Laurenci...
Category
Late 20th Century Mexican Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Giltwood, 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
Framed Oil Painting on Board by Sara Skaaning
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting on board by Sara Skaaning.
Based in the Island Mon, Denmark, the visual artist Sara Skaaning starts from her surroundings that twists and transforms until completely di...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Vintage Livestock Watercolour, English, Art, Animal Painting, Farming, Picture
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage livestock watercolour. An English, framed rural animal study of farming interest, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1990.
Charming watercolour of a Charolais ...
Category
1990s British Modern Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood
Abstract Two-Part Painting "The Alli-Gate", Acrylic On Canvas by MS, AT 2021
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
From time to time we are offering our customers not only fine antiques but also very selected contemporary/ modern masterpieces. In this case we are very proud to offer you some real...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract Painting by Cyrstofer Shoemaker
Located in Houston, TX
Acrylic painting on canvas by Crystofer Shoemaker.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Paint
Tango Helter-Skelter painting by Quoï Alexander
Located in Macieira de Sarnes, PT
Tango Helter-Skelter, 2023 by Quoï ALEXANDER, Tokyo and Paris.
From the series Discarnate Positions, presented in 2024 at 'ROSTOS' in Melides, Portugal.
Alexander presents an idea ...
Category
2010s Portuguese Modern Paintings
Materials
Satin, Silk, Acrylic
Modern Resin Art by Andreas Anastasis
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A whisper of darkness suspended in stillness, “e·the·re·al” invites a moment of profound contemplation. Crafted with a delicate interplay of ink and resin on canvas, its surface capt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Epoxy Resin
Original Modern Abstract Painting by Shannon Weir
Located in Houston, TX
An original pink and white modern abstract painting in an elegant antique gold frame created by Houston artist, Shannon Weir.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Modern Painting by Jai Piccone’s Atrium 24
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Jai Piccone’s Atrium 24 is the product of a desire to create art in a more hands on approach. From a background of digital art and graphic design the shift to painting felt a necessa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
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
Elena Bond Hand Embellished Giclee Art Titled "Storm on the Plaza"
Located in Miami, FL
A fine decorative piece of art by Elena Bond, titled
"Storm on the Plaza", created 2009.
Hand embellished giclee on canvas.
Professionally framed, th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Uzbek Modern Paintings
Materials
Chrome
20th Century French Original Landscape Painting on Stretched Canvas Signed 1977
Located in COLMAR, FR
A lush and harmouneous, vintage painting from the 1970s that feels surprisingly modern and timeless. This original oil painting on stretched canvas has been sourced in France. Even t...
Category
1970s French Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Large oil painting by Theo van der Horst showing a girl and sailor
Located in Beerse, VAN
Large oil painting by Theo van der Horst, 1975.
Theo van der Horst (1921-2003 Arnhem Netherlands) is an expressionist painter with a great sense of colour. He was inspired by the pre-war Flemish expressionists such as Constant Permeke and Gustave de Smet...
Category
1970s Dutch Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Contemporary Abstract Painting Titled "Yellow" by Rebecca Ruoff, 2018
Located in Bedford Hills, NY
Vibrant abstract painting titled "Yellow" by American artist Rebecca Ruoff, 2018.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Something we don’t know about ourselves 2 painting by Quoï Alexander
Located in Macieira de Sarnes, PT
Something we don’t know about ourselves 2, 2023 by Quoï ALEXANDER, Tokyo and Paris.
From the series Discarnate Positions, presented in 2024 at 'ROSTOS' in Melides, Portugal.
Alexan...
Category
2010s Portuguese Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mid-Century Abstract Oil On Canvas Painting
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Mid-Century Abstract Oil On Canvas Painting
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Painting by Peter Keil, Modern, Acrylic on Board, Signed, Modern Art, C 1984
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 where they settled. This is where Peter Robert Keil grew up in the working-class neighborhood of Berlin-Wedding and where he discovered his interest in painting – particularly in expressionistic artists and in Pablo Picasso's work. From 1954 on, the East Berlin...
Category
1980s German Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Something we don’t know about ourselves 1 painting by Quoï Alexander
Located in Macieira de Sarnes, PT
Something we don’t know about ourselves 2, 2023 by Quoï ALEXANDER, Tokyo and Paris.
This painting comes in two pieces
H155 x W136 cm each
oil and acrylic on silk satin
From the se...
Category
2010s Portuguese Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Satin, Silk
Enrico Della Torre Contemporary Art Black Painting on Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Painting in charcoal on canvas made by Enrico Dellatorre.
The expressive vision of Enrico is an exploration of space in the painting, an attempt to bring to the limits its capacity ...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Paintings
Materials
Linen
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
Original Modern Acrylic Painting by Shannon Weir
Located in Houston, TX
Original Modern Acrylic Painting by Shannon Weir in Beautiful Antique Gilt Frame
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paint
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
Original Mixed-Media Abstract Painting by Listed Artist Josh Dayton
By Dayton
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Original mixed-media abstract painting by American listed artist Josh Dayton.
Spectacular three dimensional sculptural mixed-media abstract painting that ...
Category
1990s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Ceramic, Canvas, Acrylic, Paper, Crayon
Red Period Expressionism Portrait by Peter Keil
By Peter Keil
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Red Period Expressionism Portrait by Peter Keil
Peter Keil, Berlin, 1970s.
Oil on Canvas, unframed
A striking portrait by Keil displaying I...
Category
20th Century German Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Large 1930s Oil Painting of Moroccan Seller of Kelims and Jewels by Hein Froonen
By Hein Froonen
Located in Doornspijk, NL
Beautiful oil painting made by the Dutch master Hendricus Albertus Gerardus Froonen, better known to the world as Hein Froonen (1878-1958).
This work was made in 1932 and depicts ...
Category
1930s Dutch Vintage Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Original Modern Acrylic Abstract by Shannon Weir
Located in Houston, TX
Original Modern Acrylic Abstract by Shannon Weir
Modern acrylic on panel in antique Frame
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
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