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Modern Art

MODERN STYLE

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
The Relay Race" — Original Olympic Poster, Munich — Black American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jacob Lawrence, 'The Relay Race' (Olympische Spiele München 1972), 12-color serigraph, signed in the matrix, lower right. From the 1972 limited edition silk screen edition of not mor...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

A History of Sex - Head
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Andres Serrano portraits of The History of Sex, taken in 1996 in the Netherlands, the camera looks directly at the models, who respond in kind. Eyes first seems to be the guiding pri...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Diptych: Aventure d une libertine XI and XII. From The Secret Album Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Diptych: Aventure d une libertine IX and X. From The Secret Album Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Diptych: Aventure d une libertine XX and XXI. From The Secret Album Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

The Conversation, Signed Modern Lithograph by Romare Bearden
Located in Long Island City, NY
This print by African American Modern artist Romare Bearden is a limited edition, lithograph on Somerset paper. The scene comes from Bearden's Mecklenburg series, a collection of ima...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

DAMIEN HIRST - THE EMPRESSES - THEODORA - Limited edition Contemporary Modern
Located in Madrid, Madrid
THE EMPRESSES - THEODORA Date of creation: 2022 Medium: Laminated giclée print on aluminium composite and screen printed with glitter. Edition number: 1226/3315 (1.566 physical + 1.7...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Glitter, Panel, Giclée, Screen

Mark Rothko Pink, Black, Orange, 1953 Mid Century Modern
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Poster advertising the National Gallery of Art, Washington, featuring Mark Rothko’s Pink, Black, Orange (1953). This iconic work showcases Rothko's signature use of color and depth, ...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Farm in Berlin Heights, Ohio, Vibrant Field Landscape
Located in Beachwood, OH
August Frederick Biehle (1885-1979) Farm in Berlin Heights, c. 1930 Oil on masonite Signed lower right 22 x 30 inches 27.75 x 36 inches, framed A versatile painter who worked in a v...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

A Bigger Time Zone - Abstract Contemporary Colorful Geometric Resin Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

She is in Love
Located in Zofingen, AG
She is in Love is the first work in the Red Horse series, which explores sexual energy as an inner force and a space of feminine presence.The central figure is a woman in a state of ...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Figural Fauvist Landscape Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract figural oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 25 by 37 inches overall. Handsomely framed ...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vintage American Modernist Framed Abstract Expressionist MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Handsomely framed in minimal molding. Excellent condition, rea...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Monocled Miss (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
Monocled Miss (1964) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel, New York, 1964. Add...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Vintage American Modernist Pomegranate and Poinsettia Still Life
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American still life painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 30 by 36 inches overall and 24 by 30 inches painting alone. Framed. Excellent condition, ready to h...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Colourful Large Female Nude, Femme Nue Allongée
Located in Cotignac, FR
Colourful, large oil on canvas female nude by Isabelle Pardoe. The painting is not signed but came directly from the atelier of the artist. Isabell Pardoe trained at the Slade scho...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Carmen II - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 35" x 35"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This dramatic underwater nude photograph captures a naked female figure enveloped in flowing crimson fabric against a deep black void. The composition features rich burgundy and wine...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Coastal Blue Cyanotype of Day Time Seascape, Cold Waves, Nautical Painting Shore
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. "Day Time Seascape in Blue" is a handmade cyanotype print portraying the vibrant reflections of the Sun as seen from the c...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph

Original Americans will Always Fight for Liberty vintage WWII (1943) poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Title: Original 1943 WWII Propaganda Poster - "Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty" - Authentic U.S. Government Issue. Archival linen-backed with the original US Government-issue...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Diptych: Aventure d une libertine XIV and XIII. From The Secret Album Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

"White Roses in Vase" Mid-Century Abstract Floral Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
By Gian Luigi Campanile
Located in New York, NY
This piece has a strong presence with bold brushwork and heavy use of paint. A classic Mid-20th Century Modern piece on canvas depicting a floral still life with a white roses arrang...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Woman Reclining in a Purple Chair
Located in San Francisco, CA
At first glance, we focus on the chiseled features of the woman reclining languorously in an enveloping purple wing chair. There are refinements here. A silken fringed shawl. Delicat...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Free to Be Myself
Located in Zofingen, AG
Free to Be Myself (part of the “Red Horse” series) This work explores a state of quiet inner freedom — the moment when a woman no longer shapes herself for the outside world, but r...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Zermatt Skiing, 1968
Located in New York, NY
Skiers in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. Slim Aarons Zermatt Skiing 1968 C print (Printed later) Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of au...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

C Print

Original Los Angeles (California) 1964 vintage travel poster Mid Century Modern
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1964 Los Angeles, California vintage travel poster. Professionally archivally linen-backed in mint condition. This is one of four ...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

30x40 NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "LIFE AFTER DEATH" Cassette Photography Pop Art Unsigned
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of a NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "LIFE AFTER DEATH" cassette tape. This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro These ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

One Red One (Abstract Still Life Drawing of Black Red Flowers in a Vase)
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative, still life chalk drawing of flowers in a vase against collaged vintage book pages 'One Red One' by Louise Laplante in 2024 pastel on collaged vintage book pages 27.5 x 29...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Chalk

Huge 20th Century French Signed Oil Classical Music Orchestra Concert Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Orchestra signed by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on canvas, unframed painting : 32 x 40 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condition
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

R2D2 30x40 First Release , Star Wars, Photography Pop Art, Movie, Signed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
R2D2 from the original Kenner release of the Star Wars toys in May of 1977 This is pre release is the first release in the much anticipated series "The Toys" "They encapsulate an era...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Lovesick" Nude Photography 36" x 24" in Edition 2/15 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lovesick" Nude Photography 36" x 24" in Edition 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo Not framed. Ships in a tube Signed and numbered by the artist. Comes with COA issued by the artist. Available...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée

Swatch : Color Explosion - Original lithograph (Mourlot, 1992)
Located in Paris, IDF
Sam FRANCIS Color explosion, 1992 Original lithograph Unsigned On Arches vellum 86.5 x 29.5 cm Numbered on the back Authenticated by Moulot blind stamp INFORMATION : Edited by Gale...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

O Keeffe White Rose with Larkspur No.2 Offset Print, 40x30 Inches, Unframed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This stunning reproduction of Georgia O'Keeffe's painting titled White Rose with Larkspur No.2 is a captivating piece created for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Published by The Mc...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Huge 1950 s French Modernist Oil Mythological Pink Nudes on Rocky Coastline
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Naiades" French Modernist artist, circa 1950's The work is faintly monogrammed to the lower corner though hard to tell. There is a name verso but illegible - possibly the artist or ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Nude C type print
Located in London, GB
Exquisite Oversize C print unframed. Stamped & certificate of authenticity provided. image keywords : Modgliani female nudes colour graphic com...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

C Print

Cafe Culture by Bert Hardy Limited Edition Giant Oversize Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
"Cafe Culture" by Bert Hardy A waiter serving clients on the terrace of a cafe on the Champs-Elysees, Paris, June 1951. Original publication: Picture Po...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

1960 s French Modernist Oil Painting Green background with Bizarre Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 1960's period Title: figurative group, with deep green color background. Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 36.5 x 26 inches Provenance: pri...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

David Bowie Aladdin Sane - Eyes Open - Limited Edition Signed by David Bowie
Located in London, GB
David Bowie Aladdin Sane Eyes Open 40 x 40 inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Archival Pigment Print Hand signed by David Bowie Edition 23/25 Duffy Archive stamp to margin Taken b...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Fly Fishing, Saranac Lake
Located in Plano, TX
Fly Fishing, Saranac Lake. 1889. Etching, aquatint and burnishing. Goodrich 104. 14 1/4 x 20 5/8; sheet 18 1/2 x 24 1/2. Edition unknown but quite possibl...
Category

Late 19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Marc Chagall Paris Opera Ceiling Mid Century Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This five-color offset lithograph, featuring a facsimile signature of Marc Chagall, masterfully captures a vibrant detail from his iconic Paris Opera ceiling. Printed on high-quality...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Greece : Thinker with a Watch (FIAC 1978) - Original lithograph, 1978
Located in Paris, IDF
Alekos FASSIANOS Thinker with a Watch (FIAC 1978), 1978 Original lithograph Printed signature in the plate On heavy paper 92 x 60 cm (c. 37 x 24 ...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Lunch Time" by Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Lunch Time" by Bert Hardy Five British models eating lunch in their swimwear on a yacht on the Cote d'Azur. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7850 - Th...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

Lilly Pads
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antonio Y Mencia Garcia Spanish 1853-1915 Lily Pads Oil on canvas 24 by 29 in, w/ frame 31 by 36 in Signed lower left Inventory Number: 01257 Student of Matias Lavina. He made his...
Category

Late 19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Winged Victory of Los Angeles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Winged Victory of Los Angeles, c. 1960, oil on masonite, signed lower right, artist’s name and title verso, 33 x 34 1/2 inches, exhibited: 1) Edward Biberman, Heritage Gallery, Los A...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Icarus in the Stars - Screen Print
Located in Paris, IDF
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) (after) Icarus Screen print Not signed On heavy paper 99 x 70 cm (c. 40 x 28 in) Excellent condition
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Catherine Wilke 1980 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Catherine Wilke 1980 Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size. Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Phot...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Endeavour.
Located in Plano, TX
The Endeavour. c.1935. Pencil and watercolor on watercolor board. 14 3/8 x 20 7/8. Signed in pencil, lower right; titled in pencil, verso. Housed in a subtle 23 1/2 x 36-inch light ...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

"Cheetah Who Shops" by B C Parade
Located in London, GB
"Cheetah Who Shops" by B C Parade American silent film actress Phyllis Gordon (1889 - 1964) window-shopping in Earls Court, London with her four-yea...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

1977 Marc Chagall Enlevement de Chloe (Abduction of Chloe)
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 22.25 x 33.5 inches ( 56.515 x 85.09 cm ) Image Size: 20 x 30.5 inches ( 50.8 x 77.47 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Limited edition print b...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Antique American Pennsylvania Impressionist Framed Landscape Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare antique oil painting by Charles W. Patterson (1870 - 1938) . Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Measuring 29 x 33 inches overall, 22 x...
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Slim Aarons Unghia Marina 1989 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Unghia Marina' A group of people stand on a terrace, at the Unghia Marina on the island of Capri, Italy, in September 1989. Trees dot the side of the marina while a flagpole rises...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Interior with Cats
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist Statement "I’m a Canadian painter living on an island off the northwest coast of Canada. My current paintings revolve around floral still lives. The flowers are the original...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Large 1990 s French Contemporary Signed Oil Painting Gordes Luberon Provence
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Gordes, The Luberon Valley, Provence French artist, signed and dated 95 oil on canvas, framed framed: 29 x 38 inches canvas: 24 x 32 inches Provenance: private collection, France Co...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Diptych: Aventure d une libertine XVII and XVI. From The Secret Album Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

"Brigitte Bardot" by Michael Ochs Archives
Located in London, GB
"Brigitte Bardot" by Michael Ochs Archives Brigitte Bardot. Unframed Paper Size: 30" x 40'' (inches) Printed 2022 Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

Original United Behind the Service Star antique World War One vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: United Behind The Service Star ; Great vibrant colors. Linen backed. All the various support organizations that backed up the soldiers and war relief during World War One. A-, B+ condition. Paper tear from the bottom about 10" professionally laid down. No paper loss. A large blue star appears over the flags, and below the image reads "United Behind the Service Star". The poster features American soldiers carrying the flags of seven major service organizations: the YMCA, the National Catholic War Council, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Salvation Army, War Camp Community Service, the American Library Association, and the YWCA. These organizations were instrumental in providing various forms of support, such as food, medical care, and morale-boosting services, both to soldiers and civilians. If you have ever looked to have a 'supreme' version of this great war poster...
Category

1910s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Still Life of Peaches, Mid Century Mondern
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
American, 20th Century Signed: Klug '67 (Right, Center) " Still Life of Peaches ", 1967 Oil on Masonite 24" x 30" House in a 3 1/2" Frame with a 1" Linen Liner Overall Size:...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

"Piriac-sur-Mer, Bretagne" by Claude Sauthier - Oil on Wood - 92x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Claude Sauthier was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1929 and passed away in the same city in 2016. He studied at the Geneva School of Decorative Arts and initially worked as a graphi...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Wood, Oil

Greece : Man with Bicycle - Original lithograph, 1997
Located in Paris, IDF
Alekos FASSIANOS Greece : Man with Bicycle Original lithograph Printed signature in the plate On heavy paper 92 x 58 cm (c. 37 x 23 inch) Printed in Atelier Bellini : three-color li...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Le Buisson Lithograph by Henri Matisse, Modern Style, 2015, Unframed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Le Buisson" by Henri Matisse is a high-quality lithograph printed on heavy printmaking board, authorized by the Succession Matisse. The print features wide margins on all sides and ...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

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

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

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