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The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Classic Tallship at Sea with Whale in Water off Coastline, English Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
James Hardy (British contemporary, 21st century) signed oil painting on board, framed board: 8 x 10 inches provenance: private collection condition: overall very good
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Marilyn Monroe (1954) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Marilyn Monroe (1954) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Baron/Getty Images) circa 1954: Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), the most famous of Hollywood's female film stars, relaxes...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Bella, Modern Print after Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marc Chagall, After, Russian (1887 - 1985) - Bella, Medium: Giclee on paper, facsimilie signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: P/P, Image Size: 17 x 13 inches, Size: 24 x 17 in....
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Giclée

The Infamous - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal and Watercolor on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1930s. Hand signed lower right. Good condition except for a minor part of the lower left edge missing.
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Ink

Inspiration - Drawing by Mino Maccari - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
China ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition.
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Ink

Pierre Soulages, Plate No. 5, from Painters of Today, 1962 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Pierre Soulages (1919–2022), titled Planche No. 5 (Plate No. 5), from the folio Pierre Soulages, Peintres d'aujourd'hui (Pierre Soulages, Painters o...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Modulor
Located in New York, NY
Color lithograph on cream wove paper, 1956. Edition of 200. Printed by Mourlout, Paris.
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Color

Maria, Nude on Blue Background - Original Oil Painting, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE (1889-1962) Maria, Nude on blue Background, c. 1950 Original oil painting on panel Signed bottom left Titled on the back On panel 55 x 46 cm (c. 22 x 18 inch) ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Maravillas con Variaciones Acrosticas en el Jardin de Miro (Number 16)
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) Title: Maravillas con Variaciones Acrosticas en el jardin de Miro (Number 16) Year: 1975 Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate Edition: 150...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

1960 s Original French Pastel Sketch Nude Seated and Kneeling Female Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Ladies Sketch French School, circa 1960's chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed size: 18.75 x 12 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: private c...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Chalk, Pastel

"La Correspondance" Signed Etching, Edition of 25, Young Woman Writing
Located in Yardley, PA
Created at the height of Matisse’s mature period, this work exemplifies the artist’s turn toward clarity, purity of line, and compositional balance. Matisse, in his signature linear ...
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Vintage Poster of Albert Decaris Exhibition in Paris - Lithograph - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage poster realized in 1981. Offset and lithograph. Very good condition.
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Cinq Boules et Deux Serpents, Alexander Calder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Title: Cinq Boules et Deux Serpents Year: 1965 Medium: Lithograph in colors on wove paper Edition: 90, plus proofs Size: 20.5 x 28.75 inches Cond...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Vintage American Modernist Surreal Figural Nude Portrait Large Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist nude portrait oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a modern molding. Excellent condition, ready to ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Slim Aarons, Faraglioni Rocks Midcentury Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Faraglioni Rocks on the Italian island of Capri, August 1974. Slim Aarons Faraglioni Rocks 1974. (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificat...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

C Print

Young lady on Paper by Pietro Annigoni Painter of Queen Elisabeth 1970
Located in Brescia, IT
This fine and elegant woman portrait in red pastel on paper was drawn by Pietro Annigoni, an Italian artist of the 20th Century called the 'Queen's pa...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Carbon Pencil

Farm Landscape, Zoar, Ohio, Early 20th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
August Frederick Biehle (1885-1979) Farm Landscape, Zoar, c. 1923 Gouache, litho crayon and graphite on paper Signed lower right 14 x 19 inches 17 x 23 inches, framed A versatile pa...
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Crayon, Gouache, Graphite

Man with a Glass of Wine - Painting by Adriano De Laurentis - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Man with a Glass of Wine -  is a modern artwork realized by the painter Adriano De Laurentis. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Includes frame. Hand signed on the lower margin.
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Cecil Beaton, Audrey Hepburn, from Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Sir Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), titled Audrey Hepburn, from the folio Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981, originates from the 1981 edition...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Bullfight, the Arena - Vintage lithograph exhibition poster # Mourlot
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo Picasso (after) Bullfight, the Arena, 1982 Lithograph (printed in Atelier Mourlot) Printed signature in the plate On heavy paper 89 x 60 cm (c. 36 x 24 inch) Original lithogra...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Bouquet of flowers by Albert Duplain - Oil on canvas 45x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Albert Duplain was a Swiss painter who was born in 1890. Albert Duplain's work has been offered at auction multiple times. Died in 1978. Work on canvas
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Four original lithographs - A Los Toros series
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Four original lithographs - A Los Toros series Lithograph from 1961. Dimensions of each work: 31 x 25 cm. Reference: Bloch 1014-1017; Cramer 113. Print...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Tribute to the Victims (Viet Nam) - Lithograph, 1967
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexandre Calder (1898 - 1976) Tribute to the Victims, 1967 Lithograph on offset background (Arte atelier) Printed signature in the plate On paper 75 x 44.5 cm (c. 29.5 x 17.3 inch) Original vintage poster INFORMATION: Published by Maeght on the occasion of the artist's exhibition "Pour le Viet Nam...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Matisse Thoughts from 50 Drawings portfolio Modern
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This artwork by Henri Matisse is a lithograph from the book Cinquante Dessins, published by Les Soins de L'Artiste in 1920. First Edition. The portfolio was edited and printed by M...
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Vintage Male Erotica 1951 Figure Study Drawing by Chicago Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Very Finely Drawn Mid-Century Modern Figure Study of a Standing Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed studio figu...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Graphite, Paper

Huge French Modernist Oil Sunny Garden Landscape with French Chairs
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Le Jardin Jeanon Pitre (French contemporary) signed oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 51 x 38 inches provenance: private collection, Paris condition: overall very good
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Large Antique American Modernist Still Life 1940s Nicely Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a modernt wood molding. Excellent cond...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

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

Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XII
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XII", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an ageing art professor from the Istituto di Arte di Porta Romana, Florence, Italy. The professor released works of artists whom he mentored over the years. We are unsure who painted the series we acquired as several are just signed, 'Giacomo', or, left completely unsigned, yet many are clearly by the same artist. This one is in good overall condition and has been newly framed with a French-style linen slip. The canvas is textural like one of the vintage maps...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Little Mother, Young Black Girl Pushing Carriage through Town
By Orville Bulman
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Orville Bulman (American, 1904 - 1978 Signed: Bulman (Lower, Left) “ Little Mother ”, 1960 Oil on Canvas 14" x 18" Housed in a 2" Husar Frame with a 3/4" Linen liner and a Gold ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Golden Fields in Provence French Post-Impressionist Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed lower front Ginet-Lasnier, the wife of the painter Jean Lasnier, was born in the Seine-Maritime region of France an...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Nude Portrait Oversize Archival pigment print
Located in London, GB
'Nude Portrait' by Boyan Dimitrov beautiful 30x20" inches / 76 x 51 cm giclée print warm sepia toned. Nude female, reclining. Certificate of authenticity provided. EDGE PRINTS...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

"Marilyn Candid Moment" by Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
"Marilyn Candid Moment" by Ed Feingersh NEW YORK - MARCH 1955: Actress Marilyn Monroe reads the book "To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting" by Michael Chekhov in a quiet moment at the Ambassador...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

1950 s French Modernist Oil Men Manual Labour Working in Field with Wheelbarrows
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Labourers French School, mid 20th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 24 x 29 inches provenance: private collection, Marseille condition: very good and sound condition
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Skybird, Flying Colors for Braniff Airlines, Lithograph by Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder (after) (American, 1898-1976) Title: Skybird, Flying Colors for Braniff Airlines Year: 1974 Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate Size: 20 in. x 26 in. (50...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

French Modernist 20th century Oil Painting Yellow Landscape Cubist Composition
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Yellow Landscape signed by Lucien Gondret (French 1941-2023) signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 24 inches provenance: the artists estate, Franc...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

20th Century French Modernist Painting Set of Four Dark Watercolour Scenes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of 4 by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 8.75 x 6.5 inches stamped verso provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good an...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Le Bouquet Rose, Large Signed Modern Lithograph by Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
This simple still life is a lithograph by Russian Modern artist Marc Chagall. It employs several of Chagall's recurring motifs, such as a bird (in this case a rooster), a bouquet of ...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Ya es Hora - Etching and and Aquatint by Francisco Goya - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Ya es Hora. is a black and White aquatint, drypoint and etching printed in blue-black ink on laid paper from Caprichos realized after Francisco Goya in 1881-1886. 6th Edition.Very g...
Category

1880s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

National Day : Sailors having Fun - Tall Original Oil Painting, Signed
By Michel-Marie Poulain
Located in Paris, IDF
Michel Marie POULAIN French National Day : Sailors having Fun Original oil on canvas Handsigned in the lower left corner On canvas 55 x 65 cm (c. 22 x 26 inch) Presented in golden w...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

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

LA PARADE
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GEORGES ROUAULT (1871 – 1958) La PARADE 1932 (CR.203, W.211) color etching and aquatint 1932. Edition 270. Frontispiece from “Cirque”. Signed in plate as i...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

LA PARADE
LA PARADE
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Sunbathing In Antibes
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing In Antibes Dani Geneux (left) and Marie-Eugenie Gaudfrin sunbathing at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. 40 x...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Vintage Signed American Modernist Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting. Signed and Exhibited. Oil on canvas. Measuring 17 by 31 inches overall and 16 x 30 painting alone. In excellent original condition,...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

Female Nude Study by Lucien Clergue Vintage print
Located in London, GB
Nude Female Study 1968 by Lucien Clergue A curved, sculptured shot of a nude female torso and breast captured by Lucien Clergue Unframed Matted Overall size : 12 x 16" inches / 30...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

Bold Male Nude Gelatin Silver Photograph Mid-20th Century Iconic Gay Vogue
Located in Glenford, NY
Jack Mitchell mid-20th Century Bold Male Nude from 1971. Highly collectible vintage original gelatin silver print, stamped verso by the photographer "Copyright 1971 JACK MITCHELL 356 East 74, New York City...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Steven Jan Hoff Gelatin Silver Photograph Mid-20th Century Male Nude Gay Vogue
Located in Glenford, NY
Jack Mitchell vintage mid-20th Century nude photograph of Dutch dancer Steven Jan Hoff. Copyright Stamped 1972. Photo taken for the iconic 1970's entertainment publication After Dark...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Robert La Tourneaux - The Boys in the Band Cowboy Nude Photograph Mid-20th C.
Located in Glenford, NY
Jack Mitchell vintage mid-20th Century nude photograph of actor Robert La Tourneaux best know as ‘Cowboy’ in the original Broadway and also the film version of Mart Crowley’s breakthrough gay play ‘The Boys in the Band...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Youth
Located in London, London
“Large Contemporary Abstract Diptych — 200×150 cm — Expressive Modern Painting in Fuchsia, Tangerine Gold Tones” DESCRIPTION: This striking large-scale diptych (200 × 150 cm ...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Youth
Youth
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Diptych: Aventure d une libertine III and IV. 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 V and VI. 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

Vue de la Seine - Drawing by Paul-Auguste Godfroy - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on paper realized by Paul-Auguste Godfroy between 1850 and 1875. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition.
Category

Late 19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Up And Down - Lithograph by M.C. Escher - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Printed in black ink, and part of a limited edition thought to be of 400 specimen. Image Dimensions : 51 x 20 cm  Reference: Bool n. 352 Locher 146.  Very good conditio...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse, Blue Nude VI, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1958 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Nu Bleu VI (Blue Nude VI), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. IX, No. 35–36, originates from the 1958 ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Fernand Leger, Still Life with Newspaper, from Contrastes, 1959 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Fernand Leger (1881–1955), titled Nature Morte au Journal (Still Life with Newspaper), from the folio Contrastes, 13 Aquarelles, Gouache, ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Abstract Composition - Lithograph by Adamo Marrucci - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition  is a contemporary artwork realied in 1974. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left margin. Edi...
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1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Standing Male Nude - Lithograph - 2007
Located in Roma, IT
Standing Male Nude is a beautiful colored lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica " after Egon Schiele. It deals with a reproduction of the homonym artwork realized in pencil by Eg...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Guerillero Heroico Che Guevara hand signed photograph certified
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Attached is a certificate from the Carmen Tatche Gallery and press clippings from the exhibition held in 2000 in Spain.
Category

Early 2000s Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Smoke and Mirrors, Artisan Print, Unique Monotype, Memphis Style in Blue White
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes. It's made by layering paper cutouts and different exposures using uv-...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Monotype, Paper

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