227 results for "cubism"

This brilliant Surrealist composition, with the stylization and exaggerated plant forms of Art Deco, was painted by Jan Matulka in 1944. Both Surrealism and "Moderne" decorative arts thrived in the 1940s, and here the artist draws from both styles. Matulka was born in Prague and came to America as a young man, and trained here and in Paris, where he became exposed to Cubism. He exhibited in New York, created illustrations for New Masses which advanced the interest of American workers...

A modern lithograph in colors on paper titled "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" by Richard Linder. Published in 1968. Hand signed in pencil with an annotation of 33/500. From a priv...

An exceptional and one of a kind large-format work by Esteban de la Foz, undoubtedly the most representative and influential figure in abstract art in Cantabria. Titled "Children's ...

Oil on canvas, Jan Spronk (1962) - Staande Vrouw (''Standing Woman'') This exceptionally large oil painting, created by the Dutch artist Jan Spronk (1920–1970), is a work that immed...

The work is attributable to the painter Mario Barbieri, dated 1977. The scene depicts two monumental, stylized, and geometric male figures clutching a bunch of grapes or a branch of ...

Mask, drawing with pencil and pen by Henry de Waroquier, signed and dated 1914 in the lower right. "Painter, sculptor and engraver, Henry de Waroquier (1881-1970) was born in Paris. He did not take any painting courses but worked and met many artists in Montmartre and then in Montparnasse where he lived from 1898-1919. His great Landscapes of Spain...

Etching and aquatint on paper, nicely matted and framed. Edition 28 of 90, signed and dated in pencil lower right. Cubist work featuring a girl and her guitar. Ossip Zadkine 1888...

Charcoal abstract of geometric forms on paper (1959 signed: MICHAEL LOEW).      Though the painter Michael Loew is today best known for his colorful and gestural Abstract Expression...

The subject is a rather beautiful seated young woman with a somewhat imperious expression and demeanour She is wearing a yellow dress which from its style and her hair we date to 192...

Roger de la Fresnaye (French, 1885-1925) - Femme Nue Couchée Monumental 90% life size nude model painting executed during the zenith and birth of cubism and expressionism. Oil on ...

An Art Deco Style Contemporary painting by Vera Jefferson depicting a pear tree in fruit, lit by moonlight. Oil on Canvas. Dimensions: H 95cm W 125cm Origin: English Date: Conte...

An Art Deco Style Contemporary painting by Vera Jefferson depicting a stylised pond filled with Koi and Carp. Dimensions: H 95cm W 125cm Origin: English Date: Contemporary Ver...

A lithograph in colours 'Visage de Femmes' by Guillaume Corneille van Beverloo (1922-2010) on arches paper with deckled edges. Signed to the bottom right. 1991. The print is in very...

Stunning still life of fruit by German artist Franz Priking. Painted primarily in shades of gold, deep green and black and housed in a beautiful frame that has gilded accents, this original work of art is a stunner. Signed and dated in the upper right hand corner "Pricking 1955". There is a label on the reverse side from World House Galleries on Madison Ave in NYC. The label states the artist is French (where he resided at the time this work was painted). Priking was born in Germany and was eleven years old when WWII broke out. It is said that the war influenced him and his art for the rest of his life. Immediately after the war he began to show an affinity for the Expressionist art that was banned by the Nazis. Priking was a student of Max Pechstein by 1948 at the Bauhaus, and by 1952 he had moved to southern France, meeting Picasso at Vallauris. Picasso is said to have strongly encouraged him, saying he would become one of the great artists of the century. He exhibited mostly in Europe but also in Tokyo and Sao Paolo. The artist's use of black (prominent in this work) is said to reflect the darkness of his early years during the war. His work moved through various phases, beginning with Fauvism and Cubism, moving through Expressionism and finally on to abstraction in his final decade. In 1958 he was awarded the Prix de la Jeune Peinture in Paris, in 1961 he was elected a member of the International Institute of Arts and Letters in Geneva. He died at barely age 50, cutting short a promising career. In 1990 when Ecole de Paris paintings...

78099 Vintage German Alice Koch-Gierlichs Tapestry with Abstract Expressionist Style 04'02 x 08'08. Showcasing a bold expressive design, incredible detail a...

Alvaro Delgado (1922-2016) A Spanish painter and illustrator known mainly for his portraits of political and cultural figures of his time, Álvaro Delgado’s started to study art at th...

Georges Braque (1882 Argenteuil - 1963 Paris) “L'Etang” from Lettera amorosa Lithograph in 3 colors, created in 1963 Printer: Mourlot, Paris 1963 numbered and signed by hand cop...

A stunning abstract painted sculpture on wood by American Artist Byron Lacy. Lacy is a Texas artist that has exhibited his art all across the United States in museums and art galleri...

This 1993 work on paper by Shinkichi Tajiri (1923–2009) exemplifies the artist’s iconic exploration of the "knot," a motif symbolizing connection, tension, and unity. Rendered in bol...

Female nude life drawings in Cubist style are early 20th century drawn in pencil and framed with grey linen passe par-tout. In these drawings foreshortening, modelling, movement and ...

This painting by Mary Gehr (1910–1997) is an abstracted landscape, likely from the mid-20th century (1950s–1960s). The composition is dominated by earthy ochres, yellows, and muted...

Pair of wall décoration in plaster with a cubism design France 1930's Good Vintage condition

"Symphony in Grey" is an iconic oil on canvas, modern art painting by the Hungarian born artist, Ferenc Varga (Hungary, 1906-1989). Varga left Hungary fo...

1950s abstract Expressionism Woodblock print on handmade paper Gorgeous, graphic early work from Grippi. Experimentation with woodblock p...

Gerson Leiber "A Welcome Discordance" Oil on Linen, 2014 Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Gerson showed promise in his high school art classes. Later, while stationed in Hungary in the a...

Gerson Leiber "Dense Yet Tender" Oil and Graphite on Linen, 2015 Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Gerson showed promise in his high school art classes. Later, while stationed in Hungary ...

Gerson Leiber "Simplicity Is Hard to Achieve" Oil on Linen, 2015 Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Gerson showed promise in his high school art classes. Later, while stationed in Hungary ...

Gerson Leiber "A Concise View of the North Fork" Oil & Graphite on Linen, 2015 Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Gerson showed promise in his high school art cla...

Gerson Leiber "I Hope for Controlled Chaos" Oil on Linen, 2015 Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Gerson showed promise in his high school art classes. Later, while stationed in Hungary in...

Gerson Leiber "The Implications Are Clear" Oil on Linen, 2014 Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Gerson showed promise in his high school art classes. Later, while stationed in Hungary in ...

Gerson Leiber "Hopefully, A Fruitful Moment" Oil and Graphite on Linen, 2015 Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Gerson showed promise in his high school art classes. Later, while stationed...

Gerson Leiber "I Remember Larry Fleishman Fondly" Oil and Graphite on Linen, 2015 Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Gerson showed promise in his high school art classes. Later, while stat...

Painting, oil in cardboard, signed H Scheiber (Budapest 1873- 1950). Hugo Scheiber was born in Budapest in 1873. At the age of eight, he moved with his family from Budapest to Vie...

Limited edition silkscreen by Jesus Rafael Soto, (Venezuelan, 1923–2005). Spiral by the artist Rafael Jesús Soto, is a silkscreen print created in a limited edition between 1955 and...

One of Germany's great inter-war expressionists, strongly influenced by Cubism, Josef Eberz painted a number of brilliantly hued, high energy paintings as well as a series of prints ...

Nicolas Issaiev (a/k/a Nikolai Alexandrovich Isaev, Russian-French, 1891-1977) was a painter, graphic artist, set designer, illustrator. In the early 1900s he studied in art scho...

An embossed lithograph by French artist Gerard Fitremann, depicting an abstract, colorful composition with geometric and organic forms. Gerard Fitremann, born in 1944, is a French pa...

Michael Loew, American 1907-1985 "Black Reclining Nude". Ink on paper, 1969. Signed and dated lower left. Though the painter Michael Loew is today bes...

This oil painting, by Pinchas Litvinovsky, portrays a lively and expressive depiction of a bris, the Jewish ritual circumcision ceremony. The composition is filled with dynamic brush...

Beautiful Mosaic after Georges Braque. Signed and numbered. Edition of IV. Dimensions: 120 x 160 cm. Mosaic executed by Heidi Melano (one of the most important French Mosaist, she collaborated with Chagall, Braque, Modigliani). This Mosaic has been exhibited in: Art Museum of the Imperial Palace, China, 2012. Nanjing museum, 2012. Muse´e Georges Braque, Saint-Die´-des-Vosges, 2013. From the gouache "Pelias et Ne´le´e,' dated 1962. Bibliography: "Les Me´tamorphoses de Braque" of Heger de Loewenfeld and Raphae¨l de Cuttoli, Editions FAC, Paris, 1989. In 1961 Georges Braque decided with his laidary friend Heger de Loewenfeld to pick up certain of his works to in order to create artworks, this beautiful mosaic is one of them. The father of Cubism. Three Cubist that distinguishes art historian periods were initiated and developed by Georges Braque: The Cubist Ce´zanne (1907-1909), Executive (1909-1912) and synthetic (1912-1922). Post-Impressionist and fawn, Braque no longer adheres to the contingency of a decorative way or the other. Ce´zanne’s paintings exhibited at the Grand Palais during the retrospective of 1907 are a Revelation: Ce´zanne sought and invented a pictorial language. In his footsteps, Braque went to the South with the reasons of the Master. He returned with Estaque landscapes and surprising Ciotat it keeps Cezanne geometric model and retains the “passages” continuity from one surface to another to create the sensation of “turning around” of the object represented. But he wants to go after the consequences of the vision of Cezanne. In his paintings Houses in L’Estaque (1908) it simplifies the volumes of houses, neglects detail by removing doors and windows: the plastic rhythm that builds the table. Large nude, a masterpiece of the period, can be considered the first work of Ce´zanne cubism. Systematizing and deepening Braque discoveries open the door analytical cubism. In 1909, his painting became more cerebral than sensual. The pattern is recreated in the two-dimensionality of the canvas, leaving aside any illusionistic perspective. In still life with violin, objects are analyzed facets according to their characteristic elements, each facet referring to a particular view of the object. There are so many facets of points selected view: Table reflects the knowledge of the object and the ubiquity of the eye. Moreover, Braque is looking for the essence of the objects in the world rather than their contingency, which explains the absence of light source and use of muted colors (gray, ocher), contingent aspects of the object. But formal logic has stepped facets, erased any anecdote to the object and ultimately led to his painting a hermetic more marked on the edge of abstraction (see the series of Castle Roche-Guyon). Braque, anxious to keep the concrete and refusing at all costs that the logic of Cubism takes the paintings to abstract, reintroduced signs of reality in his paintings in 1912 marks the beginning of Synthetic Cubism. Historians speak of “signs of real” rather than reality because what interests Braque, this is not to put reality into a table, but to create a painting which, by its language, refers to the real. To do this, he invented two major techniques 20th century inclusions and contributions. The inclusions consist of painting objects that have no real depth, materials (wallpaper in Nature morte aux playing cards faux wood...

'Sunset Dogs' An Art Deco Style Contemporary painting by Vera Jefferson depicting a group of galloping hunting hounds, racing across the hills at sunset. Set against a stylised, abst...

Ida Kerkovius (1879 Riga - 1970 Stuttgart) “Point-Line-Surface” Serigraph in 12 colors, created in 1966 numbered and signed by hand copy 192/300, edition of 300 copies WV IKD 25 Framed behind glass Dimensions: Image size 30.5 cm x 40.5 cm Frame size 57 cm x 77 cm Ida Kerkovius Riga/Latvia 1879 - Stuttgart 1970 A Baltic German...

Original Lithograph Poster by Georges Braque, printed by Atelier Mourlot, created for the 1983 Braque exhibition at Musée d’Art Moderne in Céret, France. Georges Braque (1882-1963)...

Aurelio Arteta Errasti (2 December 1879, Bilbao - 10 November 1940, Mexico City) was a Basque painter who worked in several styles; including Symbolism, Cubism and Social Realism. ...

Fabulous 1980-1990 Joseph Barber framed American landscape pastel and watercolor painting on paper. The artist's signature is visible in the bottom right corner. The artwork depicts ...

Wind, Ocean, Sun by Balcomb Greene painted in 1963. Signed on the front titled and dated on the reverse. Paintings of the Montauk coast by Balcomb Greene are few and far between. Thi...

The Cliffs by Balcomb Greene painted in 1978. Signed on the front titled and dated on the reverse. Paintings of the Montauk coast by Balcomb Greene are few and far between. This painting likely created at his Studio in Montauk New York. Painting is in excellent original condition and retains the original gallery frame. provenance: Estate of Gertrude B. Pascal / Gifted from the previous in 1987, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY / Christie's, New York 2012 / Private Collection, New Jersey Public collections: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Over a lifespan of 86 years, Balcomb Greene followed his muse wherever it led, unfettered by what had come before, unafraid of where the future might lead. Despite a series of different pathways explored, his purpose remained ever constant: to express truth as he found it and communicate it to a broader audience. In the 1930s, Greene was a young artist committed to abstraction as his expressive language. Greene’s paintings and collages of the 1930s reflect the influence of Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian and put him in the company of fellow Americans, including Ibram Lassaw, Josef Albers, Ilya Boltowsky and George L. K. Morris, all among the founding members, in 1936, of American Abstract Artists. John Wesley Greene, his christened name which he never legally changed, was born in 1904 in Millville, New York, the third child and only son of Methodist minister The Reverend Bertram Stillman Greene (1864–1929) and Florence Stover Greene (1876–1911). His family on both sides were Revolutionary-era colonists, originally living in Connecticut and Vermont before joining the Yankee migration to the western frontier of New York State. In 1922, John Wesley Greene enrolled at Syracuse University aided by a scholarship for the sons of Methodist ministers and intending to fulfill the promise of his name and follow his father into the ministry. As with so many before and after him, the liberal education he absorbed at Syracuse broadened his horizons and reshaped his life plan. Studying philosophy, psychology, and literature, along the way he separated himself from organized religion. During his senior year, on a visit to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Greene was introduced to Gertrude Glass (1904–1956), an art student and the Brooklyn-born daughter of Latvian Jewish immigrants. Following Greene’s graduation, the two married in 1926 and went to Europe. They stopped briefly in Paris but spent most of their time in Vienna where Greene had a fellowship to study psychology. When they returned to New York in 1927, Greene enrolled in a master’s program in ‘English literature at Columbia University. When his thesis advisor rejected his essay topic on the “fallen woman” in seventeenth-century literature as inappropriate, he left without a degree. From 1928 until 1931, Greene taught English at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. At some point, he stopped using his given name, John, and began to call himself, more distinctively, Balcomb, the family name of his paternal grandmother. While Greene wrote three novels (all unpublished) during his teaching years at Dartmouth, his wife was a working artist, and he eventually developed an interest of his own in painting. In 1931, Greene gave up his teaching position and he and Gertrude went to Paris, determined to immerse themselves in the modern art ferment they had briefly experienced in their earlier visit. For young Americans with no prescribed agenda, a receptiveness to innovation, and wide-open eyes and minds. Paris, in 1931, offered a rich stew of approaches to modern art. The city absorbed and transmuted an international mélange of styles—cubism, orphism, futurism, dadaism, constructivism, neoplasticism, suprematism, de Stijl, Bauhaus—France encountering Holland, Germany, Italy, and Russia with Pablo Picasso from Spain, Constantin Brancusi from Romania, and Jacques Lipchitz from Lithuania. As a sculptor, Gertrude Greene...