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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
Still Life of Gourds with Japanese Celadon Vase & Dragon Decorated Plate, 1944.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Denis Mitchell. English ( b.1912 - d.1993 ). Still Life of Gourds with Japanese Celadon Vase and Dragon Decorated Plate, 1944. Oil on Tea Crate Plywood Panel Image size 17.5 inches ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Plywood, Oil

Vintage Mid-Century Expressionist Figurative Oil Painting - Across the Bridge
Located in Bristol, GB
ACROSS THE BRIDGE Size: 46 x 54 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A lively and expressive figurative landscape composition, executed in oil onto canvas by Swedish artist Uno Vallm...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Spring : Goat playing Violin and Woman with Bouquet - Lithograph (Mourlot 1938)
Located in Paris, FR
Marc CHAGALL (1887-1985) Spring : Goat playing Violin and Woman with Bouquet 1938 Lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Engraved by Sorlier under Marc Chagall supervision Other lithograph...
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1930s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Digging For Clams - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Digging For Clams Mrs Hans Estin watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay, circa 1960. Slim Aarons archival pigment print Printed Later...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Nice Pool' - Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print 1955. American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs. F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley...
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1950s Modern Art

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C Print

Dining In The Bahamas (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
Dining In The Bahamas (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) A waiter carrying a tray of food walks past a woman walking away from a swimming pool which is ...
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1970s Modern Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Brunch At Brennans - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Brunch At Brennans Sunday brunch at Brennan’s restaurant, New Orleans. A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition P...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

C Print, Color

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Jhelum River - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Jhelum River A luxury boat trip on the Jhelum River near Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, India, 1961. The boat is called the ‘HB Cutty Sark’. Slim Aarons Chromogenic. C print Pri...
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1960s Modern Art

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C Print, Color

Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction 40x60 Pop Art Photography Cassette Tape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of Guns N' Roses iconic "Appetite for Destruction" cassette tape. This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Dest...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ice, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Ice, Size: 21" x 26" x 2.5'' inch, (53x66x7 ...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Metal

Dichro, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Dichro, Size: 21" x 26" x 2.5'' inch, (53x66...
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2010s Modern Art

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Metal

Water, Abstract 3D Original Glass Wall Sculpture, Modern Design
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Water, Size: 37.5" x 77.5" x 1'' inch, (95x197x3 c...
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2010s Modern Art

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Metal

Love, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Love, Size: 48.5" x 55" x 5.5'' inch, (123x1...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Metal

Geneva countryside
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard Golden wooden frame 43.5 x 36 x 3 cm
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Early 1900s Modern Art

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Oil

Geodesic, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2024 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Geodesic, Size: 50" x 30" x 4'' inch, (76x12...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Metal

Original Fred Mcdarrah Press Photograph 1960's Woodstock Music Festival Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
People walking alongside puddle at Woodstock in Bethel NY - 1969 Photographer is Fred McDarrah Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s ...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Original Fred Mcdarrah Press Photograph 1960's Woodstock Music Festival Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
People walking alongside puddle at Woodstock in Bethel NY 1969 Photographer is Fred McDarrah Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s po...
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1960s Modern Art

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Photographic Paper

Tete Grecque, Lithograph by Georges Braque
Located in Long Island City, NY
Georges Braque, French (1882 - 1963) - Tete Grecque, Year: 1956, Medium: Lithograph on Rives, signed in pencil, Size: 15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.94 cm), Publisher: Jean-Paul Loriot, Ref...
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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Peter Orlovsky, Herbert Huncke Beatnik Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Peter Orlovsky and Herbert Huncke - March 7 1960 Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway ...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Sketch - Drawing by André Meaux de Saint Marc - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch is a drawing realized by André Meaux de Saint Marc in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized throug...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Sketch - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft expres...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Figures - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft expre...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Creature - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Creature is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft expr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Market - Etching by Paul Emile Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Market is a Woodcut realized by Paul Emile Colin in the Mid-20th Century. hand-signed. Numbered.Edition, 35/50. Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized throug...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Landscape - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft exp...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Portrait - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft expr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Child - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Child is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft express...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Pencil, Paper

Figures - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft expre...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Monkeys - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Monkeys is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft expre...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Landscape - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft exp...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Feet - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Feet is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft expressi...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Hyena - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Hyena is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft express...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Portrait - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft expr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Trunk - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Trunk is a drawing realized in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil ivory-colored paper. Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft expressive strokes.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Nudes - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nudes is a drawing realized by Joseph Alexandre Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Charcoal on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Portrait - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized in the Mid-20th Century by Joseph Alexandre Colin. Charcoal ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

The River - Etching by Paul Emile Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The River is an etching realized by Paul Emile Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Numbered.Edition, 3/30. Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized thr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

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Etching

Figure - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure  is a drawing realized in the Mid-20th Century by Joseph Alexandre Colin. Charcoal ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through d...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

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Paper, Pencil

The Church - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Church is a drawing realized by Joseph Alexandre Colin in the Mid-20th Century. China ink ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized throu...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Bears - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bears is a drawing realized in the Mid-20th Century. Charcoal ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft expressive strokes.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Parrot - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Parrot is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft expres...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Nude - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft expressi...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Pencil, Paper

Crocodile - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Crocodile is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft exp...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Darth Ziggy - Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
"Darth Ziggy" Signed Limited Edition Darth Ziggy by BATIK Archival pigment pop art print signed & limited edition. BATIK is a London based fine artist and image maker. 20 x 16 i...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Gallo
Located in Miami, FL
Mariano Rodriguez Gallo, 1984 Serigraph Ed. VII of XXV 29 x 22 in
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Horse - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Horse is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft express...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Riders - Drawing by Paul Emile Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
it is a drawing realized in the Mid-20th Century by Paul Emile Colin. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft expres...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

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Pencil

Hawaiian Chickens - Animal Painting - American Modern By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Three Roosters from the beautiful island of Kauai, being as goofy as the naturally can in this contemporary tropical jungle painting . Hawaiian Chickens - Animal paintings - America...
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2010s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Walking Up Cortina D'Ampezzo - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Walking Up Cortina D'Ampezzo Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962. Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print Printed Later 2024 Slim Aarons ...
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1960s Modern Art

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C Print, Color

A Toute Epreuve (D216), Woodcut by Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) - A Toute Epreuve (D216), Portfolio: A Toute Epreuve by Paul Eluard, Year: 1958, Medium: Woodcut on Arches, Edition: 130, Size: 13 x 9.75 in. (33.02...
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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

A Toute Epreuve (D 199), Woodcut by Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) - A Toute Epreuve (D 199), Year: 1958, Medium: Woodcut on Japanese Nacred paper, Edition: 130, Size: 12.75 x 9.75 in. (32.39 x 24.77 cm), Printer: J...
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1950s Modern Art

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Woodcut

Slim Aarons 'Top Up?, Cannes' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Top Up? 1958 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. CAPTION: 1958: Swimsuited revellers enjoy a glass of wine out...
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1950s Modern Art

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Lambda

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Interior Still Life Oil Painting - The Wooden Chest
Located in Bristol, GB
THE WOODEN CHEST Size: 56 x 66 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A brilliantly executed mid-century composition of a well-decorated interior scene, executed in oil onto canvas. Th...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Joan Miro 'Litografia Original IV'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Title: Litografia original IV Year: 1975 Signed: No Medium: Lithograph Paper Size: 13 x 10 inches ( 33.02 x 25.4 cm ) Image Size: 12.75 x 10 inches ( 32.385 x 25.4 cm ) Edition Size:...
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20th Century Modern Art

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Lithograph

1955 Vintage Mid-Century Modernist Landscape Oil Painting - Houses by the Port
Located in Bristol, GB
HOUSES BY THE PORT Size: 47.5 x 56 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A captivating composition with a view of a port with an expressive and dynamic energy, executed in oil on board ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

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Oil, Board

Modernist Impasto Painting Mountain with Ocean Landscape J. James Akston
Located in Surfside, FL
J. James Akston Mountain Landscape by ocean Acrylic on Board Frame: 11.5 x 16. Image: 5 X 9.5 Joseph James Akston was a Polish American sculptor, painter, known for surrealist abstract painting and Aubusson (for Les Ateliers Pinton Frères, tapisserie, Aubusson) tapestry artist. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1898 he died in Palm Beach Florida in 1983. During the 1960s and '70s the entrepreneur-artist James Joseph Akston adopted a unique Surreal Expressionist style in order to present his private primordial universe and lampoon its denizens, a ribald cast of animal creatures with human foibles. A successful industrialist, he began his career with General Motors foreign operations and then started his own business. Intermittently he studied painting, first with Jerry Farnsworth in North Truro (Mass.) and then with Jose Clemente Orozco in Mexico. In the early 1960s Akston became publisher-editor of a group of art publications which included The Magazine Arts. Initially an abstract expressionist, Akston had one-man exhibitions at the New York Convention Center and the Corcoran Museum in Washington. Since 2015 the record price for this artist at auction is $12,575 USD for Spheres Aux Triangles Aubusson Tapestry, sold at Bonhams New York in 2019. He was a Graduate of Georgetown University. He sat on the board of the Norton Museum. Exhibitions 1976 Hokin Gallery 1966 Gallery 63 NYC 1960 Gallery 63 Rome , Italy Select Public Collections National Museum, Wshington DC Boca Museum of Art Whitney Museum of Art, NYC Museum of Modern Art, NYC Museum of African Art Washington DC (Now part of Smithsonian Museum) Bibliography: 1962 Art...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art

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Oil

"ELK" Wall Sculpture- mid century modern, mcm, copper, monochrome, monochromatic
Located in Marmora, NJ
"ELK" Wood Wall Sculpture- 2024 Metallic Copper Enamel on solid maple wood. Finished on three sides and ready to hang. Scott Troxel draws on the aesthetics of bygone technology and ...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Wood, Paint

Dufy, Bouquet, Vacances forcées (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Vacances forcées 1970. Published by Éditi...
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1970s Modern Art

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Lithograph

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