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
Woman in Repose
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Bronze sculpture of a woman in repose by Turkish Israeli sculpture Haim Azuz, b. 1932
This piece is signed and numbered 2 out of an edition of 10 on the lower leg and measures 11.7...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Slim Aarons 'Cannes Watersports at the Carlton' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cannes Watersports at the Carlton
1958
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
CAPTION: Holidaymakers waterskiing ...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
Low Tide The Minnows. Islands, Cornwall. Padstow. Original Impasto Oil Painting.
By Nancy Bailey
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Nancy Bailey.
English ( b.1913 - d.2012 ).
Low Tide on The Minnows, Cornwall, 1972.
Oil on Canvas. Signed.
Image size 19.3 inches x 39.4 inches ( 49cm x 100cm ).
Frame size 25.4 inc...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fred Bongusto - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Fred Bongusto- Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Alfredo Antonio Carlo Buongusto (6 April 1935 – 8 November 2019), ...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Meeting between Bettino Craxi and Felipe Gonzalez- Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Meeting between Bettino Craxi and Felipe Gonzalez is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Original Kaffee-Rahm, Swiss vintage coffee poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Swiss Kaffee Rahm Pilatus ; Swiss coffee cream poster. Linen backed. The coffee-colored woman poises with a coffee cup on her head, pouring s...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Threesome' - 1960s Vintage Mountain Landscape Painting, Deer in Yellowstone
Located in Denver, CO
Original vintage 1960s landscape painting with deer grazing in a meadow in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming by Harold Skene (1883-1978). Golden Aspen Trees in autumn foliage with p...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Three Nudes in a Garden
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Three Nudes in a Garden
Graphite, c. 1928-1933
Initialed in pencil lower left (see photo)
Illustrated: Elliott & Wooden, Aaron Bohrod: Figure Sketches, Fige 9, page 32 (see photo)
A...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Graphite
Composition (Mourlot, Paris)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Alfred Manessier
Composition
1964
Original Color Lithograph on Velin d'Arches
Size: 10x7.375in
Edition: 2,000
Signed in the Stone
Annotated verso
Publisher: Mourlot, Paris
Printer: M...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Vellum, Lithograph
Marcello Mastroianni and Laura Morante - Vintage b/w Photo - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Italian actors Marcello Mastroianni and Laura Morante in a scene from the movie "Le due vite di Mattia Pascal", directed by Mario Monicelli.
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Abstract Flowers - Lithograph by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Flowers is an original modern artwork realized in the1970s by Franco Gentilini.
Mixed colored lithograph
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Edition of 35/100
Inc...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Snowy Owl - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Snowy Owl a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) .
Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870. Name ...
Category
1870s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Osprey - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Osprey is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) .
Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870. Name o...
Category
1870s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Le Rire - Vintage Comic Magazine
Located in Roma, IT
Le Rire is a Comic Magazine published on May 1896, illustrations by Lucien Métivet.
Good condition on a yellowed paper, except for some torn paper on the left...
Category
19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Alpine Swift - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Alpine Swift is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) .
Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-colored, published by Lond...
Category
1870s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Great White Heron - Original Woodcut Print - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Great White Heron is a modern artwork realized in 1870. Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870.
Name of the bird printed ...
Category
1870s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Marilyn Monroe Monkey business
By Virgil Apger
Located in CANNES, FR
EKtachrome Vintage 1953 .20x15cm
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Film
Portrait of Anna Magnani - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper, realized in 1950s.
Good conditions.
Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (not in Egypt...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Montpellier - Original Lithograph - Mid-19th Cent
Located in Roma, IT
Montpellier is an original modern artwork realized in the Mid-19th Century.
Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper.
Inscripted on the lower central margin in Capital Letters: Mont...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Roman Bust - Etching by Various Old Masters - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Roman bust for the Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters.
In very goo...
Category
Mid-18th Century Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Figure - Original Lithograph - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original print in lithograph on paper realized by an anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century.
In very good conditions.
The artwork created through confident strokes, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ex Libris Dolezal - Original Woodcut Print - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Dolezal is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century.
Original Ex Libris.
Original B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper.
The work is glued...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Ex Libris Obratil - Original Woodcut on Paper - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Obratil is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Original Ex Libris.
Original B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-signed in penci...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Ex Libris Susi Kolar - Original Woodcut Print - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Susi Kolar is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century.
Original Ex Libris.
Original B/W Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Sigled in pencil ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Figure - Original Pencil - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by an anonymous french artist of the 20th Century.
Aged with cutaways on the margins.
The artwork represents the study of...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Prince Chichibu on a Japanese Battleship - Vintage Photo 1939
Located in Roma, IT
Prince Chichibu is a b/w photographic print on polihed paper realized by Wide World Photos (England) on November 11, 1938.
Stamp of agency and stereotype in German on the back.
Excellent conditions.
In this photo, the prince Chichibu with two officials on the deck of a battleship during the landing at the Chinese bay of Bias.
Yasuhito, better known as Prince Chichibu (1902-1953), was a younger brother of Emperor Shōwa, and a famous general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mr. Chauncey M. Depew - Original Lithograph by Spy for Vanity Fair - 1889
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 31.5 x 18.8 cm.
Mr. Chauncey M. Depew is a beautiful chromolithograph on paper, realized by the illustrator Spy for Vanity Fair newspaper, issue of October 26th 1889, and published by Vincent Brooks, day and Son.
This is the authentic print, representing a portrait of the President of the New York central Road and Hudson River railroad , Mr. Depew, (1834-1928). Signed on plate on lower right margin with the artist name of Spy.
This original print is referred to as "Spy Cartoons...
Category
1880s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Trop-Tôt - Original Lithograph and Pochoir by F. Bouchot - First Half of 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Amusing original colored lithograph with pouchoir details.
Satiric illustration by the French draftsman Frédéric Bouchot (1798- 1865). Plate 2, from the suite of 10 lithographs, Tr...
Category
Early 19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Stencil, Lithograph
Soins Tyranniques - Original Lithograph and Pochoir by F. Bouchot - Mid 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Amusing original colored lithograph with pouchoir details, representing a father talking to his daughter.
Satiric illustration by the French draftsman Frédéric Bouchot (1798- 1865). Plate 12, from the series, Soins Tyranniques, Aubert and C.ie, Paris. Signed on plate, on lower-left margin.
With the printed capture on lower margin: "Chère enfant, tu es en âge de te marier, l'agitation de ton ésprit, tes émotions inquiètes et vagues; tout m'annonce que ton coeur s'épanouit..... J'ai fait pour toi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Stencil, Lithograph
Les Étudians de Paris - Original Lithograph by Paul Gavarni - 1847
Located in Roma, IT
Amusing original colored lithograph with pouchoir details.
Beautiful satiric illustration by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (alias Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier, 1804- 1866). Plate 2, from the series Les Étudians de Paris, Bauger, Paris, 1847, Imp. d'Aubert and Cie. Signed on plate on lower-right.
With the printed capture: "Ma chère, comment peux tu sopporter un homme qui pipe toute la journee dans des horreurs de machine comme ça...
Category
1840s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
La Vie de Jeune Homme - Original Lithograph by Paul Gavarni - First Half of 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Colored lithograph with pouchoir details.
Beautiful satiric illustration by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (alias Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier Gavarni, 1804-1866). Plate 25, from...
Category
1840s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Les Débardeurs - Original Lithograph by Paul Gavarni - First Half of 1848
Located in Roma, IT
Colored lithograph with pouchoir details.
Beautiful satiric illustration by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (alias Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier, 1804-1866). Plate 58, from the ser...
Category
1840s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Standing Nude in Profile - Pencil Drawing Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude in Profile is an original artwork realized by an Anonymous French artist in the first years of the XX century.
Pencil on paper. Passepartout included. Good conditions except fo...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Pencil
Pablo Picasso - Bandaleros - 1961 Original Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sku: XX1388
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Bandaleros
Year: 1961
Signed: No
Medium: Lithograph
Paper Size: 9.5 x 12 inches ( 24.13 x 30.48 cm )
Image Size: 12 x 9.5 inches ( 30.48 x 24...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White, Lithograph
Palazzo Ducale di Massa
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo Ducale di Massa
The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how his architectural subject matter allows him to control the compo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) - Manhattan Mary IV: serigraph Broadway musical
By Erté
Located in London, GB
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) (1892-1990)
'Manhattan Mary IV'
Serigraph (Silk screen print)
(Artist's Proof IL/L)
Signed in pencil
70 x 56cm (sheet) 41.5 x 3...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Bellhop
Located in New York, NY
Many places, many times intermingle in the work of Roberto Juarez. His life is so much a part of his work, that each new body of work introduces subjects, styles and motifs that seem...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Stencil
Galerie Karl Flinker (Anthropometry) Poster /// Yves Klein Nude Figurative Blue
By Yves Klein
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Yves Klein (French, 1928-1962)
Title: "Galerie Karl Flinker (Anthropometry)"
Year: 1973
Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on light wove paper
Limited edi...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Brooke Hopper David Hockney portrait drawing lithograph in black and white
Located in New York, NY
A classic David Hockney portrait, this lithograph depicts the artist's friend Brooke Hopper. Brooke Hopper, one of the Hollywood elite, is the daughter of the producer Leland Hayward...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Louis Osman Architect Goldsmith Silversmith 1974 catalogue Prince of Wales Crown
By Louis Osman
Located in London, GB
As Goldsmith Osman designed the Crown for the Investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969, and as architect he commissioned Jacob Epstein's chef d'oeuvre, the Madonna and Child on the...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
After Pablo Picasso Colombe Volant, 1961, offset lithograph 51x65 cm signed
Located in Jerusalem, IL
(after) Pablo Picasso
Colombe Volant, 1961
offset lithograph
51x65 cm
“bears” a signature lower right and numbered HC lower left. This is apart from the signed and numbered edition o...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Marternity
Located in Geneva, CH
Artist born in Vienna, Austria in 1887.
Died in 1970 in Geneva.
Work on canvas
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Slim Aarons 'Verbier View' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Verbier View' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Skiers admire the view across a valley of clouds at Verbier, 1964.
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
Printed Later
Slim Aaron...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
1950's Modernist Painting Bright Watercolour Chateau In Green and Blue Forest
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper
size: 13 x 16 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: the art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
Through the looking glass oil on canvas painting nude woman
By Francisco Sillué
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Francesc Sillue (1936) - Through the looking glass - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 60x73 cm.
Frameless.
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Winter
Located in Chicago, IL
A woodcut on paper by Deco artist John Storrs. This image of this print was used to sell Christmas gift subscriptions for the "Liberator Magazine", December 1918. Third state. Arti...
Category
1910s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Flying Colors '76 (Stars and Stripes) /// Alexander Calder Abstract Modern Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976)
Title: "Flying Colors '76 (Stars and Stripes)"
Portfolio: Flying Colors
*Issued unsigned, though signed by Calder in the plate (printed...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Degas - Vintage Poster - Offset Print - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Degas - Poster is an original poster print.
The artwork was realized on the occasion of the artist's exhibition In Paris in 1960.
Good conditions except for being aged and some fol...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Vintage American Modernist Surreal Dry Dock Boat Scene Signed Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted modernist dry dock boat landscape by Karl Soderlund (Born 1962). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1990s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Macaroni, from Bauhaus I Portfolio
By Irene Bayer
Located in Dallas, TX
Bauhaus I Portfolio
Ed. 33/70
Signed and dated in black ink on print margin.
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nude Woman Profile Drawing by Radoczy
Located in Pasadena, CA
Reclining Female figure, original signed line drawing, in pencil and ink by Albert Radoczy.
Albert Radoczy was a master at exploring the female form. Throughout his career, his draw...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Ink, Pencil
' India Blue ' Limited Edition, Signed Oversize Archival Pigment print
By Tim Graham
Located in London, GB
' India Blue ' Limited Edition, Signed Oversize Archival Pigment print
Huge and exquisite, intensely vivid Archival Pigment print - signed and numbered by photographer on front - th...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Sundowners, Cannes' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sundowners
1958
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
CAPTION: Two bikini-clad holidaymakers enjoy a glass of wi...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
English mid century oil painting Portrait of cute Corgi dog
Located in Woodbury, CT
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a cute Corgi.
Paintings of this breed are very rare and very collected.
Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Slim Aarons 'The Carlton Hotel' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Carlton Hotel
1958
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
CAPTION: The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, Fra...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter
in a swimming pool at Acapulco.
Slim Aarons ...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Eden-Roc Pool' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Eden-Roc Pool
1976
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate
CAPTION: Guests by the pool at the ...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
Sports Car Couple (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1955: John Bryant with his AC sports car in Kinnerton Place, London SW1. His passenger is Margaret McAulay
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
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