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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
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series VIII
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series VIII", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an int...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Lousville Composition, Signed Acrylic on Masonite by Ronald Julius Christensen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lousville Composition by Ronald Julius Christensen, American (1923–1999) Acrylic on Masonite, signed and titled Size: 26.5 x 45.5 in. (67.31 x 115.57 cm) Frame Size: 27.5 x 45.5
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Acrylic

Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series VI
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series VI", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inter...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

A Vibrant, Colorful 1950s Mid-Century Modern Still Life Painting by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Colorful 1950s Mid-Century Modern Still Life Painting by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. Depicting a radiant still life of fresh flowers, plates of fruit and a wine bo...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series III
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series III", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an inte...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series I (circa 1980s-90s)
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series I", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an interm...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

1957 Vintage Modernist Abstract Figurative Framed Oil Painting- Senoritas
Located in Bristol, GB
SENORITAS Size: 48 x 62 cm (including frame) Oil on Board An outstanding semi-abstract figurative oil composition, painted in 1957 by the established Swedish artist Ivar Morsing (1919-2009), whose works have been exhibited in public collections including the National Museum in Stockholm, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Kalmar Museum, and Jönköping Museum. The artwork captures the poised and elegant presence of five Spanish ladies...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Path of Mindful Steps . Foliage green painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
The canvas is a metaphor for life, where through the interweaving of our realisations and steps, we create our own unique pattern of life. Its beauty and complexity depends on our i...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist Persian Iranian Middle Eastern Abstract Fereydoun Assa Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Fereydoun (Fred) Rahimi Assa (Iranian, b. 1936) Oil and mixed media on canvas, Hand signed lower left Framed : 48-1/2"h x 36-1/2"w Sight: 48"h x 36"w Made with metallic paint, the...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Under The Sea Series Nº 20. Úbeda. Oil fantasy green underwater landscape.
Located in Segovia, ES
Under The Sea Series Nº 20. Úbeda. Oil fantasy green underwater landscape. Oil on paper, (H) 43 x (W) 18 x (D) 0.2 cm. Author: Úbeda. The sheets that make up this project evoke a d...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Paper

Bathers at the Quarry 1940s American Modernist Oil Painting WPA era
By Theresa Berney Loew
Located in Surfside, FL
Swimmers and sun tanners at the local watering hole. Her birth name was Theresa Berney. At the time of her passing she was known as Theresa Loew. Birth place: Baltimore artist, blo...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Cosmological abstraction n.5" by Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona 1915-Milano 1994)
Located in Milano, MI
Salvador was one of Spain's first abstract painters, exhibiting work in this style as early as 1946 in Barcelona. Subsequently he went through many painting styles, from Fauvism to P...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Signed Lowell Herrero Beach Scene Painting
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Herrero (American, 1921-2015) Untitled, c. Late 20th-Early 21st Century Oil on canvas 16 x 20 in. Framed: 19 3/4 x 23 5/8 in. Signed lower right:...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Middle Eastern Building Painting
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Mid Century acrylic on canvas painting of a Middle Eastern Street scene executed with bold impressionistic brush strokes. Depicting exotic Architecture ...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

New York Diamond District
Located in Cleveland, OH
This is an original work by world famous artist Hunt Slonem.
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

"It's better to wake up" by Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona 1915-Milano 1994)
Located in Milano, MI
"It is better to wake up" is a hymn for the "awakening" of humanity. Hand-signed by artist, Certificate of authenticity Included (issued by authorized authenticating body) Image r...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

Casa Loma Stomp
Located in New York, NY
Born in 1927 and raised in Cleveland, Fenton already had a successful career as a commercial artist and designer by age 22. In 1955, he relocated to New York to attend Pratt Insti...
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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Melrose Hutch
Located in Cleveland, OH
This is an original work by world famous artist Hunt Slonem.
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Ricordo di un'equazione sentimentale" by Salvador Aulestia
Located in Milano, MI
From the series dedicated to Timeless Women by Salvador Aulestia, this is definitely a museum-grade artwork, exceptionally granted to celebrate yellow, a color well present in the Ca...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Take It, But Take It Easy, Original painting, Cowboys, Landscape, Horses
Located in Deddington, GB
Inspired by an old blues record, one of only a few where I've started with a title for a piece. normally they come to mind whilst painting. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Acrylic paint on...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

El Centro, Puerto Rico
Located in Booklyn, NY
El Centro, is a relatively new area in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This picture depicts The Convention Center seen here in the shadow of a Caribbean sunset. Unusual, rare pigments used i...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Pigment, Archival Paper

Painting Still life Book Flowers Lilacs bouquet French modern art 1920s 20th
Located in PARIS, FR
Roger MASSON Doulaincourt (Haute-Marne), 1890 – Soncourt (Vosges), 1950 Bouquet of lilacs near a book Oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm (60 x 51 cm with the frame) Signed and dated top right ...
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1920s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Untitled 3
Located in Bozeman, MT
When I think of where McCauley fits into American art, as a contemporary painter, sculptor and naturalistic interpreter, I place him in the same philosophical tribe as Walton Ford, A...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel

Listen to the Music, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Listen to the Music" is a colorful diptych on paper. It is painted gesturally and dynamically and is part of abstract expressionism. The main colors are red, pink, yellow, beige ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Modern Abstract Blue Rose, Vintage Abstracted Minimalist Floral by Eleanor Perry
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern Abstract Blue Rose, Vintage Abstracted Minimalist Floral by Eleanor Perry Modernist blue and white rose abstract by San Francisco, California artist Eleanor Louise Perry (Ame...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Masonite, Acrylic

A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Horse Race Painting by Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic, Mid-Century Modern horse race painting by noted Chicago artist, Rudolph Pen. Artwork size: 27" x 23"; Framed size: 27 1/2" x 23 1/2". Signed "Pen" lower right. Provenan...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Three Chimneys
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Three Chimneys, 1956, oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower left, 18 x 36 inches, titled verso, presented in its original frame Three Chimneys is a prime example of Ethel Margolies’ Precisionist-influenced industrial scenes. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Margolies made a name for herself by painting the Northeast’s factories, foundries, and manufacturing plants. Although this subject matter is often associated with male artists, Margolies is part of an important lineage of female modernists who depicted symbols of America’s industrial might. Starting with artists like New Jersey’s Elsie Driggs and Chicago’s Yvonne Deluc Pryor, Margolies is part of a through line of women Precisionist painters that also included the West Coast’s Vanessa Helder. Whereas these artists tended towards a stark and pristine realism, Margolies seems to have been influenced by the 1920s and early 1930s work of Charles Demuth’s and Charles Sheeler’s highly designed paintings from the same period, as both adopted a cubo-futurist oriented brand of Precisionism. Ethel Polacheck Margolies was a Connecticut painter...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Mid-Summer
Located in Dallas, TX
Lloyd Goff studied at the Art Students League, and has work in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and T...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Delicate Balance
Located in Westport, CT
Nancy Lasar’s work is described as “drawing with light”, “condensed energy and flow”, “calm and crazy”, and “organized chaos”. The lines in Lasar’s works that are electrifying. They ...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic, Graphite, Linen, Color Pencil

American Modernist Street & Diner Scene, Signed Kittredge
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Artist (Possibly William A. Kittredge, illustrator) Untitled (Diner), c. Mid-20th century Oil on board Sight: 8 x 10 in. Framed: 9 3/8 x 11 3/8 x 7/8 in.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Original Still Life Oil Painting - Jugs and Funnel
Located in Bristol, GB
JUGS AND FUNNEL Oil on Canvas Size: 64.5 x 45 cm (including frame) An inviting and soothing mid-century modernist style still life composition, executed in oil onto canvas. Simple ...
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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Framed Still Life Oil Painting-Lemons & Pots
Located in Bristol, GB
LEMONS & POTS Oil on Board Size: 48.5 x 55.5 cm (including frame) A visually striking and expressive modernist still life composition, executed in oil onto board and dated 1949. Th...
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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Sudden, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original work - big painting in contemporary pop art style from hungarian artist Janos Kujbus. Story about painting: "There are many ways to gain a woman and probably even more ways to lose her. Sometimes it's a gradual process, other times it all happens all of a sudden. Especially the loss ... Like when, in the wild, nothing threatening gray clouds suddenly cover the azure sky and a storm starts to rise above our heads. We can't prevent a storm, but we can prevent losses ... Let's not let our happiness be stolen!" Despite the fact that Janos Kujbus belongs to the younger generation of Hungarian fine artists, we can rightly place his work among the top works of contemporary European art. His figurative paintings in the style of modern pop art amaze not only their size (often exceeding two meters), but also the peculiarities of their form and content. On the big canvases...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Still life with vegetables by Fernand Blondin - Oil on Canvas - 54x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Fernand Blondin (1887-1967) was a Swiss painter and teacher, celebrated for his depictions of idyllic rural life, interiors, female nudes, portraits, still-lifes, religious subjects ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modern French Oil Painting Two Elegant Figures in an Interior Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modern French Oil Painting Two Elegant Figures in an Interior Scene by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size: 11.75 ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled ( Perched Bird ), Pastel on Paper by Amitabha Banerjee " In Stock "
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Amitabha Banerjee Untitled ( Perched Bird ) Pastel on Paper 21.6 x 21 inches 54.8 x 53.3 cm ( Framed and Delivered ) About the Artist and his work : Born : In 1929 born in Ba...
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Etching

20th Century French Modernist Drawing Of Black And White Flowers In Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed verso original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edg...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

Portrait by Fernand Blondin - Oil on Canvas - 50x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Fernand Blondin (1887-1967) was a Swiss painter and teacher, celebrated for his depictions of idyllic rural life, interiors, female nudes, portraits, still-lifes, religious subjects ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fair Tie, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The painting depicts a picturesque contemporary perspective of a perfect couple, aloof and apathetic. :: Painting :: Modern :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authen...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

American Modernist Oil Stick Drawing: Landscape of Gray Barn Red Sliding Doors
Located in Denver, CO
This stunning oil stick on paper titled "Barn Side with Sliding Doors" by renowned American artist George Vander Sluis (1915-1984) depicts a serene...
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1980s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel

Surrealist Oil Portrait by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portrait (38) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 17 in. x 14 in. (43.18 cm x 35.56 cm)
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Sacred {Triptych - Set of 3}, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Inspired by my Wabi Sabi residential project with a luxury interior designer & my studies of Wabi Sabi (a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay).This is a Japanese neutral abstract modern...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Composizione con figure e motivi architettonici
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil drawing on paper. In very good conditions, including a golden wooden frame (cm 46.5 x 4 x 55). Provenance: Siorni's heirs. Stefano Cortina, Milan. Paul Nicholls...
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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Girl With Green Eyes Mixed Media on paper
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Girl with green eyes. Portrait mixed media, watercolor, collage, pencil on paper, signed ZaZa New York about 1980s
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Watercolor

"Dairyland" oil painting of two black and white cows in a field
Located in Edgartown, MA
David Konigsberg was born in Warren PA and lives and works in Brooklyn NY. His rural and urban experience play out in a love for both landscape and conceptual narrative, genres he of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Central Railroad' — Mid-Century African-American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), Untitled (Central Railroad), watercolor, c. 1945. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '697' in ink. A fine, modernist re...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Watercolor, India Ink

Town of Litomysl, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original extra large painting of architecture / architectural fragment - an arcade architecture from Litomysl, Czech town was created with acrylic colours on canvas. The size of this particular artwork: Height : 57,1 inches (145 cm) Width : 63 inches (160 cm) Depth : 2 inches (5 cm) This artwork will be sent in a tube. And the tube will be wrapped in bubble foil and inserted into the cardboard box for maximum security against any damage. Any local framer will easily mount it for you onto a wooden blind...
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic

1972 Gestural Oil Painting Boat in Harbor Figural Abstraction Raoul Middleman
Located in Surfside, FL
Raoul Middleman (born 1935 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American painter. Middleman has been a member of the Maryland Institute College of Art faculty since 1961. American University Museum at the Katzen Center has described Middleman as a "Baltimore maestro [whose] nudes are not pretty—they are sagging, dimpled, and real. His cityscapes reveal the underbelly of post-industrial rot, his narrative paintings give contemporary life to his personal obsessions. They are intelligent, messy, and utterly masterful." From an interview with RM "I was doing abstract art. Then Roy Lichtenstein came around, and I wanted to be current. I remember Grace Hartigan said, “You’ve gotta go to New York, seize destiny by the hand.” My friend Jon Schueler took my slides up to Eleanor Ward, who had the Stable Gallery. My Pop art paintings were discovered. I moved to New York into Malcolm Morley’s old loft down on South Street. Agnes Martin was upstairs... People who interest me come from different quarters. I knew guys around Schueler, like B.H. Friedman. But I also knew the Pop world pretty well – Al Hansen, Richard Artschwager, Lichtenstein. I became friends with Raoul Hague...
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1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Normandy : Reflection on a River - Original oil on canvas, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Camille Hilaire Normandy : Reflection on a River, c. 1960 Original oil on canvas Signed bottom right Signed and Titled on the back On canvas 60 x 73 cm (c . 24 x 29 in) Presented in...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

1950's French Modernist Mexican Scene Man in Cowboy Hat City Square
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Mexicain' Georges Lambert, French mid 20th century signed oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 36 x 24 inches Inscribed verso Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very good...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Figurative Oil Painting - Off to School
Located in Bristol, GB
OFF TO SCHOOL Oil on canvas Size: 32 x 25.5 cm (including frame) A lovely and endearing miniature oil on canvas depicting a scene of a pedestrian walkway on a fine summer’s day. A ...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Pittsburgh Alleyway
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pittsburgh Alleyway, c. 1946, oil on gouache on paper on “prestwood” (Masonite), 9 x 12 inches, signed lower middle, Bohrod’s original label verso from his gallery at 4811 Tonyawatha...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Mixed Media

Excavation
Located in New York, NY
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His father, John Galen Howard, was an architect who had trained at M.I.T. and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, and apprenticed in Boston with H. H. Richardson. In New York, the elder Howard worked for McKim, Mead and White before establishing a successful private practice. Mary Robertson Bradbury, Charles’s mother, had studied art before her marriage. John Galen Howard moved his household to California in 1902 to assume the position of supervising architect of the new University of California campus at Berkeley and to serve as Professor of Architecture and the first Dean of the School of Architecture (established in 1903). The four Howard boys grew up to be artists and all married artists, leaving a combined family legacy of art making in the San Francisco Bay area that endures to this day, most notably in design, murals and reliefs at the Coit Tower and in buildings on the Berkeley campus. Charles Howard graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921 as a journalism major, and pursued graduate studies in English at Harvard and Columbia Universities before embarking on a two-year trip to Europe. Howard went to Europe as a would-be writer. But a near-religious experience, seeing a picture by Giorgione in a remote town outside of Venice, proved a life-altering epiphany. In his own words, “I cut the tour at once and hurried immediately back to Paris, to begin painting. I have been painting whenever I could ever since” (Charles Howard, “What Concerns Me,” Magazine of Art 39, no. 2 [February 1946], p. 63). Giorgione’s achievement, in utilizing a structured and rational visual language of art to convey high emotion on canvas, instantly convinced Howard that painting, and not literature, offered the best vehicle to express what he wanted to say. Howard returned to the United States in 1925, confirmed in his intent to become an artist. Howard settled in New York and supported himself as a painter in the decorating workshop of Louis Bouché and Rudolph Guertler, where he specialized in mural painting. Devoting spare time to his own work, he lived in Greenwich Village and immersed himself in the downtown avant-garde cultural milieu. The late 1920s and early 1930s were the years of Howard’s art apprenticeship. He never pursued formal art instruction, but his keen eye, depth of feeling, and intense commitment to the process of art making, allowed him to assimilate elements of painting intuitively from the wide variety of art that interested him. He found inspiration in the modernist movements of the day, both for their adherence to abstract formal qualities and for the cosmopolitan, international nature of the movements themselves. Influenced deeply by Surrealism, Howard was part of a group of American and European Surrealists clustered around Julien Levy. Levy opened his eponymously-named gallery in 1931, and rose to fame in January 1932, when he organized and hosted Surrealisme, the first ever exhibition of Surrealism in America, which included one work by Howard. Levy remained the preeminent force in advocating for Surrealism in America until he closed his gallery in 1949. Howard’s association with Levy in the early 1930s confirms the artist’s place among the avant-garde community in New York at that time. In 1933, Howard left New York for London. It is likely that among the factors that led to the move were Howard’s desire to be a part of an international art community, as well as his marriage to English artist, Madge Knight...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Blue Symphony, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Modern, expressive summer landscape. White and blue colors dominate the work. • The painting is framed (white color). Ready to hang • The size of the picture in the frame: 23 W...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Oil

Central Square (Cambridge, MA)
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated lower right: “Trachtman 6-6-73”. From the estate of the artist. Though much of his art was political in nature, Arnold Trachtman also...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled, Figurative, Laxmi, Pen & Ink on Paper by Jogen Chowdhury "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury - Untitled Pen & Ink on Paper 7 x 5 inches, 2024 (Framed & Delivered) Modern Indian artist Jogen Chowdhury executed Still life drawing in Ink, pastel. Always a powe...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pen

"Evoluzione antropologica di una testa" (anthropological evolution of a head)
Located in Milano, MI
This painting by Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona 1915 - Milano 1994) embraces the "figurative post-cubism" style. In fact Salvador Aulestia was artistically grown during the maximum su...
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1980s Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Nude Woman with Flowing Hair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Nude Woman with Flowing Hair by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size: 9.75 i...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

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