Age Glass Modern Art 
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FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Breuer s dream, however, was to put his architectural designs into practice so in 1928, aged 26, he left to establish his own office in Berlin, supported by royalties from the sale of his chairs. Saint John’s Abbey Church, built in Collegeville, Minnesota, in 1961. Image via Flickr, courtesy of ya3hs3.
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OCTOBER 4, 2024
In 1971, the Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective of Hunt’s work, the first for an African-American sculptor. Lot 1589 is an assortment of Shiny Brite Atomic-age ornaments, some of which have glittery mica flakes meant to mimic snow. Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, estimate: $2,000-$3,000.
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Mark Hill
MAY 3, 2023
Despite being cheap, cold, draughty, damp and largely rat-infested, they became a crucible of modern art and central to the hugely influential School of Paris movement. So, Lilian seemed to enjoy the height of her career in the 1920s & 30s, when she was aged in her 50s & 60s. 14) also containing studios (below right).
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MARCH 4, 2024
Fuelled by a love of absinthe, they ushered in a new liberal age of avant-garde art from the salons, cafés, and brothels of Montmartre that provided an exciting departure point for Modern Art. Degas’ Absinthe Drinker depicts Ellen Andree, his muse, with a glass of absinthe in the Parisian Café de la Nouvelle Athenes.
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MARCH 24, 2025
Frames in the Modern Age Just as modern art broke from tradition, so too did frames. Georges Seurat, for example, specifically chose a simple white frame for A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884-1886; Art Institute of Chicago) to let his Pointillist technique shine without distraction.
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MARCH 19, 2025
Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep Le Corbusier Emerging from the catastrophe of World War I, the gleaming steel, glass, and imposing concrete forms of the International Style was a global symbol of modernity. Space and light and order. Bauhaus: Bauhaus School, Dessau.
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NOVEMBER 27, 2024
As the 20th century dawned in Brazil, so too did a new modern art that would not only redefine the country’s artistic landscape, but also build cities in its own image. This was a new art for a new Brazil. Roberto Burle Marx – Abstract serigraph print.
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