Darmo Art Founders Alexis de Bernede and Marius Jacob Select Their Favorite Works of 20th-Century Art on Artnet Auctions artnet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artnet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Salvador Dali on December 29, 1964. Photo by Terry Fincher/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
The canonical arc of 20th-century Western art history follows a clear bent: Impressionist iconography fed Cubism, then leaned into Abstraction and eventually back into Neo-Expressionism. Until recently, it was unlikely for collectors and art historians to see these categories grouped as one, whether at auction or in a museum. For decades, Impressionism and Modernism were siloed from the return to figuration in the latter decades of the century.
Yet recently this categorization is beginning to dissolve. In the market realm, Artnet Auctions is leading the way towards a new selling category that looks at the 20th century as a whole, bridging movements to show a fuller narrative. Our latest 20th-Century Art sale, live now through March 18th, is closely curated for connectivity in color, concept, and line.