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Period: 1950s
Autumn - Original Drawing by Jean-Raymond Delpech - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Autumn is an original is an original drawing in watercolor on cardboard realized by Jean-Raymond Delpech (1916-1988) in 1958.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. The state of...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Original Broadway Set Design Mid 20th Century American
By Jo Mielziner
Located in New York, NY
Jo Mielziner (1901 – 1976) "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," 7 ½ x 11 ½ inches. Pencil on paper. Label verso from Richard Stoddard, Dated June 18. 1996. Mr. Joe W...
Category
Performance 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Reclined Nude - Original Pencil Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in the 1950s. Pencil Drawing. Applied on a white Passepartout.
Monogrammed on the lower " G.T"
Good Condition...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Standing Figure, figural abstract expressionist ink drawing, 20th century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925-1996)
Figure
1955
Ink on paper
Signed and dated lower center
9 x 12 inches
Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Oklahoma and grew up in Texas. In 1...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
City View - Original Drawing by Helen Vogt - Mid-20th Century
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
City view is an original drawing realized by Helen Vogt in the Mid-20th Century.
China ink drawing on paper.
Fair conditions. Dry stamp of the Atelier Vogt on the lower right margi...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Ink
Black Male Nude Sitting, Academic Charcoal Nude Figure Drawing Life Class
Located in Miami, FL
This is a masterfully observed and rendered black make nude by an academician and fine artist. John R. Grabach has a long and distinguished career depicting gritty, social realism works depicting the urban working-class. His fundamental skills come as a result of his studying at the Art Students League with Frank V. DuMond, and George Bridgman. This work "black male nude...
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
'Woman Seated' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended th...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Cardboard
The Broken Heart - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Broken Heart is an Original Drawing in pen on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century on a telegram paper.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (1898-198...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Portrait of Moroccan Woman - Original Drawing by Helen Vogt - Mid-20th Century
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Moroccan Woman is an original drawing realized by Helen Vogt in the Mid-20th Century.
China ink drawing on paper.
Includes frame 48 x 4 x ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"Study for decoration Moscow metro station" Kievskaya Tempera, Real socialism
Located in Torino, IT
Real Socialism,Moscow,1970,Russia,Orange,Men at Work,Propaganda
VIKTOR A. KONOVALOV (Uidol, Vladimir region 1912 – Moscow 1995)
Russian painter and gr...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Tempera
The Figures - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Figures is an Original Drawing in china ink on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian w...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Profile - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Profile is an Original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower. With another drawing o...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
The Seated Woman - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Seated Woman is an Original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1924.
Quite good conditions and aged, with some minor folds.
Mino Maccari (189...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
'Woman Seated', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp and estate wax seal for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Paper, Ink, Pen
'Seated Woman', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Cardboard, Crayon, Graphite, Watercolor
The Gentleman - l Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Gentleman is an original Drawing in pen on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in mid 20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower in pencil.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Ballpoint Pen
Dancing Figure - Pen by Mayo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a drawing in Pen realized by Mayo in 1950s.
Good condition.
Signature on the lower right corner.
Antoine MAYO (1905-1990) is an artist born/buried in 1905 in Egypt. The ...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
The Entertainment, 20th century American family scene watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
The Entertainment, c. 1955
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
20 x 30 inches
Exhibited: 1955 May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art
"The first district schools were log houses...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pigeons - Original Drawing by André Chervet - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pigeons is an Original Pen Drawing realized by André Chervet.
The little artwork is on a yellowed paper.
No Signature.
André Chervet
Auguste Chervet (1879-1946), originally from S...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
The Portrait Of A Man - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait Of A Man is an Original Drawing in pen on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower.
Good conditio...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
The Portrait Of A Boy - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait Of A Boy is an Original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower on the rear.
...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
The Profile - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Profile is an Original Drawing in pen on paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (1898-19...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
The Nude and Elderly - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude and Elderly is an Original Drawing in China ink on cream-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower.
Good condi...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Profile - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Profile is an Original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower.
Good conditions.
Min...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Profile - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Profile is an Original Drawing in pen on paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (1898-1...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
The Portrait Of A Boy - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait Of A Boy is an original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in mid 20th century.
Hand-signed on the lower in pencil.
Good conditions.
M...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
The Dance - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Dance is an original Drawing in china ink on paper realized by Mino Maccari in mid 20th century.
Good conditions with some foxing.
Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian write...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Profile - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Profile is an original Drawing in pen on creamy colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in mid 20th century.
Hand-signed on the lower in pencil.
With another drawing on the rear...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
The Couple - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Couple is an original Drawing in pen on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in mid 20th century.
Hand-signed on the lower in pencil.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (1...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ballpoint Pen
The Authority Of Fatherhood - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Authority Of Fatherhood is an original Drawing in pen on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in mid 20th century.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Ita...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Sea of Marmara - Drawing by Guy Pierre Fauconnet - Early-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Sea of Marmara is an Original China Ink Drawing on a blue paper realized by Guy Pierre Fauconnet (1882-1920).
The very beautifull little artwork in in good condition on a blue electric paper, included a cream colored cardboard (20x24 cm).
Hand-signed and titled by the artist.
Guy Pierre Fauconnet born in Chelles in 1882, he moved to the Palais du Luxembourg where his father was head of the Senate...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
The Standing Man - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Standing Man is an original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in mid 20th century.
Hand-signed on the lower in pencil.
Good conditions with som...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
The Profile - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Profile is an Original Drawing in pen on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino M...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
The Standing Man - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Standing Man is an Original pen Drawing on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist with pencil.
Good conditions.
Mino ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
The Smoking Man - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Smoking Man is an original drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist on th...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The General - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The General is an Original pen Drawing on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist with pencil.
Good conditions with some fo...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
The Portraits- Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Portraits is an Original Drawing on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist with pencil.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
The Port of Le Havre
By Fred Pailhès
Located in London, GB
'The Port of Le Havre', pencil on art paper, by French artist Fred Pailhès (circa 1950s). Le Havre was only a fishing village until 1517, when Francis I h...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait of Padreterno- Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Padreterno is an Original Drawing in pencil and watercolor on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lo...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Womanly - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Womanly is an Original Drawing in watercolor and China ink on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower.
Good co...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Modern school, Boats in Palma de Mallorca, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Modern School, Mid 20th century
Boats in Palma de Mallorca
Watercolor on paper
50 x 36.5 cm
Framed : 56.5 x 43 cm
The characteristic silhouette of t...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Mino Maccari in the 1950s.
Monogrammed in pencil.
Good condition with diffused foxing.
Mino Maccari (1898-1989) wa...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Schooner St. Croix
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created the watercolor entitled “Schooner St. Croix” in 1952. This piece is signed in pen at the lower right and titled on the verso. The paper size is 16.88 x 22.25 inches. Stamped on verso "Estate of Emilio Sanchez." Good to very good condition.
“Best known for his architectural paintings and lithographs, Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) explored the effects of light and shadow to emphasize the abstract geometry of his subjects. His artwork encompasses his Cuban heritage...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Watercolor
[untitled] Street Scene with Fruit Vendor.
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created [untitled] “STREET SCENE WITH FRUIT VENDOR” in circa 1950. This unsigned watercolor and came to us directly from the Sanchez estate. It is stamped on the verso "Estate of Emilio Sanchez." This piece is in good to very good condition and painted to the paper's edge. The paper size is 14.88 x 15.25 inches (37.6 x 38.6 cm).
“Best known for his architectural paintings and lithographs, Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) explored the effects of light and shadow to emphasize the abstract geometry of his subjects. His artwork encompasses his Cuban heritage...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Watercolor
![[untitled] Street Scene with Fruit Vendor.](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_3312/1641486106885/sanchez_fruit_vendor_79509_master.jpg?width=240 "emilio sanchez photographer biography")
“Floating Market”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an original drawing done with conte crayon with hints of watercolor of a floating market place by the French artist, Rob...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon, Conté, Archival Paper
Expressionist Miniature Drawing Wheat Stalks American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink drawing of wheat stalks
There is an inscription "Happy New Year" on verso
Hand signed
Framed it measures 7.75 X 5.75
The actual paper is 3 X 3.5
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Nude - Original Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pastel on paper realized by Mino Maccari in the 1950s.
Stamp signed on paper.
Good condition.
Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian writer, painte...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Plants by the Sea - Original Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Plants by the sea is an original china ink drawing realized by Unknown Artist in 1950s.
The artwork represents beautiful plants.
Good condition, no signature, mounted on a white ca...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Head of Lion and Tiger - Original Pencil Drawing by Willy Lorenz - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Head of Lion and Tiger is a double-sided sheet with two amazing original charcoal drawings on ivory-colored paper, realized by the German artist Wilhelm...
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Expressionist Color Drawing Cobalt Glass Vintage Frame Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink and pastel crayon drawing of flowers in vase.
Framed in a vintage cobalt blue glass original frame
Hand signed and dated
Framed it measures 13.5 X 10.5
The actual paper is 7.5 X 5.5
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink
Reclining Nude in black ink on buff paper
Located in Brookville, NY
John Begg studied art at Columbia University, with Arthur Wesley Dow, with Charles Martin, and studied sculpture with Jose De Creeft and Ossip Zadkine. He was a member of the Ameri...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Ink and gouache drawing of a nude woman from behind
Located in Brookville, NY
A nude viewed from behind, with black hair , inscribed on the lower right by the artist John Begg "Mature Nude" c.1953 Outlined in black ink and with som...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Skier Original Artist Signed Watercolor Mid Century c1952
Located in FR
Skier Original Artist Signed Watercolor Mid Century c1952
Signed by artist Robin Way
Frame included (no glass for shipping)
Good vintage conditi...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Lanvin Of Paris Original c1950s Advertising Watercolor Artwork
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 14 1/2"H x 23 1/2"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Fashion illustrator for House of Lanvin Paris in the 1950s featured in Harper's Bazaar
Double-sided:
1) Poodles Rompin...
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Green Chair' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended th...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Gouache
Lanvin Of Paris Original c1950s Advertising Watercolor Artwork
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 14 3/4"H x 23 1/2"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Fashion illustrator for House of Lanvin Paris in the 1950s featured in Harper's Bazaar
Poodle w/ Arpege Banner
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Architecture - Original Sanguine Pastel on Paper - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture is a drawing in sanguine pastel on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 19th Century.
In good conditions.
This is an original drawing representing an architect...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Lanvin Of Paris Original c1950s Advertising Watercolor Artwork
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 23"H x 14"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Fashion illustrator for House of Lanvin Paris in the 1950s featured in Harper's Bazaar
Dog w/ Pipe
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
