1950s Decorative Art

Art Deco stained glass of women playing golf signed by M Adler with pink wood frame.

Beautiful 1950s abstract tile wall decoration by Jan Nolf (1931-1999) Belgium. This has been a table top.

French mid-century red lacquered horizontal wall panel with landscape scene of deer grazing by a stream with a background of mountains (signed: "Andre Dambrun" acronym of Bernard Dun...

Large French Majolica vegetable wall platter Vallauris, circa 1950. On a black background it's a trompe l'oeil platter with tomatoe, salas, carrot...

Theater backdrop painted in 18th century style boiseries. Designed for Chateau de Groussay and housed in the theater designed by architect Emilio T...

Arguably the finest enamel artist that America has ever seen, Karl Drerup immigrated here from Germany in 1937, his anti-Nazi activism and his wife's Jewish heritage forcing them to ...

Probably one of the most beautiful batik textile designs from Indonesia, the wraparound skirt also known as Kain Panjang was an iconic design from Cirebon, North Coast of Java. The Cloud design...

Nude painting, circa 1959. The acrylic paint is done on hard paper. The art work is signed and dated. The frame is NOT included.

Marcel Dyf, French, 1899-1985. Reclining nude. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left Dyf. Measures: 23 ½ by 28 ¾ in. With frame: 33 ½ by 38 ½ in. Marcel Dyf was born in Paris, October 7...

Art Deco stained glass of women playing tennis signed by M Adler. With pink wood frame.

A black painted resin panel of a hunting dogs busts.

Decorative, midcentury painting of a lady, circa 1950. Signed by H. Quat. Framed in a gold frame with a linen liner.

Dance floor was designed by Charles de Beistigui and architect Emilio Terry for the world famous ball held at de Beistigui's Venetian Palazzo Labi...

A beautiful Erwin Walter Burger "Fish" wall panel

Louis Sola French, 1928-2011 Still life Oil on canvas 25 by 31 in. with frame 31 by 37 in. Signed & dated 58 lower right Louis Sola was born in Genoa in 1929 and studi...

Fabulous vintage abstract painting of a French gendarme with a woman over his back circa 1950's. This painting is oil on board, with a linen mat framed under glass in a gold leaf fra...

Standing nude by American artist Jane White. Well done and painted in the impressionist style during the fifties. 1 of 3 paintings by Jane white which ...

This great Italian style work of art signed by Mario Logli is a limited edition serigraph #63/200 in three colors. It has a very Fornasetii look and style to it. This is the original...

Set of five prints depicting illustrations by the all-American artist, of Scouting interest. Famed for his Life Magazine covers, Rockwell devoted a large number of his works to Sco...

Painted canvas playbill stretched on wood frame. Folds into three sections. Monumental in size.

Brilliantly designed and executed, this ambitious enamel panel -- depicting four blue knights with swords, voluminous robes and fantastic hats -- was created by Helen Hansen in the 1...

Pair Large serving platters/wall hanging Chargers in walnut wood and orange painted.possibly Japanese with black backs .one charger is 18' and the smaller one is 14"

Carved panel glass Eglomise and colorful, gold leaf, emblem of the winged Lion of Venice, love symbolized by the two doves, circa 1950, in a state of use

Oil on board painting by artist Roger Hayward (1899-1979), depicting the entrance to a Victorian-style home as seen from the street below. With a wonderf...

This Mid-Century Modern one of a kind horizontal watercolor by William Henry is a combination of cubist individual faces with African influences...

Renaissance revival tole metal wall hanging candelabra finished in gold leaf, silver leaf and green, red, yellow and brown lacquer. Center shield s...

Majolica sealife platter Vallauris, circa 1950. High relief of a fish, seaweeds, shells, crab, oysters. Nautical style. 9.3 inches diameter  

An Italian 1950s abstract oil painting framed in new black and gold wooden frame, with original framers label from Napoli on reverse.

French Faience Fish Platter Moustiers Style Circa 1950. Manufacture of Martres Tolosane. Hunting scene.

This ceramic cross epitomizes the geometric abstraction that was prevalent in mid-century modern design. Handcrafted by European studio pottery artists...

Rudolph Weisenborn (1879-1974) Colorful abstract painting in heavy impasto oil on canvas by renowned Chicago artist Rudolph Weisenborn. Signed on bottom right front Wesisenborn '57. In original wood frame. BORN: October 30, 1879[1] Chicago DIED: March 15, 1974 Chicago MARRIED: 1922 Alfreda “Fritzi” Gordon[2] of St. Joseph, MO TRAINING 1898 University of North Dakota 1905-1907 Students School of Art, Denver, Henry Reed[3] 1907-1910 Jean Mannheim School of Art, Denver ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT[4] c.1910 Commercial illustration, Denver c.1910 Portrait sketches, Denver Post 1913 Window designer for Marshall Field and Company 1922 Illustrated for The Wave c.1930s Diorama, Fight Against Soil Erosion, Tennessee Valley Authority[5] 1931 Lecture, The Abstract in Painting, Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago 1933 Mural Machine Movement[6], Pavilion No. 4, General Exhibits Building, A Century of Progress World’s Fair, Chicago[7] 1934-1939 Federal Art Project, easel and mural division[8] 1936 Mural, Contemporary Chicago, Louis Nettelhorst Elementary School, Chicago[9] 1937 Mural, Richard Crane Technical High School, Chicago: Electricians; Boilermakers Pipe Fitters, and Architects and Steelworkers[10] TEACHING 1922 Chicago Hull House[11] 1920-1937,[12] 1939[13] Chicago Academy of Fine Arts 1935-1964 Weisenborn School of Modern Art [privately], Chicago[14] RESIDENCES 1879-1888 Chicago 1888-1905 North Dakota 1893 Wisconsin 1894 Minnesota and Oklahoma 1905-1910 Colorado 1910-1913 Cripple Creek, CO c.1913[15]-c.1960 Chicago;[16] 1940s-1960s Santa Fe, New Mexico (summers)[17] c.1960-1974 Oak Park, Illinois TRAVEL c.1930s Cape Cod, Massachusetts 1950 Provincetown, Massachusetts[18] MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts (advisory board 1926) American Abstract Artists[19] Artists’ Equity Association, Midwest (president 1952) Artists’ League of the Midwest (charter member 1947)[20] Artists’ Union, Chicago Chapter (executive committee/founder)[21] Cor Ardens (vice president, 1921-1922; treasurer 1922-1923) Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists (founder, president 1922-1926)[22] Chicago Society of Artists (board 1926-1927) Independent Society of Artists, Chicago Introspectives, Chicago[23] Neo-Arlimusc (founder, president 1926-1928)[24] Palette & Chisel Club Society of Independent Artists HONORS 1928 Honorable Mention architectural subject, Art Institute of Chicago, American Annual[25] 1931 Third Honorable Mention, Ninety and Nine Artists[26] 1941 Prize, Laura Davidson Sears Academy of Fine Arts, Elgin, Contemporary American Art 1957 William H. Tuthill Prize, Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity JURIES SERVED Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity 1923 Chicago Society of Artists annual 1924 Covenant Club under auspices of American Jewish Artists Club, First Annual Exhibition by Jewish Artists of Chicago and Vicinity 1936[27] Jewish Education Building, Chicago under auspices of American Jewish Artists Club, Annual Exhibition by Jewish Artists of Chicago and Vicinity 1955, 1956[28] Sears Academy of Fine Arts annual, Elgin, Illinois 1941 South Side Swedish Club, Chicago Artists of Swedish Descent GROUP EXHIBITIONS All-Illinois Society of Fine Art annual 1926, 1927 American Abstract Artists, annuals 1938-on American Art Congress 1937 Art Institute of Chicago, A Half Century of American Art 1939 Art Institute of Chicago, Abstract and Surrealist American Art 1947 Art Institute of Chicago, Abstractions By Eight Artists 1942 Art Institute of Chicago, American Annual 1928, 1929, 1939, 1941-1943, 1945, 1947 Art Institute of Chicago, American Watercolors 1923, 1925,[29] 1931, 1934, 1942-1944, 1946, 1949 Art Institute of Chicago, Federal Art Project 1938[30] Art Institute of Chicago, Room of Chicago Art 1945 Art Institute of Chicago, Society For Contemporary American Art 1953 Art Institute of Chicago, Work by 17 Chicago Artists, [work from the W.P.A.] 1936[31] Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity 1918, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1929, 1933, 1934, 1943, 1948, 1949 Artists Equity Association, Chicago 1950, 1951 Artists League of the Midwest 1947, c.1950 Associated American Artists Galleries, Chicago 1950 Association of American Artists, Chicago, Artists-Teachers 1950 Cedar Rapids Art Association 1921[32] Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists 1922-1926,[33] 1928[34]-1931,[35] 1932, 1934, 1938, 1941, 1957[36] Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists directors at Moulin Rouge café, Chicago 1926 Cor Ardens, Arts Club of Chicago 1922 Elizabeth Nelson Galleries, Chicago, Chicago Artists 1950 European Art Tour, under auspices of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter of Chicago 1924[37] Evansville, IN 1922[38] Findlay Gallery, Chicago, Best Paintings by Chicago Modernists 1933[39] Findlay Galleries, Chicago, Frank Holland...

Majolica oyster plate signed Gien, circa 1950.

This vintage ceramic wall panel featuring two polychrome glazed horses is a stunning work of art created by the renowned artist Herlmut Schäffenacker. This piece showcases Schäffena...

Needlepoint wall object in the manner of Jean Lurcat and Picart Le Doux. Decorative French Folk Art embroidered needlework on canvas 1930s-1950s These works were popular French...

1950s Unused framed rifle target. Printed on the bottom is "National Rifle Association, Official 50 ft. Small Bore Rifle Target". Made by The National Target Co., Washington DC. Glas...

A framed poster of a 1954 watercolour by Marc Chagall (1887-1985, Belarus, France. "Vence. Cité des Arts et des Fleurs, 1954" is a poster by Marc Chagall. The illustration was origin...

Large French Faience fish platter Circa 1950. Marked Saint Pierre Penmarc'h Handed paint.

We found this acrilic on Canvas handpainted Santo en el Museo de Cera movie. Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (23 September 1917 – 5 February 1984), known professionally as El Santo...

Four 1950s classical gold transfer ware pictures on glass of Roman soldiers. In gold wood frames.

Majolica Palissy Fishs Wall Platter Vallauris signed Lamarche, circa 1950. Diameter / 9.5 inches. 2 fishs, mussel,lemon, starfish and seaweeds.

I love this oil painting painted by Marguerite Stuber Pearson of a blonde young lady sitting in her living room next to a table with a world globe on top. Marguerite Stuber Pearson w...

1958 fashion illustration of Balenciaga purple cocoon dress and hat print by Pierre Mourgue. Linen backed print. Professionally framed in carved gilt-wood frame.

Woman on Majolica tile Giovanni de Simone 1960s Italian design.

Amazing "Röd Crocus" wall tapestry. Handwoven at Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB, Båstad, Sweden by Ann-Mari Forsberg. Signed AB MMF AML. Antique frame with double glass.  

This amazing work of art frame that is a mixed media geometric abstract collage is by Charmion Von Weigand. It is signed with the artists initials CvWand and dated 1955. This is a mid century work of art. It is a stunning piece of vibrancy. She was an American journalist , abstract painter, writer, collector, benefactor and art critic. it is pigment and paper collage on paper. it has a very Mondrian like feel to it in gorgeous hues of color. She became close friends with Piet Mondrain as evidenced in this great influence of her work that has magnificent hues in pigment of collage media...

Very large great map of Paris in France.

The female form in charcoal, dated mid-1959.