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Period: 1940s
Pair of Vintage Dutch Paintings
Located in New York, NY
Pair of circa 1940's oil on canvas Adam and Eve paintings with vintage frames.
Measurements:
Height: 74.25"
Width: 32.75"
Depth: 2.25"
Category
Dutch Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Portuguese 1944 Watercolor Sunday Morning Mass
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Portuguese 1944 Watercolor Sunday Morning Mass.
Category
Portuguese Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood
"Hands Off the Americas", 1942 Study by Hansen for MOMA Poster Competition
By Ejnar Hansen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Rare and important, this vivid study was painted by Ejnar Hansen for a poster competition sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York entitled "Hands Off the Americas" in 1942,...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Fritz Sollner – Shepherd Painting oil on canvas 1947
Located in Albignasego, IT
Fritz Sollner – Shepherd
SKU: QR06
cm40 x cm30 without frame
cm52 x cm42 with frame
oil on canvas – 1947
It is a quiet summer day and a young shepherd, after having led the herds to...
Category
German Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Ivan Kurach Brutalist Abstract Oil Painting ca. 1941
Located in Springfield, OR
Ivan Kurach (1909 - 1968) was a Ukranian born artist who continued his studies throughout Europe before settling into Milan, Italy. He began his career as an artist in 1939 and this ...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Joaquim Terruella Matilla - Coloured Etchings (4) - Bullfighting
Located in Pewsey, GB
A Fabulous set of Hand Coloured Etching by Joaquim Terruella Matilla (1891-1957) of Bullfighting
Nephew and follower of Segundo Matilla, Joaquín Terruella was also a disciple of Sa...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Landscape by Martin Friedman
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous landscape abstract by Martin Friedman. He has shown at the Whitney and other NYC Galleries. Dramatic use of deep blues indicative of the time period. Well balanced , very en...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Fisherman by Reuven Rubin- Watercolor Painting
By Reuven Rubin
Located in New York, NY
Fisherman by Reuven Rubin (1893-1974), watercolor on paper.
Signed lower left, Rubin in English and Reuben in Hebrew.
Dimensions with frame: 43x63 cm
Original frame included.
An Ar...
Category
Israeli Expressionist Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Jean Thomas (1923-2019) "monkey with camembert" large oil on canvas 1949
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Jean Thomas (1923-2019) "monkey with camembert" large oil on canvas signed and dated 1949
origin: "sale of Workshop"
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
United States Coast Guard Cutter George W. Campbell WPG 32
Located in Norwell, MA
Worden Wood original gouache of the US Coast Guard cutter George W. Campbell (WPG 32). Very colorful work showing a seaplane on deck, launches, mast, signal flags, weapon, etc. Icebe...
Category
North American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
1940s Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Stamford, CT
American artist, E L Young, painted this landscape in the 1940s. The frame is original to the painting circa 1940s. A bucolic country scene.
Category
American American Classical Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Lennart Lilja, Oil on Board, 1945
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Lennart Lilja, 1945
Oil on the board
Work dated and signed by the artist
Dimensions 46/38
Unframed work
Lennart Lilja (1924-2008). He was a Swedish artist. Student of Isaac Gründewald and Otte Sköld. In the 1950s he wrote plays and tried his hand as an actor. This resulted in a role in The Seventh...
Category
Swedish Other Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood
"Two Philosophers", 1948 Painting with Two Male Nudes by Arthur Kampf
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Serving, perhaps, as a commentary on the futility and horror of war, this allegorical painting of "Two Philosophers" was made by Arthur Kampf in 1948-49, shortly after the end of World War II and toward the end of his long life. Kampf was known for his historical and allegorical paintings, including a large scene showing a group of nude soldiers...
Category
German Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
1940s Watercolor Painting On Paper Of Asian Woman Wearing Hat - Dorothy Dwin
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1940s Watercolor Painting On Paper Of Asian Woman Wearing Hat
Wearing a Nón Lá (traditional Vietnamese hat)
Signed Dorothy Dwin
Illustration
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Justice Triumphant", Mural Study for Queens, Ny Courthouse, circa 1941-1942
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking example of WPA mural art, this study for one of the murals proposed for the new Queens Supreme Courthouse -- a 1930s Works Progress Administration project in Queens, New Y...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
1940s Pastel Painting On Paper Of Asian Woman Signed Dorothy Dwin
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1940s Pastel Painting On Paper Of Asian Woman Signed Dorothy Dwin
Illustration
Wood Frame and glass
Colors: pink, blue, white
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Elaine Plishker Auchmoody Still Life with Duck Oil on Canvas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Still life oil painting ca. 1940s depicting a 'duck' figurine amid vessels by Elaine Plishker Auchmoody (b. NYC 1910 - d. Massachusetts 1976).
Auchmoody was a highly-regarded lecture...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Mid-Century Modern Abstract "the Pilgrimage" by Martin Friedman, C1948 Framed
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Wonderful abstract by Martin Friedman, The Pilgrimage which showed at the Whitney Museum and still bears the tag. Fantastic deep blues which suggest a large monolithic mass with two ...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Hardwood, Paint
Still Life of Flowers, Oil on Canvas, García-ochoa Ibáñez, Luis, 1949
Located in Madrid, ES
Still life of flowers. Oil on canvas. GARCÍA-OCHOA IBÁÑEZ, Luis (San Sebastián, 1920-Madrid, 2019). 1949.
Signed and dated towards the lower left corner. Label on the back.
Still life that shows a round table covered...
Category
Spanish Other Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Other
Mid-Century Modern Green Orange Painting Motif Fish Robert Libeski 1946 Vienna
Located in Vienna, AT
Mid-Century Modern vintage painting animal motif fishes by Robert Libeski 1946 Vienna.
An amazing painting with a motif looks like the painter was situated in the middle of a sea su...
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Framed Painting Representing Bohemian Gypsy Cartomancer, Signed Callewaert, 1940
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Painting of a Gypsy, Bohemian woman drawing the cards.
Representation of a Cartomancer and Fortune Teller.
Oil on canvas.
Very well represented.
fine and pleasant features.
Delicate work.
Signed lower right by M. Callewaert
circa 1940
Maurice CALLEWAERT is a Belgian artist born in Belgium in 1900 and died in France in Paris in 1986. Belgian painter from West Flanders...
Category
Belgian Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Oil on Canvas Signed, Roger Pierre
Located in London, GB
Unusual oil on canvas in the cubist style signed Roger Pierre. Although in the cubist style the colours and feel of the piece suggest it might have been painted as late as the 1940s....
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Pair of Framed 1940s Domestic Interior Watercolor Renderings
Located in Stamford, CT
These are two stunning watercolor renderings of quintessential 1940s interiors.
One is a beautiful teal and cream living room. The other is a cha...
Category
American American Classical Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Depero Fortunato Painting, Title: Horse and Stained Glass, Archive Certificate
Located in Milano, IT
Rare and beautiful painted work by Fortunato Depero from 1948, Title: Horse and Stained Glass Window. Technique: Indian ink and diluted Indian ink on paper. Details: Signature top le...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
John Sweeney 'American, 20th Century' a Surrealist Figurative Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
John Sweeney (American, 20th Century) A surrealist figurative painting, oil on board circa 1947.
Category
Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Continental Painting
Located in Tampa, FL
A lovely continental painting with sailboats. Painted in the 1940s in a period frame. Has name on the reverse as well as on the nameplate, L. ...
Category
European Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Composition of Attilio Salemme
By Attilio Salemme
Located in PARIS, FR
Attilio Salemme famous Composition, in his notorious style of geometric abstract figure.
Category
French Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
1940s Animal Painting in Gilt Frame
Located in Houston, TX
1940s animal painting in gilt frame.
Category
Unknown Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Painting of the Post Yacht Sea Cloud
Located in Norwell, MA
Marine watercolor by Jay Arnold titled “Heading out to Sea”. Shown is the large windjammer “Sea Cloud” under full sail leaving port. Sea Cloud was owned by Marjorie Merriweather Post...
Category
North American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Jay Arnold Marine Painting of Kobenhavn
Located in Norwell, MA
Well executed watercolor/gouache showing the great windjammer Kobenhaven under sail. The massive four masted barque has most sails set. Matted and framed. Titled lower left “Kobenhav...
Category
North American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Large Italian Gilt wood Frames
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1-128 large Italian frames with elaborate cast detailing.
Overall size 40 x 34 x 1"
Inside rabbit 30 x 24"
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Resin, Hardwood
American Impressionist Painting Signed E. T. Grigware, Newcomb Macklin Frame
Located in Vero Beach, FL
American Impressionist Landscape Painting Signed Edmund T. Grigware in
Newcomb Macklin Frame.
Beautiful, sunny autumn landscape painted in oi...
Category
American Other Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
"Waiting at the Station" Superb 1943 American Scene Painting, Indianapolis
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Highly atmospheric and winning, this American Scene painting of three young men waiting for the next train in downtown Indianapolis -- perhaps...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mario Carreño "Serenade" Oil Painting on Canvas, Cuba 1941, Signed
Located in Miami, FL
Mario Carreño "Serenade" Oil Painting on Canvas, Cuba 1941, Signed
Offered for sale is an important oil on canvas painting by Cuban artist Mario Carreño (1913-1999) signed and date...
Category
Cuban Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Benjamin Jorj Harris for Newman Decor, Galloping Horses
Located in Hanover, MA
Galloping Horses, airbrushed watercolor by Benjamin Jorj Harris (American, 1904-1957) for Newman Decor.
Dimensions shown are for frame. Sight: 35...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood
Jacques Villon Style Cubist Still Life
Located in Sharon, CT
A beautiful unsigned oil on canvas in the School of Paris Cubist style of Jacques Villon. (on the back of the stretcher is lettered in pencil- Jonah Konig...
Category
French Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Gustav Johan Fenger: Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in Vejle Øst, DK
Gustav Johan Fenger: Portrait of a young woman seen from the back. Signed and dated F. Fenger 1944. Oil on plate. 65.5×54.
Category
Danish Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Paul Wightman Williams, Midcentury Abstract Mixed Media on Paper, 1944
Located in Norwalk, CT
Paul Wightman Williams, American (20th century).
This diminutive mixed-media watercolor, pastel, and ink on paper depicts a haunting abstracted face. It is float-mounted in a faux-g...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Gotsch Friedrich Karl '1900-1984' Painting, Still Life 1945
Located in Handewitt, DE
Friedrich Karl GOTSCH (1900-1984), very well-known and renowned german painter of the golden era of expressionism, impressionism and „Neue Sachlichkeit“.
Friend of many world-famous artists of the time. His extraordinary works can be found in many exhibitions and collections around the world.
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Oil / Gouache on cardboard from 1945. New professional framed.
Monogrammed „F...
Category
German Expressionist Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Modernist Brass Frame for Painting, Drawing or Mirror, 1940s
Located in Atlanta, GA
This French frame in polished brass dates from the 1940s. It will be perfect to include a painting, a drawing, a lithograph, a mirror, or any other DIY decoration. Its rectangular sh...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Metal, Brass
Early Signed Jack Lord Oil Painting / Tile / Wood Frame, USA, c. 1940's
Located in Deland, FL
This exceptional signed oil painting by John Joseph Patrick Ryan (December 30, 1920 - January 21, 1998) is perfect for collectors. Better known by his sta...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Stephen Etnier Modernist Painting of a Harpswell, Maine Seascape, Circa 1940s
Located in Peabody, MA
An early work by the American realist Stephen Morgan Etnier (1903-1984) depicting the village of Harpswell, Maine were he built his home and studio in the 1940s and lived until his d...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
1940's Oil Painting on Canvas of Rural Scene
Located in Houston, TX
1940's Oil Painting on Canvas of Rural Scene.
Rural scene oil painting on canvas in a gilt wooden frame.
Category
Unknown Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Collection of Vintage Painter's Palettes, Wall Sculpture
Located in Atlanta, GA
Collection of Vintage Artist's Palettes, American, circa 1940s - 1960s. The largest palette measures 15.5"H x 19.5"W. The smallest measures 7.5"H x 10.5"W.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Framed Mexican Watercolor on Paper Attributed to Rufino Tamayo
Located in Atlanta, GA
A framed watercolor and gouache on paper depicting sliced watermelon on a color block background, signed Tamayo and dated 1945 as shown. The work was in keeping with the style of Rufino Tamayo and it retains a paper label from Salon de la Plastica Mexicana, listing the detail info. SPM was formed in 1949 to promote contemporary Mexican artists...
Category
Mexican Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Mid-Century Modern Picasso Style Abstract of Face E. Ruff, 1945
Located in Redding, CT
Mid Century Modern Picasso style Abstract of a face by E.Ruff 1945.
Amazing composition and color. Nice gilt frame. One small tear can be repaired.
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Vase of Flowers with Fruit Oil Painting, Fitger Hermann
Located in Albignasego, IT
Fitger Hermann - Vase of Flowers with Fruit
Measures: 32cm x 44cm - frame excluded
50cm x 62cm - with antique fir frame
oil on canvas applied to cardboard - 1946
20th cen...
Category
German Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Framed Print of Saint Peter by Unknown Artist, circa 1940
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Framed print of Saint Peter with the keys to heaven.
By unknown artist, circa 1940.
In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a beautif...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Dutch Midcentury Unsigned Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dutch 1940s unsigned abstract oil painting. Tempestuous and energetic, with a painterly quality related to Chagall and Der Blaue Reiter. A wonderful e...
Category
Dutch Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Art Deco Tropical Oil Painting, Ruben Kupur
Located in Riverdale, NY
Large Rare Vintage 1940’s Artist Ruben Kupur Oil painting of Art Deco Tropical scene with herons within a scene of lush tropical orchids.
Ruben Kupur was born In the Russian Federation...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Hand Painted $100 REWARD Wooden Sign, 1940s Los Angeles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great vintage wood sign from the 1940s. Hand-painted. Misspellings and grammatical errors. The owner Samuel Spilk lived in Long Beach in the 1940s. ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
19th Century Portrait of a Woman Painted in Oil on Canvas with Frame
Located in Marbella, ES
19th Century portrait of a woman painted in oil on canvas with the frame dated in 1940
Measurements with frame: 69 x 69 x 3 cm.
Category
Spanish Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Leonard Maurer Oil Painting, 1948
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A charming oil painting by noted Washington DC artist Leonard Maurer, ca' 1948. Depicting children climbing trees. Wonderful sense of color and a real m...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Oil On Canvas Circular Art Deco Paintings Of The Smoky Mountains
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Rare circular Art Deco scenes of the Smoky Mountains with date and details rendered behind the paintings. Beautifully hand painted in vivid hues and original circular gilt frames. Em...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Original Watercolor Ski Poster "Pontresina" by Herbert Leupin, circa 1949
Located in Nantucket, MA
Original Watercolor Ski Poster "Pontresina" by Herbert Leupin (Swiss: 1916 - 1999), a watercolor and gouache painting original for one of Leupin's celeb...
Category
Swiss Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper
20th Century Oil on Masonite Italian Signed Painting Gipsy Girl Portrait, 1948
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting of the mid-twentieth century. Work oil on masonite depicting Young gipsy with flowers and candle of good pictorial hand. Picture of beautiful measure, signed and dat...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite
Leonard Maurer Oil Painting "Ferry" 1949
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A charming modernist painting by Leonard Maurer, ca' 1949. Influenced by Matisse, but clearly in his own style with a uniquely American mid-century feel.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Watercolor of a French Castle by Unknown Artist
Located in Pasadena, CA
Dreamy landscape picturing a view of a castle in France.
Large original frame made of walnut.
I love the soft and delightful pastel colors that are used. The colors add emotion to...
Category
French Romantic Vintage 1940s Paintings
Materials
Walnut, Paper
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