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Art For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1910s
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Kings Of Hollywood Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
Kings Of Hollywood Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), Van Heflin (1910 – 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 – 1961) and James Stewart (1908 – 1997) enjoying a joke at a New Year’s party held at Roma...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Red Flowers in Basket, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Red Flowers in Basket (P1.7), Year: 1957, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22.5 x 15 in. (57.15 x 38.1 cm), Description: Set agains...
Category

1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Clearing Storm, Sonoma County Hills
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin print is signed in ink on the front of the mount beneath the image with title in pencil on the back of the mount. Likely printed in the early 1960s. From the co...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Le Bestiaire ou Cortege Orphee - Rare Book by Raoul Dufy - 1919
Located in Roma, IT
One of 50 copies on Japon ancient. Very important and rare book illustrated by Raoul Dufy. Perfect conditions, hard binding. Reduced edition of the original "Bestiaire". 
Category

1910s Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper

Antoni Vila Arrufat (1894 - 1989) - Joven durmiendo - Oleo sobre tela - 1959
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado en la parte inferior por el autor y fechado del año 1959 En la parte trasera, va nuevamente firmado y fechado del año 1959 Estado de conservación aceptable Se presenta enm...
Category

1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Männlicher Kopf an weibliche (Male Head Leaning against Female) /// Rottluff
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976) Title: "Männlicher Kopf an weibliche (Male Head Leaning against Female)" Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönheit des Weibes (The Play Christa from the Pain of the Beauty of the Woman) *Issued unsigned Year: 1918 Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Fritz Voigt, Berlin, Germany Publisher: Verlag Die Aktion, Berlin, Germany Reference: Schapire No. 225, page 46; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118 Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38" Image size: 6.25" x 3.57" Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). In very good condition Very rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Oxnard, CA. Comes from a complete originally bound 48 page folio with 9 original woodcut engravings by Schmidt-Rottluff. Text by Alfred Brust. The cover and title pages in pictures are not included, only for reference/provenance. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany. Biography: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died...
Category

1910s Expressionist Art

Materials

Engraving, Woodcut

Galerie Maeght /// Abstract Geometric Ellsworth Kelly Minimalism Modern Paris
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015) Title: "Galerie Maeght" Year: 1958 Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on light wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: ...
Category

1950s Minimalist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Yves Klein Small IKB Venus Brooch Sculpture Jewel in International Klein Blue
Located in Paris, FR
Yves Klein, Small IKB Venus Brooch Bronze multiple, painted with International Klein Blue (IKB). From a model created in 1956. Edition of 500 copies + 100...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Bronze, Gold Leaf

"Dying Woman" Copper Plate Heliogravure
Located in Chicago, IL
2018 marks the centenary anniversary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death. In that 100 years time, the art world’s esteem of this important artist has proved fickle. It has shifted from extol...
Category

1910s Symbolist Art

Materials

Paper

Floral Ornament - Original ink drawing, 1953
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Floral Ornament, 1953 Original ink drawing Signed by artist stamp On paper 24.5 x 19.5 cm (c. 9.6 x 7.6 inch) Very good condit...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ink

The Love - Original woodcut - Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY The Love, c. 1910 Original woodcut Signed stamp of the artist's studio Numbered on /220 On vellum 50.5 x 65.4 cm (c. 19.6 x 25.5 inch) Excellent condition
Category

1910s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Abstract Linocut Print, circa 1955 by Eric Newton
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eric Newton, British (1893 - 1965) Title: Untitled - Abstract with Red and Yellow Year: circa 1955 Medium: Linocut Print, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: EA Image Size...
Category

1950s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Linocut

Candid Oder der Optimismu - Original Rare Book Illustrated by Max Unold - 1913
Located in Roma, IT
Candid oder der optimismus is an original modern rare book written by Voltaire and illustrated by Max Unold (Memmingen, 1885 - Munich, 1964) in 1913. Original Edition. 800 Numbere...
Category

1910s Symbolist Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Scène XXV, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on Vélin de Rives paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire, 1958. Published by Tériade,...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Cat-Shaped Pool, Estate Edition, Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Cat-Shaped Pool, a newly available Estate Edition photograph, features a charming swimming pool in the shape of a cat at the Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami, circa 1955. This historic shot of the pool was captured just after the the Fontainebleau's opening in 1954. Visual Description: Guests enjoying the newly opened turquoise cat-shaped pool at the Fontainebleu Hotel, designed by Morris Lapidus. The deck features sunny, graphic yellow and black umbrellas, as well as red, yellow and blue striped umbrellas and loungers. The cat's tail is a vintage wooden diving board, its ears are stairs, and its nose is a slide. Designed by Morris Lapidus. Slim Aarons Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Printed Later Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Internal: vintage '50s florida, 50's Miami, vintage poolside, vintage swim fashion, vintage slim aarons, Fontainebleau Hotel, vintage Miami beach, Miami architecture...
Category

1950s American Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

Blue Cord Compositions, collage and drawing fusion by L Richards
Located in London, GB
L Richards Blue Cord Composition Multimedia collage and coloured drawing 20 x 25 cm Both compositions signed to bottom right Provenance: Family of A. E. Halliwell Little is known...
Category

1950s Assemblage Art

Materials

Cord, Magazine Paper, Color Pencil, Mesh

Antique American New England Coastal Fall Fauvist Abstract Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist seascape signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Framed. Image size, 30L x 15H.
Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Park Avenue 1953 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Park Avenue A view of neatly arranged office and apartment blocks along Park Avenue in New York City. Paper size 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Vlaminck, La Route (Walterskirchen 273-2), Vlaminck (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Vlaminck, 1958; published by Éditions André Saure...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Star
Located in Paris, FR
Aquatint, 1953 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered VI/XV Printer : Fiorini 65.50 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.79 in. x 19.69 in. (paper) 43.00 cm. x 33.50 cm. 16.93 in. x 13.19...
Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Aquatint

'Nice Pool' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool' 1955. American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the oc...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Léger, Composition, Mon ami Léger (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the album, Mon ami Léger par ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Composition, Arbres et Voiles, Édouard Pignon
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on grand Velin d'Arches paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Édouard Pignon, Arbres et Voi...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

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 ...
Category

1950s Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink

The Human Pot - Original Etching by R. Naly - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 17 x 17 cm. The Human Pot is an original contemporary Artwork realized by Robert Naly in 1955. Original Etching on paper. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower r...
Category

1950s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching

Zittend Naakt (Seated Nude) /// Figurative Girl Lady Pencil Drawing Woman Art
By Hendrik Paulides
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Hendrik Paulides (Dutch, 1892-1967) Title: "Zittend Naakt (Seated Nude)" *Monogram signed and dated by Paulides in pencil lower left Year: 1958 Medium: Original Graphite Pencil Drawing on cream wove paper Framing: Recently exquisitely framed in a heavy gold Art Deco moulding...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Pencil, Graphite

Part of the ring-wall of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 1914
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Part of the ring-wall of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 1914 Signed with initials and dated bottom right Black chalk on paper, 45.5 x 53 cm Literature: Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbro...
Category

1910s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Paper, Chalk

Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Composition (Arntz 148-175; Hagenbach A 25; Bolliger 54), Dreams and Projects
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Jean Arp, Dreams and Projects, 1951-1952. Published by Curt V...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

L'Addio, New York City (1956) - Large size Black & White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition This photo was made in 1956, the negative was digitized during the artist's lifetime and the technical parameters (fram...
Category

1950s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Le Sagitaire (Sagittarius), Les Signes du zodiaque, Jean Lurçat
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Les Signes du zodiaque, 1959. Published by Édit...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Don Quixote and the Windmill - Etching and Drypoint by Wladyslaw Jahl - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Don Quixote and the Windmill is an etching and drypoint print on ivory-colored China paper, realized by Wladyslaw Jahl in 1951. It belongs to a limited edition of 125 specimens. Go...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Etching

Bambini per la strada, New York, 1955 - Contemporary Black and White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Bambini per la strada, New York décembre 1955 - Black and White Photography Artwork #1 / 5 sold in perfect condition printed on baryta heavyweight paper & framed (black metal border...
Category

1950s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

'Old Brick Kiln, Henry, Illinois', Impressionist, Bowers, Laguna Beach, PAI, AIC
By Frank Coburn
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'F. Coburn' for Frank Coburn (American, 1862-1938); additionally titled, verso, 'Henry, Ill., June, 1918' and titled, 'The Old Mill'. Framed dimensions: 30 x 1.75...
Category

1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Having A Topping Time - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Having A Topping Time Socialite Alice Topping relaxing at a poolside in Palm Beach. 48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Blue Street - Monochrome Rural Town Landscape in Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
The Blue Street - Monochrome Rural Town Landscape in Colored Pencil on Paper Delicate drawing of a rural street by Alle Wijtze "Charles" de Somer (Dutch, 1869-1919). One of the arti...
Category

1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Color Pencil

Acrobate II, Modern Nude Etching by Georges Rouault
Located in Long Island City, NY
Georges Rouault, French (1871 - 1958) - Acrobate II, Year: 1919, Medium: Etching, Edition: 2nd State, Image Size: 4.25 x 2.75 inches, Size: 9 x 6.25 in. (22.86 x 15.88 cm), Descrip...
Category

1910s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Original Week End Impermeabili vintage Italian poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Week End Impermeabili Italian vintage fashion poster. Archival linen backed in fine condition, ready to frame. Grade A condition. Printed by Ind. Graf. C. Re & C. Milano, Italy. 1952. A small company produced vintage posters for their company in limited or small quantities. Only a few of these Italian vintage posters...
Category

1950s Italian School Art

Materials

Lithograph

Embracing - Original Watercolor - 1950 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Embracing is an original drawing in mixed media on ivory paper realized in 1940 ca. by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. In very good conditions, except for some folding and sm...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Watercolor

Verde e Azzurro - Original Advertising Lithograph by E. Sacchetti - 1914 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Verde e Azzurro is a colored lithographed original manifesto on cardboard, realized around 1914 by the Italian artist Enrico Sacchetti. Printed by Officine Ricordi, Milan, this adver...
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Dressing
By Miriam Tindall Smith
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Smith studied at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia under Edward Warwick. In 1935 she was asked by the Art Institute of Chicago to loan her painting, "Repose" to the forty...
Category

1950s American Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Picasso, Composition, La Comédie Humaine, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 14 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, La Comédie Humaine, Suite d...
Category

1950s Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Fountain of Venice, Etching by Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Fountain of Venice Raoul Dufy French (1877–1953) Date: c 1951 Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of CXIX/CCXXV Image Size: 9 x 7 inches Frame Size: 17 x 14.25 inches
Category

1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Etching

1956 original travel poster by Jean Colin for Air France - Amérique du Nord
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1956 original travel poster by Jean Colin for Air France - Amérique du Nord is a remarkable piece of mid-20th century advertising art, created to promote Air France’s routes to N...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Linen, Lithograph, Paper

"LILY PADS" DATED 1912. SAN ANTONIO RIVER. OLIVE BRACK (1890-1957)
Located in San Antonio, TX
Olive Brack San Antonio River (1890-1957) San Antonio, TX Image Size: 12 x 18 Frame Size: 15.5 x 21.5 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dated 1912 "Lilly Pads" Biogra...
Category

1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Rome - Via Appia 1954
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950. Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Royal bridge, Paris by Pierre Desaules - Watercolor on paper 29x44 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 51,5 x 66 x 4 cm
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

"Offering, " Morris Graves, American Modernism, Owl, Bird, Gift, Present
Located in New York, NY
Morris Graves Offering, 1957 Signed and dated lower right Sumi ink wash and gold leaf on paper 18 x 13 3/8 inches Born in Fox Valley, Oregon in 1910, Morris Graves was a leading proponent of the Northwest School...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

'Seated Nude' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu, (American, 1914-1988). Stamped verso with certification of authenticity. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Lo...
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Marlon Brando as Johnny Strabler in "The Wild One"
By Homer van Pelt
Located in Austin, TX
Marlon Brando posed on a bike for the film "The Wild One". The Wild One is a 1953 American film noir crime film directed by Laszlo Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer. It is mos...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

John Sloan Etching, 1916, "McSorley's Back Room"
Located in Phoenix, AZ
John Sloan (1871-1951) etching created 1916. Edition: 100 Titled: “McSorley’s Back Room” Plate size: 5 1/4" H x 7 " W Sheet size: 7 1/2" H x 10 3/8" W In excellent condition, unframe...
Category

1910s Art

Materials

Paper

Frank Sinatra Standing with T-Bird
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning black and white capture of jazz musician and singer Frank Sinatra leaning against a classic T-Bird. Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor, and producer who ...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

"New England Autumn" Philip Leslie Hale, American Impressionist Landscape House
Located in New York, NY
Philip Leslie Hale New England Autumn, 1910 Pastel on canvas 25 x 30 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist Sotheby's New York, American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May 24, 1990, Lot 125 R. Anne McCarthy Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts (gift from the above) Private Collection, Massachusetts Exhibited: Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Tenth Annual Philadelphia Watercolor Exhibition, November 10 - December 15, 1912, no. 13. Painter, teacher and writer, Philip Leslie Hale is recognized for his decorative paintings of the female figure and for his interior scenes with figures as well as for his progressive approach to painting. However, his career went through several phases that included sporting scenes, figural studies of women including nudes, portraits, and allegorical works reflecting the overwhelming forces of nature. Of the Boston painters of his time, he seemed the most fully committed to Impressionism, and his technique suggests the influence of French impressionist Edgar Degas. In most of his paintings, the landscape was more important than the figure. He was a prolific writer in local newspapers and periodicals about the contemporary art scene, discussing the work of his Boston colleagues. He also wrote numerous books on art and art history including a study of Vermeer that was published in 1913. Among his writings are 1892 newspaper columns for Arcadia Magazine titled "Letters from Paris", art criticism for the Boston Herald from 1905 to 1909; and art criticism for the Boston Evening Transcript. He argued for the Boston School of Art as led by Edmund Tarbell whose style was based on Impressionism with elements of Realism, especially figure painting. Hale was born in Boston in 1865, the son Reverend Edward Hale, a Boston clergyman and a relative of Nathan Hale. He studied with Ellen Day Hale, his sister, and Edmund Tarbell at the Boston Museum School, with J. Alden Weir at the Art Students League in New York City, and then went to Paris for further studies at the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He remained in France for fifteen years, returning to America about 1895. During that time, from 1888, he spent summers at Giverny, France with his good friend, artist, Theodore Butler, and became well acquainted with Claude Monet. Traveling throughout Europe, Hale visited the major museums, and copied the works of Ingres, Vermeer, Watteau and Michelangelo. Hale married Lilian Westcott Hale...
Category

1910s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Pastel

Paris Panthéon and Bridge, Watercolor Painting by Charles Cobelle
Located in Long Island City, NY
Panthéon and Bridge 2 Charles Cobelle, French (1902–1994) Date: 1959 Watercolor on Paper, signed Size: 24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 31 x 37 inches
Category

1950s Fauvist Art

Materials

Watercolor

American Modernist Black Woman Artist New Orleans Family Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist southern school painting. A family portrait on a New Orleans porch. Beautiful detail in the wrought iron. Brilliant color palette here. Signed verso. ...
Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The King - Original Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - 1914
Located in Roma, IT
The king is an original drawing in China ink, watercolor and white lead on creamy cardboard realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937). In good conditions. This artwotk presents o...
Category

1910s Modern Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Jayne Mansfield with Seagrams Dogs (Limited Edition of 10, No 6-10) - 30"x40"
Located in New York, NY
Shot by Barry Kramer (1921- 1984), one of the most prolific photographers of his time, captures the essence of 1950's Hollywood movie star, Jane Mansfield...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Underwater Whale Life Illustration published, c. November 7, 1953 1...
Category

1950s American Realist Art

Materials

Gouache, Board

Autumn Landscape
By Royal Milleson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Autumn Landscape Oil on relined canvas, c. 1915 Signed lower right corner: "Royal H. Milleson" Condition: Excellent Canvas size: 14 1/2 x 20 3/8 inches Frame size: 19-1/4 x 25-1/4 x 2-1/2 inches Clearly among the artist's finest paintings! Provenance: Private Collection, Greencastle, Indiana Ray H. French Collection (1919-2000) Martha A. French Trust Royal Hill Milleson...
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1910s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

'Blue Eyed Girl', PAFA, Philadelphia Museum, Pennsylvania Artist, Trompe L'Oeil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed center right, in the 53 stub, 'Childers' for Robert Childers (American, 1924-1984) and dated 1954. Robert Childers first served in the U.S. Navy for six years after graduating from Medford High School in 1941. Following World War II, he studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art where he was the recipient of a gold medal and, upon graduating from the Museum's school, was the recipient of a Cresson scholarship and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he received his Masters degree. Childers continued his education with classes at Fleisher Memorial and performed for two years with the Philadelphia Dance Theater. Following his studies, he worked in fabrics, film production, toys and illustrations for publishers with du Pont in New York City. At the same time he maintained a studio and old twine factory over the Cherry Lane Theater. He lived in Greenwich Village for 19 years before accepting a position developing new products for American Greetings Inc. While there he designed the Hobbie Holly cloth doll...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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Realist portraiture is a global tradition reflecting on what makes us human. This is reflected in the work of Slim Aarons, an American photographer whose images are at once candid and polished and appeared in Holiday magazine and elsewhere. Innovative artists Mickalene Thomas and Kerry James Marshall are now offering new perspectives on the form.

Collecting art is a rewarding, lifelong pursuit that can help connect you with the creative ways historic, modern and contemporary artists have engaged with the world. For more tips on piecing together an art collection, see our guide to buying and displaying art.

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