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Art For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1910s
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Vintage American Modernist Surreal Car Still Life Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist car still life landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Utrillo, Composition, Éloge de Maurice Utrillo (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Éloge de Maurice Utrillo, 1956. Published by Editions d'Art Manuel Bruker, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), This book was completed and printed on June 5, 1956 on the presses of madame Jean-Gabriel Daragnès for typography and by the Mourlot Frères for lithographs. It was shot on Vidalon blanc. Two hundred numbered copies from 1 to 200, including the first twenty with a suite on vélin paper of the Marais. It has been attached to each copy a simulated fac of the Sonnet d'Utrillo: "Lyric art...
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Signac, St-Paul-de-Vence, Signac Dessins (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin de Lana paper Year: 1950 Paper Size: 9.75 x 12.5 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the album, Signac Dessins, 1950. Publi...
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Signac, Antibes, Signac Dessins (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin de Lana paper Year: 1950 Paper Size: 9.75 x 12.5 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the album, Signac Dessins, 1950. Publi...
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

“Portrait of a Man”
Located in Southampton, NY
Powerful oil on board original painting of a portrait of a man’s head by the American National Academy artist John R. Grabach. Signed lower left, “John R.Grabach N.A.” Signed verso ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Study of woman in bathing suit - Ink drawing - circa 1916
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges CONRAD (1874-1936) Study of woman in bathing suit Original India ink and color pencil drawing Signed with the stamp of atelier On paper 26.5 x 20 cm (c. 10.4 x 7.8 in) Ver...
Category

1910s Academic Art

Materials

India Ink, Color Pencil

Deux Femmes Près de la Fenetre - Linocut Print after Pablo Picasso - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Deux Femmes près de la fenetre is a linocut print realized in smaller size after a linocut by Pablo Picasso of 1959 . Very good conditi...
Category

1950s Cubist Art

Materials

Paper, Linocut

1959 After Joan Miro 'Terres de Grand Feu'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.25 inches ( 31.75 x 23.495 cm ) Image Size: 8.5 x 6.5 inches ( 21.59 x 16.51 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additio...
Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Architectural Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Mid-century French pen and ink drawing on transfer paper of entry to lounge in pink and yellow, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. A...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Pen

Visage de femme (Woman's Face), 1953
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso ceramic Visage de femme (Woman's Face), 1953 is a vibrantly colored pitcher decorated with contrasting saturated greens against chestnut ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware, Glaze, Engraving

'Woman Wearing Mantilla', Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, Carmel, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Di Gesu' for Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1958. A substantial oil a young woman, (possibly Victor's wife, the artist, Janet Ament), sho...
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief
Located in Austin, TX
Awesome closeup publicity still of Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in their roles for the Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief. To Catch a Thief is a 1955 American romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the 1952 novel of the same name by David Dodge...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

Bayros-Mappe III - Héliogravure by Fraz von Bayros - 1913
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on japanese paper realized by Fraz von Bayros in 1913 for Ex Libris Verlag K. Th. Senger, Munich. Mounted on passepartout. Edition of 260, hand signed in pencil by the ...
Category

1910s Symbolist Art

Materials

Photogravure

American Impressionist California Coast Nude Bather w/ PARASOL Painting
Located in New York, NY
Here we have an original large painting by Louis Jambor (1884 - 1955) Depicts a California coast with two female figures One nude and one with Parasol Louis Jambor Circa 1929 Water...
Category

1910s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

The Law vs Billy The Kid, original 1954 linen backed US 1 sheet movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
The Law vs. Billy the Kid, is an original 1954 vintage movie poster. Dead for six dollars! Archival linen backed and ready for framing. This The Law...
Category

1950s American Realist Art

Materials

Offset

ISRAEL (1951 Mexican Homage Poster)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FANNY RABEL (1922 – 2008) and ALBERTO BELTRAN (B. 1923 ISRAEL - 2 Conferencias por Vocente Lombardo 1951 (P.134) Linocut in 3...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Linocut

Antique Old Florida Southern School Beach Lighthouse Framed Seascape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist southern oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Label from a Florida frame shop verso.
Category

1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Woman Standing', Modernist Sculpture, San Francisco Bay Area, de Young Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Inscribed on base, 'W.G.' for Wedo Georgetti (American, 1911-2005) and created circa 1950. Acquired directly from the artist and accompanied by certificate of authenticity. Born in Italy, this California Post-Impressionist came to the United States at the age of one. Georgetti first worked as a merchant seaman to support his art studies and traveled all over the world accumulating sketches, many of which he later worked up into paintings. He made frequent visits to France, where he was influenced by the Post-Impressionists and, particularly, by the Nabis. An innovative theorist, Georgetti was the originator of the style known as California Fauvism. He exhibited widely and with success, both at exhibitions and at one-man shows (Oakland Art Gallery, 1942-44; Society of American Graphic Artists, NYC, 1944; Maxwell Galleries, 1940’s; de Young Museum...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Wood

Forest Oasis, Mid-Century Pool Under Redwood Trees Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Forest Oasis, Mid-Century Pool Under Redwood Trees Landscape Beautiful mid-century redwood forest scene by Vladimir Shkurkin (1900-1990), c.1950. This st...
Category

1950s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Linen

Vintage Signed Canadian Impressionist Landscape Framed Luminous Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Canadian impressionist landscape signed oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
Category

1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Early 20th Cent. Figurative -- Fontainebleau Forest and Women Gathering
By C. Harry Allis
Located in Soquel, CA
A lush, historic watercolor figurative landscape by C. Harry Allis (American, 1870-1938). Signed and dated "C. Harry Allis 1919" lower right. Displ...
Category

1910s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Magnelli, Papier collé, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°6, 1956. Published and printed under the direct...
Category

1950s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Bouquet - Lithograph for Revue "Verve" by Georges Braque - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 30.5 x 20 cm. Bouquet is a beautiful colored lithograph on paper, realized by the Cubist artist, Georges Braque (Argenteuil, 1882 – Paris, 1963). Unsigned. From “Carnets Intimes” realized in 1955. Printed by Mourlot and published in the Revue Verve...
Category

1950s Cubist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Girl - Original Pencil Drawing by J.L. Rey Vila - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Girl is an original artwork realized by José Luis Rey Vila in 1959. Pencil drawing on paper. Hand-signed and dated by José Luis Rey Vila on the bac...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Pencil

Daily Graphic Process - Mid 20th Century Industrial Factory Watercolor Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A very interesting signed and dated 1952 watercolor painting depicting the interior of a printing factory. The work is inscribed 'Daily Graphic Process' lower right. Artist: Harry T...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Watercolor

Les Amoureux- From the Album "Jean Cocteau Lithographies" by Jean Cocteau
Located in New York, NY
The modern lithograph "Les Amoureux" by Jean Cocteau was printed at the Atelier Mourlot in 1957. Cocteau was a master at representing the languid forms of his subjects in sketches. H...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Savièze by Fred Fay - Engraving 33x42 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Engraving on paper without frame.
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Engraving

Sedona Red Bluffs and Seguaro Cactus Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning and bright mid-century abstracted Sedona desert landscape of red bluffs and Seguaro cactus by unknown artist, 1957. Signed lower left illegibly and dated "June 1957" on vers...
Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

'Still Life', Louvre, LACMA, Académie Chaumière, California Post-Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) estate stamp verso and painted circa 1960. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the Cho...
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Mara Lane At The Sands - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Mara Lane At The Sands Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Tobey, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°12, 1959. Published and printed under the direction of Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, éditeur, Paris, by Société Internationale d'Art XXe siècle, Paris. Excerpted from the academic article, “Promoting Original Prints, The Role of Gualtieri di San Lazzaro and XXe Siècle” by Valerie Holman, published in PRINT QUARTERLY, XXXIII, 2016, 2, Until recently very little has been written on the Italian author and art publisher Gualtieri di San Lazzaro (1904-75), yet for 50 years he chronicled the life and work of contemporary artists, produced monographs of exceptional quality, and disseminated original prints by modern painters and sculptors through his best-known periodical, XXe Siècle. Although still a relatively unfamiliar figure in the United Kingdom, San Lazzaro is one of the half-dozen great art publishers of the mid-twentieth century who, together with his exemplar, Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), and those of his own generation, Christian Zervos (1889-1970), Tériade (1889-1983) and Albert Skira (1904-73), chose to base himself in Paris, seeing it throughout his life as the centre of the art world….XXe Siècle, an illustrated periodical, was launched in 1938 and printed in editions of approximately 2,000, each issue containing both photographs and four-colour separation reproductions across a wide spectrum of visual imagery ranging from masterpieces of Western painting to popular prints from the Far East. Its large format, lively design, and close integration of text and image, were immediately striking, but its most innovative feature, introduced at the suggestion of Hans Arp (1886-1966), was the inclusion of original prints by contemporary artists in every issue. With obvious appeal for collectors, XXe Siècle was also designed to introduce a wider, international public to contemporary painting and sculpture through good quality colour reproductions and the immediacy of original prints. Comparable in price to Cahiers d'Art, early issues of XXe Siècle sold out rapidly. While San Lazzaro's own aesthetic preferences tended towards lyric abstraction, he made clear that XXe Siècle was non-partisan [publication ceased during World War II]….in 1951, San Lazzaro relaunched XXe Siècle with thematic issues that were materials based, or centred on a topic of current interest in the visual arts, particularly in Europe: concepts of space, matter, monochrome, mark-making and the sign.' A defining feature of the new series was Italy's artistic dialogue with France for, while San Laz-zaro had originally concentrated on Paris-based painters and sculptors, his aim was to create an international network, to make known the work of French artists in Italy and Italian artists in France, and subsequently extend this bilateral axis to the English-speak-ing world. The artists represented in No. I by an original print were all best known as sculptors: Arp, Laurens, Henry Moore (1898-186) and Marino Marini, San Lazzaro not only sought to show readers the full range of an artist's work, but to encourage the production of prints, a stimulus much appreciated, for example, by Magnelli…. Suffering from failing health, in 1968 San Lazzaro lost overall control of XXe Siècle to Léon Amiel, a printer-publisher who had provided financial backing and helped with distribution in America." Thematic issues now ceased and were replaced by a 'panorama' of the year, but San Lazzaro was still active as a publisher of books and albums of prints….Shortly after his death, San Lazzaro himself was the subject of two exhibitions: 'Omaggio a XXe Siècle' in Milan in December 1974 centred on graphic work by those artists closest to him late in life, while 'San Laz-zaro et ses Amis' at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1975 featured work by all those whose work he had promoted for more than 50 years: Arp, Calder (1898-1976), Capogrossi, Chagall, Sonia Delau-nay, Dubuffet, Estève, Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Gili-oli (1911-77), Magnelli, Marini, Miró, Moore and Poliakoff. This exhibition was seen by one of his closest colleagues as an indirect portrait of San Lazzaro, a complex man whose modesty and reserve masked his unremitting drive to extend international appreciation of contemporary art, and to bring the reading public closer to its making through the medium of print. MARK TOBEY (1890-1976) was an American painter. His densely structured compositions, inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism, although the motives for his compositions differ philosophically from most Abstract Expressionist painters. His work was widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe and came in the wake of Picasso and Braque. Along with Guy Anderson...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Antique American School Female Artist Abstract Expressionist Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist abstract painting by Elsie Orfuss (Born 1913). Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Nicely framed. `
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jazz Panel #4 - gouache, 102x86 cm.
Located in Nice, FR
This is a panel painted with gouache on paper that was painted by Paul de Cayeux. He was a french painter and decorator. This suite comes from an old restaurant and ball room in Nice...
Category

1950s Art Deco Art

Materials

Gouache

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

Lake Murten
Located in Genève, GE
Black and white etching on watercolor paper signed dated
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Engraving

Two Women with Traditional Brittany Dress - Original Oil on Canvas, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Claude WEISBUCH Two Women with Traditional Brittany Dress Original Oil on canvas Signed upper right Signed and Dated (19)54 on the back On canvas 46 x 55 cm at view (c. 18 x 22 in) ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Paris Market Shoppers 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius Giant size
Located in London, GB
Paris Market Shoppers from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 By Peter Cornelius Giant Oversize 60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Printed 2022 Arc...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Picasso's 1959 Original exhibition poster Maison de la pensée Francaise - Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
The exhibition poster for the original posters by the masters of the École de Paris at the Maison de la Pensée Française in 1959, created by lege...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

The Harbor
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Beautiful impasto, oil on canvas. Contemporary custom frame. Unsigned, but very well executed painting.
Category

1910s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Roman Holiday (1953) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Roman Holiday (1953) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (photo by United Archives/ Alamy Archives) Roman Holiday USA 1953. Directed by William Wyler, Gregory P...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

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

Woman with Scarf - Christo 1955 Oil on Cardboard
Located in Sofia, BG
49.5 x 35 cm Artwork unsigned - Christo 1955 Provenance Private collection, Bulgaria This artwork hasn't been exposed for 70 years. This portrait artwork had been awarded with the ...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

'Old Country Store, Ontario', Canada, Painters Eleven, Post-Impressionist Oil
By Hortense Mattice Gordon
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Attributed to Hortense Mattice Gordon (Canadian, 1886-1961) and painted circa 1925. Attribution based on similar style, composition and subject matter of McGill University's 'Old Country Store, Ontario' (1925) by the artist (see last image). An exceptionally fine, early twentieth-century, Post-Impressionist oil showing a view of a rustic village with cottages dramatically dappled by the shade of large trees. Hamilton artist Hortense Crompton Mattice Gordon was one of Canada’s earliest non-representational painters, embracing abstraction in the 1930s. She was also an active member of Canada's first English-speaking abstract group, Painters Eleven. A scholarship recipient, Hortense Mattice first attended the Hamilton Art School and, subsequently, moved to Chatham, Ontario. Initially focusing on porcelain painting, Mattice quickly began building a portfolio of oils and, from 1908, was exhibiting both her porcelain and landscapes at what is now the Chatham Cultural Centre (1908) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (1909). During this time, Mattice frequently traveled to the United States and, in 1915, visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where she would have seen early works by important modernists including Picasso and Matisse. She started her teaching career in Chatham but, having received a job offer from the artist John Sloan Gordon, returned to Hamilton to teach at the Hamilton Art School in 1918. The two artists married in 1920. In 1922, Gordon and her husband took a study trip to France and, inspired by the fervent of Modernist ideas in Paris, expanded her own approaches to art, developing an increasingly soft, loose paint handling style. It was not until the 1930’s, after a few more trips to France and her discovery of Piet Mondrian’s work, that elements of abstraction began to appear in Gordon’s work. After the death of her husband in 1940, Gordon attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art and studied with Hans Hoffmann (1941-1945) whose influence and friendship pushed her to explore non-objective painting. After her training with Hofmann and in Cranbrook, Gordon began to exhibit regularly and with success in both Canada and the United States including at the Riverside Museum (New York, 1947), Creative Gallery (New York, 1952), in Ann Arbor (Michigan, 1952), Phillips Gallery (Detroit, 1952), the Flint Institute of Arts (Michigan, 1952), Mount Allison University (New Brunswick, 1952), the Galerie Agnes Lefort in Montréal and Art Gallery of Hamilton (retrospective, 1960). She was a member of the Contemporary Artists of Hamilton (honorary president in 1948), the Ontario Society of Artists, the Hamilton Women...
Category

1910s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jean Dubuffet's 1950 exhibition poster La Métromanie - Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean Dubuffet's 1950 exhibition poster for "La Métromanie ou les dessous de la capitale" at Galerie Nina Dausset is a remarkable work of art that testifies to the French artist's tal...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

'Wenceslas Castle, Prague', California Post-Impressionist, Sausalito, De Young
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Partially signed, lower left, 'Georgetti' for Wedo Georgetti (American, 1911-2005) and painted circa 1955. Accompanied by an Certificate of Authenticity. A substantial, mid-century Post-Impressionist oil cityscape showing a view of Prague Castle, the hereditary seat of King Wenceslas and the Kings of Bohemia. Born in Italy, this California Post-Impressionist came to the United States at the age of one. Georgetti first worked as a merchant seaman to support his art studies and traveled all over the world accumulating sketches, many of which he later worked up into paintings. He made frequent visits to France, where he was influenced by the Post-Impressionists and, particularly, by the Nabis. An innovative theorist, Georgetti was the originator of the style known as California Fauvism. He exhibited widely and with success, both at exhibitions and at one-man shows (Oakland Art Gallery, 1942-44; Society of American Graphic Artists, NYC, 1944; Maxwell Galleries, 1940’s; de Young...
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Plywood

"Street Games" by Thurston Hopkins
Located in London, GB
"Street Games" by Thurston Hopkins A young child wearing an Indian headdress hides in a coal hole as he takes aim under the watchful eye of a friend....
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

Marilyn Monroe: Pinup in High-Slit Dress
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning image of Marilyn Monroe posed pinup style in a high-slit dress. This listing is for a limited edition archival print. What's included: - Limited Edition Archival Print - N...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

"California Summer" Mid Century Plein Aire Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
"California Summer" Mid Century Plein Aire Landscape in Oil on Masonite Serene landscape by Andrew Bennett (British, 20th Century). A herd of cows are gathered under oak trees in th...
Category

1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

"Danzatrice"
Located in PARIS, FR
" Danzatrice " (Dancer) by Marcello MASCHERINI (1906-1983) A rare and tall bronze sculpture with a nuanced brownish green patina Signed on the base " M. Mascherini " Presented on a green marble base Trieste – Italy...
Category

1950s Italian School Art

Materials

Bronze

1953 original Soviet poster by Anatoly Kozhukhov Our Aviation Serves Humanity
Located in PARIS, FR
In 1953, Soviet artist Anatoly Kozhukhov created the poster "Notre Aviation Sert l'Humanité" ("Our Aviation Serves Humanity"), a striking piece reflecting both the technological opti...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Pablo Picasso 'Picador' (A. R. 160) Bullfighter Madoura Plate 1952
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Picador (A. R. 160) Terre de faïence plate, 1952, from the edition of 500, incised 'Edition Picasso', partially glazed and painted, with the Edition Pica...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

"Women's Skiing" by Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
"Women's Skiing" by Kurt Hutton 26th January 1952: One of the British women's Olympic Ski Team with her skis. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5661- Seven Girls Go Out To Ski - ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

Slim Aarons Estate Print - The Carlton Hotel 1955 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - The Carlton Hotel - Oversize A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955. (Photo by Slim Aarons) silver...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Basket Weaver with his Baskets for the Market 1950s figurative oil
Located in Soquel, CA
Basket Weaver with his Baskets for the Market 1950s figurative oil Expressive and detail portrait of a weaver and his baskets, heading to market by California impressionist nna Oley...
Category

1950s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board

"Nature Morte" Fruit Bowl, Tea Pot and Cup, Oil on Canvas by Spanish Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR Spanish, 1891 - 1966 NATURE MORTE signed "Lagar" lower left oil on canvas 18-1/4 X 21-3/4 inches (46 X 55 cm.) framed: 23-3/8 X 27-1/8 (59 X 68.5 cm.) PROVENANCE Privat...
Category

1910s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"I'm All Right Jack", Lobby Card, USA 1959
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "I'm All Right Jack" (1960) featuring Peter Sellers. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a scene with Peter Sellers in a suit and a group ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Color

Snorkelling In Malta, Estate Edition, Aerial Seascape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s aerial landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features group of people snorkelling off a small boat in Malta. This is an estate stamped ...
Category

1950s Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

Sunbathing In Venice, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman sunbatheing, wearing a novelty straw sun hat with built-in sunglasses, Venice. Th...
Category

1950s Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

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Contemporary art has lured more initiates to collecting than almost any other category, with notable artists including Yayoi Kusama, Marc Chagall, Kehinde Wiley and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Navigating the waiting lists for the next Marlene Dumas, Jeff Koons or Jasper Johns has become competitive.

When you’re living with art, particularly as people more often work from home and enjoy their spaces, it’s important to choose art that resonates with you. While the richness of art with its many movements, styles and histories can be overwhelming, the key is to identify what is appealing and inspiring. Artwork can play with the surrounding color of a room, creating a layered approach. The dynamic shapes and sizes of sculptures can set different moods, such as a bronze by Miguel Guía on a mantel or an Alexander Calder mobile suspended over a table. A wall of art can evoke emotions in an interior while showing off your tastes and interests. A salon-style wall mixing eclectic pieces like landscape paintings with charcoal drawings is a unique way to transform a space and show off a collection.

For art meditating on the subconscious, investigate Surrealists like Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí. Explore Pop art and its leading artists such as Andy Warhol, Rosalyn Drexler and Keith Haring for bright and bold colors. Not only did these artists question art itself, but also how we perceive society. Similarly, 20th-century photography and abstract painting reconsidered the intent of art.

Abstract Expressionists like Helen Frankenthaler and Lee Krasner and Color Field artists including Sam Gilliam broke from conventional ideas of painting, while Op artists such as Yaacov Agam embraced visual trickery and kinetic movement. Novel visuals are also integral to contemporary work influenced by street art, such as sculptures and prints by KAWS.

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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