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Art For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1940s
„ALICE in WONDERLAND“ Original Lobby Card of Walt Disney’s Movie, USA 1951.
Located in Cologne, DE
Original American Lobby Card of Walt Disney’s Movie „ALICE in WONDERLAND“, USA 1951. Alice at tea time with Mad Hatter and March Hare. Keywords: Animation,...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Color

Frank Sinatra Posed in Thunderbird
Located in Austin, TX
Circa 1955 in Hollywood, California: American actor and Hollywood icon Frank Sinatra poses with his 1955 'T-bird' Ford Thunderbird convertible sports car for a 1950's Ford Thunderbir...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

'Mother and Child', Woman Impressionist, Paris, Académie Julian, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'A.E.M' for Anna Elisabeth Munch (Danish, 1876-1960) and painted circa 1940. This notable Danish Modernist first studied with Karl Jensen (1889) and C. N. Overgaard (1891–1892). She later traveled and studied in Italy and, subsequently, at the Académie Julian under Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. After her return to Denmark, Munch became a student of the Impressionist Julius Paulsen (1895-1897) and made her début at the 1898 Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. Munch became the first Danish woman to receive commissions for large devotional altarpieces and her early subjects were often derived from Nordic and Christian mythology. These themes were also explored in the large fresco commissions she completed after studying fresco with Joakim Skovgaard (1909-10). Munch continued her studies in both France and Italy and also traveled extensively to Sweden and Norway. Together with the writer Sophie Breum, Munch built a house on the island of Funen at the artist's colony of Kerteminde. Munch illustrated several of Breum's books and, through her, was introduced to the women's movement. She furthered her art studies with Fritz Syberg...
Category

1940s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Clark Gable With a Sealyham Terrier
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white capture features smiling Clark Gable carrying pet Sealyham Terrier and looking away.Clark Gable was an American film actor, often referred to as ""The King of Ho...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

La chaise de jardin, Une Aventure méthodique, Georges Braque
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Une Aventure méthodique, 1950; published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, a...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Cubist Nude Study Pastel Painting by John Begg
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely pastel painting on paper by John Alfred Begg (1903 - 1974) is a striking cubist nude study in blue, purple, and orange-rust colors with contrasting black lines. The artwork is signed in the bottom right corner. Provenance: From the estate of the artist. Newly reframed in an elegant deep-textured wood frame with orange, black, and gilded colors, original beige jute matte, and glass protection. Measurements: With frame: 17.13 in wide (43.5 cm) x 24.41 in high (62 cm). Opening view: 6.50 in wide (16.5 cm) x 12.44 in (31.5 cm). Biography: John Alfred Begg was born in New Smyrna Beach...
Category

1950s Cubist Art

Materials

Pastel

"Elles" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the poster). Printed in Paris in 1950 by Mourlot Freres, this lithograph faithfully reproduces the original Toulouse-Lautrec poster in a smaller-size format...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Miro, Composition (Mourlot 230; Cramer 39) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From volume, Joan Miro by Jacques Prévert and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, 1956. Pu...
Category

1950s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

'Still Life with Fruit and Flowers', Paris, Tokyo, London, Copenhagen Academy
By Ib Eisner
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Ib Eisner' (Danish, 1925-2003) and dated, lower right, 1953. Displayed in a period, carved gilt-wood frame. Framed dimensions: 19 x 21.5 x 1.5 inches. A lyrical...
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board, Canvas

'Reclining Woman', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with Victor di Gesu estate stamp. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the L...
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Dufy, Composition, Eaux-de-vie, Esprit de la fleur et du fruit (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published and printed by Bernard Klein, éditeur, Paris, February 26, 1954. Notes: ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Black Red Figure no. 2 - Scottish 1957 Abstract Expressionist art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb Abstract Expressionist Scottish oil painting is by noted artist William Gear. It was painted in 1957 and is entitled Black/Red Figure no. 2. This abstract composition is ...
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Renoir, Le Chemin tournant, Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches Johannot paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 10.75 x 15 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Seize ...
Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Still Life with Whisky Bottle" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph. This lithograph (after the Vlaminck painting) was printed in Paris in 1958 by the Mourlot atelier, and published by Andre Sauret in an edition of 2000. The image ...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Renoir, L'Estaque, Seize Aquarelles et Sanguines de Renoir (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches Johannot paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 10.75 x 15 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Seize ...
Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Jayne Mansfield in Coat
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white portrait of Jayne Mansfield posed in coat, circa 1955. Jayne Mansfield was an American actress and Playboy Playmate. A sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s, Mansf...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1952 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1952 Spr...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Le Matin" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the poster). Printed in Paris in 1950 by Mourlot Freres, this lithograph faithfully reproduces the original Toulouse-Lautrec poster in a smaller-size format...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original Air France Map Poster Planishere Created by Lucien Boucher in 1952
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is one a series of well-designed maps by Lucien Boucher for Air France during the 1950's. This image, created in 1952, colorfully presents the routes of Air France as well as vi...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Marilyn Monroe Lying on Silk Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white vintage original photograph of Marilyn Monroe posed lying on silk, smiling to the camera with jewels on. -- One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Cele...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Black and White

L'Universo"
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil and sand on canvas by Italian artist Gastone Breddo, "L'Universo.". Born in Italy in 1915, Breddo worked throughout his life as an abstract/futurist art...
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Blue Wall, mid-century abstract expressionist, geometric blue, black & pink work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Blue Wall, c. 1959 oil on canvas signed and titled verso 42 x 60 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller designed and made the simple gold wedding ring Avis wore for their 65 years of marriage. During those 65 years neither wavered in their mutual love, nor in the respect they shared for one another’s art. The couple lived in a converted chicken coop in Missouri while Richard was in boot camp. At the camp, he would volunteer for any job offered and one of those jobs ended up being painting road signs. His commander noticed how quickly and neatly he worked and gave him more painting work to do - eventually recommending him for a position painting murals for Army offices in Panama. Until her dying day, Avis remained angry that “The army got to keep those fabulous murals and they probably didn’t even know how wonderful they were.” In Panama, their first son, Mark, was born. After Richard’s discharge in 1953, they moved back to the Cleveland area and used the GI bill to attend Kent State gaining his BA in education. The small family then moved briefly to Buffalo, where Richard taught at the Albright Art School and the University of Buffalo – and their second son, Peter, was born. Richard had exhibited work in the Cleveland May Show and the Butler Art Museum during his art school years, and during the years in Buffalo, his work was exhibited at the gallery he had so loved as a child, the Albright Art Gallery. In 1956, the family moved back to the Cleveland area and Richard began teaching art at Lincoln West High School during the day while working toward his MA in art at Kent State in the evenings. Avis and Richard, with the help of an architect, designed their first home - a saltbox style house in Hudson, Ohio, and in 1958, their third son, Max (after Max Beckmann) was born. Richard enjoyed the consistency of teaching high school as well as the time it gave him to paint on the weekends and during the summer months. In 1961, he received his MA and his daughter, Claire, was born. With a fourth child, the house was much too small, and Avis and Richard began designing their second home. An admirer of MCM architecture, Richard’s favorite example of the style was the Farnsworth house – he often spoke of how the concepts behind this architectural style, particularly that of Mies van der Rohe, influenced his painting. Andres described himself as a 1950’s...
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Guinovart. painting cardboard
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Guinovart. Josep Guinovart i Bertran (Barcelona 1927-2007) was a painter, draftsman and engraver from Catalonia, Spain. After studying at the School of the Lonja and the Promotion ...
Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Suburb (in Winter)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness. Oil on canvas, 20 x 15 inches, Signed lower right Exhibited: 1) Portrai...
Category

1940s American Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Autumn verso Summer Landscape / - Imagined Landscape -
Located in Berlin, DE
Seidel, Herbert (1906-1974), Autumn verso Summer Landscape, 1953 Herbert Seidel (1906 Berlin - 1974 Rüdersdorf), Autumn verso Summer Landscape, 1953. India ink on grained, bleached p...
Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper

"Apres le Bain"
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Francois Gall. " After the Bath" signed lower left. Condition is very good. In original gold gilt wash frame in fine conditi...
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Marilyn Monroe in Rain Coat for Niagara Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of actress Marilyn Monroe posed in a rain coat- a screen test for her role in "Niagara", circa 1953. -- One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the C...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Black and White

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

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category

1940s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Portrait de D. H. Kahnweiler I
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait de D. H. Kahnweiler I Lithograph, 1957 Estate Signature Stamp lower right Provenance: Picasso Estate Marina Picasso, her stamp on reverse Annotated in ...
Category

1950s French School Art

Materials

Lithograph

Chagall, Composition, Couleur amour (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin papier a la cuve du Moulin Richard de Bas spécialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good conditi...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

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

Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood's Glamour Icon
Located in Austin, TX
This beautifully colored image features a pinup of actress and Hollywood bombshell Marilyn Monroe posed in a bathing suit with her leg uppoolside. Marilyn Monroe was one of the mo...
Category

1940s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
Category

1940s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1951 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1951 Spr...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Marlene Dietrich in Fur
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white studio capture of Marlene Dietrich posed in a fur coat. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola Lola in Josef v...
Category

1940s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

"Boy With Book Looking Out Window, " Original Lithograph print classic gift
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Boy With Book Looking Out Window" is an original lithograph print by James Ormsbee Chapin. The artist signed the piece in pencil lower right. This piece depicts a boy looking out th...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Classic Torso (With Hands)
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount by the artist. Printed circa late 1970's.
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Naples, Italy, Black and White Photography 1950s, Bride by Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Bride, Naples, Italy, 1958 by Leonard Freed is a black and white contemporary photograph, cinematic in nature. This is a gelatin silver, signed by the photographer, lifetime print, 24" x 20" from the Freed archive. LITERATURE: W. A. Ewing, N. Herschdorfer, and W. van Sinderen, Worldview, Leonard Freed, Steidl, 2007, p. 73 and back cover. Leonard Freed discovered Little Italy in New York...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Quai Gustav- Ador, the Neptune in Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Beige wooden frame 80.5 x 93.5 x 6 cm
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Oil

Still life with Vase of Flowers - Oil Paint by Claude Deschamps - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Still life is an artwork realized by Claude Decamps, mid-20th Century. Oil on cardboard.  20 x 25 cm.  Hadsigned in red in lower margin. Good conditions!
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

"May Milton" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the poster). Printed in Paris in 1950 by Mourlot Freres, this lithograph faithfully reproduces the original Toulouse-Lautrec poster in a smaller-size format...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Braque, Composition (Vallier 23), Hesiode, Théogonie, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, Hesiode, Théogonie, Eaux-fortes de Georges Braque, N° 71-7...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Mid Century Fauvist Portrait of a Girl
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century fauvist portrait of a girl with colorful, textured impasto by Mary Sheppard (American, 20th Century), 1956. Signed and dated "Mary Sheppard '56" lower right. Unframed. Im...
Category

1950s Fauvist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Cardboard

'Ponies Dancing' California Post-Impressionist, San Francisco Art Association
By Clement Samuel Wilenchick
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Wilenchick' for Clement Samuel Wilenchick (American, 1900-1957) and painted circa 1955. A dynamic, post-impressionist oil showing horses frolicking together agai...
Category

1950s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Color is Life — Mid-Century Abstract Expressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ernest A. Dieringer, Untitled (Color is Life), watercolor, 1959. Initialed 'ED' and dated ' '59' in red pencil at the top and bottom sheet edges—the artist's indication that the work can be viewed from either side. Signed 'Dieringer' in pencil in the bottom support board margin. A fine abstract expressionist work, watercolor on white wove paper, with fresh, bright colors; the image extends to the sheet edges, spot glued to the original cream wove backing board, in very good condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 9 x 10 15/16 inches; backing board size 13 1/2 x 16 3/4 inches. Provenance: ex. Collection Alexander Raydon. The collector/dealer's well-known 'Raydon Gallery' was established in 1962 on 82nd Street and Madison Avenue, New York City. ABOUT THE ARTIST Ernest Dieringer studied at the Art Institute of Chicago on a National Scholastic Scholarship, beginning his career with the Chicago-based Wells Street Gallery in 1957. He showed his work with other abstract artists, including Robert Natkin and John Chamberlain. The gallery was considered a vanguard space in Chicago for exhibiting emerging abstract artists from the surrounding area. Artists associated with the gallery eventually became known as the Wells Street Group. Due to the success of the gallery, Dieringer and other group members were invited by the Manhattan-based contemporary art dealer...
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

1951 Figure Study of a Standing Male- Torso by Artist Harold HAydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1951 graphite on paper, black and white figure study of a nude male, from 1951, by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 19" x 12 1/2". Archivally matted to 24" x 20". Provenance...
Category

1950s American Modern Art

Materials

Graphite, Paper

Along the Avenue
Located in Storrs, CT
Ruben Gelardi's depiction of a yellow tram in Copenhagen. Pastel on paper measures 15 7/8 x 20; frame dimensions measure 22 1/4 x 26 3/4 x 1 1/4. Artist'...
Category

1950s Abstract Impressionist Art

Materials

Pastel

Elvis Presley Performing on Patio
Located in Austin, TX
Awesome black and white capture of the King, Elvis Presley, performing on a patio with his guitar. Elvis Presley, known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Know...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

"Pensiero rosa" Tecnica mista su carta cm.30 x 23 1950
Located in Torino, IT
Pensiero Rosa, splendida cornice nera 1930 Opera astratta di Dora Maar periodo dopo Picasso,queste opere descrivono gli stati d'animo e paesaggi mentali dell'artista Dora MAAR (Pari...
Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

"Reclining Girl with Parasol"
Located in Southampton, NY
Signed lower right dated 1944 Signed verso William Malherbe "The Thetford Hill Vermont" Provenance: Palm Beach Galleries Framed in a gold frame
Category

1940s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Elvis Presley in Shadow
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid capture of the King, Elvis Presley, gazing to the camera in a true action shot of the Rock N Roll star. Elvis Presley known mononymously as Elvis, was an Amer...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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

Smiling Woman - Linocut by Mino Maccari - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is a Linocut Print realized by Mino Maccari in 1951. Very Good condition. No Signature. Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian writer, painter, engraver and journalist, win...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Linocut

Rodin, Composition, La Varende, Rodin (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Varende, Rodin, 1944. Published by Éditions ...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Barn Beneath Mt. Tamalpais - Mid Century California Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century California landscape painting of a red barn tucked in the hills beneath Mt. Tamalpais, by an unknown American artist. Signed "Bloomf...
Category

1950s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Bruaunt au Mirliton" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the poster). Printed in Paris in 1950 by Mourlot Freres, this lithograph faithfully reproduces the original Toulouse-Lautrec poster in a smaller-size format...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Baby's House Kitchen Interior - Woman Illustrator Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
Famed Disney artist Mary Blair was also an illustrator for assignments outside Disney. The present work appears to be for a Gelolo Mchugh children's book called Baby's House. There i...
Category

1950s Feminist Art

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

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Visual art is among the oldest forms of expression, and it has been evolving for centuries. Beautiful objects can provide a window to the past or insight into our current time. Art collecting enhances daily life through the presence of meaningful work. It displays an appreciation for culture, whether a print by Elizabeth Catlett channeling social change or a narrative quilt by Faith Ringgold.

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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