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V A Hards: 'Design for A Departmental Store' Mid Century architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
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V A Hards (British, c. 193...
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Clifford Ellis Sheep Charcoal Drawing Modern British Art Mid Century Modern
Located in London, GB
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Rosemary Ellis Snail XIV Watercolour Modern British Art Wildlife Mid Century
Located in London, GB
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Classical Female Head (woman portrait)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful 1950 drawing by Spanish artist, Federico Castellon (1914-1971). Graphite on wove paper, sheet measures 12 x 18 inches. Excellent condition with no restoration or damage. Signed lower right. Unframed. From a recently discovered collection of over 60 important Castellon drawings and watercolors c.1939-1950.
Birth place: Almeria, Spain
Death place: New York, NY
Addresses: NYC (immigrated 1921; citizen, 1943)
Profession: Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, etcher, illustrator, teacher
Exhibited: Weyhe Gal., 1934, 1936-40; AIC, 1935-47 (prize, 1938); AFA traveling exh., 1937; WMAA, 1938-45; PAFA, 1938-39, 1940 (prize), 1941-42; Carnegie Inst., 1942; PAFA, 1943-53; Assoc. Am. Ar., 1946 (prize), 1952 (solo); Corcoran Gal, 1947; LOC, 1949 (prize); Paris, France, 1952; Bombay, India, 1952; Gallery 10, 1961; Dintenfass Gal., N.Y., 1963; Phila. Pr. Cl., 1964 (prize); Hudson Gld. A., 1964; Great Neck, L.I., 1964; SAGA, 1964 (prize). In 1953, under the auspices of State Dept. Specialist Div., of I.E.S., he exhibited in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, with lectures in each country. Awards: F., Spanish Republic, 1934-36; fellow, Guggenheim Fnd., 1941, 1950; Nat. Inst. A. & Let. Grant, 1950.
Member: NA; SAGA
Work: WMAA; PAFA; MoMA; PMA; MMA; BM; AIC; NYPL; LOC; Univ. KY; San Diego Mus. FA; Newark (NJ) Pub. Lib.; Princeton Univ. (Frank Jewett Mather Coll.).
Comments: A Surrealist painter whose imagery of the 1930s was greatly influenced by Dali. His full name was Federico Cristencia de Castellón y Martinez. Teacher: Columbia Univ., 1946-61; Pratt Inst., Brooklyn, 1952-61. Illustrator: Shenandoah, 1941; I Went into the Country, 1941; Bulfinch's Mythology, 1948; The Story of Marco Polo, 1954; The Man Who Changed China, 1954; The Story of J. J. Audubon, 1955; The Little Prince, 1954; The Life of Robert L. Stevenson, 1954. Reproduction of paintings on The Sumerian Civilization" for Life series "The Epic of Man," 1956; 15 paintings on "The History of Medicine" for MD magazine, 1960-61; The Story of Madame Curie...
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Abstract 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Peter Collins ARCA Colliery Mining Scene pen and ink factory England sketch
Located in London, GB
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
D.L Hadden Design for Executive Desks Geo.M.Hammer 1959 Watercolour and Pencil
Located in London, GB
One of a series of designs we have listed for Geo. M Hammer. To see them - and our other architectural and design-related drawings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" and then search.
D.L Hadden (British, 20th Century)
Design for Executive Desks for Geo. M. Hammer
Watercolour and pencil
41x51cm
Signed and dated 1959
Two beautifully detailed executive desks designs with sketches front elevations. Hadden's flair with woodwork design is evident in this drawing.
Hadden was a senior designer for Geo M Hammer, designers and retailers of school and ecclesiastical furniture. Their lift-top school desks are particularly well regarded, and always carried their brass name plate. Hammer were renowned for their interior woodwork, they were commissioned to undertake the choir stalls in Sir Basil Spence...
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Rosemary Ellis Snail XVIII Watercolour Modern British Art Wildlife Mid Century
Located in London, GB
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Woman in Blue
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. In the 1950s, he was an in-demand and celebrated illustrator working for New York's toniest publications (like Harper's Bazaar) and elegant shops (such as Bonwit Teller), in addition to many smaller independent fashion companies.
In the mid-1950s Warhol became synonymous with shoes after creating a successful campaign for shoe retailer Miller & Sons. Although Warhol had a parallel art practice, primarily focused on drawing, surpassing the designation of “commercial artist” proved difficult. Consider that this era was the height of popularity for the Abstract Expressionist painters. Despite the prevailing aesthetic, Warhol continued to be dedicated to making elegant or playful line drawings.
This untitled illustration is an intimate example of Warhol at his best in the 1950's. It is ambiguous whether this was created for a client, or whether Warhol was inspired by an encounter in real life. With the lightest touch, the artist renders a glamorous woman's profile as she holds a young child in her arms.
Unique to this drawing is the subtle presence of the child, who rests gently against the woman's chest in a tender embrace yet is almost entirely abstract. This maternal exchange represents an unexpected deviation from Warhol's typical subject matter, possibly serving as a tribute to his own mother, Julia Warhola, whom he admired deeply.
This elegant drawing is a marvellous precursor to Warhol's Pop Art era when he became transfixed by images and representation of women.
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Untitled "Woman in Blue...
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American Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Male Torso
By John Koch
Located in London, GB
Pencil, coloured pencil and chalk on paper, titled (lower left), signed (lower right), 31cm x 46cm, (51cm x 68cm framed).
John Koch was an American painter and teacher, and an impo...
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American Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
1950s Original Signed Abstract Expressionist Watercolor in Soft Pastel Colors
Located in Denver, CO
This soft toned abstract expressionist watercolor painting, created by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968), is an exceptional example of his evolution as an artist. Featuring bold sw...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Vampire
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art...
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Expressionist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Laurence Dunn, Port of London Authority Ship 'PLA Monstrosity' Drawing (c1950s)
Located in London, GB
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
"Untitled I" Jane Freilicher, Hamptons Landscape Drawing, Mid-century Abstract
Located in New York, NY
Jane Freilicher
Untitled I, 1958-59
Signed lower right
Charcoal on paper
11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches
Provenance:
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Jane Freilic...
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Study for decoration Moscow metro station" Kievskaya Tempera, Real socialism
Located in Torino, IT
Real Socialism,Moscow,1970,Russia,Orange,Men at Work,Propaganda
VIKTOR A. KONOVALOV (Uidol, Vladimir region 1912 – Moscow 1995)
Russian painter and gr...
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Realist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Seated Nude, Modern Watercolor with Pastel by Byron Browne
By Byron Browne
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Byron Brown (American 1907 - 1961)
Title: Seated Nude
Year: 1957
Medium: Pastel and Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 25.5 x 19.5 in...
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American Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
Bicep
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Dehner's legacy has been overshadowed by he...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Nude on Green I, Gouache on Paper by George Zachary Constant
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Zachary Constant, Greek/American (1892 - 1978)
Title: Nude on Green I
Year: 1954
Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed
Size: 11 x 7.5 in. (27.94 x 19.05 cm)
Frame Size: 17 ...
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Jazz Panel #3 - gouache, 102x186 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
Art Deco 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Claude Muncaster HMS Ganges from a Naval Helicopter 1956 maritime art watercolor
Located in London, GB
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Claude Munca...
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Impressionist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Star Time"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter 1911-2004) for the DuMont Network`s `Star Time`, broadcast from their NYC flagship station WABD (now WNYC). The hour series ran on Tuesday nights at 10 p.m. from September 5, 1950 to February 27, 1951. Depicted from left to right: Benny Goodman...
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1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Preliminary drawing for a sculpture
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for a sculpture
Black crayon on paper, 1959
Signed and dated middle right (see photo)
A rare 1950's AbEx drawing.
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Michael and Ala...
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Abstract 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Naturalistic Female Nude Figurative Study
Located in Houston, TX
Seated nude women study in a naturalistic style. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed.
Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entire collection.
Artist Biography: Emile Lejeune...
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Naturalistic 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
New York Harbor with Ferry boats and Victorian Houses - Holiday Magazine Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Steinberg's Holiday Magazine Cover, " The North of Jersey " is similar to his famous New Yorker Cover "View of the World from 9th Avenue”. ...
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American Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Gouache
" Elégante à la rose et l'éventail " . Carlton Cannes .
By René Gruau
Located in CANNES, FR
René Gruau ( 1909 - 2004 )
" Elégante à la rose et l'éventail "
Dessin original et unique .signé .
Graphite et fusain sur papier .
taille feuille : 83 x50 cm
taille globale : ...
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Art Deco 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
Bernard, Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
English School
Bernard, Self Portrait
1950s
Pencil and sepia chalk on paper
Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (24 x 34.3 cm)
Handmade contemporary frame
This imaginative self-portra...
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1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
ABSTRACT American Woman Abstract Non-objective Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing
Located in New York, NY
ABSTRACT American Woman Abstract Non-objective Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing
Irene Rice Pereira (1902-1971)
Abstract
8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
Watercolor, gouache, and ink on black paper
Signed lower right
Framed by Bark
BIO
rene Pereira was born in 1902 in Chelsea, Massachusetts and grew up in Great Barrington. She was strongly influenced by her mother who was an amateur artist. Irene began art lessons at the age of fifteen; she took a secretarial job because her father had died. She took art classes at the Art Students League in New York City. At the age of twenty-one she married the first of three husbands, Humberto Pereira, whose name she kept.
She traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa and was much inspired by the expansive vistas of the Sahara Desert. Returning to New York, she began incorporating these visions into her work, increasingly experimental in her styles and methods. At first she painted on canvas, then she devised a means of actually incorporating light into her works by painting on layers of glass and mounting the layers together.
In 1942 she married George Brown, an engineer, who helped her experiment with a variety of materials. By the 1950s she became more interested in writing poetry and, divorced from Brown in 1952, she married George Reavey, an Irish Poet...
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Abstract 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Eve Nethercott, "Fall", New England Landscape
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fall (P6.8)
Eve Nethercott
American (1925–2015)
Date: 1951
Watercolor on Paper
Size: 18 x 22 in. (45.72 x 55.88 cm)
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Raining in Formosa on the Tamsui River' by Ran In-Ting (Lan Yinding, 藍蔭鼎)
Located in London, GB
'Raining in Formosa on the Tamsui River' by Taiwanese artist, Ran In-Ting (Lan Yinding, 藍蔭鼎) (1956-59). Although elements of landscapes often appear in paintings produced by various cultures, before the 17th century in the West they were only peripheral. In 5th century China, shan shui or landscape painting developed, expressing harmony and natural beauty. These were among the first paintings to make landscape their subject (ref: 'The Short Story of Art...
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1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Study of a Woman, Abstract Graphite on Paper by Remo Michael Farruggio
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Remo Farruggio, Italian/American (1904 - 1981)
Title: Study of a Woman
Year: 1955
Medium: Graphite on Paper, signed and dated
Size: 24 in. x 1...
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American Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Les Captives by Paul Delvaux - Nudes, Work on paper, Ink
By Paul Delvaux
Located in London, GB
*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE.
Les Captives by Paul Delvaux (1897-1994)
Pen, Indian ink and wash on paper
35 x 43.5 cm (13 ³/₄ x 17 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, P. Delvaux 1955
Inscribed on the reverse
Provenance: Christie's London, 2010
Private collection, London, acquired from the above
Artist biography:
Belgian artist Paul Delvaux was born in Liège in eastern Belgium. Despite Delvaux’s desire to become an artist, his lawyer father encouraged him to train as an architect at the prestigious Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
Thanks to private art tuition undertaken alongside his architectural studies, in 1925 Delvaux gained his first solo exhibition in Brussels. Heavily influenced by contemporary Expressionism and Surrealism, Delvaux was soon drawn to the ‘metaphysical’ paintings of Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. On a chance visit to a museum of medical curiosities...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Pen
Jazz Panel #1 - gouache, 102x186 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
Art Deco 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Italian Village - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Watercolour by Bennett
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Sterndale Bennett Honor 1886-1975
Watercolour artist, born in Watford, she married into the famous family noted for its composers and for its military members. As an army wife she s...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Captivating Mid-Century Watercolor of an Old Chicago House by George Yelich
Located in Chicago, IL
A captivating Mid-Century watercolor of an old Chicago house (with a female figure standing in the window) by Chicago artist George Yelich. The watercolor bears its original frame. ...
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American Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
homme rouge (red man) - gouache on paper, 49x34 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
gouache on paper. Stamped and signed. Not framed.
Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the first school in nice to have exhibited in New York at the G...
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Abstract 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Young Man with Flower
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. He not only defined Pop Art but had an unrivaled influence on artists and image-making.
...
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American Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen
Orientalist - gouache on paper, 65x50 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Gouache on paper. Stamped. Frame dimensions: 63x78 cm
Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the first school in nice to have exhibited in New York at t...
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Abstract 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Japanese culture drawing, Kimono, Japanese dress, traditional clothing.
By Jean Jansem
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Title is Fillette en Kimono, 1954 .Drawing by Jean Jansem, 1954. Included the certificate of authentic by Stephanie's gallery.
Fillette en Kimono" is a captivating black and white drawing that beautifully captures the essence of Japanese culture and traditional clothing...
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Impressionist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Flowers - Drawing by Albert Fernand-Renault - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a drawing realized by Albert Fernand-Renault in the early 20th Century.
Pencil on paper.
Stamped signed.
Good Conditions with diffused foxing.
The artwork is realized ...
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
'Still Life', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Academie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Nu Debout
Located in Paris, FR
Marcel Gromaire,
1892-1971, French
"Nu Debout", 1951
Ink on paper,
Signed and dated lower right
GROMAIRE Marcel: Born July 24, 1892 in Noyelles-sur-Sambre (North), died April 11,...
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper
Interior (Untitled)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
nterior (Untitled), 1958, watercolor and ink on paper mounted on cardboard, signed and dated lower right, 11 ½ x 16 ½ inches (sight); 12 x 18 inches (sheet); inscribed lower left “To...
Category
American Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Seated Nude with Mirror /// Figurative Chair Lady Woman Byron Browne Drawing Art
By Byron Browne
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Byron Browne (American, 1907-1961)
Title: "Seated Nude with Mirror"
*Signed and dated by Browne in pencil lower right
Year: 1957
Medium: Original Graphite Pencil Drawing on u...
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Graphite
Jean Arp (1886-1966) - Constellation, from Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art
By Jean Arp
Located in Varese, IT
silkscreen print, made in 1953 for Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art, Album I
Limited edition of 300 copies ,
paper size: 65 x 50 cm
framed size: 74 x 58 cm
artist's pencil signa...
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1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
C Print
Reclining Nude Woman Covering Her Face
Located in Houston, TX
Reclining nude woman covering her face from the viewer. The work is signed by the artist. The paper is not framed.
Many others are available. Ple...
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Naturalistic 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
The Holy Family - Original Drawing by Giselle Halff - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Holy Family is an Original Drawing in Pastel realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971). Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right margin.
Good conditions.
Giselle Halff (1899-...
Category
Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Leonard Baskin Watercolor Ink Illustration Painting Darkened Man, Nude with Bird
Located in Surfside, FL
Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) ink and gouache drawing on paper titled "Darkened Man", signed lower right, circa 1957.
Provenance: Grace Borgenicht gallery, Jeffrey M. Kaplan collection. bears label verso
Art: 31" H x 22" W; Frame: 36" H x 27" W.
Leonard Baskin was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.
Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960).
The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.
His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums.
The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin.
He was included in the MoMA show, Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism along with Alexander Archipenko, Francis Bacon, Balthus, Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Eugene Berman, Reg Butler, Lovis Corinth, Andre Derain, Otto Dix, Raoul Dufy, Max Ernst, Lucian Freud, George Grosz, Alexei Jawlensky, Oskar Kokoschka, Roberto Matta, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and more. In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover, Edmond Casarella, Vincent Longo, and Nicholas Krushenick were frequent exhibitors. the gallery has represented many well-known artists, including Richard Anuszkiewicz, Robert Blackburn, Lois Dodd, William King, Chaim and Dorothy Koppelman, Roy Lichtenstein, Harold Krisel...
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
“Feet” USA, 1950s, Stamped by the estate of Andy Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. He not only defined Pop Art but had an unparalleled and iconic influence on artistic culture and image-making.
During the 1950's Warhol became established in New York City as an illustrator for many fashion publications, often designing advertisements for shoes. This period informed his continued fascination with representing the body – both nude and adorned. His minimal line drawings...
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen
Figures - Pen on Paper by Mogniat-Duclos Bertrand - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original black and white drawing in pen on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French painter Mogniat-Duclos Bertrand.
In very good conditions.
This artwork is a ver...
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Sunset - Original Watercolor - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
"Sunset" is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by anonymous artist of the XX century. date in 1951, hand-signed not readable.
The state of preservation of the artw...
Category
Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nude - Original Pencil Drawing by Jeanne Daour - 1950s
By Jeanne Daour
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour in 1950s.
The state of preservation is good.
Sheet dimension:32 x 24 cm
The artwork represents a standing n...
Category
Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Un chapeau de Paille d'Italie - Original China Ink Drawing by Flor David - 1951
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 55.2 x 32.3 cm.
Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie is a superb original pencil and ink drawing on ivory glossy paper realized by Flor David in 1951, as it is reported i...
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Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Boat Scene
Located in Miami, FL
Watercolor on heavy paper
work is unframed
Signed by artist in pencil, lower right verso.
Property from the estate of Anne E. C. Porter, with the estate stamp, verso.
...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Women Walking, Abstract Painting on Paper by Omar Rayo
By Omar Rayo
Located in Long Island City, NY
An early painting by Omar Rayo from 1955. An abstract geometric work with multi-colored shapes on a surrealist horizon.
Artist: Omar Rayo, Colombian (1928 - )
Title: Mountains
Year:...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
'Seated Nude' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1950.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Sidney Poitier & Tony Curtis Oscar Winning 1958 film The Defiant Ones Caricature
Located in New York, NY
"The Defiant Ones" Tony Curtis Sidney Poitier Oscar Winning 1958 film Caricature. Two escaped convicts chained together, one white and one black, must l...
Category
Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Board
Young Man with Flower
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. He not only defined Pop Art but had an unrivaled influence on artists and image-making.
In recent years there has been new scholarship and increasing commercial interest in Andy Warhol's early works, material created prior to Pop Art.
During the 1950's Warhol established himself in New York City as a trendy illustrator contributing to a wide number of fashion publications and retailers. His simple line drawings were modern and gentle, with a subtle but unmistakably gay touch. In a short period of time, he created an aesthetic that was both versatile and distinctively his.
Like the consummate artist that he was, Warhol was frequently drawing. The images he created during this era, independent from his fashion commissions, were romantic, hopeful, and unabashedly gay. It is worth emphasizing that Warhol was almost exclusively dedicated to drawing during this period, only creating a handful of paintings - which were intended to be used for window displays.
Taschen, the legendary art book publisher, recently released the book Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire 1950-1962 which celebrates his drawings of the male form from the pre-Pop era.
This portrait is a paradigm of Warhol's mastery of line and visionary framing. A man's profile commands the composition as he gazes forward with his hand raised towards his mouth, holding a delicate flower. With the lightest touch, Warhol masterly portrays this male ideal with the details of his chiseled jawline, softened gaze, and timeless elegance.
Warhol drawings from the 1950s are marked by a gentle whimsy that embodies Warhol's vivid imagination. With fanciful details such as exaggerated lips and eyebrows, "Young Man with Flower...
Category
American Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Upper Tuscany — Mid-century expressionism
By William Thon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Thon, 'Upper Tuscany', a two-sided watercolor, c. 1955. Signed, lower right; titled verso. A fine, expressionist work, with fresh colors, on cream watercolor paper; the image...
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American Modern 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Jazz Panel #2 - gouache, 102x186 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
Art Deco 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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