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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: 1940s
Barcelona Liceo oil on canvas painting spanish urbanscape Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Artist: Albert Junyent Quinquer
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 44 x 53 cm. (approx. 17 x 21 inches). Frame 66x75 cm. (approx. 26 x 30 inches)
Title: Urban Scene in the Rain - L...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Skowhegan-Wesserunsett, signed, framed oil painting by protege of Hans Hofmann
By Paul Resika
Located in New York, NY
Paul Resika
Skowhegan-Wesserunsett, 1976
Oil on board painting: Abstract Expressionist landscape
Signed 'Resika' lower left, also signed, titled and dated on the reverse; verso also ...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Reading Girl, Framed Painting by Irving Amen
By Irving Amen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Irving Amen, American (1918 - 2011)
Title: Reading Girl
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 20 in. (60.96 x 50.8 cm)
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Autumn Landscape — 1940s Post-Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Henri Pierre Fortier, Untitled (Autumn Landscape), gouache, c. 1940s. Signed in ink. Inscribed 'To my Friend CLINTON R. MULFORD'. A fine, painterly watercolor, with rich, layered colors, on heavy dark brown drawing paper with approximately 1/4 inch margins; an unfinished figurative sketch...
Category
1940s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Stonehenge - Mid 20th Century Modern British Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful oil on board depicting Stonehenge, by modern British artist Vivian Bewick.
Excellent quality study if the mysterious Bronze Age landmark. Inscribed with artist details o...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The lively square and Piazza Governo, in Bellinzona
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Frame in molding and beige gray wood
50 x 63 x 6 cm
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century, Back Streets of Paris
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris, France
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed and double sided
watercolour and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
sheet 12.5 x 15.5 inches
Nicely executed study over ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Sitges beach's day Spain oil on canvas painting spanish seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Antonio Sala Herrero (1927-2012) - Sitges - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 38x46 cm.
Frame size 48x56 cm..
Sala Herrero, Antoni, Barcelona- 1926 - 2012
From...
Category
1970s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Barcelona Spain acrylic on canvas painting fauvist
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Emilio Bosch Roger - Barcelona - Acrylic on canvas
Canvas measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Category
1970s Fauvist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Country House & Old Mill by a River in the Woods - Vintage Oil by German Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Country House & Old Mill by a River in the Woods - Large Vintage Oil Painting by German Artist, Karl Heinz Stienen (1918-2002). Graduate of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.
Art mea...
Category
1970s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Lilly Pad Framed Lake Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist landscape painting by Richard M. Gibney (1922 - 2000). Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Image size, 10 by 14 inches.
Category
1970s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Still Life -- Yellow & Blue Floral
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid late 1970's floral still-life featuring a colorful bouquet by Doro (American, 20th Century), 1979. Signed and dated "Doro 1979" lower left. Unframed. Image size, 24"H x 18"L.
Category
1970s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Halleluja, A story
Located in Greenwich, CT
Initially read as archaic and simple, Halleluja is a complex celebratory spring painting full of color, imagination, and humor and combines many elements seen throughout her later ca...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Abstract Work on Paper Color Field Non-Objective European Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
Italian Modern Abstract Work on Paper Color Field Non-Objective European Mid-Century - "Gonage"
Dorazio completed "Gonage" in 1949 when just after the artist had been awarded a stipend by the French government and admission to the Academy Beaux Arts. There he met George Braque who became great friends but also an influence on Dorazio, of which "Gonage" is a living testament.
"Gonage" actual size of the drawing measures 12 x 9 1/2 inches. It is signed on the lower right. The work is affixed to a 19 x 15 inch board which includes the artist's signature and date. There is a torn table on the lower left entitling the piece "Gonage".
Provenance follows this piece as a gift in 1950 to the artist-colleague Luigi Lucioni, who then gifted it in 1955 to his friend, the uncle of the current owner who has owned the work since 1988.
Bio
Born in Italy, Piero Dorazio studied architecture in Rome. At the same time his first abstract works were executed. In 1947 he received a scholarship from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he contacted Modern artists, who lived in Paris. He founded the galleries "Age d'Or" in Florence and Rome to represent avant-garde arts in Italy.
During a one year stay in the USA he got acquainted with leading artists of Abstract Expressionism such as Marc Rothko...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Flood in Venice, Italian Artist, Humorous Depiction of Men & Women
By Louis Bosa
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905-1981)
Flood in Venice, c. 1970
Oil on canvas
Signed Bosa lower left and verso
34 x 50.5 inches
40.5 x 56.5 inches, framed
Exhibited: 148th Annual Exhibiti...
Category
1970s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman with fan mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas board.
Work measurements 35x27 cm.
Frame size 40x32 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Span...
Category
1970s Fauvist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Tranquil Serene American Framed Original Vintage Modernist Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1970s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Un Bouquet de Fleurs' by Anna Costa, French Still Life Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
'Un Bouquet de Fleurs', oil on board, by Anna Costa (circa 1970s). In addition to her many landscapes, Costa painted many still lifes, mostly bouquets of flowers as subject. In this ...
Category
1970s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
" Bluebonnets San Antonio Texas " Texas Ranch Scene Texas wildflowers
By Charles Harvi Altheide
Located in San Antonio, TX
Charles Harvi Altheide
(1874 - 1951)
San Antonio Artist Texas, Kansas, Missouri
Image Size: 11 x 15
Frame Size: 23.5 x 27.5
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dated 1941
"Bluebonnets San Antoni...
Category
1940s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City
Ernest Fiene (1894-1965)
"6th Avenue El"
12 1/4 x 14 1/4
Oil on canvas board, c. 1940s
Signed lower righ...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
XX century Spanish school oil on burlap painting landscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil on burlap.
Oil measures 50x65 cm.
Frameless.
Category
1940s Post-War Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
Abstract Spanish Catalan Oil Painting Josep Guinovart from Joan Prats Gallery
Located in Surfside, FL
Josep Guinovart (1927 –2007) was a Spanish Catalan painter most famous for his informalist or abstract expressionist work.
In 1941, he began to work as a decorator. Three years later, he started his studies at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios de la Llotja (Art School of La Llotja) where he stayed until 1946.
He first exhibited his work in 1948 in Galerías Syla in Barcelona. In 1951, he produced his first engravings entitled 'Homage to Federico García Lorca'. Two years later, he was awarded a grant from the French Institute to study in Paris for nine months. Here he discovered the cubist works of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso and travelled to Belgium, Holland and Germany.
On his return to Barcelona and after a period working as an illustrator and set designer, around 1957 he began moving towards abstract art. His work is highly unconventional and usually on a large scale, using a wide range of materials, three-dimensional objects and organic substances such as eggshell, earth and straw.
In 1962, he illustrated a book of poetry entitled Posies by Joan Salvat-Papasseit for the Ariel Editorial. He won many accolades for his work throughout the 1970s and 80s, including Spain's National Award for Plastic Arts in 1982. In 1994, a museum foundation dedicated to his art was inaugurated in Agramunt, his mother's birthplace to which he always felt a special attachment.
In 2006 he designed the winery Mas Blanch i Jové in La Pobla de Cérvoles (Lleida) and created The Artists' Vineyard, a project intended to mix sculptures and other art works from different artists in the middle of a vineyard. The Artists' Vineyard was inaugurated after his death in 2010 with the unveiling of his sculpture The Countryside Organ: a music instrument, 6 meters height, for the wind to sing the vines. This winery also displays the 10.5 meters work In Vino Veritas...
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Oversized Interior Scene Oil Painting The Dapper Frenchman 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5140 Oversized Antique French oil painting depicting a Frenchman in an interior scene
Framed
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Italian Sunset Florence Cityscape Large Framed Ponte Trinita Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large and very impressive sunset view of Florence Italy. Great colors and perspective in this piece. Signed illegibly on back and located as the "Ponte Santa Trinita". Framed in a...
Category
1940s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn Forest , 1970's Earth-tone Vertical Landscape Watercolor with Trees
By Kay Swanson
Located in Soquel, CA
Autumn Forest , 1970's Earth-tone Vertical Landscape Watercolor with Trees
Serene vertical landscape by Kay Swanson (American, 20th Century). This vintage 1970s watercolor depicts a lovely autumn forest full of tall trees depicted in a range of subtle earth-tones and fine detail.
Signed "Kay Swanson" in the lower right corner.
Presented in a double mat of cream and charcoal with a modern gold frame and glass.
Tag on verso with artist information.
Image size: 22.5"H x 15"W
Kay Swanson (American, 20th Century) is a watercolor artist from Park Ridge...
Category
1970s Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Antique Oil Painting "Old South During Civil War Couple " By HD Becker 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1663 Over sized oil painting pf a parting couple during the Civil War
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Adhesive, Oil
Antique American Modernist Framed Flower Still Life interior Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“The Pantheon, Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
Structure: The Panthéon, a neoclassical monument, dominates the scene.
Setting: A Parisian street with people and buildings creates a city atmosphere. The artwork is an oil paintin...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
”View of Sacre Coeur, Montmartre”
Located in Southampton, NY
Miniature oil on board original painting of a view of Sacre Coeur from the street in Montmartre, Paris. France. Circa 1975. Signed illegibly lower left. Condition is excellent. O...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Intermission (Ballerina) /// Impressionism Degas French Ballet Renoir Figurative
By Pal Fried
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pál Fried (Hungarian, 1893-1976)
Title: "Intermission (Ballerina)"
*Signed by Fried lower left
Circa: 1940
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Framing: Recently framed in a gold Louis XV style frame
Framed size: 39" x 33"
Canvas size: 30" x 24"
Condition: In excellent condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Port Orange, FL; acquired from Herbert Arnot Gallery, New York, NY in the early 1970's. Titled by Fried on verso. Herbert Arnot Gallery's dealer reference number, "D1942E", and artist's copyright stamp in center on verso.
Biography:
Pál Fried was born in Budapest in 1893. He received his art education at the Académie hongroise des arts (Hungarian Academy of Arts) where he was a pupil of Hugo Pohl who became one of his major influences. While under Pohl's direction, he executed many portraits of female nudes and Orientalist works. Later he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he was the pupil of Claude Monet and Lucien Simone. In Paris, he was greatly influenced by the French Impressionists, especially Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. This inspired him to prepare many paintings of ballerinas...
Category
1940s Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Abstract Brown and Red Surface - Acrylic on Canvas by Genny Puccini - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract brown and red surface is a contemporary artwork realized by Genny Puccini in 1972.
Mixed colored acrylic painting on canvas.
Hand signed and dated on the back.
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century City Architectural Winter Scene
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: City Winter Scene
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
watercolour and gouache painting with charcoal on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet: 9.75 x 13.5 inches
Intriguing painting by the...
Category
1940s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Charcoal
Antique American School Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school abstract expressionist painting. Oil on board. Signed. In excellent original condition. Nicely framed in a period wood molding. Excellent condition, read...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spanish village landscape Spain oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Freixas Cortés (1917-1984) - Spanish village landscape - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 65x54 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Freixas Cortés (1917-1984)
Jordi...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Fish, Dove and Musical Instrument', Italian School (circa 1940s)
Located in London, GB
'Fish, Dove and Musical Instrument', gouache on paper, from the Italian School of artists (circa 1940s). Surely this very attractive piece was inspired by Georges Braque (1882-1963) ...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Mexican Mountains, " Hendrik Glintenkamp, Modernist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Hendrik (Henry) J Glintenkamp (1887 - 1946)
Mexican Mountains, 1940
Oil on canvas
32 x 26 inches
Signed lower left; signed and dated on the reverse
T...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Harlequin”
By Bonnie Whittingham
Located in Southampton, NY
Signed lower right
Circa 1970
Overall in silver edge floater frame 21 x 31.5 inches
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman and Child in the Woods - Midcentury Abstracted Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Woman and Child in the Woods - Midcentury Abstracted Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Dramatic abstracted painting of a woman holding a child in the woods by Maley (20th Century). This pi...
Category
1970s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Reclining Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Portrait of a Nude Lady reclining
French School, circa 1970's
indistinctly signed
oil painting on card, unframed
size: 25 x 18 inches
condition: overall very good,...
Category
1970s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Tall Ship Undersail Seascape 1940's
By J. Niannino
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-2758a Circa 1940's oil seascape on wood plaque,signed lower right by J.Niannino
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ballerina Silhoutte Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6029 Ballerina silhouette oil painting in white on a black backround
Signed verso Robert Yarmola
Framed
Image 13.5x10.5"
Category
1970s Paintings
Materials
Oil
F.N. Souza Abstract Painting, Town Scene, 49"W
By F.N. Souza
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Francis Newton Souza (Indian, 1924-2002)
Marking(s); notes: signed; 1975
Materials: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions (H, W, D): 30"h, 49.75"w image; 35.5"h...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
'Cock Fight in Cuba' original Regionalist painting signed by John Steuart Curry
Located in Milwaukee, WI
John Steuart Curry
"Cockfight in Cuba," 1946
oil on canvas
Image: 38.25 x 46.25 in
Frame: 43.75 x 51.5 in
Signed on reverse with initials JSC on lower right stretcher bar
John Steu...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life (Untitled)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Still Life (Untitled), c. 1940/50s, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches, identified by label verso
Jeanette Maxfield Lewis was a California-based landscape painter and etcher. Born in Oa...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Natura Morta con frutta" Olio cm 80 x 70 1974
Located in Torino, IT
Natura morta,Frutta,Colori puri, Limon,i Uva
Maya KOPITZEVA (Gagra, Georgia 1924 – San Pietroburgo 2005)
Maya Kuzminichna Kopitzeva nasce nel 1924 in Georgia, ma già l’anno success...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer in Town
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Summer in Town, 1943, oil on board, signed and dated lower right, 13 ¾ x 22 inches, titled and dated verso, exhibited: 1) 139th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, ...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Toucan" Edward Zutrau, 1949 Abstracted Bird by Abstract Expressionist Artist
Located in New York, NY
Edward Zutrau
Toucan, 7/29/1949
Dated on verso
Oil on linen
30 x 23 inches
Edward Zutrau (1922–1993) was an American painter whose career spanned from the 1940s through the early 1...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Arroyo Seco, New Mexico" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Southwest Oil Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Arroyo Seco, New Mexico
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
28 x 42 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign a...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Lake in the Rockies and Hunter - Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Blue Lake in the Rockies and Hunter - Oil on Linen
Cascades and snow capped mountains over look a blue lake with a successful hunter carrying his trophy deer by Vern Byers (American...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Post Impressionist Portrait of a Woman - British 40's art portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This striking British Post Impressionist portrait oil painting is by noted Manchester artist Harry Rutherford. Painted circa 1940, the portrait is of a dark haired young woman in a f...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gray day seaport of Barcelona Spain oil on canvas painting seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Antonio Sala Herrero (1927-2012) - Gray Day Barcelona Port - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 33x41 cm.
Frame measures 52x60 cm.
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Champ - modern, contemporary, minimalist, abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This colorful abstract acrylic painting is by Canadian artist Milly Ristvedt.
Inspired by modernist mentors, in the 1970s Milly Ristvedt used simple formats on raw canvas to displa...
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
New Mexico Landscape, Large Abstract Landscape Oil Painting by Suzanne Martyl
Located in Long Island City, NY
Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf Martyl was active/lived in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas. Suzanne Martyl is known for abstract western landscape, magazine cover illustration, murals, botanics. Illustrator of the Doomsday Clock.
Martyl exhibited infrequently but five one-man shows in Saint Louis since 1936 kept her in the public. She was also represented in many of the National exhibitions. In 1940 she was awarded the first prize in the Midwestern Show at the Kansas City Art Institute and won the hundred dollar purchase prize at the Y.M.H.A., Saint Louis. The following year she was awarded first prize in the annual exhibition of Missouri artists at the Saint Louis City...
Category
1970s Abstract Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl - Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on board realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1976.
Hand signed and dated lower left
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist 92x72 cm.
Very good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini...
Category
1970s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1940s Western Mountain Landscape Oil Painting – Snowy Peaks, American West
By Turner Messick
Located in Denver, CO
This original oil painting by Turner B. Messick (1878–1952) captures a serene Western mountain landscape, likely set in California or Colora...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique European Mother and Children Family Oil Painting 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3086 oil on canvas set in a vintage gilt wood frame
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of an English Bagger in a Landscape.
By M.Naplee
Located in Woodbury, CT
Portrait of an English Bagger in an extensive landscape.
Very Pretty English Otter, in an extensive landscape, painted circa 1970.
The painting is an amazing display of an artist, ...
Category
1970s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Important Early American School Abstract Geometric Precisionist Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Step into the enigmatic world of abstract art with this captivating original oil painting from 1945. This masterpiece, signed with a mysterious monogram by an unknown artist, embodie...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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