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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1980s
Olot Spain Spanish landscape oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Technical Details
Artist: Rosendo González Carbonell
Title: "Montaña Sta. Magdalena" (as inscribed on the reverse)
Year: 1983 (as noted on the reverse)
Technique: Oil on board
Dimen...
Category
1980s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Ralph Love Oil on Canvas of the Grand Canyon - After the Rain
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Oil Painting on canvas by California artist Ralph Love created 1985.
Signed and dated lower left. Oil on Canvas in excellent condition and nicely framed.
Beautiful rendition of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Measures 24 x 36 inches.
Signed, dated and titled on the verso "After the Rain." Frame size: 34 x 46.
Ralph Love was born in Los Angeles, California in 1907. He died in 1992 in Escondido, California. For many years, Ralph Love taught as well as painted. On rainy days, his class would meet in the old Art Shack in Temecula, California, which Love opened in the mid-fifties. It was from this Art Shack that his work received national recognition.
Ralph Love was perhaps most well-known for painting the Grand Canyon and California landscapes. "Arizona Life" (magazine) featured his work on the cover and on the inside spread, showing several of his original oils. Senator Barry Goldwater owned several of Love's Grand Canyon paintings, and a letter from him stated,"...Love is the finest living American artist I know, and I could look at his work all day long."
Ralph Love paintings...
Category
1980s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sur la route de Gémenos au col de l’Espigoulier" - Provence, France
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
"Sur la route de Gémenos au col de l’Espigoulier" - Provence, Bouches du Rhône, France
"On the road from Gémenos to the Espigoulier pass" - Provence, Bouches du Rhône, France
Oil on ...
Category
1980s French School Paintings
Materials
Oil
1986 Intimate Couple Portrait by Mystery Artist
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Artist
Tennessee, 9/12/86
Oil on canvas
34 x 43 3/4 x 1 in.
Titled and inscribed upper left
Category
1980s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Colorful abstract dog
Located in Belgrade, MT
This piece is from my priate collection created by Jean Remlinger who has a figurative style reminiscent of the works of Francis Bacon. It is probably an acrylic gouache , as a print...
Category
1950s Post-War Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Lithograph
Sicilian Farmhouse
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Sicilian Farmhouse', oil on canvas, by Yves Brayer (circa 1950s). A dedicated lover of Mediterranean countries and their varied landscapes, this charming and diminutive work by the ...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dawn Seascape Painting with Pink Sky and Waves by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Dawn Seascape Painting with Pink Sky and Waves by 20th Century British Artist, Norman Scott
Art measures 16 x 12 inches
Frame measures 18 x 14 inches
Vintage Original Oil on Boar...
Category
1980s English School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Rene Ricard Red Blue Nasty, 1989 poetry painting Keith Haring reference
By Rene Ricard
Located in New York, NY
Frustration is center stage, written in cursive: "It's one of those days nothing works out right -- bump into any sharp corner – can’t tell flesh from white or brown from…or green fr...
Category
1980s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Screen
Antique Winding Road Landscape Oil Painting 1957
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3925 Oil on artist board landscape painting
Image size 15.5x19.5"
Set in a period oak frame
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
(Hudson River Landscape) Untitled, 1985, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: (Hudson River Landscape) Untitled
Year: 1985
Medium: Acrylic on illustration board
Size: 12.5 x 10 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of ...
Category
1980s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board
Cool Dog
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5079 Cool Dog screened on canvas with hand applied impasto colorful oil
Category
1980s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Screen
Dominique PERY, Marianne, Oil on canvas 1987
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Dominique PERY, France, 1987. Nude named "Marianne". 73x60 cm - 28.75x23.6 in. 20F Format. Signed "D.Péry" lower right (see photo). Countersigned twice and dated 198...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Parisian Park Scene Dappled Light Figures Statue French Impressionist Signed Oil
By Claude Marin
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figures in the Park
by Claude Marin (French 1914-2001)
signed and dated 88
oil on artist card stuck on board, unframed
board: 7.5 x 9.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, Paris, ...
Category
1980s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Bathing by the River', Colorado Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Inscribed lower right, 'Len Chmiel' (American, born 1942) and painted circa 1980.
Born in Chicago, Chmiel moved to California at the age of eight. He firs...
Category
1980s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ballerina
Located in Riga, LV
Laimonis Bubieris (1934-2012)
Ballerina, canvas/oil, 85x77 cm
Category
1980s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still life with a yellow tablecloth, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Pierre Coquet - Still life with a yellow tablecloth
Reference number F380
The painting is not framed but it could be with a natural oak floated or black ...
Category
1980s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Afternoon Pastorale, Post-Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Gilbert Boyd
Located in Long Island City, NY
Afternoon Pastorale
Gilbert Boyd, Irish/American (1896–1981)
Date: circa 1950
Oil on Board, signed
Size: 23.5 x 29.5 in. (59.69 x 74.93 cm)
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Children Fishing by a River with Wild Flowers & Farmhouse in English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Children Fishing by a Riverside with Wild Flowers & Farmhouse in the English Countryside by British Artist, Les Parson
Art measures 20 x 16 inches
Frame me...
Category
1980s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Joan Kahn Indigo Denim Blue Color Abstract Expressionist Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil paint on heavy paper. (this might possibly be acrylic paint)
This does not appear to be signed.
Joan Kahn (USA 1953-) grew up in New York City; Princeton, New Jersey; and Vermont; in an environment that patronized the arts. At home her father, a professor, and mother, a state economist and homemaker, collected nineteenth and twentieth century drawings and prints, Middle eastern rugs, and ceramics, pewter, and old tools. Her grandfather, Max Westfield, was an academically trained portrait painter and her great uncle was a well-known gallery owner and art dealer in pre-World War II Germany. One of the influential experiences of Joan’s youth was visiting her grandfather in his studio in Tennessee where the family had first immigrated.
Growing up near New York, and spending a year in Paris during high school, provided formative visits to museums and galleries. Joan was academically talented in grade and high school, but after her father’s death during her first years at university she found herself concentrating on studio and history of art. It was a subject above others absorbed and concentrated her focus.
Influential in Joan’s development and later work are the historic movements of the Bauhaus and Modernist design and architecture, geometric art and design of diverse cultures, Color Field Painting. Many artists have had a impact on her work, such as Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, Sonia Delaunay, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Antoni Tapies, David Smith, John McLaughlin, Tony Smith, Louise Nevelson, Robert Mangold, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Valerie Jaudon, Jasper Johns, James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Vija Celmins, Caio Fonseca, Peter Halley, Ed Moses, Juan Usle, and Nancy Haynes...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Picnic Shade
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Antique French Avante Garde Abstract Expressionist Surreal Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and finely painted French modernist abstract painting by Jacques Doucet (1924 - 1994) . Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Artist Bio:
Jacques Doucet's work is inextricably bo...
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marigold Joy
Located in Toronto, Ontario
It is hard to reconcile Gershon Iskowitz's (1921-1988) aesthetic with his personal history.
Born to a religious family in Poland, Iskowitz was allowed to leave Yeshiva (Jewish relig...
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Japanese Bamboo India Ink Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5198 Japanese India ink Bamboo painting
Image size 12x15"
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Garden Of Eden Landscape With Flowers
By Ivan Rabuzin
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Garden Of Eden Landscape with Flowers
Unsigned, oil on canvas 21"x26 in Gold Leaf Frame
Ivan Rabuzin was born in Novi Marof in 1921 as the sixth...
Category
1980s Pointillist Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Framed Geometric Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H.
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Original Abstract Colorful Oil Painting Israeli Kibbutz Landscape Shemi
By Calman Shemi
Located in Surfside, FL
Life in Nature
Canvas measures 31.5 X 39.5
(I believe this is oil it might also be acrylic.)
Hand signed recto and signed and titled verso.
Calman Shemi, sculptor and painter, was ...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Tennis
Located in New York, NY
Le Tennis is a beautiful large painting by the artist and painted painted in 1981. The artist has one of the paintings in his own collection and was happy to hear when we acquired t...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Soup Box - Onion (unique painting on canvas)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique acrylic painting and silkscreen on canvas. Hand signed and dated by Andy Warhol on verso. Martin Lawrence provenance label on verso. Canvas size 20 x 20 inches.
The artwor...
Category
1980s Pop Art Paintings
Materials
Screen, Canvas, Acrylic
Palamos Spain Costa Brava oil on canvas painting spanish seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Artist: Miguel Ribera Roca (1924-?)
Title: Cala S'Alguer, Palamós
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions without frame: 18.1 x 15 inches
Dimensions with frame: 23.2 x 20.1 inches
Period...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tranquil Harbor Boats Moored Calm 20th Century French Impressionist Signed Oil
By Claude Marin
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Moored Boats
by Claude Marin (French 1914-2001)
signed and dated 85
oil on artist card stuck on board, unframed
board: 7.75 x 9.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, Paris, France...
Category
1980s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Russian Cubist Portrait of a Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful cubist portrait of a woman by unknown Russian artist. Oil on canvas measures 17 x 25 inches. Signed and dated lower right. Label fragments affixed on verso.
Category
1980s Cubist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Palm Springs Oil Landscape Painting
By Alice Spoonemore
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Palm Springs Desert and Mountains Landscape Painting
Vibrant Palm Springs, California desert landscape by Alice Spoonemore (American, 1888-1956), circa 1950. Iconic red...
Category
1950s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
House in Snow (Winter Landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Nicholas Maravell.
House in Snow, 1989.
Ink and watercolor on paper, 10.5 x 13.75 inches; 18 x 21.25 inches framed.
Signed with artist monogram lower right. Gallery label affixe...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Sycamores" Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Sycamores" Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Bold and expressive composition by Ellen Marie Jones (American, b. 1961). Several botanical shapes resembling tree...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Glue, Acrylic
Signed Surreal Southwest Modernist Desert Cactus Original Vintage Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist surreal landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Unframed. Image size, 28"L x 20"H.
Category
1950s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Birch" Oil cm. 35 x 48 1984 Snow, Forest, white
Located in Torino, IT
Birch,Snow, Forest, white, Art, shipping free
Boris Lavrenko (Rostov, 1920 – St. Petersburg, 2001)
Works by Boris Lavrenko can be found in various private collections in Europe, ...
Category
1980s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The King, abstract expressionist painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
The King of Diamonds Accepts Challenges, 1982
acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
signed lower right, signed and titled verso
47.5 x 47.5 in...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Nature morte à la théière
Located in Ottikon, CH
TitelNature morte à la théière (FOND VERT)
TechnikOil on canvas
Jahr1957
Grösse37cm × 105cm (14.6" × 41.3")
SignaturSigned lower right "G Braque"
Provenance
Christie's London, 5.Fe...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern Figural Beach Scene
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4061 Modern beach scene on artist board
Image size 7.75x9.5"
Category
1980s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Saturn Over Titan Tower, UT, by Astronomical Artist Joe Bergeron
Located in New York, NY
Joe Bergeron (American)
Saturn From Titan, 1980
Oil on canvas
Framed: 40 x 30 x 1 1/2 in.
Signed lower right: Bergeron 80
Inscribed verso
Joe Bergeron grew up in the twin hamlets of Endicott and Endwell in upstate New York. As a boy he taught himself the constellations using a cardboard star wheel, watching in awe as stars he had never before identified rose according to prediction. Later he began a more thorough examination of the heavens using various small telescopes. A devoted hiker, Joe prowled his surroundings at all hours of the day and night, often discovering semi-abandoned sites of human activity which his imagination invested with the mystery of ancient ruins.
Joe was known as a "class artist" in high school, mostly by virtue of superhero drawings done in ballpoint pen. His early efforts at painting were clumsy at best and disastrous at worst, leading him to be intimidated by the brush. Finally, called upon to produce planetarium shows during a summer job, Joe taught himself to paint so he could create visuals for the shows. Soon he was selling paintings and drawings at science fiction art...
Category
1980s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Les Voiles
Located in Greenwich, CT
Jacques Bouyssou, French, 1926-1997
“Les Voiles ”
Oil on canvas
5 by 6 ½ in. sight & 11 by 10 ½ in. framed
signed lower left – also labeled on verso
a gem of a small post-im...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Modernist Impressionist Oil Painting Paris Cityscape Landscape Scene
Located in Portland, OR
A very attractive French Impressionist Modernist oil painting, a Paris cityscape landscape, by Pierre Moberg (1911-2002), the painting signed & dated 1958.
This very attractive paint...
Category
1950s French School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tarragona garden Spain oil on canvas painting spanish urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil measures 73x92 cm.
Frameless.
Francisco Carbonell Massabe (1928)
Francisco Carbonell Massabe was a Catalan painter with an impressionist spirit. It was in La Lonja and in Bella...
Category
1980s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Street Scene, Impressionist Oil Painting by Henri Renard
By Henri Renard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Henri Renard, French (1920 - )
Title: French Street Scene
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Image Size: 24 x 36 in. (60.96 x 91.44 cm)
Frame Size: 31.5 x 44...
Category
1950s Fauvist Paintings
Materials
Oil
ORIGINAL Mexican MIXED MEDIA Painting MUJER ROJO SENTADAS
Located in New York, NY
The Costa Rican artist Francisco Zuniga (1912-1998) took, for a short while, drawing lessons at the Art School of San Jos, before he worked from 1928 to 1934 in his father's business...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"No. 104_A" French Oil and Mixed Media Textured Abstract Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Pierre Marie Brisson is a French painter known for his Iconographic style. His work appropriates the forms, concepts, and imagery of art history. Spanning from prehistoric art to Roc...
Category
1980s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Oil
The Demagogue or Tale in a Tub
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Demagogue or Tale in a Tub, 1952, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, signed, titled, and dated verso, presented in a newer frame
The Demagogue is an iconic Bendor Mark painting fro...
Category
1950s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life With Pink Flowers
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Still Life Pink Flowers In A Vase
Artist signed lower right corner and verso, canvas size 30x24, framed.
Charlotte Igoe (Amar) was a self thought artist.
Charlotte lived in London, England and had her apartment near Marble Arch and Park Lane, she was the first model in London to introduce photographic modeling, which was just starting in New York for magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Town and Country, Mayfair, etc. Charlotte was President and owner of the Fort William Times Journal and also President and owner of the James Murphy Coal and Oil Company. Charlotte financed and renovated the entire building of the Thunder Bay Historical Museum, she also financed and renovated the new library of the museum in honor of James Murphy her father-in-law, a well know pioneer at the Lakehead. Charlotte was well known at the Lakehead for her many charitable works, among them: Saint Joseph’s Orphanage, The Thunder Bay Historical Museum, McKellar Hospital, Port Arthur General Hospital, Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, and the Frank Murphy Recreational Centre….St. Patrick’s Cathedral has a beautiful, large stained glass window dedicated in loving memory of Frank X. Murphy and his family. In the early 1950’s, Charlotte was instrumental in having cerebral palsy children recognized and started a school for them which was in the Baptist Church at Brodie and Donald Streets...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Cubist Signed Framed Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 12H by 10L.
Category
1950s Cubist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Green Forest Stream Landscape
By Jules Jaques
Located in Soquel, CA
Verdant oil landscape with textural impasto of a calm stream winding through the trees of a lush, green forest, by San Jose, CA artist Jules Jacques (American, 20th Century). Signed "Jaques" on verso on frame. Displayed in a rustic green wood frame.
Jules Jaques painted ocean and forest...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Landscape. Oil on canvas by Tetsuo Mizu (1987) (abstract geometric painting)
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Tetsuo Mizu (1944)
Landscape
Executed in 1987
Oil on canvas
80.3 x 100 cm (39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in)
Dated and Signed “1987 MIZU” (lower left)
Signed, dated, an...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spanish school (XX) women on the beach oil on canvas painting seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil measures 27x22 cm.
Frame measures 38x33 cm.
Signed Domenech.
Category
1980s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rota, Spanish Landscape -- Pobre Casa Cadiz
By John Sackas
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful Spanish landscape of a humble farm in Rota, Cadiz, Spain with horses, a cow with two herons, one of which is on cow's back by San Francisco artist John Sackas (American, 1910-2004), circa 1950s. Signed lower Left "Sackas" and verso Rota
Farm House Cadiz" "John Sackas" . Verso has location, attribution and full artist's biography. Presented in gilt-toned carved wood frame. Image size: 14"H x 18"W.
Born in New Jersey on May 22, 1910. John Sackas studied at the San Francisco Art Institute (1934), Chouinard Art School in Los Angeles, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and California School of Fine Arts, Jerry...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Illustration Board
Looking Toward Oyster Pond, Montauk, Ian Hornak
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Looking Toward Oyster Pond, Montauk
Year: 1983-2001
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 42 x 60 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed rect...
Category
1980s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lush Tree Lined Towpath on the River Lagan in Northern Ireland by Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Lush Tree Lined Towpath on the River Lagan in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Irish Artist, Jim Matthews
Art measures 30 x 20 inches
Frame measures 36 x 26 inches
This unique orig...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Large Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Signed Verso.
Harriet was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and lived with her husband in Park Slope for over 35 years.
She attended the Brooklyn Museum Scho...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Colorful Bird Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3623 Oil on artist board set in a vintage frame
Image size 7x10"
Category
1980s Paintings
Materials
Oil
National Day : Sailors having Fun - Tall Original Oil Painting, Signed
By Michel-Marie Poulain
Located in Paris, IDF
Michel Marie POULAIN
French National Day : Sailors having Fun
Original oil on canvas
Handsigned in the lower left corner
On canvas 55 x 65 cm (c. 22 x 26 inch)
Presented in golden w...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
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