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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1920s
This Week's Listings Only
Polish French Ecole de Paris Mid Century Modernist Oil Painting Clown Juggler
By Abram Krol
Located in Surfside, FL
Abram Abraham Krol was born January 22, 1919, in Pabianice (Lodz), Poland.
Abram Krol went to France in 1938 to study civil engineering at the Universit...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Framed Modern Abstract Expressionist NYC Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Green" Sewell Sillman, Op Art Abstract Blue And Green Geometric Composition
Located in New York, NY
Sewell Sillman
Green, circa 1958
Acrylic on masonite
21.5 x 28 inches
Upon attending Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina, Sewell Sillman’s life was arguably altered...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Meditation on African Sculpture, mid-century figural abstract painting
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in Beachwood, OH
Beni E. Kosh/Charles Elmer Harris (American, 1917-1993)
Meditation on African Sculpture, 1957
Oil on found wood panel
Signed and dated lower left
20 x 15 inches
Charles Elmer Harris...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract - Scottish 1950's Abstract art oil painting
By Alexander McNeish
Located in London, GB
This superb Scottish Abstract oil painting is by noted sixties Edinburgh artist Alexander McNeish. An early work, painted circa 1957 when McNeish was just 25 years old, it demonstrat...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Large Oil Painting
By Adele Becker
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker. Framed. Oil on canvas.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Mid Century Oil
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Moonlit Landscape, signed "Douvos"
Located in New Orleans, LA
Abstract Moonlit Landscape, signed and dated "Douvos"
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition
Located in PARIS, FR
Work from the second school of Paris.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Indonesian Nude Woman Religous Original Framed Vintage Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage Indonesian modernist nude oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Female Artist Abstract Expressionist Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist abstract painting by Elsie Orfuss (Born 1913). Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Nicely framed.
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Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Female Modernist Abstract Nature Painting Albright Knox Provenance
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting by Jane Lapey. Oil on canvas. Exhibition label verso. Framed. Image size, 28L x 22H.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape Morris Shulman Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape abstract painting. Oil on board, circa 1952. Signed. Image size, 21.5"L x 7.5"H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Female Modernist Precisionist Street Scene Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene oil painting by Elaine Wesley (1923 - 2007). Oil on board. Estate stamped verso.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape Morris Shulman Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract Maine landscape painting. Watercolor and gouache on paper, circa 1960. Signed on verso. Image size, 30...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Naturescape Rare Oil Painting
By Adele Becker
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Thelo #8" Diana Kurz, circa 1959 Abstract Expressionist Large Oil Painting
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Thelo #8, circa 1959
Signed lower left
Signature and address on verso
Oil on canvas
47 x 41 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, ...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed R Kelly Listed American Modernist Interior Pink Couch Abstract Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H. Great color and a nice period modern wood frame. Ready to hang.
Category
1950s Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original, highly textured oil on canvas painting by Jacques Gandon. Signed lower right and dated 1953. The painting has the visual appearance of a woven fabric abstract. Can be hung horizontally or vertically. Condition is very good, no issues. Original artist pine strip frame. Frame has wear consistent with its age. Overall framed measurements are 24.5 by 37 inches. Vintage Jonathan Adler...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1970s Abstract Figurative Oil Painting – Modernist City Scene With Couple
Located in Denver, CO
Artist: George Cecil Carter (1908–1993)
Medium: Oil on board
Size: Image: 16 ⅞ x 9 ⅞ in Framed: 20 ⅝ x 13 ½ x 1 ⅞ in
Style: Mid-Century Modern, Abstract Figurative
This striking 1950s oil painting by celebrated Colorado abstract expressionist George Cecil Carter presents a modernist portrayal of a couple, believed to depict Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe. Rendered in bold brushstrokes and a rich color palette, the piece showcases Carter’s unique ability to merge abstraction with figurative expression, creating a sense of movement and emotion.
Housed in a custom frame, this original mid-century artwork is a must-have for collectors of modernist and abstract figurative art.
Provenance:
From a private collection in Denver, Colorado.
About the Artist – George Cecil Carter
Born in Oklahoma in 1908, Carter became a leading figure in Colorado’s abstract expressionist movement, working alongside artists like Al Wynne, Mary Chenoweth...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Roofs of Ravello', Mid-Century Abstract, Harvard Fogg Museum, SFAA, Carmel, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'M. W.' for Margaret Wentworth (American, 1914-1999) and dated 1959.
Exhibited: Feingarten Galleries, Carmel, California, 1960, and titled on label, verso, 'Ro...
Category
1950s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Postcard, Pen
Antique American Modernist New England Maine Coastal Seascape Beach Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting of coastal New England. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century abstract geometric oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
Untitled, c. 1950
Oil on paper
Signed lower right
12.5 x 19 inc...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Freighter" Mid Century Oil Painting on Canvas Abstract Marina with Boats
Located in New York, NY
An abstract Mid Century Marina scene with Boats, presenting a vivid use of paint and complex lines and color placement. A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1955 with sailboat...
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Without Beginning Without End, Two-Sided Cubist Painting by William Littlefield
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Littlefield, American (1902 - 1969)
Title: Still Life and Abstract
Year: 1950 & 1954
Medium: Double-Sided Oil on Masonite, signed and dated both sides
Size: 22 x 28 i...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
By the Dawn's Early Light, mid-century abstract black, red, yellow oil painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Charles Green Shaw (American, 1892-1974)
By the Dawn's Early Light, 1955
Oil on masonite
Signed lower left, dated and titled verso
35.5 x 23.75 inches
38 x 26.25 inches, framed
Provenance: The estate of the artist to Charles H. Carpenter
Charles Green Shaw, born into a wealthy New York family, began painting when he was in his mid-thirties. A 1914 graduate of Yale, Shaw also completed a year of architectural studies at Columbia University. During the 1920s Shaw enjoyed a successful career as a freelance writer for The New Yorker, Smart Set and Vanity Fair, chronicling the life of the theater and café society. In addition to penning insightful articles, Shaw was a poet, novelist and journalist. In 1927 he began to take a serious interest in art and attended Thomas Hart Benton's class at the Art Students League briefly in New York. He also studied privately with George Luks, who became a good friend. Once he had dedicated himself to non-traditional painting, Shaw's writing ability made him a potent defender of abstract art.
After initial study with Benton and Luks, Shaw continued his artistic education in Paris by visiting numerous museums and galleries. From 1930 to 1932 Shaw's paintings evolved from a style imitative of Cubism to one directly inspired by it, though simplified and more purely geometric. Returning to the United States in 1933, Shaw began a series of abstracted cityscapes of skyscrapers he called Manhattan Motifs which evolved into his most famous works, the shaped canvases he called Plastic Polygons.
The 1930s were productive years for Shaw. He showed his paintings in numerous group exhibitions, both in New York and abroad, and was also given several one-man exhibitions. Shaw had his first one-man exhibition at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery in New York in 1934, which included 25 Manhattan Motif paintings and 8 abstract works. In the spring of 1935 Shaw was introduced to Albert Gallatin and George L.K. Morris. Gallatin was so impressed with Shaw's work, he broke a policy against solo exhibitions at his museum, the Gallery of Living Art, and offered Shaw an exhibition there. In the summer of 1935 Shaw traveled to Paris with Gallatin and Morris who provided introductions to many great painters. Shaw regularly spent time with John Ferren and Jean Hélion. The following year Gallatin organized an exhibition called Five Contemporary American Concretionists at the Reinhardt Gallery that included Shaw, Ferren, and Morris, Alexander Calder, and Charles Biederman...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Flower Still Life Outsider Art Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 16L x 11H. Signed.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Silver & Earthtone Abstract Expressionist - Corban Lepell
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century modernist abstract combining earth-tones and subtlest metallic silver background by Corban LePell (American, b. 1933), 1955. Signed ...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker
(1929-2021). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape Oil Painting
By Adele Becker
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Framed Original Vintage Abstract Nude Woman Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American exhibited cubist nude portrait oil painting. Oil and casein on board. Framed. Signed. Exhibition label verso.
Category
1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Exhibited Abstract Expressionist Framed Modernist Street Scene Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract expressionist oil painting by Erwin Wending (1914 - 1993). Great color and composition. Framed. Signed. Exhibition and museum labels verso.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large New York School Abstract Expressionist Colorful Mixed Media Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Taro Yamamoto, (American, 1919-1994)
"La Gatta Miso"
Oil or Acrylic/Canvas
32" x 50"
Hand signed lower right, dated 1990,
Titled on the stretcher verso, unframed.
Taro Yamamoto (1919 – 1994) belonged to the New York School Abstract...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Mid Century Cyan Abstract
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic mid century cyan abstract by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999). Signed "Erle Loran" and dated "51" lower right. Presented in silver toned metal frame with mat sans glass. Image size: 21.75"H x 15"W. Framed size: 25"H x 18"W.
Erle Loran was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art under the direction of Cameron Booth...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Vintage American School Abstract Expressionist Large Neutral Tone Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition 14 - Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 14 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera and in very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 47...
Category
1920s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
'Fireflies', Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Art Association, Seattle
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, 'Laisner' for George Laisner (American, 1914-1984), titled, verso, 'Fireflies', and painted circa 1955.
Born in Czechoslovakia, Laisner first studied at the Uni...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Encaustic, Board
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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist New York City Brooklyn Bridge Scene Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 24L x 18H.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Cubist Painting Architectural Composition
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage abstract composition by John W. Hatch (1919 - 1998, American). Exhibited work with a tag lower left. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Signed. Framed.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Mid Century Modern Boats and Bridge, Abstracted Maritime Landscape Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Boats and Bridge, Abstracted Maritime Landscape Painting
Wonderful mid-century modern abstracted maritime seascape by listed San...
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Nell Sinton Abstract Expressionist Landscape San Francisco California Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Eleanor Nell Sinton
Roots and Stems 1950,
Oil on canvas,
Signed lower right N. Sinton,
Provenance: Braunstein Quay Gallery (bears label verso)
Framed: 24.5 X 20.5 sight 21 X 17 inches.
Nell (Eleanor) Sinton (1910-1997) was a painter, art collector and educator in San Francisco, California
Nell Sinton began painting in the 1920s. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute (then called the California School of Fine Arts). Nell Sinton, one of the early California woman abstract expressionist painters.
A member of a family that moved to San Francisco in 1851, Nell Sinton began painting in the 1920s. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute (then called the California School of Fine Arts) a decade before abstract expressionism emerged there, and, later, with Lucien Labaudt and Maurice Sterne, (1937-1938). She also worked as an apprentice to Sterne on the Federal Art Project (WPA) murals in San Francisco (1938-40) and was a member of the San Francisco Art Commission (1959-63). In 1959, Sinton was acknowledged as one of the Ten Most Distinguished Bay Area Women. A notable Bay Area Expressionist...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist New York City Street Scene Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed original oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1930. Signed illegibly. Image size 20L x 16H. Housed in a period giltwood frame.
Category
1920s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s New York City Abstract Skyline - Moody Night Cityscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This stunning 1951 oil painting on board by renowned American artist Charles Ragland Bunnell captures an abstracted New York City skyline in a rich nocturnal color palette of black, ...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950s Framed Abstract Still Life Oil Painting, Blue Green Black Orange White
Located in Denver, CO
This vibrant and expressive 1959 oil on canvas painting by Bernard Arnest (1917–1986), titled Untitled (Fruit, Leaves, Spotted Cloth), presents an abstracted still life rich in form ...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early Abstract Expressionist - Black Mountain College Teacher, Franz Kline
Located in Miami, FL
With Abstract Expressionist painting, one could argue that the earlier, the more historically important. This stunning non-objective action painting is characterized by vast swaths o...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
Antique American School Modernist Signed Baboon Framed Mid Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 14L x 18H.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Cubist Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century cubist abstract still life. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Great color.
Category
1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Framed Antique American School Signed Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 26L x 20H.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Framed Original East Hampton Beach Marsh Signed Pastel Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist pastel painting. Pastel on paper. Framed. Signed.
Category
1950s Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Signed Architectural Modern Medieval Revival Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique English modernist landscape oil painting by Phillip Castle (Born 1943). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American School Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist framed oil painting. Oil on board. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 13L x 12H.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American School Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist framed oil painting. Oil on board. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 13L x 12H.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Signed Framed Modernist Nature Abstract Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 5.5L x 7.5H.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Framed Modernist Nocturnal Cityscape Urban Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16L x 11.5H.
Category
1950s Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Armony in Blue and Red - Tempera by Clement Nicolas Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Armony in blue and red is an original artwork realized by Clement Nicolas Kons in 1920s.
Original mixed colored tempera. The artwork is glued on ...
Category
1920s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Departing, Large Figurative Expressionist Painting by George Marshal Cohen
By George Marshal Cohen
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by George Marshal Cohen from 1960. An abstract expressionist style painting with dark blue tones and bright yellow accents. Figurative representations of female legs ...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.
The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.
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