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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1920s
This Week's Listings Only
'Forms in Blue & Gray', Bay Area Abstraction, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Gilberg" for Robert Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) and dated 1954.
A substantial, mid-century gouache abstract comprising pendant geometric forms in pastel tone...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Large Mid Century California Modernist Sunset Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Japanese Dancer Figurative Painting On Silk 1920's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4084 A vintage Japanese male dancer
Painting on silk set in a red mat and displayed in a gilt wood frame under glass.
Category
1920s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Composition 56
By Irene Zevon
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas painting by American female painter Irene Zevon.
Category
1950s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harry Crowley NYC Abstract Expressionist Painting, circa 1954, Slow Solitude
By Harry Crowley
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Harry Crowley (1898-1979) oil on board, 1954. Abstract Expressionist. Titled on the verso “Slow Solitude.”
Measures: 33 x 38. Frame: 42 x 47. In excellent condition and in the origi...
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antique American School Modernist Large Abstract New York Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso. Dated 1950.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shanty Town
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing a modernist American acrylic painting depicting a charming but rundown seaside town at night.
Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, paint...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Large American Modernist Abstract Framed New York School Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Framed Beach Scene Modernist New England Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist beach scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
Category
1950s Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Still Life
Located in Wiscasset, ME
This vibrant work by noted 20th century American artist, Joel Durand, employs a bold palette and sophisticated approach in this dramatic and abstracted sti...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
abstract 3, 1954 - Oil on canvas, 92x65 cm.
By François Jousselin
Located in Nice, FR
Abstract oil painting on canvas by the french painter François Jousselin. Not framed. Signed and dated 1954
François Jousselin, né à Laval le 27 octobre 1926 ...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Expressionist Figure
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern abstract expressionist oil painting signed illegibly and dated 1956.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Composition with Figure, " Irene Rice Pereira
Located in New York, NY
Irene Rice Pereira
Composition with Figure, 1951
Inscribed, signed and dated Salford/Pereira 2/51 (lr); inscribed I Rice Pereira/2669 Great Clowes St/Sa...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Casein
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Oil Painting "Window"
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original abstract expressionist painting by American artist Toma Yovanovich.
Toma Yovanovich (1931-2016)
Yovanovich was a painter/printmaker whose work is in collections a...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Competiteurs, American Modernist, Abstract Figurative Oil on Canvas, 1952
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Les Competiteurs" by American modernist painter Leonard Nelson is a 36" x 26" oil on canvas abstract figurative painting, created in 1952. The work is framed in classic black and si...
Category
1950s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sacred Family" 1950s Abstract Figurative Impasto Oil Painting, Red, Blue, White
Located in Denver, CO
"Untitled (Sacred Family)" is a powerful abstract oil painting on board by renowned American artist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968), created circa 1950. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner, this striking piece portrays an abstract interpretation of several figures grouped together, capturing the essence of human connection. The dynamic composition is enhanced by vivid, contrasting colors of black, red, blue, green, orange, yellow, and white, creating a sense of depth and movement within the piece.
This exceptional painting is presented in a vintage frame with outer dimensions of 34 ½ x 29 x 1 ¼ inches, and the image size measures 23 ½ x 18 ¾ inches. It remains in good condition, showcasing Bunnell’s mastery of color, texture, and abstraction. Expedited and international shipping options are available—please contact us for a quote.
About the Artist: Charles Ragland Bunnell, born in 1897 in Kansas City, Missouri, developed a deep passion for art from a young age. His early artistic explorations included drawing on walls and textbooks, eventually leading him to study at the Broadmoor Art Academy (now Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) under the GI Bill in the early 1920s. After marrying fellow art student Laura Palmer...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Paul Brach
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right.
41.75 x 61 in.
44 x 63 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a hardwo...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Abstract Interior of Room" Myron Lechay, Colorful Early Geometric Abstract
By Myron Lechay
Located in New York, NY
Myron Lechay
Abstract Interior of Room, 1923
Signed upper right corner and dated upper left corner
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Spanierman Gallery, ...
Category
1920s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Rough Seas"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed and dated 1958 lower right.
Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984)
He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in Chicago as a youth, he took classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, returning to New York when he was 20. From 1913 to 1916, he enjoyed a scholarship from the Art Students League, and worked with John C. Johansen (a portraitist whose expressive style resembled that of John Singer Sargent), and Anders Zorn.
He accepted a teaching position at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1916, remaining there until 1921. This enabled him to travel to Europe to study Cézanne’s paintings and works of the Old Masters. He traveled to Paris, Prague, Dresden, Berlin, and Munich seeking the works of Titian, Cranach, Rembrandt, Veronese, and Holbein, which gave him new perspective. Vytlacil studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, settling there in 1921. Fellow students were Ernest Thurn and Worth Ryder, who introduced him to famous abstractionist Hans Hofmann. He worked with Hofmann from about 1922 to 1926, as a student and teaching assistant.
During the summer of 1928, after returning to the United States, Vytlacil gave lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on modern European art. Soon thereafter, he became a member of the Art Students League faculty. After one year, he returned to Europe and successfully persuaded Hofmann to teach at the League as well. He spent about six years in Europe, studying the works of Matisse, Picasso, and Dufy. In 1935, he returned to New York and became a co-founder of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936. He later had teaching posts at Queens College in New York; the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California; Black Mountain College in North Carolina; and the Art Students League.
His paintings exhibit a clear inclination toward modernism. His still lives and interiors from the 1920s indicate an understanding of the art of Cézanne. In the 1930s, his works displayed two very different kinds of art at the same time. His cityscapes and landscapes combine Cubist-inspired spatial concerns with an expressionistic approach to line and color. Vytlacil also used old wood, metal, cork, and string in constructions, influenced by his friend and former student, Rupert Turnbull. He eventually ceased creating constructions as he considered them too limiting. The spatial challenges of painting were still his preference. During the 1940s and 1950s, his works indicated a sense of spontaneity not felt in his earlier work.
He married Elizabeth Foster in Florence, Italy, in 1927 and they lived and worked in Positano, Italy for extended periods of time. Later on, they divided their time between homes in Sparkill, New York and Chilmark, Massachusetts, where Vyt, as he was affectionately called, taught at the Martha's Vineyard Art...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Post-Cubist Abstract Oil on Canvas Painting by Hellier
Located in Atlanta, GA
American artist Hellier (20th Century) designed this stunning post-cubist constructivist oil on canvas painting.
The artwork "Ste Augustine" uses earth tones juxtaposed with green to...
Category
1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Fruit and Flowers (Mid-Century Framed Impressionist Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A lovely still vintage Impressionist still life that is almost all the way to abstraction, with the color passages around the fruit and flowers gently blending into one another. Comes framed, but I think it's worthy of a larger gold frame...
Category
1950s Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Guitarist Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstract expressionist painting of guitarist painted by Norman Rubington (American, 1921 - 1991) while in Rome, 1952. Signed lower left and on verso. Dated "11 - 52, Roma" ...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carnations & Rose Buds
Located in Summit, NJ
Gorgeous oil on panel by Harold Cohn. Beautiful reds - the photo does not do the painting justice. The texture of the flowers is stunning. The piece is fra...
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Board
The Great Spirit in the Sky
Located in Sheffield, MA
Bernard A. Kohn
American, 1905-1989
The Great Spirit in the Sky
Oil on board
30 by 45 in, w/ frame 35 ¼ by 50 ½ in
Signed and dated 1958
Bernard A. Kohn was born on the 21st of Nov...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Expressionist With Orange and Blue Colors
By Sandro von Lorsch
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Expressionist Abstract Composition With Orange and Blue Colors
Canvas size 24"x32" gold leaf frame 27"x35", signed lower right corner.
Sandro von Lorsch German painter born 1921-19...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Abstract Figurative Framed Oil Painting - Enigma
Located in Bristol, GB
ENGIMA
Size: 49 x 57 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
An emotive and skillfully executed mid-century abstract figurative composition, painted in oil onto canvas.
The piece featur...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ville by LÉOPOLD SURVAGE - art, colourful cubist oil painting by Modern master
Located in London, GB
Ville by LÉOPOLD SURVAGE (1879-1968)
Oil and graphite on canvas
73.4 x 60 cm (28 ⁷/₈ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, Survage 24
This work is an early 1924 painting...
Category
1920s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Graphite
Deux Visages en Rouge et Bleu, Surrealist Oil on Canvas Painting by André Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Deux Visages en Rouge et Bleu, Year: circa 1950, Medium: Oil on Canvas, Size: 8.75 x 6.5 in. (22.23 x 16.51 cm), Frame Size: 15.25 x 13 inches...
Category
1950s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Neo-Romantic Surrealist Painting "Circus" by Kristians Tonny
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Kristians Tonny
(French, born Holland; 1907-1977)
Circus
Oil on prepared board, 16 1/2 x 13 inches
Framed: 22 x 19 inches (approx.)
Inscribed on reverse: (in pencil) "cadre noir/ave...
Category
1920s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Modernist Abstract Framed Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted modernist landscape by Robert Noel Blair (1912 - 2002). Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed Image size, 23 by 31 inches. In excellent original condition. ...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Robert Marc - Untitled - Signed Oil on Canvas
By Robert Marc
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Robert Marc
Untitled
Oil on Canvas
Signed
60 x 80 cm
80 x 100 cm (Framed)
The painting is rich and complex with a palette and surface quality that warms and harmonises his ge...
Category
1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
In the constructing. oil on cardboard, 58x88 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001)
Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art, Saratov Art School, graduated from the Depar...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Springs : Oil painting on canvas
Located in New York, NY
"Springs" by Jan Wunderman.
Jan Wunderman primarily lived and worked in New York City and New Hampshire. Wunderman is noted for richly painted, gestural abstract paintings explorin...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Estate stamped and numbered verso; initialed “SF22” verso.
48.25 x 34.25 in.
49.25 x 35 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a solid maple floater.
Provenance
Estate of Samuel Feinstein
McCormick Gallery, Chicago
Samuel Lawrence...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New York City Rainy Night Street Scene in Blue
Located in Miami, FL
Moody blue night with rain and wind rendered in a post-impressionist style somewhat like that of Albert Marquet
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Pacific Northwest Rain Forest, Earthtone Abstract Landscape
By Hilda Davidson Kaster
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century modern mixed media abstracted Northern California landscape by Hilda Davidson Kaster (American, 1912-2008), circa 1950. The artist uses layers of mixed media earthtones and natural textures such as leaves and bark to create the aesthetic of the deep forest of Sebastopol, California.
Signed lower left corner, on verso with exhibition and gallery labels.
Presented in rustic wooden frame of period (fair condition), Image size: 18"H x 24"W.
Hilda Davidson Kaster was born in Oakland, California in 1912 to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. She went to New York in the early 1930s to study art. At the Traphagen School of Design, she was a student of Moses Soyer and William Gropper, who were founders of the Ashcan School. Later in the 1930s she worked as a commercial artist and designer for I. Miller Shoes...
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Family of Forceps
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
David Solot, a dentist and painter, was born in Falciu (Romania) and
settled in Paris in 1928. His art was surrealistic dentally inspired plus
portraits and city landscapes.
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Translated from an article by Luana Hrisanti Rigot:
"In 1956, at the Charlotte Norberg Gallery (Paris), he presented his first personal exhibition, composed of an ensemble of surrealist paintings of professional inspiration (dental elements). Two years later, at Gallery Royale (Rochefort), he exhibits another 50 paintings on the subject. At that time, a decisive event for the painter David Solot was made: a great new-York-born antibiotic producer Lederle Cy learns about his work and contacts him through the US Ambassador to Paris, proposing an advertising contract and buying the reproduction right for 24 of its canvases. A year later, the same company bought the right to print three of its cloths in color. This was the starting point of his international notoriety.
In 1959, the American Dental Association celebrated its centenary, and to make it brilliant, David Solot invites him to a large exhibition at Columbus Circle, in Manhattan New York. The press, television is doing a great deal of promotion, and in the end, the interest shown by the medical professionals in the beginning only reaches an echo in the world of passionate art collectors. It is the beginning of a major international adventure!
David Solot is invited to Stockholm in 1960, then to Dublin and Belfast by the Cema Art Gallery. In 1962 his works are exhibited in Helsinki.
In 1963 his life was disturbed by a very painful event ... His only son, a medical student in the last year, dies in an accident. For two years, overwhelmed by pain, David Solot neglects painting. His wife, Becutza Solot, encourages him to go to Israel. David accepts, and the voyage and exhibition (1965) are successful.
When returning from the voyage, he makes material for an exhibition he will present at the Transposition Gallery, while at the Salon of Physicians his "Jerusalem" painting gets the Medal of Honor, the greatest possible reward.
Continuing to work on all plans, he adds a new activity to his concerns: writing. In 1967, he was impressed by a passage in Maurice Goudeket book Prés...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (#222)
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated verso.
49.5 x 34.5 in.
51 x 36.25 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a maple fl...
Category
1950s Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract and Drip
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Description
An example of Scarlett’s abstract drip painting, this untitled work has linear and geometric elements rendered in shades of black, rose, and blue and...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Abstract Oil Painting - Dimension, Framed
Located in Bristol, GB
DIMENSION
Size: 52 x 52 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A simple yet very effective abstract composition in oil, painted onto canvas.
A set of bright abstract forms sit against ...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition 22 - Original Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 22 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera, in very good conditions and mounted on a cardboard (42x52).
Image Dimension...
Category
1920s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Antique American California Impressionist Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist California oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 12H by 9L.
Category
1920s Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Piece - Mid 20th Century Animal Abstract Piece by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Antique American Modernist Wild Horses Western Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted modernist landscape by Robert Noel Blair (1912 - 2002). Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed Image size, 22 by 30 inches. In excellent original condition. ...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Composition
Located in Paris, FR
Gouache, ca1950
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
22.00 cm. x 28.00 cm. 8.66 in. x 11.02 in. (image)
Framed work
Gouache on paper
A certificate of authenticity etaliblished by Pie...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
100-10
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a collaboration between Marshall Simpson (1900 – 1958) and Roslynn Estelle Middleman (1929 – 2003), 100-10, by 1958, oil on Masonite, signed and titled verso, 22 x 30 inches,...
Category
1950s Op Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Modern abstract cityscape, unique oil painting, signed twice, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Norman Carton
Mid Century Modern Cityscape, ca. 1951
Oil on canvas painting (signed twice)
Signed twice: hand signed on the front and also signed on the back
Unique
Frame included:
T...
Category
1950s Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
1950s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
David Lan Bar - Composition - 1956
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Composition
1956
Oil on panel
Signed and Dated
73 x 100 cm
The painting is framed.
This beautiful painting is representative of David Lan Bar's 1950's compositions.
Dav...
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Francisco Bores, Sur la plage
Located in Madrid, ES
FRANCISCO BORES
Spanish, 1898 - 1972
SUR LA PLAGE
signed and dated "Borès / 29" (middle centre)
oil on canvas
21-1/3 x 25-1/2 inches (54 x 65 cm.)
framed: 26-1/5 x 30-1/2 inches (66.5 x 77.5 cm.)
NOTE:
THIS WORK IS ACCOMPANIED BY A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY ISSUED BY “ARCHIVO FRANCISCO BORES”.
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Madrid
Francisco Bores López (Madrid, May 5, 1898 - Paris, May 10, 1972) was a Spanish painter of the so-called New School of Paris.
His artistic training originated both in the Cecilio Pla...
Category
1920s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Series 67 No.4 abstract oil painting by Jack Wolsky
Located in Hudson, NY
Series 67, No. 4 (1955)
Oil on masonite
48" x 24 ½"
49" x 25 ¼" x 1 ¾" framed
About this artist: Jack Wolsky was born in 1930 in Rochester, New York.
He taught in the Department o...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Geometric Shapes
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Rolph Scarlett (1889-1984)
Geometric Shapes
Gauche on Paper
14 ½" x 13”
22" x 21" framed
In this original artwork, the artist transforms circles, shapes, and lines within an ide...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right.
50.5 x 38.25 in.
51.5 x 39 in. (framed)
Custom framed in maple.
Theodore Franklin (“Ted”) Appleby, Jr. was born January 28, 1923 in Asbury Park, New Jersey to a very prominent family in Monmouth County. He attended the Pauling School in New York and studied at the atelier of John Corneal.
On December 12, 1942, Appleby enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, subsequently seeing action in the Marshall Islands. Upon the conclusion of the war, he was stationed for a year in Yokohama, Japan, where he studied local engraving techniques.
In 1947, after returning home, Appleby moved to Mexico for a year to study mural painting in San Miguel de Allende. Following his sojourn in Mexico, Appleby briefly returned home to the U.S. before ultimately relocating to Paris. There, he joined a lively community of expatriate American artists involved with what would come to be known as the “School of Paris.” Appleby befriended fellow Americans Sam Francis and Jackson Pollock, exhibiting extensively throughout France with the former. He also regularly visited the atelier of Fernand Léger, and was represented in the "Salon de Réalités Nouvelles" and the “Salon d’Automne” during the 1950s and 60s.
From 1955 to 1961, Appleby participated in group exhibitions in Chicago, Leverkusen (Germany), Lisbon, London, and Paris. He also had three notable solo exhibitions during this period: Studio Facchetti, Paris (1956); Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (1957); and the American Cultural Center, Paris (1959). In 1957, Appleby’s work was presented at the 62nd American Exposition of Painters and Sculptors at the Chicago Art Institute, where he was awarded the Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal and Prize.
Answering the famed artist André Lhote’s call to help save the village of Alba-la-Romaine in the Ardèche, Appleby and his wife - the artist Hope Manchester - purchased a home in the village in 1950, ultimately settling there until their deaths.
Source: Taylor Graham Gallery
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract in Brown Tones
Located in Milford, NH
A fine abstract in brown tones by American artist David Lund (b. 1925). David Lund’s illustrious painting career spans over 65 years. Born in New York, the...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Studio
Located in Sheffield, MA
Remo Michael Farruggio
American, 1905-1981
Studio
Oil on canvas
24 by 35 in. W/frame 28 by 39 in.
Signed lower right & titled on stretcher “Studio”
Circa 1959
Remo Michael Farrugg...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape in Winter
Located in Miami, FL
At a time when Abstract Expressionism was raging, realist painterJohn Atherton nods his head to the movement with a semi-abstract work. Meticulously rendered and carefully thought o...
Category
1950s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract and Fractured, Biomorphic and Geometric Forms
By Agnes Hart
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
“Abstract and Fractured Biomorphic and Geometric Forms” which was painted in the mid to late 1950’s is a nod to Picasso’s famous painting Guernica, which Hart may have seen when it was given to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1958. Several elements in the painting clearly reference Guernica: the black geometric and cut-out shapes, the biomorphic shapes, the abstracted horse’s head and body, with a district reference to the bull’s tail, along with the black and white pallet choice and various details throughout-all hallmarks of Picasso’s Guernica. The abstracted reality Hart presents in these references go beyond a simple nod and reflect a personal interpretation reflected in the splintered abstraction and her bespoke interpretation.
Agnes Hart’s first began her career as a social realist artist in the 1930’s. She was also WPA artist. Her longtime friend Milton Avery encouraged her, and she exhibited in the same gallery in the late 1940’s, the RoKo Gallery. Her instinctive and personalized modernist periods often reflected a similar path of her compatriot artists during the first half of the 20th century. Her early works were influenced by her teachers Josef Presser, Paul Burlin and Lucile Blanch, and Reginald Neal, and reflected historical modern trends-at times showing the influence of Avery and other modernist. Like Elaine DeKooning, Lee Kraser, Michael Corrine West...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid Century Framed Oil Painting, Abstract Coastal Landscape - Icy Winter
Located in Bristol, GB
Icy Winter
Size: 44 x 52 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A beautifully ethereal mid century modernist winter landscape scene, painted in oil onto canvas.
This semi abstract land...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Original Abstract Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
Bring audacious experiments with color and textures to your living room, dining room or home office. Abstract paintings, large or small, will stand out in your space, encouraging conversation and introducing a museum-like atmosphere that’s welcoming and conducive to creating memorable gatherings.
Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.
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.
Draw your guests into abstract oil paintings across different eras and countries of origin. On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive range of abstract paintings along with a guide on how to arrange your wonderful new wall art.
If you’re working with a small living space, a colorful, oversize work can create depth in a given room, but there isn’t any need to overwhelm your interior with a sprawling pièce de résistance. Colorful abstractions of any size can pop against a white wall in your living room, but if you’re working with a colored backdrop, you may wish to stick to colors that complement the decor that is already in the space. Alternatively, let your painting make a statement on its own, regardless of its surroundings, or group it, gallery-style, with other works.
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