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Period: 1940s
Antique American School Modernist Fauvist Abstract Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted modernist abstract landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$980 Sale Price
20% Off
Don Quichotte
Located in Genève, GE
Oil on canvas
Category
Italian School 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jewish Mexican Avant Garde Fiesta of Guadalupe Expressionist Oil Painting
By Yonia Fain
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Avant-Garde
Subject: Abstract Mexican Landscape
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: Mexico
Dimensions:
Yonia Fain
Oil, 1947
Although this oil painting’s subject is predom...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Fauvist Barn Rural Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas board. Framed. Measuring: 21 by 27 inches overall, and 18 by 24 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. Ha...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Phoebus
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
VENUS I by Auguste Herbin - Abstract, geometric painting
Located in London, GB
VENUS I by Auguste Herbin (1882-1960)
Oil on canvas
100 x 81 cm (39 ³/₈ x 31 ⁷/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower left, herbin 1945
Provenance: Private collection, Stockholm
Galerie d...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Exhibited Modernist Surreal Nocturnal Winter Landscape Signed Oil Painting
By Lena Gurr
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1930. Signed.
Housed in period frame. Image size 45L x 32H.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,800 Sale Price
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"Surreal Woman"
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on fiberboard painting by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower left. Circa 1945. Condition is good. Presently unframed. Framing options are av...
Category
Post-Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Nature Study Virginia Trees Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted abstract landscape by Nancy Weyl. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,820 Sale Price
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Monumental New York City Brooklyn Bridge Cityscape Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Monumental antique American modernist abstract cityscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Very impressive painting in person here.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,880 Sale Price
20% Off
Double Sided Abstractions, American Modernist Work on Paper
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Abstractions" by American modernist painter Leonard Nelson is a double sided work on paper. The front is 10.5" x 7.5" and the back side drawing is 10" x 6.75". Both sides are signed and dated "Nelson 46", and the artworks are matted and framed behind glass.
Leonard Nelson (1912 - 1993) Born in Camden, New Jersey, Nelson applied for a scholarship at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, regardless of having no portfolio. He was persuasive enough to be given one semester and subsequently was awarded an Academy fellowship to study painting. Nelson went on to earn the Academy's prestigious Cresson Traveling Scholarship award in 1939. He studied at PAFA from 1936 - 1940 with, among others, Henry McCarter...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pen
French Abstract - Blue Chevrons
Located in Houston, TX
Impactful abstract painting of triangular shapes in hues of blue floating on a black background, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. ...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Signed 1956 Antique American School Modernist Abstract Indian Space Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive and large mid century abstract painting. Signed and dated illegibly lower right. Oil on canvas.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,600 Sale Price
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Antique American Mid Century Modern Kitchen Still Life Original OilPainting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 14L x 8H. Signed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$556 Sale Price
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Southern Modernist Abstract Musical Oil Painting by Ethel Davis, Alabama 1940
Located in Baltimore, MD
Ethel Rosetta Davis was born in Hardin County, Tennessee in 1897. She studied art in Birmingham, Alabama. Davis married and located to Tuscumbia a...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Tapisserie Française Moderne by Jean Lurçat - 1947
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Roma, IT
La Tapisserie Française Moderne is the title of the solo exhibition of Jean Lurçat, hold at the Kunsthalle Bern, from June 25th to the first July ...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
S. Teresa del Bambin Gesù - A.L.S. by Alberto Gerardi - 1939
Located in Roma, IT
S. Teresa del Bambin Gesù is a Autograph Letter Signed by the Italian artist Alberto Gerardi to the Countess Pecci-Blunt.
Rome, April 24th 1939. One page, single-sinded. In Italian. Excellent condition.
Perfectly readable, thanks to an elegant calligraphy.
Touching letter addressed to the Countess and patron of arts, thanking her for her purchase proposal of a hand study drawing...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Ancient Future
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Just discovered, a rare, surrealist painting by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited thro...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Orange Face"
Located in Southampton, NY
Circa 1945
Signed lower left
Sight size 12 x 10.5 in
Overall size in newly matted one inch wide black frame 25.5 x 21.5 in
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
$3,600 Sale Price
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Terry Frost 'Bottle and Statue' oil painting abstract still life interior
Located in London, GB
Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003)
Bottle and Statue
Oil on board
38 x 46cm
A distinctive still life featuring bottle, statue, and drapery.
Terry Frost was a prominent British abstract artist. Frost is most noted for his simplistic abstract forms and unusual colour; he worked alongside the St Ives group...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Antique American Abstract Bridge Landscape Oil Painting by Will Hollingsworth
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American surreal abstract landscape painting Will Hollingsworth. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Displayed in a period modernist fr...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Composition, Untitled 2, Lambert Werner (1900-1983), Oil Canvas, 1948
Located in New York, NY
Lambert Werner (1900-1983)
Untitled, 1948
Oil on canvas
29 1/8 × 26 1/3 in l 74 × 67 cm
30 3/4 x 28 in l 78 x 71 cm (Frame included)
Signed and dated lower right
Exhibition history:...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Time Travel #2
By Oskar Fischinger
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Oskar Fishinger (1900-1967), began his career in Germany as one of the pioneers of the Germans avant garde abstract film movement, known for inventing abstract musical animations, and what was often reffered to as, Optical Poetry. He arrived in Hollywood in 1936 where he worked in film until 1947, before turning his attention exclusively to his abstract painting.
Time Travel #2, one of a pair of two Fishinger paintings...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
On the corner. 1947, paper, mixed technique, 18.5x22.6 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity.
“I am 58, and in five Years my c...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
$1,674 Sale Price
20% Off
Masks
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Belgian artist Miette Braive(1916-2000), was classically trained in Belgium, before moving to Paris to pursue her art career as first a student and then a contemporary of the famed F...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
The Conference
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$24,000 Sale Price
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Antique American Modernist Cubist Abstract Signed Rare Early Oil Painting
By Lela Axline
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Lela "Jackie" Axline (1910-1998). Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image, 15"L x 19"H.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$10,000 Sale Price
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Antique American School Modernist Abstract Mid Century Framed Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school modernist abstract painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a great period modernist silver leaf frame.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Abstract Cubist Flower Still Life Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very well painted period cubist still life. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Cubist Abstract Signed Rare Early Oil Painting
By Lela Axline
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Lela "Jackie" Axline (1910-1998). Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image, 16"L x 24"H.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$14,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Four women with puppets. 1947, paper, mixed media, 16.3x11 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Four women with puppets. 1947, paper, mixed media, 16.3x11 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his art...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
$907 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled (original framed watercolor on paper)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original watercolor on paper. Hand signed and dated lower right by Rolph Scarlett. Artwork size 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Frame size 17.5 x 21.5 inches.
Artwork is in excellent conditio...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$2,100 Sale Price
25% Off
Antique American Modernist Abstract Still Life Interior View Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract still life oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 22L x 13H. Signed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled, Cat and Rooster
By Paul Rand
Located in Miami, FL
The work represents a wide eye cat staring at a rooster. The work is as simple as it's complex. The negative space is as important as the positive space. It's as sophisticated as it'...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil
Antique American Modernist Flower Still Life Signed and Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas board. Signed. Image size, 24H by 18L.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
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Colour Television, c.1940 painting
Located in London, GB
Colour Television
Gouache
51 x 31 cm
Provenance: The family of A. E. Halliwell.
Little is known about the artist other than the fact that he studied under the celebrated artist A...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Modern Landscape, Abstract Oil on Canvas Painting by Joe Jones
By Joe Jones
Located in Long Island City, NY
A simplified landscape oil painting by Joe Jones. This two-toned piece is nicely framed and signed.
Modern Landscape
Joe Jones, American (1909–1963)
Date: circa 1940
Oil on Canvas, ...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Important Modernist Framed Original Cubist Abstract Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 42L x 24H.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,796 Sale Price
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Correspondance by Max Gubler - 1949
Located in Roma, IT
This Correspondance between Max Gubler and Nesto Jacometti, written in 1949, in French, is in excellent conditions and includes 3 items:
Autograph Letter S...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
“Untitled Abstract”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original mid-century modern abstract oil on canvas painting by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower right and dated 1945. Condition is very good. P...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Modernist 'Composition Biomorphique' Tempera Painting
Located in New York, NY
This strikingly etherial Mid-Century Modernist Vera Idelson 'Composition Biomorphique' Tempera on masonite Painting originates from Israel, created in 1946. A unique and gorgeous pi...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Typewritten Correspondence by Stefano Cairoli - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
This is the typewritten correspondence between Stefano Cairoli, the historical Milanese gallerist of Galleria della Spiga e Corrente (Siena, 1897- Milan, 1972) and Beppe Guzzi, writt...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$333 Sale Price
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Buffalo New York Regionalist Modern Landscape Signed Exhibited Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape painting signed "Welch '42". Oil on board, circa 1942. Signed. Image size, 16L x 14H. Housed in a modern frame.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
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Untitled Abstract, c.1940s painting by Naish
Located in London, GB
Naish
Untitled Abstract
c.1940
26 x 21 cm
Signed 'Naish' within the painting
Little is known about the artist Naish, though the fact that Halliwell collected this painting sugges...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Interior Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
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UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
We Are All Members of the Human Race: UN Poster Proposal
21 x...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Large Finely Painted American School Abstract Coastal Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted American school abstract landscape painting. Framed in a period modernist wood molding. Oil on board. Image size, 24H by 29L.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,820 Sale Price
20% Off
Spring
Located in New York, NY
Oil on masonite
Signed and dated, l.r.
This painting is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
About the artist:
Konrad Cramer grew up in Wurtzburg, Germany, and attended the Karlsruhe Academy. He was a member of Der Blaue Reiter...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Ink and wash on paper. Signed and dated in ink lower right.
John Sennhauser became known for his nononjective paintings in the early 1940's. Per teh Smithsonian Institute, "In 194...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Howard Schleeter 1949 Original Gouache & Wax Painting – Abstract Southwest Art
By Howard Schleeter
Located in Denver, CO
This striking original 1949 gouache and wax painting, titled "Fetishes", is a powerful work by acclaimed New Mexico modernist Howard Schleeter (1903–1976). Rich with symbolic abstrac...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wax, Gouache
Vintage Signed American Surreal Exhibited Beach Scene "Femininity" Oil Painting
By Harry Long
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting by Harry Lane. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Exhibited. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Modernist Hay Barn Regionalist Farmer Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist farm landscape painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 25H by 30L.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,180 Sale Price
20% Off
Cubist Crucifixion Scene with Bright Yellow
Located in Houston, TX
Deep tonal cubist style painting of the Crucifixion of Christ. Like traditional Crucifixion imagery, there are two figures on either side ...
Category
Analytic Cubist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist Mexican Artist "Porters Garden" Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Ernesto Linares
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Dimensions: 16" x 19 3/4" x 1/4"
Dimensions w/Frame: 19 1/4" x 23 1/4"
Ernesto Linares Early Mexican Modernist Abstract...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique Italian Impressionist Venice Trompe L'Oeil Flower Cityscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very well done and interesting vintage Italian impressionist painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Virginia Tillou Signed Antique American Female Modernist Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting by Virginia Tillou (1906 - 1995). Oil canvas. Housed in a period Heydenryk frame. Image size, 12L x 18H. Sig...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Werner Drewes Modernist American Painting, Southwest Subject, 1947
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Werner Drewes (1899-1985) oil on canvas, 1947
Titled: “Adobe Village”
Measures: 15 ½ x 36 Frame: 21 x 42
Signed lower left and also on the verso
In excellent condition.
Born in Nie...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Abstraction, " Rolph Scarlett, ca 1947, abstract expressionism, gouache
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Ontario, Canada, Rolph Scarlett left home at age eighteen for New York City, making that city his home for long periods during his lifetime. While beginning his career as an ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Rare Canadian Modernist Sporting Art Fishing Still Life Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique signed Canadian fishing oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 30H.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Abstract Landscape Fauvist Beach Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 24L x 22H.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
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