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Period: 1940s
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
"Modern Industry"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed lower right
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, 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
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Large Framed New York City Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract oil painting. Great color. Framed.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Carved Mixed Media Fish Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and well executed modernist wall plaque by Richard Kuehne. Paint on gesso plaque. Signed. Silver leaf incorporated frame as photographed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Family Heart - Mid Century Hawaiian Symbolist Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic figurative abstract of wispy figures surrounding a heart by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Abstract Post War Still Life
Located in Greenwich, CT
An exciting, rare and impressive painting that is of a great size for a sofa or long wall. Very hard to find paintings with this format. It is of an early and important historical ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
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
Antique American Modernist Sunset Seascape Harbor Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful early American modernist sunset seascape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Measuring 22 by 24 overall and image size, 20 by 18 inches.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
"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
Three Angels - Mid Century Hawaiian Symbolist Figurative Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic Hawaiian nocturnal figurative of whispy angel figures with mountains and bridge by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
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
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
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
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
Mid Century Hawaiian Symbolism -- Stairway to Destiny
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Hawaiian Symbolism -- Stairway to Destiny
Symbolic figurative abstract with climbing stairway in bright spring colors by Marguerite Loui...
Category
Futurist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
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
The Dancer
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
Materials
Gouache
'Birds in Flight', Modernist Equestrian Gouache
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966), dedicated lower right, 'Made for Ruth M.' and painted circa 1945. Titled verso 'Birds in Flight', additionally...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Illustration Board
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
Na Kumuwaiwai Hohonu, Underwater Spirt - Hawaiian Symbolist Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Na Kumuwaiwai Hohonu, Underwater Spirt - Hawaiian Symbolist Figurative
Hawaiian symbolist nocturnal figurative of glowing whispy figure underwater with mountains and red coral garden by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Winter Landscape', San Francisco Bay Area Abstraction, Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Robert Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) circa 1950.
Unsigned and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Born in Oakland, Robert George Gilberg first studied at the O...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Important "The Victim" Avant Garde 1947 Judaica Expressionist Oil Painting
By Yonia Fain
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Avant-Garde
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: Mexico
Dimensions: 25 3/4" x 19 3/4" x 3/4"
Dimensions w/Frame: 27" x 21 1/4"
THE VICTIM
Yonia Fain
Oil, 1947
Although this oil painting’s subject is predominantly abstract, there is a faint echo of a figural shape at its center. A figure wearing Tefillin, An organic form appears to be pinned to a hammer shaped object, reminiscent of a crucifix. This tool may be a reference to one of the Soviet Union’s symbols. Moreover, it is likely a direct reference to the persecution Fain faced as a Russian Jew in Bolshevik Russia. The contrast between colors, geometric lines, and organic curves is indicative of Fain’s collaboration with Diego Rivera, as well as the time he spent in Mexico. The primary hues communicate the hardship the artist underwent and his cathartic ability to reproduce those emotions through paint.
In addition to being a renowned artist and award-winning poet, Yonia Fain is among the few survivors to triumph over the turmoil of the 20th century. Fain’s abundant body of artwork and poetry pays tribute to the hardship many experienced during the Russian Revolution, Nazi invasion of Poland, and World War II. The persecution Fain experienced forced him to immigrate to several countries including China, Mexico, and the United States.
Yonia Fain was born in Russia in 1914. When he was only 10-years-old, he and his family fled from the Bolshevik Revolution to Poland. There he pursued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and hoped to continue his education in Paris. He was awarded B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the University of Poland. In 1939, the artist and his wife Helen moved to Warsaw when the town they lived in, Vilna, became occupied by the Soviet Union. Although they managed to escape the Nazis, Fain was apprehended by Soviet military...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Stick Season" Sylvia Wald, 1948 Abstracted Wooded Landscape Painting
Located in New York, NY
Sylvia Wald
Stick Season, 1948
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
40 x 25 inches
Born in Philadelphia, Sylvia Wald studied at the Philadelphia Sc...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
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
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
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
Greeting Letter by A. Gerardi - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
This is a Greeting Letter Signed by the Alberto Gerardi to the Countess Pecci-Blunt.
Rome, February 29th, 1940, XVIII. One page, single-sinded. In Italian. Excellent condition, incl...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Chicken Signed Cubist Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist mixed media abstract oil painting and collage by Paul René Gauguin (1911 - 1976). Oil and mixed media on board, circa . Signed. D...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
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
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
"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
No Title
By Pieter de Haard
Located in Dordrecht, NL
Pieter de Haard (Rotterdam 1914-2000)
Category
Abstract Geometric 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
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
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
American School Modernist Framed Original Sunset Signed Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Don Quichotte
Located in Genève, GE
Oil on canvas
Category
Italian School 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Rolph Scarlett Abstract Expressionist Painting, 1945
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Abstract expressionist gouache and watercolor on paper
by noted artist Rolph Scarlett - Signed and dated lower right.
Archivally matted, unframed. Image size: 11" H x 15" W.
In excel...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
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
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
Village - Original Ink Drawing by E. De Tomi - 1947
By Enrico de Tomi
Located in Roma, IT
Village is an original drawing in pen realized by Enrico De Tomi in 1947 ca, hand-signed on the lower-left of margin.
In good condition.
Sheet dimension :18.5 x 24 cm.
The artwork...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Backstage, Ambassador" Broadway Theatre NYC Mid-century Modern Modernist Cubist
By Sam Norkin
Located in New York, NY
"Backstage, Ambassador" Broadway Theatre NYC Mid-century Modern Modernist CubistSigned lower left, titled on the stretcher.
Norkin was a Brooklyn, Ne...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Abstraction I, " Rolph Scarlett, gouache, modernism, American art, ca 1940-50
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
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
"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
Two Heads -- 1947
By Byron Browne
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Byron Browne was an important American modernist painter.
Ink, tempera, and crayon on paper
Signed and dated lower right.
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Abstracted pair of oil paintings by Carl Holty
By Carl Holty
Located in Hudson, NY
These artworks by Carl Holty are only sold as a pair. Each painting measures 9" x 11" and framed 18" x 20.25" x 2.5"
The red and gold work is signed "Carl Holty" in the lower right.
About this artists: Carl Holty was awakened to his interest in art as a child through visits to the Layton Art Gallery of Milwaukee, and began painting lessons with Friedrich Wilhelm Heine at a young age. Though born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1900, he was raised in Wisconsin and enrolled at Marquette University. Before long, Holty abandoned his pre-medical studies in order to pursue art. He spent a summer at the School of the Chicago Art Institute in Saugatuck, Michigan, and set off for New York in 1920. He then studied at the National Academy of Design under Francis Coates Jones...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Environs of a Bridge oil painting by Seymour Franks
Located in Hudson, NY
Hand-signed and dated "Franks 44" lower right. This work is in its original hand painted frame, made by the artist. The frame measures 29 ½" x 35 ½" x 1 ¾" and the canvas measures 26...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Guns, rifle and Shells Abstraction
Located in Miami, FL
An intriguing and complex composition composed of guns, rifles, ammo and a bullseye. Work is housed in a rustic Heydenryk frame.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
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