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Period: 1940s
Antique Modernist Abstracted Southern School Cubist Woman Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive and a rare early work by Frederick E. Conway (1900 - 1973). Oil on board. Incredibly framed. Signed.
Category
Cubist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Art Deco Abstract Spot Light Aeronautical Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School New York City Modernist Central Park View Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist central park, new york city oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvasboard . Image size, 18H by 24L.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Mixed Media Sculpture Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist mixed media sculpture painting by Duayne Hatchett
(1925 - 2015) . Mixed media metal sculpture . Signed on verso.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
$1,750 Sale Price
29% Off
Antique American Signed Cubist Still Life Silver Frame Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist flower still life painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period silver leaf molding. Excellent condi...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,180 Sale Price
20% 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
Abstract Yellow Flowers - British 1940s abstract art floral oil painting flowers
Located in Hagley, England
This superb British 1940's abstract expressionist oil painting is by noted founder member of the Borough Group artist, Miles Peter Richmond. Painted in 1947 it has another unfinished...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
American School Modernist Abstract Cityscape Holiday Lights Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Image size, 20H x 30L. Signed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$5,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Geometric Fabric Design by Kenneth Hills
Located in London, GB
Kenneth Hills
Geometric Fabric Design
Gouache
39 x 31 cm
Signed top left
Provenance: The family of A. E. Halliwell
Little is known about the artist other than the fact that he st...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"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
“Abstract Sailing, 1945”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on academy board by the Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and dated lower left, 1945. Condition: Excellent. Presently not framed.
Biography :
Russian-America...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$335 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
Evening on the Pier looking into the Tunnel - Mid Century Abstract Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Evening on the Pier, a stunning landscape by Marguerite Louis Blasingame and Frank Blasingame (American, 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and Frank were two of five artists in H...
Category
Tonalist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Abstract Form, vintage poster design by M R Webb
Located in London, GB
M R Webb
Abstract Form
21 x 26 cm
Signed to lower right
Provenance: Family of A. E. Halliwell
Little is known about A Searle beyond the fact that he studied under A E Halliwell, th...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Carter's Seeds, c.1940s poster design
Located in London, GB
Carter's Seeds
Poster Design
Gouache
49 x 32 cm
Provenance: Family of A. E. Halliwell
Little is known about the artist other than the fact that he studied under the celebrated art...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Geometry in Abstraction, gouache by A W Wallis
Located in London, GB
A W Wallis
Geometry in Abstraction
Gouache
21 x 26 cm
Signed to reverse
Provenance: The family of A. E. Halliwell
Little is known about the artist A W Wallis, though the fact tha...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
Antique Canadian Modernist Framed Lake Landscape Rare Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Canadian modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring 15 by 17 inches overall and 10 by 12 painting alone.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Found Objects, surrealist composition c.1940
Located in London, GB
Found Objects
Gouache
55 x 38 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. E. H...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
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
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Eggplant Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 17 by 23 inches overall and 16 by 22 painting alone.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$540 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
Village - Ink Drawing by E. De Tomi - 1947
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
Antique American School Abstract Expressionist Hat Shop Brilliant Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist abstract hat shop painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 32L x 26H.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
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
The Body - Maurice Rouzée - 1940s - Tempera
Located in Roma, IT
The Body is an original artwork realized by Maurice Rouzée in the 1940s. Hand-signed by the artist on the upper left margin. Good conditions.
The artw...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Vintage Mid Century Fauvist American Modernist Amusement Park Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
A Painting depicting an amusement park exploding in vibrant colors. The painting is signed "William Wright" lower right. Oil on Canvas. 20 x 24. Nicely framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$1,684 Sale Price
20% Off
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
20% Off
Modernist 1945 Abstract Waterfall Watercolor Landscape Painting by Eve Drewelowe
Located in Denver, CO
This striking 1945 abstract landscape watercolor by pioneering modernist artist Eve (Van Ek) Drewelowe, titled "The Champagne Cascades, Crescendos, Crashes," is a bold interpretation...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$13,500 Sale Price
22% Off
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 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
20% Off
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
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
20% Off
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
Ceremonial Dancers oil and tempera painting by Julio De Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Artwork measures 48" x 30" and framed 56 ¼" x 38 ¼" x 3"
Provenance:
John Heller Gallery, NYC, circa 1975 (label verso)
The artist's daughter
Corbino Galleries, Sarasota, FL (1990)...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
"Morning Calm" California Coast Beach Seascape Impressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape signed oil painting by Frank Montague Moore (1877 - 1967). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 30L x 20H.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
Abstract Figurative Painting NY Gallery Label Mystery Painting Colorful 1940
Located in Buffalo, NY
Abstract figurative painting on board. Carl Bredemier label on the reverse. Framed. Oil on board
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
$791 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Canadian Modernist Algonquin Park Signed Exhibited Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Canadian modernist signed oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16L x 12H.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
American School Modernist Abstract Nautical Seascape Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school signed seascape painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 18H.
Category
Abstract 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
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
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
20% Off
Biomorphic Forms - Early Abstract Expressionist - like Arshile Gorky
Located in Miami, FL
It's 1945. What artists were making totally abstract, non-objective paintings like this? Work characterized by organic forms and flattened picture planes, with solid bold colors dr...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, 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
Empire State Building Mid-Century Artist Paints all 102 stories - Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
While most can not even count all 102 stories of the Empire State Building, artist Alice Smith accurately paints each and every story with exacting detail ...
Category
Photorealist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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
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
"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
"Modern Industry"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed lower right
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, 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
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
Abstract
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Rolph Scarlett (Canadian/American, 1889 - 1984)
“Abstract”
Signed and dated 1947, lower right
Gouache on paper
Provenance: Private collection, Miami Florida
About
Rolph Scarlett w...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"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
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
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
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