1950s Abstract Paintings

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Ervin B. Nussbaum (1914 - 1996). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Dated 1950. Artist Bio: Ervin B. Nussbaum was born in Co...

Composition is an original contemporary artwork realized in the mid-20th Century by Mario Asnago. Mixed colored oil painting. Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes frame: 90x5...

Nicely painted American impressionist tropical beach landscape. Oil on board. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period wood molding. Excellent condition, re...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H.

Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on board. Signed and dated lower right and verso, titled verso. 36.25 x 48 in. 40.5 x 52.25 in. (framed) Framed in contemporary silver, tiered floater frame. Dennis Eugene Norman Burton was a Canadian modernist who was born in Lethbridge, Ontario. He attended the Ontario College of Art from 1952 to 1956, and worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) as a graphic designer until 1960. Inspired by a 1955 exhibition of the “Painters Eleven” at Toronto’s Hart House, as well as American Abstract Expressionist artists such as Robert Motherwell, Jack Tworkov, and Willem de Kooning, Burton shifted his focus toward abstraction in the mid-1950s. Burton showed with the famed Isaacs Gallery in Toronto, becoming one of the youngest members on the gallery’s roster. A talented musician, he also played saxophone in the Artist’s Jazz Band in Toronto - a pioneering Canadian free-jazz group...

Work from the second school of Paris.

Antique American modernist signed abstract still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.

Vintage American school signed modernist cubist still life oil painting and collage. Oil and mixed media on board. Signed. Framed. I...

Sewell Sillman Green, circa 1958 Acrylic on masonite 21.5 x 28 inches Upon attending Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina, Sewell Sillman’s life was arguably altered...

This superb British abstract expressionist oil painting is by noted Suffolk British artist Robert Sadler. Painted as oil on board it was painted in 1957 and is entitled Seaport 1 on ...

Blue and green-toned modern abstract figurative portrait painting by Houston, TX artist David Adickes. The work features two men figures standing side by s...

Berto Lardera (1911-1989). Collage, 1958. Paper, cardboard, paint. 29 x 40.5 inches; 31.5 x 42 inches framed. Signed and dated lower right. Bears origina...

Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Fauvist Oil on Paper Honora Berg Berkeley 1959 San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist painting by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985).A brilliant fauvist example of the melting pot of colors Honora Berg creates. Splashes of red over hues of blue with bright canary yellow swirls and patches. Estate stamp on verso "Estate of Honora Berg - Miller Fine Art" Unframed. 30"H x 22"W. Larry Miller 1958-2003, Larry was a specialist in bay area abstract artists and purchased numerous bay area artists estates. He purchased the entirety of the Honora Berg Estate and we purchased many of those works directly form Larry. Honora Berg, an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist, studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon...

Original oil on canvas painting. Hand signed, titled and dated on verso by Roberto Matta. Frame size approx 38 x 46 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of A...

Antique American school abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 25L x 47H.

Vintage American abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.

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Hand signed on the rear, in excellent conditions.

Antique American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.

Vintage American modernist landscape abstract painting. Oil on board, circa 1952. Signed. Image size, 21.5"L x 7.5"H. Housed in a period modern frame.

Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Signed.

This superb Scottish Abstract oil painting is by noted sixties Edinburgh artist Alexander McNeish. An early work, painted circa 1957 when McNeish was just 25 years old, it demonstrat...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker. Framed. Oil on canvas.

Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 36L x 31H.

Vintage American modernist abstract Maine landscape painting. Watercolor and gouache on paper, circa 1960. Signed on verso. Image size, 30...

Vintage Indonesian modernist nude oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting by Jane Lapey. Oil on canvas. Exhibition label verso. Framed. Image size, 28L x 22H.

ZORA STAACK 1910-2001 (Yugoslavian/Active in France) Title: Abstract Composition, 1958 Technique: Original Signed and Dated Oil Painting on Canvas size:...

Unidentified/Unknown Artist "Untitled (Autumnal Landscape in Ochre, Red, Green) , Abstract Landscape Oil on Canvas signed, 26.25 x 32.50, Mid 20th Century, 1957 Colors: Ochre, White...

Dora Maar è lo pseudonimo di Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Parigi 1907 - 1997). Avvolta nell'ombra monumentale di Picasso, è stata a lungo - e riduttivamente - conosciuta come la su...

Abstract Composition in Pink and Black in Acrylic on Cardboard Dynamic abstract in black and pink by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). This piece is composed of multiple layers, with bright, bold colors at the bottom, building to black on top. Pink, magenta, yellow, and orange shine through a net of black. Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Estate stamp on verso "Estate of Honora Berg - Miller Fine Art" Numbered "246" on verso Unframed. Art size: 21.25"H x 14"W Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell — David Park's aunt — suggested a move to California in 1951 to study under Park. She exhibited at the 25th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961. Provenance, Estate of Honora Berg - David Carlson Gallery, Larry Miller...

Green, Yellow, abstract, Picasso, Atelier stamp lower right Dora Maar, original name Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Marković), (born November 22, 1907, Paris, France—died July 16, 1...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting of coastal New England. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.

Antique modernist abstract painting by Elsie Orfuss (Born 1913). Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Nicely framed. `

Green, Yellow, abstract, Picasso, Atelier stamp lower right Dora Maar, original name Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Marković), (born November 22, 1907, Paris, France—died July 16, 1...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker (1929-2021). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

This stunning 1951 oil painting on board by renowned American artist Charles Ragland Bunnell captures an abstracted New York City skyline in a rich nocturnal color palette of black, ...

Signed lower right, 'Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966); additionally titled verso 'Consort' and dated 1954 with inscription, 'by the one and only buk, made for Ruth'....

Artist: William Littlefield, American (1902 - 1969) Title: Still Life and Abstract Year: 1950 & 1954 Medium: Double-Sided Oil on Masonite, signed and dated both sides Size: 22 x 28 i...

Antique Canadian impressionist landscape signed oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.

Guinovart. Josep Guinovart i Bertran (Barcelona 1927-2007) was a painter, draftsman and engraver from Catalonia, Spain. After studying at the School of the Lonja and the Promotion ...

Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 16L x 11H. Signed.

Here I have for sale a rare Avant-Garde painting by Minna Wright Citron (October 15, 1896 – December 21, 1991). She was wife of the famous social realist Bernard Koopman. Reginald Marsh and Raphael Soyer. She moved on to start teaching in the early 1950’s Abstract...

Signed and Dated 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 ...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framing is available.

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:...

Federico Castellon Boats in the harbor, ca. 1950 Oil on paper 25 1/5 × 17 3/10 in 64 × 44 cm (without frame) Frame included

Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Composition in Oil Pastel on Cardboard San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist composition by Ho...

Initialed lower right, 'M. W.' for Margaret Wentworth (American, 1914-1999) and dated 1959. Exhibited: Feingarten Galleries, Carmel, California, 1960, and titled on label, verso, 'Ro...

Nicely painted mid century abstract expressionist oil painting by Erwin Wending (1914 - 1993). Great color and composition. Framed. Signed. Exhibition and museum labels verso.

Gorgeous mid century modernist abstract combining earth-tones and subtlest metallic silver background by Corban LePell (American, b. 1933), 1955. Signed ...

Diana Kurz Thelo #8, circa 1959 Signed lower left Signature and address on verso Oil on canvas 47 x 41 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, ...

Antique American exhibited cubist nude portrait oil painting. Oil and casein on board. Framed. Signed. Exhibition label verso.

Antique American modernist cityscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 24L x 18H.

Radiant Relections. Abstract Non-Objective 1950s Oil Mid 20th Century American Woman Female Artist. Signed lower right. Provenance: Estate of Foy C. Casper, Norfolk, Virginia (a close personal friend of the artist and a former director of the Irene Rice-Pereira Foundation). Sothebys American art sale October 10, 2008. The canvas measures 50 x 40. The work has been restored, relined and is housed in its original frame, made by the artist's second husband, George Wellington Brown, a marine engineer from Boston. BIO Periera was an American abstract artist, poet, and philosopher who played a significant role in the development of modernism in America. She is known for her work in the Geometric abstraction, Abstract expressionist, and lyrical abstraction genres and her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school. She helped found the Federal Art Project...

Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Blue Wall, c. 1959 oil on canvas signed and titled verso 42 x 60 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller designed and made the simple gold wedding ring Avis wore for their 65 years of marriage. During those 65 years neither wavered in their mutual love, nor in the respect they shared for one another’s art. The couple lived in a converted chicken coop in Missouri while Richard was in boot camp. At the camp, he would volunteer for any job offered and one of those jobs ended up being painting road signs. His commander noticed how quickly and neatly he worked and gave him more painting work to do - eventually recommending him for a position painting murals for Army offices in Panama. Until her dying day, Avis remained angry that “The army got to keep those fabulous murals and they probably didn’t even know how wonderful they were.” In Panama, their first son, Mark, was born. After Richard’s discharge in 1953, they moved back to the Cleveland area and used the GI bill to attend Kent State gaining his BA in education. The small family then moved briefly to Buffalo, where Richard taught at the Albright Art School and the University of Buffalo – and their second son, Peter, was born. Richard had exhibited work in the Cleveland May Show and the Butler Art Museum during his art school years, and during the years in Buffalo, his work was exhibited at the gallery he had so loved as a child, the Albright Art Gallery. In 1956, the family moved back to the Cleveland area and Richard began teaching art at Lincoln West High School during the day while working toward his MA in art at Kent State in the evenings. Avis and Richard, with the help of an architect, designed their first home - a saltbox style house in Hudson, Ohio, and in 1958, their third son, Max (after Max Beckmann) was born. Richard enjoyed the consistency of teaching high school as well as the time it gave him to paint on the weekends and during the summer months. In 1961, he received his MA and his daughter, Claire, was born. With a fourth child, the house was much too small, and Avis and Richard began designing their second home. An admirer of MCM architecture, Richard’s favorite example of the style was the Farnsworth house – he often spoke of how the concepts behind this architectural style, particularly that of Mies van der Rohe, influenced his painting. Andres described himself as a 1950’s...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Antique American modernist signed oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 14L x 18H.

A wonderful mid-century interpretation of prehistoric, Paleolithic cave paintings; done in reddish earth tones and rich in visual texture by Sausalito, California artist Nan Street F...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on paper. Framed.

Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco by Garrett Price (American, 1896-1979). Signed "Garrett" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 11.75"H x 15.25"W. G...

A substantial, mid-century American Abstract oil comprising biomorphic and dimensional forms in shades of coral, jade and straw, shown gathered around a central, rectangular element ...

San Francisco Bay Area Seascape with Ships in Oil on Cardboard Seascape with large ships by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). The ocean is shown in...

Antique American impressionist street scene oil painting by Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011) . Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.

Work on canvas

This stunning post-cubist and colorist still life oil on board painting is by A. Rigollot (France, 20th Century). Colorist painting is characterized by intense color use, which becom...

Antique American abstract expressionist signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 26L x 20H.

Original, highly textured oil on canvas painting by Jacques Gandon. Signed lower right and dated 1953. The painting has the visual appearance of a woven fabric abstract. Can be hung horizontally or vertically. Condition is very good, no issues. Original artist pine strip frame. Frame has wear consistent with its age. Overall framed measurements are 24.5 by 37 inches. Vintage Jonathan Adler...

Signed upper right, 'Laisner' for George Laisner (American, 1914-1984), titled, verso, 'Fireflies', and painted circa 1955. Born in Czechoslovakia, Laisner first studied at the Uni...

This superb British 1950's abstract oil on board painting is by noted Slade School trained contemporary artist Leo Davy. Davy was born in Yorkshire but settled in Cornwall in 1968 an...

Antique American impressionist pastel painting. Pastel on paper. Framed. Signed.