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Period: Mid-20th Century
Exhibited Ashcan School Nocturnal New York City Brooklyn Bridge Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist nocturnal view of the Brooklyn Bridge. Oil on board. Signed verso. Framed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
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Small Black Abstract (Xanadu)
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
George Dannatt (1915-2009)
Small Black Abstract (Xanadu)
1963
Gouache & pencil on paper
19.6 x 25.4 cm
Exhibitions
1981 May. Wills Lane Gallery, St. Ives
2001 Jly. Maltby Co...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Colorful Geometric Abstract - 1969 Original Oil On Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful Geometric Abstract - 1969 Original Oil On Canvas
Rich 1969 abstract oil painting by Bay Area artist Helen Konkoff (American, 1912-1988). Geometric shapes consisting of hues...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,560 Sale Price
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Incredible American Modernist New York City Central Park Plaza View Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive mid 1900s American school painting of Central Park. An amazing piece with hints of abstraction. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,920 Sale Price
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Cubist portrait
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Bernard Segal (1907-1986). Cubist portrait, ca. 1960. Gouache and watercolor on paper, sheet measures 10 x 13.5 inches. Unsigned. Estate stamp on vers...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$350 Sale Price
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David Hammons, Brown & Blue Abstract
Located in San Francisco, CA
This signed painting by acclaimed African-American artist David Hammons displays an early experimental use of painted material during the artist’s formative years at Otis Art Institu...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Horse Race Painting by Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Large, Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Horse Race by noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. Artwork size: 24" x 36"; Framed size: 25" x 37". Signed "Pen" lower right and ti...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Original Oil Painting of a Candid Scene of an Artist Painting on an Easel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original Oil Painting of a Candid Scene of an Artist Painting on an Easel
Artist: Roland Pichard
Medium: Oil on oil paper, mounted on card
Size: 11 (height) x 14 (width), (...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$376 Sale Price
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Venice No 2
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
George Dannatt (1915-2009)
Venice No 2
1963
Mixed media on paper
Image: 15.5 x 23.5 cm
Frame: 34.7 x 42.0 cm
Provenance: The George and Ann Dannatt Estate, The George Dannatt Tr...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Centurion, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
This vertical format abstract painting by Modernist artist Stanley Bate measures at 26" x 50" framed. The original gold-hued floater frame pulls out the vibrant and warm pops of yell...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Abstract Expressionist "Forms Divide" Like Franz Kline
Located in Miami, FL
It's 1951. Who was doing painting like this? Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Lee Kra...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Colorful Abstract painting by Arnold Weber 1968
By Arnold Weber
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arnold Weber, American (1931 - 2010)
Title: Colorful Abstract
Year: 1968
Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed, titled and dated l.l.
Size: 32 x 44 in. (81.28 x 111.76 cm)
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Purple Abstract Mountain:Latin American Modernist Salvadoran sculptural painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful work by the elusive Salvadoran Mauricio Aguilar which is sculptural as well as pictorial. As I hope the video will show, the artwork offers new perpectives when viewed fr...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Board
Scottish 1949 Abstract - Interieur Forme Blanche - CoBrA art oil painting
By William Gear
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning Scottish Abstract oil painting is by much noted artist William Gear. It was painted in 1949, not long after Gear de mobbed in 1947, moved to Paris and established a one room studio at 13 Quai des Grands Augustins, hence the title Interieur, Forme Blanche. At the same time, Gear was introduced to CoBrA, allowing him to exhibit in important early CoBrA shows in Copenhagen and in Amsterdam in 1949. The same year saw an exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York, alongside Jackson Pollock. Gear remained in Paris until the early fifties. This bold abstract mixes blocks of solid colour with more geometric lines and is an excellent and important example of his period in Paris.
Signed and dated '49 lower left.
Provenance: Private London collection.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 24 inches by 20 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in a wooded white painted frame, 34 inches by 30 inches and in good condition.
Few British painters have played an active role in the modern abstract movement of post-war Europe. William Gear was the most passionate and committed exception. He continued the tradition of the Edinburgh-Paris axis established by J.D. Fergusson, Samuel Peploe and others, spending vital years between 1947 and 1950 living and working in Paris. Significantly, in recent years, he received the greatest acclaim in France, Germany and the Netherlands. He was born in 1915 in Methil, Fife, into a mining family; the particular landscape of "pitheads, the sea, rocks, castles, trees, storms and poverty" marked his earliest identity with a place and probably remained the most influential to his art. Years later he recalled as a schoolboy visiting the local art gallery in Kirkcaldy and seeing 12 colourful still-lifes by Peploe. Art-history lessons during student years at Edinburgh College of Art, in particular Byzantine classes under David Talbot Rice, also influenced his concern for structure. This had as much to do with the formal language of painting as sheer delight in the medium itself. Gear never missed an opportunity to show people the merits of a well-constructed painting. On a travelling scholarship in 1937, he chose to study with Fernand Leger, described by Gear as "a keystone for me, seldom abstract, rather a degree of abstraction". The Second World War interrupted these formative years and, by 1940, Gear had joined the Royal Corps of Signals. Dispatched to the Middle East, he still had the discipline to paint - mostly works on paper of damaged landscapes - with exhibitions in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Cairo as well as Siena and Florence. His naturally robust and tenacious temperament was profoundly affected by visiting Bergen-Belsen, and this certainly influenced the later experiments with the black armature. As the British officer in Celle, working for the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section of the Control Commission, he focused on securing the safety of the Berlin Art Collection in Schloss Celle, and organised an important series of modern art exhibitions, including the rejected work of Karl Otto Gotz...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Carmel's Romantic Mission San Carlos Borromeo Del Rio Carmelo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Without a doubt California's charming coastal village of Carmel compels one to romance. But this location, the 1797 Mission San Carlos Borromeo Del Rio Carmelo, with its lovely, foun...
Category
Pointillist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Large New York School Abstract Expressionist Colorful Mixed Media Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Taro Yamamoto, (American, 1919-1994)
"La Gatta Miso"
Oil or Acrylic/Canvas
32" x 50"
Hand signed lower right, dated 1990,
Titled on the stretcher verso, unframed.
Taro Yamamoto (...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Untitled Abstract" Abstract Expressionist, Color Field, Black & White, Colors
Located in Detroit, MI
"Untitled Abstract" is by the American painter, Robert Goodnough, known for calligraphy-like markings circa 1960s. Though he was associated with the Abstract Expressionists, Goodnoug...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Cubist Nude Abstract Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist nude oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed. Signed
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
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Casas de Ibiza (Ibiza Spain Landscape)
By Enrique Climent
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Enrique Climent (1897-1980). Casas de Ibiza, c.1960. Oil and sand on canvas, 35 x 46 inches; 44.5 x 55.5 inches (frame). Signed lower left. Excellent condition with no damage or conservation. Instituo National de Bellas Artes lebel affixed en verso.
Biography:
Enrique Climent ( Valencia , Spain, 1897- Mexico City , 1980) was a Spanish painter and graphic designer, present in the Spanish Pavilion of the International Exhibition of Paris in 1937 , two of whose works are conserved in the National Museum Art Center Reina Sofía , as part of the collection of the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art (MEAC). Exiled in Mexico , country in which he died at 83 years of age. He has been associated with the driving group in Spain of the "New Art".
Born in a bourgeois family of the Valencian capital, despite paternal opposition, Climent studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos , and with a scholarship received in 1919, traveled to Madrid to complete them in San Fernando . In the capital of Spain he participated in the gathering of Ramón Gómez de la Serna , for whom he illustrated some greguerías , and in the avant-garde activities of the then-called first Escuela de Vallecas , Associated with the Society of Iberian Artists . He also collaborated as an illustrator of Blanco y Negro magazine, 3 and illustrated books by Elena Fortún , Azorín , Juan Manuel Díaz Caneja and Manuel Abril . 3 Before, in 1924 he had been in Paris for two years, where he came to design some stage sets for opera shows. 6
He participated in three of the exhibitions of "Los Ibéricos" (San Sebastián in 1931, Copenhagen in 1932 and Berlin in 1933), as well as in the International Exhibitions of Contemporary Spanish Art in Paris and Venice in 1936.
He was one of the Spanish exiles who in 1939 landed in Veracruz , after the crossing of the Sinaia , along with other intellectuals and artists (such as José Moreno Villa , Arturo Souto...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$15,000 Sale Price
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Portrait of a Gentleman with Glasses - Contemporary Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Portrait of a Gentleman with Glasses - Contemporary Oil Painting
Artist: Roland Pichard
Medium: Oil on oil paper, mounted on card
Size: 13.75 (height) x 10.75 (width) (Moun...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Landscape, large mid-century green painting, COBRA art movement
Located in Beachwood, OH
Erik Ortvad (Danish, 1917 - 2008)
Abstract Landscape, 1946
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
32 X 37.5 inches
35 x 40.5 inches, framed
Born in 1917 in Copenhagen, Erik Ortvad was a surrealist painter and a founding member of the COBRA art...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Max Gunther Abstract Cityscape, Acrylic Collage on Canvas
By Max Gunther
Located in Detroit, MI
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This abstract acrylic work by Max Günther is an exquisite example of his abstract cityscape work. A preferred subject of Günther's, his work took cityscape shapes...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Nature Study with Leaves Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Nature Study with Leaves Abstract
Artist: Elvic Steele
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4.5 height x 5 width
Condition: Good
Prov...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Nicely Framed Modernist Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive early American abstract expressionist painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Housed in a wonderful period wide modernist frame.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
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Antique Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Framed Signed Oil Painting
By Suzanne McCullough
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist abstract painting by Suzanne McCullough (b.1916). Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 24L x ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1960s "Fruit Bowl in Mexico" Gouache & Oil Pastel Abstract Mid Century
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield
Mexican Fruit Bowl
1960s
Oil Pastel and Gouache on Paper
36"x32" unframed $1600
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
1950's SIGNED FRENCH CUBIST OIL PAINTING - BEAUTIFUL ORANGE BLUE GREEN COLORS
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Albert Coste (French 1896-1985), signed lower right.
Born 8 November 1895, in Marseilles; died 22 August 1985, in Marseilles.
Albert Cos...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large French Abstract Oil Painting Beautiful Colors
By Jean-Francois Pierre
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Absolutely stunning original French abstract oil painting, dating to 1961. The work is on a large scale, measuring 36 x 25.5 inches. It is by the 2...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$6,277 Sale Price
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Abstract Figural and Pediments - Two Sided Art - James Coughlin
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Figural and Pediments - Two Sided Art
Mid century figural and architectural painting on paper. Heavy layers of paint with a dog on an abutment and two Japanese wrestlers...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Trees in Bloom Along the River Landscape in oil on Heavy Cardstock
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Trees in Bloom Along the River Landscape in Oil on Heavy Cardstock
Bold oil landscape by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Trees with pink and white blooms line the bank of a river. The river is shown in streaks of pink, green, and yellow, reflecting the surrounding landscape. At the far edge of the river, bright green mountains sharply rise from the bank.
Acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Stamp from the Larry Miller Fine Art on verso.
Unframed.
Board size: 14.75"H x 22"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...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
"Untitled" Ray Parker, Color Field Lyrical Abstract, Blue and Magenta Painting
Located in New York, NY
Ray Parker
Untitled, 1969
Signed and dated on the reverse
Oil on canvas
32 x 32 inches
Provenance
Private Collection, New York
Ray Parker was born in 1922 in South Dakota. After c...
Category
Color-Field Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Rail Crossing: Middletown, NY"
By Jules Halfant
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful oil on linen canvas painting, entitled "Rail Crossing: Middletown, was executed by the esteemed artist Jules Halfant (American, 1909-2001)...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stunning British 20th Century Abstract - Thick Impasto Oil - Bright Colours
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning - bold - bright and colourful! All words that wonderfully describe this vibrant burst of colour on the wall!
The painting is by the relatively undiscovered abstract painter...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,158 Sale Price
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"Flowers and Bugs" Abstract Painting 1963 CA Female Artist
By Selma Moskowitz
Located in Arp, TX
Selma Moskowitz
"Flowers and Bugs"
2/19/1963
Oil paint and paper on paper
25.5"x15.25" unframed
Signed and dated lower right in pencil
With a career spanning over five decades, Selm...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
$480 Sale Price
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Vintage French Expressionist Female Impasto Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5050 Heavy impasto figurative oil painting
Set in a hand carved 19th century wood frame
Image size 17.5x 13.5"
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Roland Petersen Abstract Color Etching, Whiskeytown Pattern
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Beautiful etching by California/Denmark artist Roland Petersen (b. 1926).
This print measures 15 1/2" H x 19 1/4" W image size, is in excellent condition and is unframed.
Pencil sign...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
Vintage American Modernist Stark Red House Landscape Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring 23 by 38 inches overall and 15 by 30 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Hands...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$780 Sale Price
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Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Geometric Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract geometric oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
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Antique American Abstract Expressionist Signed Large Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Signed. Image size 46L x 36H. Framing is available!
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$596 Sale Price
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Abstract composition
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Polish Ecole De Paris Modernist Oil Painting Abstract Dancers
Located in Surfside, FL
Alfred Aberdam (1894–1963) painter and graphic artist was a painter of School of Paris, born in Lvov, capital of Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Born in Lviv, Krystonopol, East Galicia (now Chervonograd, Ukraine) and received a traditional Jewish education in a Heder while studying Hebrew with private teachers. In 1905–12 he lived in Lvov, where he finished high school. He decided to become an artist at the age of 14. At this time he came into contact with young Yiddish Judaic writers (Melech Ravitch, Abraham Moshe Fuks, and others) and with Zionist youth groups in Lvov. He attended their meetings and their lectures on Jewish Judaica artists. After graduating high school, he organized several conferences in his hometown on Italian and Flemish masters and on the first Jewish painters, including Josef Israels (1824-1911). In 1911 he started to study art at the Munich Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. Lemberg/Lwów (today Lviv), studies under Gabriel von Hackl (1843-1926). During World War I he was imprisoned by the Russians and stayed in the camp for prisoners of war in Siberia where he became acquainted with David Burliuk and other Russian futurists. In 1917, Aberdam was appointed People’s Commissar of the Department of Fine Arts by the local soviet, which assigned him the task of reorganizing artistic teaching. A year later, in Moscow, he befriended the poet Vladimir Mayakovski.
In 1921 in Poland, he began his studies at Kraków's Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Teodora Axentowicz, then lived in Paris. There he participated in numerous exhibitions, and in a Poland exhibition in the Gallery of Modern Art Editions in 1929. In the latter he organized the exhibition in 1931. In 1932 he exhibited in Warsaw and Lviv. From 1933 he belonged to a group of visual artists known as "Nowocześni". In 1923, while he was staying in Berlin, he met Menkes and Weingart in sculptor Alexander Archipenko’s studio. In 1924, he settled in Paris in the Montparnasse area. In the end of 1925, Jan Sliwinski held an exhibition in his gallery Au Sacre du Printemps, at 5 rue du Cherche-Midi, Paris. His work was exhibited alongside paintings by his Galician friends Leon Weissberg, Sigmund Menkes and Joachim Weingart...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fred Kenknight "Midday Sun" Abstract Oil Painting c.1963
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fred Kenknight Vintage 1960s "Midday Sun" Abstract Oil Painting
Fantastic vintage oil painting signed by Fred Kenknight.
Though untitled, we are call...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Composition - Mixed Media by Roberto Crippa - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original contemporary artwork realized in the mid-20th century by Roberto Crippa.
Mixed media (tempera and collage).
Signature on the back.
Includes frame: 65 x 6 x 64 cm
Colorful and power artwork with a mixed composition of geometrical shapes and with different contrasting colors.
Gaetano Crippa known as Roberto Crippa (Monza, 1921 - Bresso, 1972) was an Italian painter, sculptor and aviator. He started painting in 1945, with a figurative style and cubist influence close to Picasso's style. He joined the spatial movement with Lucio Fontana, Gian Carozzi...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Florida Oil Painting African American Woman Art Annie Nobles Miller Indian River
Located in Surfside, FL
"Annie Nobles Miller"
Abstract Florida landscape oil on board painting
Hand signed lower left Inscribed on verso St. Lucie County.
Measures: Board 24"H x 30"W; Framed - 32"H x 38"W.
Annie Miller was a member of the Indian River School of Painting, which was not a formal school but was a group of mostly African-American Florida working class people who wanted to paint. Following is the explanation of that school and its participants. Indian River School is a name applied to Floridian artists in the 1950's and 1960's. They were heavily influenced by nature. Most of the artists in this movement were African American. Their work is characterized by quick strokes and eschews traditional methods of paintings. The main influence for the group was a man named A.E. Backus, a Bohemian white man who mentored the group of young black artists. The group used to congregate in his studio and learnt to paint from 'Beanie' (as he was called) as a way out of their lower class labour jobs. Their work was powerful, dramatic yet captured the serenity and beauty of the Florida
Although the exact count of artists mentored by A.E. Backus remains unknown, experts estimate it to be around 20 individuals, many of whom he supported through college.
Albert Ernest "Beanie" Backus (1906–1990) was famous for his vivid, naturalist Florida landscapes capturing a fast-vanishing Florida wild lands. Backus would come to be seen as the seminal Florida landscape painter, and others who followed would emulate him. Primarily of the Indian River and Everglades areas of Florida. Backus was a Native Floridian artist of great importance recreating scenes of Florida's sky, rivers, ocean, back country, unpredictable weather, clouds, and birds. Born in Fort Pierce, FL to a family of talented boat designers and builders. His "Uncle" Reg Goodwin helped Backus as a young painter go to the Parsons School of Fine Art in New York in 1924. He was referred to as “Florida’s painter laureate,” and the “Dean of Florida’s landscape painters.”In addition to his influence on the Florida Highwaymen painters (Alfred Hair...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Geometric Abstract
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
A major exponent of non-objective painting, Rolph Scarlett's career and artistic philosophy is closely linked with the early history of the Solomon R. Guggenhei...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ribbons of Memory, surrealist composition by D Ollard
Located in London, GB
D Ollard
Ribbons of Memory
Gouache and photographic collage
20 x 26 cm
Signed to reverse
Provenance: The family of A. E. Halliwell
Little is known about D Ollard other than the fac...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Photographic Film, Gouache
Untitled Concert Hall painting Mid Century Surrealistic spiritual unique signed
Located in New York, NY
Agatha Wojciechowsky
Untitled Concert Hall Abstraction Watercolor, 1964
Watercolor on thick wove paper (with original label from Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery)
Signed and dated by the artist on the lower-right front
19 3/4 × 15 inches
Unframed
Dazzling 1960s, modern abstraction watercolor piece. This work was acquired from the legendary Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery
Agatha Wojciechowsky (1896 -1986) was recognized during her lifetime as a Surrealist. Although not following an art movement, her work reflected the sentiment of Art Informel of the 1950's. She had solo exhibitions from the 1960's to the present in New York, Cologne, Berlin, and Hamburg. Group exhibitions included shows with Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Dubuffet, Isamu Noguchi, Francis Picabia, Romare Bearden. Her artwork can be found in numerous public collections including Museum of Modern Art, the Prado, the Menil Collection, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Museum.
Agatha lived her earlier years in Steinach de Saale, and then sailed to the United States in 1923 to be a German-speaking governess in a German baron...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Pansy Presence' Fantasy Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting.
Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Abstract Cubist Mid Century Framed Composition Signed Geist
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist abstract composition signed Geist. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed lower right. Displayed in a wood frame. Excellent ready to hang condition.
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Georges Mathieu Sator 1968 Oil on Canvas Lyrical Abstraction Bright Blue
Located in Paris, FR
1968
Oil on canvas, signed and dated « Mathieu 68 » lower right and titled « Sator » on the stretcher.
The artwork is accompanied by a certificate by the Association “Archives Jean-M...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rufino Tamayo Lithograph "The Red Horse of The Apocalypse" Mexico 1959
Located in Dallas, TX
Rufino Tamayo
(Mexican, 1899-1991)
'The Red Horse of the Apocalypse' from the
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Series.
Commissioned by Issac-Louis Lemaistre De Sacy as illustratio...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
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 Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,925 Sale Price
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Abstract Piece - Mid 20th Century Colourful Oil on Canvas by Metchiled Naviasky
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Metchiled Naviasky
Refugee from Europe who studied art in England. During the war she became picture editor of famous magazine PIcture Post. Later she taught mysticism in art at t...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Oval Spiral
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "The Oval Spiral" is a Post-War, geometric abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in bold colors of reds and blacks by artist Alexander Calder. T...
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Post-War Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Antique American NYC School Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Strong color and composition.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$476 Sale Price
20% Off
Lyre Bird (Design for the cover of Poetry London), 1943, Ink, gouache and pastel
Located in New York, NY
Ceri Richards
Lyre Bird (Design for the cover of Poetry London), 1943
Ink, gouache and pastel on paper
Bears original Jonathan Clark & Co. label on the back of the frame
Unique
Frame...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Gouache
Mid Century Antica Roma Figurative Abstract Collage
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning mid century mixed media collage of Roman travel items and photos by James A. Couglin, a Berkeley Abstract Expressionist (American, 1929-1979), c.1966. Painted during his Par...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Magazine Paper
$1,580 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of a Gentleman in Blue with Glasses - Expressive Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Portrait of a Gentleman in Blue with Glasses - Expressive Oil Painting
Artist: Roland Pichard
Signed: Bottom right
Medium: Oil on oil paper, mounted on card
Size: 14 (heig...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$478 Sale Price
30% Off
Imaginary City by Vivaldo Martini - Oil on canvas 70x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
His first name sounds like a concerto. Vivacious, its name is reminiscent of an aperitif or a cyclist. The addition of the two evokes the Italianate. Indomitable and unavoidable. Mor...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century abstract geometric oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
Untitled, c. 1950
Oil on paper
Signed lower right
12.5 x 19 inc...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
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