Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings

Bright Abstract by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 18 x 24 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very ...

Apple Still Life by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 19.5 x 14.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condi...

Modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Unsigned. Displayed in a linen frame. Image size, 20"L x 18"H, overall, 23"L x 21"H.

Mid Century Abstract in polymerised macro-molecular paint on canvas applied to a painted wooden board by Belgian artist Paul H Saffre. Signed and dated {1963) on the board below the ...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: 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 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, returning to New York when he was 20. From 1913 to 1916, he enjoyed a scholarship from the Art Students League, and worked with John C. Johansen (a portraitist whose expressive style resembled that of John Singer Sargent), and Anders Zorn. He accepted a teaching position at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1916, remaining there until 1921. This enabled him to travel to Europe to study Cézanne’s paintings and works of the Old Masters. He traveled to Paris, Prague, Dresden, Berlin, and Munich seeking the works of Titian, Cranach, Rembrandt, Veronese, and Holbein, which gave him new perspective. Vytlacil studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, settling there in 1921. Fellow students were Ernest Thurn and Worth Ryder, who introduced him to famous abstractionist Hans Hofmann. He worked with Hofmann from about 1922 to 1926, as a student and teaching assistant. During the summer of 1928, after returning to the United States, Vytlacil gave lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on modern European art. Soon thereafter, he became a member of the Art Students League faculty. After one year, he returned to Europe and successfully persuaded Hofmann to teach at the League as well. He spent about six years in Europe, studying the works of Matisse, Picasso, and Dufy. In 1935, he returned to New York and became a co-founder of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936. He later had teaching posts at Queens College in New York; the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California; Black Mountain College in North Carolina; and the Art Students League. His paintings exhibit a clear inclination toward modernism. His still lives and interiors from the 1920s indicate an understanding of the art of Cézanne. In the 1930s, his works displayed two very different kinds of art at the same time. His cityscapes and landscapes combine Cubist-inspired spatial concerns with an expressionistic approach to line and color. Vytlacil also used old wood, metal, cork, and string in constructions, influenced by his friend and former student, Rupert Turnbull. He eventually ceased creating constructions as he considered them too limiting. The spatial challenges of painting were still his preference. During the 1940s and 1950s, his works indicated a sense of spontaneity not felt in his earlier work. He married Elizabeth Foster in Florence, Italy, in 1927 and they lived and worked in Positano, Italy for extended periods of time. Later on, they divided their time between homes in Sparkill, New York and Chilmark, Massachusetts, where Vyt, as he was affectionately called, taught at the Martha's Vineyard Art...

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...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Gerard Guegueniat (French 1970's) signed oil painting on board, board: 16 x 32 inches inscribed verso provenance: private collection, France co...

Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Panama Garden, c. 1964 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 46 x 38 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...

This captivating 1960s vintage oil painting, Demeter and Persephone, is an original, signed work by celebrated mid-20th-century Denver artist Edward Marecek (1919–2004). Inspired by ...

Post-Impressionist Oil Painting of Donegal Wetlands Landscape in Ireland by 20th Century Irish Artist, Charles McNeill Caldwell. Signed, Ori...

Boys in Blue French School, Mid 20th century Oil painting on board, framed Signed on the lower right hand corner Framed size: 34.5 x 23 inches This artist was clearly inspired by Pi...

Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Image size, 20H x 30L. Signed.

Julian Stanczak (American, 1928-2017) Double Focus II, 1963 acrylic on canvas signed and dated verso 33 x 40 inches Julian Stanczak (American, b. November 5, 1928) was an American ...

"France" by Jean Pierre Stagnaro (1927 - 2013) 1960 signed inscribed verso signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 13.5 x 18.5 inches canvas: 13 x 18 inches provenance: private collection, France; Salon exhibition label...

James Brooks (1906-1992). Plantlike, c.1945. Oil on canvas measures 18 x 24 inches; 24 x 30 inches in a painted wood frame of the period. Signed "J. David Brooks" lower right, Signed...

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

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 11 x 7.5 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we have...

"The Fire," night landscape by Gabrielle Ricard - Cordingley. Yr 1967. A night landscape with forest fire, painted by Gabrielle Ricard-Cordingley (b. 1924), daughter of a well-known ...

Signed lower right, 'C G Nelson' for Carl Gustaf Simon Nelson (American, 1898-1988) and dated 1956. A substantial, Modernist oil showing a profusion of white and pink poppies contra...

Vegetable Still Life by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 21 x 16.5 inches stamped verso provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good...

Abstract painting, ca. 1970s measures 25 x 30 inches. Oil on canvas, unsigned. Stunning modernist custom carved picture frame by Newcomb Macklin. ca. 1950 production. Long, elegant...

Large Geometric Abstract Oil Painting on Masonite No visible signature 36 x 48 unframed, 37.5 x 49.5 framed

It makes a bold statement. Field Green is one of a series of colour field paintings created by modernist Milly Ristvedt. Renowned as a master colourist, Ristvedt chose a bright palet...

Figurative Cubist Surrealist Abstraction Mid 20th Century American Modern Large O. Louis Guglielmi (1906 - 1956) OBSESSIVE THEME 44 x 33 inches Oil on canvas Signed and dated '48 lo...

Andre Raffin French, 1927-2005 Les Fruits Oil on Canvas 18 in. by 22 in. W/frame 25 ½ in. by 29 ½ in. Signed & dated 61 lower left André Raffin was bor...

A mixed media artwork by Jim Dine. A silverpoint and acrylic on 2 joined canvases, wood, knife, and string in artist's frame work by Post War artist Jim Dine. "Double Silver Point Robes" depicts the outline of two robes in silverpoint on a white acrylic painted ground. Jim Dine's use of his favorite bathrobe, a frequent image in his works, is a self portrait which connects an everyday object and imbues it with meaning. This Robe painting was part of the first exhibition of Robe paintings at Sidney Janis...

Pablo Picasso's linocuts, a printmaking technique using carved linoleum blocks, showcase his graphic genius and exploration of various themes. He used linocut to create posters and a...

Very finely executed modernist ballet scene. Pastel and gouache on paper. Handsomely framed. Image size, 12H by 16L.

Abstract Expressionist composition by Andre Guillou (French 1925-2017) oil on board stuck on board, mounted mount: 25.5 x 19.75 inches board: 11.5 x 9 inches provenance: the artists...

Maryn Hunzeker, American, 1907 - 1972 Title - The Refinery. Possible mixed media on board (Paper, Collage, Oil, Ink) Not dated - We believe this to be circa 1950's - Signed lower right Another stunning vintage mid century abstract painting...

An original mid century modern abstract expressionist painting by American artist Toma Yovanovich. Toma Yovanovich (1931-2016) Yovanovich was a painter/printmaker whose work i...

Wonderful mid century abstract expressionist landscape of bridge over water cityscape, circa 1960. Illegible signature lower left ("Aioli"?). Conditi...

Pointillist Abstract Design by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998) initialled lower right in the image and again in the margin gouache painting on paper, unframed unfinished sketch on th...

Mid Century Modern, American Abstract Expressionist Painting on Masonite. This wonderful work in exciting colors is housed in a contemporary white wood frame presentation.. The art...

Untitled is an original artwork realized by the Italian contemporary artist Marisa Busanel (1933-1990) in 1964. Mixed media artwork on panel (collage a...

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...

French School, circa 1970's Cubist composition oil on board, unframed board: 29 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition

Horse Riders by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 15.5 x 19 inches stamped verso provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good...

Geometric Abstraction Oil on wood construction 26 x 25 1/4 in.

Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

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...

Original oil paint on heavy archival paper abstract by the American artist, Martin Rosenthal. Bold, vibrant colors. Signed lower right by the artist and dated 1964. Condition is goo...

SPANISH WALKS Size: 24 x 37 cm (including frame) Oil on Board An outstanding semi-abstract oil composition, painted in 1958 by the established Swedish artist Ivar Morsing (1919-2009...

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

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...

Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24H x 30L

Modern warm toned Cubist style still life painting by Texas artist David Adickes. The work features a collection of bottles and fruit displayed on a pedestal against a deep maroon ba...

A Fabulous 1950s Mid-Century Modern Still Life Painting by Notable Chicago Woman Artist, Vivian Kinsley Chapin (Am. 1909-1984). A vibrant, colorful still life painting of a turquois...

Abstract Expressionist composition by Andre Guillou (French 1925-2017) signed oil on paper stuck on board, mounted mount: 26 x 20 inches board: 19 x 13 inches provenance: the artists...

Jacqueline Pavlowsky was born in 1921 in Vincennes to Russian and Polish Jewish parents who had emigrated to France. After the war, she pursued parallel studies in chemistry, while d...

A painting by Alexander Calder. "Vive" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in bold colors of reds, blacks, and blues by artist Alexander Calder. The artwork is signed lower right, "Calder 72...

Antique American modernist New York City oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Label from Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011).

Antique American abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 26 by 36 inches overall and 20 by 30 painting alone.

Antique American modernist New England barn oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Signed illegibly. Image size, 24L x 20H. Framed in a period f...

Very nicely painted American modernist still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 24H by 12L.

Victor Brauner (1903-1966) La récapitulation de l'amour 1934 oil on canvas 50.2 x 61.2 cm Price: £85,000 GBP Provenance: Edouard Léon Théodore Mesens, Brussels Thence by descent N...

Abstract Expressionist painting of Bay Area Hills by Honora Berg Berkeley San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionist landscape by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). A brilliant e...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on thick board unframed: 8 x 8 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we have fo...

Mid Century Modern abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Unsigned. Unframed.

A mid-century abstract expressionist oil on canvas presented in a plain wooden frame. The work is titled and there are initials 'G.O.' (artist?) on a label to the rear stretcher as w...