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Antique Asian Modernist Abstract Signed Original Minimalist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century Asian abstract painting. Oil on board. Signed verso.
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$540 Sale Price
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French Expressionist Blue Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
oil painting on canvas
unframed: 16 x 11 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we have for sale ...
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Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960s "Storm at Sea" Gouache and Oil Pastel Abstract SF Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Storm at Sea
1960s
Gouache and Oil Pastel on paper
35.75"x33.25 float mount black wood frame measures 38.5"x1.5"x36"
Gloria (Fischer) Dudfield
July 12, 1922 – May 27, 2015
Came from...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
$2,400 Sale Price
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French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
oil painting on canvas
unframed: 24 x 24 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we have for sale...
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Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's French Abstract Oil Painting Very Very Thick Impasto Oil Exhibited work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Jean Pierre Stagnaro (1927 - 2013)
signed
inscribed verso
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 25 x 48 inches
canvas: 24.75 x 47.75 inches
provenance: private collection, France;...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Expressionist Bay Area Hills Landscape
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
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...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Gouache
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 15H x 23L.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
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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.
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Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Female Artist Abstract Expressionist Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist abstract painting by Elsie Orfuss (Born 1913). Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Nicely framed.
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Triptychon
Located in Wien, 9
Der Künstler Miloslav Cicvárek (1927-2007) ist ein Tschechischer Nachkriegs und Zeitgenössischer Maler, Grafiker, Bildhauer und Restaurator. Das künstlerische Werk von Miloslav Cicvá...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Signed Interior Modernist Abstract San Fran Museum Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed interior oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 9L x 10H. Provenance from the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$796 Sale Price
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1960s Bay Area Landscape Blue Mountains
Located in Arp, TX
Thelma Corbin Moody
Blue Mountains
c. 1960's
Gouache on Arches Paper
19 1/4" x 24 3/4", Unframed
Unsigned
Lovely, mid century gouache painting, b...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
CARLOS CARNERO (1922-1980) ORIGINAL DRAWING BY FERNAND LEGER STUDIO WORKER
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Portrait"
by Carlos Carnero (Uruguay/ French 1922-1980)
Pencil on thin paper, unframed
paper: 10.5 x 8.25 inches
provenance: the artists estate, Pari...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Floating in a Surrealist Space - Abstract Composition in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Floating in a Surrealist Space - Abstract Composition in Acrylic on Canvas
Surrealist composition by California and Washington state artist David Sherburne (American, b. 1943). A fl...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Vibrant Abstract, Blue, Colourful Oil Painting, Original
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vibrant Abstract, Blue, Colourful Oil Painting, Original
By French artist 'L.Polevin', 20th Century
Signed indistinctly and dated '1986', signed verso
Oil painting on canvas, unframe...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$876 Sale Price
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Untitled (43)
By Hanna Eshel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled (43)
Hanna Eshel, Israeli (1926)
Date: 1965
Oil and Assemblage on Burlap, signed and dated verso
Size: 39 x 31 in. (99.06 x 78.74 cm)
Frame Size: 45 x 37 inches
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
Large Modernist French Abstract Expressionist Colorful Bird Painting Roger Lersy
By Roger Lersy
Located in Surfside, FL
Roger Lersy, French (1920 - 2004)
Oil on canvas
Signed, R. Lersy, dated 1961 lower right
Measuring 35 X 31 Matted and framed. sight 26 X 21.5
Roger Lersy was born in Paris, France 1920, in the rough neighborhood surrounding Place Pigalle. His youth was marked by extreme poverty. Lersy studied art and music at the École des Arts Apppliqués. He was a painter, lithographer and musician-composer He belongs to the École de Paris and was a member in the movement of the Young Painting. By 1946, when he first exhibited in Paris, Lersy became one of the founders of the School of Paris’ New Graphic School. Lersy received the Prix des Amateurs d’Art in 1953, the Shell Prize in 1954 and the Grand Prize of the City of Marseilles in 1953. Lersy could be defined as a Baroque expressionist. For Bernard Dorival, Roger Lersy is along with Gabriel Dauchot, Jean Commère and Raymond Guerrier among "the most noted champions of this expressionism which is part of the continuation of Bernard Buffet's miserabilism".
Famous works:
New Year's Eve , Aubusson tapestry of the Manufacture des Gobelins , Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations , One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza , New York .
Venice , bridges , watercolor, 1963 (theme of the Roger Lersy exhibition, Chicago).
The poppy , original lithograph, Imprimerie Bellini, 1978, collection of the Cabinet des estampes , BNF . Still life at the pedestal table , oil on canvas, Jonzac town hall.
Lohengrin , oil on canvas, Versailles Administrative Court of Appeal.
Portrait of the painter Tony Agostini , drawing. Series Eiffel Tower.
Stained glass:
Saint-Laurent Church, Longlaville ( Meurthe-et-Moselle ), 29 stained glass windows.
Musical works:
Stained glasses for clarinet , saxophone, cello and percussion , creation in the church of Longlaville, 1972. Three pieces for two waves Martenot : 1. Scum of dream, 2. Scare and jubilation. Malicious connivance, sheet music Editions A. Leduc, Paris, 1979.
Work for trumpet and piano , published by Éditions G. Billaudot, Paris, 1984.
Five pieces for piano , scores published by G. Billaudot, Paris, 1989.
Five preludes for piano and alto saxophone , scores at Éditions Combre, premiere at Flâneries musicales de Reims , 1993. In memory of Chagall , piece for flute and percussion , recording of Duo Hyksos (Henri Tournier, flute and Michel Gastaud, percussion) in 1995. Preface in black and yellow for horn and piano , score at Éditions Combre, Arc-en-ciel collection, 2000.
Soundtracks: Diatomées Note 4 , 19 , film by Jean Painlevé...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
'Abstract, Cream and Rose', Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Musée d'Art Moderne
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Kurt Weber' for Kurt Oscar Weber (Swiss-American, 1938-2011); additionally dated, verso, May 1963, and signed.
Framed dimensions: 46 H x 1.5 D x 58.5 W inches.
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Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Framed American Modernist Surreal Beach Scene Fauvist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist beach scene oil painting by Brooks Kelly (1935 - 2012). Framed. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Signed. Image size, 12H by 16L.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red is a Red, OpArt red geometric acrylic painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Julian Stanczak (American, 1928–2017)
Red is a Red, 1969
Acrylic on canvas
Signed, dated and titled verso
28 x 28 inches
29 x 29 inches, framed
OpArt red geometric acrylic painting
...
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Op Art Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Chromatic, Ovoid Head, Geometric Figurative Abstract Acrylic & Collage Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Chromatic, 1965
Acrylic and collage on scintilla
Signed and dated upper right
30 x 22 inches
A surrealist mid-century figural abstrac...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Pan of Bolts" and on Verso Joan Brown Swimming W/Manuel Neri Walking on Water
Located in Soquel, CA
"Pan of Bolts" and on Verso Joan Brown Swimming W/Manuel Neri Walking on Water
Sally Wilt studied with Joan at California School of Fine Art
Stunning lar...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Abstract Cubist 1930s Wine Bottle Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract cubist table top still life oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1930. No signature found. Image size, 20L x 16H. Framing available.
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
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Abstract Valley - Welsh 1963 art abstract landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb Welsh abstract oil painting is by noted artist Thomas John Nash, better known as Tom Nash. It was painted in 1963 and is entitled on a gallery lab...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$6,154 Sale Price
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Untitled
By David Smith
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a painting by American artist David Smith.
David Smith’s paintings from the 1930s rarely come to market, and when Untitled (Billiard Players) surfaced at a Christie’s auction in 2018, it created quite a stir, realizing an impressive price of $1.15 million. Painted around the same time, Untitled shares many similarities with Untitled (Billiard Players). Both paintings affirm Smith’s place among the American artists when ideas and style began to intermingle and coalesce around Picasso’s innovations.
Uniquely positioned in temperament and ability, Smith was a man of considerable ambition whose direct-metal configurations would have much to do with achieving new ideas about abstraction. Yet all along, he insisted he was a painter, not a sculptor who painted.
Paintings by Smith...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$300,000
Large Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting by Alton S. Tobey (1914 - 2005). Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 48H by 36L.
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,800 Sale Price
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Antique American School Cubist Abstract Signed Framed Pastel Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract pastel and watercolor painting. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 14L x 18H.
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$796 Sale Price
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Harry Crowley NYC Abstract Expressionist Painting, circa 1954, Slow Solitude
By Harry Crowley
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Harry Crowley (1898-1979) oil on board, 1954. Abstract Expressionist. Titled on the verso “Slow Solitude.”
Measures: 33 x 38. Frame: 42 x 47. In excellent condition and in the origi...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
Vintage American Female Modernist Precisionist Street Scene Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene oil painting by Elaine Wesley (1923 - 2007). Oil on board. Estate stamped verso.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Monumental NYC Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract expressionist oil painting. No signature found.
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Modernist Abstract by listed Brooklyn NY artist Nathaniel Hoffman, 1966
Located in Baltimore, MD
New York artist Nathaniel Hoffman was born in 1900 in Russia. He came to the United States as a young boy with his parents. They settled in Brooklyn. Hoffman went on to study at the ...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Johann Strauss & Artie Shaw - Mid Century Modern Abstract
By Clark Blocher
Located in Soquel, CA
Johann Strauss & Artie Shaw - Mid Century Modern Abstract
Swirling vortex of color and the words: "Johann Strauss' Tale(s) from the Vienna (Woods) Artie Shaw & Orchestra" by Kansas ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
CLAUDE LAGOUCHE (French 1943-2020) LARGE MODERNIST PAINTING - EMBRACING LOVERS
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: by Claude Lagouche (French 1943-2020), see provenance details below.
Claude Lagouche was born January 2, 1943 in Naves, died January ...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Dynamic & Colorful, Abstract Expressionist Painting, Dated 1957 by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic & colorful, Abstract Expressionist Painting in Reds, Blues & Yellows by Artist Harold Haydon, Dated 1957. Framed in a dark, wood cube frame. Image size: 12" x 16". Fra...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mid century modern abstract expressionist painting by American artist Toma Yovanovich.
Toma Yovanovich (1931-2016)
Yovanovich was a painter/printmaker whose w...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
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.
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Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
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Guinovart. 15 painting cardboard
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
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 ...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Untitled, 56-21" Stephen Pace, Pulsating Forms, Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
Stephen Pace
Untitled, 56-21, 1956
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
22 x 30 inches
Born in Charleston, Missouri, Stephen Pace grew up in Indiana, where his parents operat...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Composition - Original Tempera by A. Matheos
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a beautiful original painting in tempera applied on cream-colored paper, realized at the beginning of XX century by the Greek-French artist Mathéos Alkis, Signed on lo...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
$259 Sale Price
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"Night Garden" Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate is made with oil paint on canvas and features a warm red geometric rectangular shape at the center of the composition, wit...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1960's Modern British Abstract Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning array of strong colors stand out in this original mid-20th century British abstract painting. The work dates to the 1950's-60's period and is of British authorship.
The pa...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$538 Sale Price
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Untitled - Fisherfolk
By Moshe Katz
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Moshe Katz – Romanian/Israeli (1937-)
Title: Untitled - Fisherfolk
Year: 1966
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 24 x 36 inches
Framed size: 28.5 x 40.5 inches
Signature: Signed, d...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid-Century Abstract Mixed Media 'Transfiguration' Composition with Marble Dust
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Denver, CO
"Transfiguration" is a captivating original abstract painting by the talented artist Pawel Kontny (also known as Paul Kontny), created during the mid-20th century. This unique composition was crafted using a combination of marble dust, gesso, and oil glaze on masonite, resulting in a striking raised texture that adds depth and dimension to the artwork. The use of marble dust and gesso gives the piece a rich, tactile quality, making it visually stunning.
The painting is rendered in a harmonious palette of neutral tones, including shades of brown, beige, yellow, and grey, creating a subtle yet powerful interplay of light and shadow. These muted hues evoke a sense of calm and contemplation, allowing the viewer to immerse themselves in the abstract forms and textures that dominate the canvas.
This piece is presented in its original black and gold frame, which enhances its vintage charm and complements the sophisticated color palette. "Transfiguration" is an exceptional work of art, perfect for collectors of mid-century abstract art...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Marble
"New Address" James Suzuki, Vibrant Color Abstract Expressionist Composition
By James Suzuki
Located in New York, NY
James Suzuki
New Address, 1961
Signed and dated lower right; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
Oil on canvas
54 x 42 1/2 inches
James Hiroshi Suzuki follows in the footsteps ...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Fairy Pool' 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
"Thelo #1" Diana Kurz, Abstract Expressionist Gestural Purples and Blues
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Thelo #1 , 1961
Oil on canvas
64 x 55 1/2 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Work P. Oil on canvas by Tadashi Sugimata, executed in 1963 (abstract painting)
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Tadashi Sugimata
(1914-1994)
WORK P
oil on canvas
162.3 x 112.1 cm (63 3/4 x 44 1/8 in)
Executed in 1963
Signed
Signed and titled in Japanese in the back
This work is accompanied...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Bay Area Abstract Expressionist -- Oak Woodlands of Golden Gate Park
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Bay Area Abstract Expressionist -- Oak Woodlands of San Francisco Golden Gate Park
This mid-century painting by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) depicts coastal live oaks of Golden...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Crayon, Watercolor
1960s Italian Futurist Abstract Oil Painting
By Giovanni Huber
Located in Surfside, FL
This painting has been authenticated by the artist and was sold in St Gallen.
Born in Italy in 1939, attended the textile and arts and crafts school of St. Gallen from 1956 to 1959. ...
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Futurist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Abstract, Turquoise and Gray', Paris, Picasso, Andre L'Hote, Guernica, Benezit
By Dora Maar
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso with artist monogram 'DM' for Dora Maar (Argentine-French, 1907-1997); additionally impressed, upper left, with Dora Maar Estate stamp, Maison de la Chimie sale, Paris; October, 1998.
In addition to her central role as Picasso's model and lover, Dora Maar served as his constant muse during the period of his creation of Guernica for which she also served as model for the lantern-holder, appearing at upper right. Prior to embarking on her two-year relationship with Picasso, Maar had already produced a widely-respected body of work and was celebrated as an influential and cutting-edge photographer. Nevertheless, it is her high-profile relationship with Picasso and her own personality- both in publications about Picasso and in those dedicated to her own life and work- that have acquired particular significance in art-historical literature.
Maar's close link to the Surrealists, however, derived from her personal radiance and enigmatic personality as well as to the conscious and politically-informed artistic perspective that underlay her cutting-edge photomontages of the 1930s. Her increasingly radical political views during this period reinforced Picasso's own awareness of the deteriorating international political situation and of the civil war in his homeland. This heightened awareness culminated in the creation of "Guernica', his supreme artistic and political statement of the 1930's.
Born in 1907, Henrietta Theodora Markovitch adopted the pen name of Dora Maar during the first years of her photography career. Growing up in Buenos Aires and Paris, she learned to speak French, Spanish and English fluently and, from 1927 on, attended the Art Academy of Andre L'Hote in Montparnasse. At the Academy, she studied painting but, by the end of the 1920s, she had transferred to the Ecole de Photographie de la Ville de Paris. In the early 1930s, she founded a photographic studio together with Pierre Kfer, who was later to make a career as stage designer. Numerous fashion and advertising photography shoots resulted from this collaboration and these were soon followed by her first Paris exhibitions.
Dora Maar's photographic style during the 1930s show clear, surrealist characteristics. In her photographs and photomontages, she frequently played with shifting proportions, thus echoing an important feature of surrealist pictures. This tendency was augmented by the combination of disparate objects, which robs the photographs of their character of reflecting extreme reality, converting them to expressions of inner visions and psychic states. In parallel to these surreal photographs, Dora Maar produced sobering documentary photographs of her urban environments in Paris, London or Barcelona. Repeatedly, she records, in her photographs, the underprivileged, the unemployed and homeless, the socially disadvantaged and the physically deformed. It was precisely the simplicity of these photos that enabled Dora Maar to give the day-to-day and the ugly a magnificent monstrosity in which the beautiful and the horrible blend into one another. This recorded reality is thus accompanied by a level of inner associations, fears and visions.
This present work, painted in the 1930's, remained in Dora Maar's possession until the end of her life, and shows her early interest in abstraction and her preoccupation with the complex inter-relationships of color and form.
This painting is accompanied by a first edition copy of...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Chair by the Window, Superb Large Surrealist oil painting on canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Chair by the Window
Surrealist School, circa 1970's
signed lower left, indistinctly (see photos)
framed: 24 x 30.5 inches
provenance: private collection, London
Superb Surreali...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,958 Sale Price
30% Off
Vintage American School Modernist Geometric Abstract New York School Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Red Idol 2 - Scottish 1959 Abstract Expressionist art oil painting
By William Gear
Located in London, GB
This superb Abstract Expressionist Scottish oil painting is by noted artist William Gear. It was painted in 1959 and is entitled Red Idol 2. This abstract com...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$16,784 Sale Price
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French Cubist Abstract 1970's Painting - Strong Fauvist Color palette
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, circa 1970's
oil painting on cardboard, framed
21.75 x 17 inches
Superbly decorative and bold abstract painting from the 1970's, of French authorship. Painted with st...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$979 Sale Price
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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
The Letter R - Abstract Composition David C. Sherburne
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract composition by California and Washington state artist David Sherburne (American, b.1943 ). Signed in the lower right corner "d. Sherburne '72." Presented in a double slat frame (white and brown). Image size: 17.75"H x 22.75"H.
David C. Sherburne
Columbia River Gorge artist now based in Trout Lake...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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Mid Century Modern Vintage Swedish Abstract Oil Painting -Procession of Shadows
Located in Bristol, GB
PROCESSION OF SHADOWS
Size: 39.5 x 53 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A striking and richly textured mid-century abstract composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
Although abstr...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Zuen, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
"Zuen" by Stanley Bate is a Modern abstract painting made in 1951, featuring geometric shapes, line work, and light blue shapes complemented by pops of muted yellow, red, deep eggpla...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stephen Thomas Rascoe Abstract Landscape Painting 1970s 'Sierra Madre' Texas Art
Located in Dallas, TX
Vibrant Stephen Thomas Rascoe oil on board titled Sierra Madre. circa 1969. Amazing color combination!
Rascoe was a well-known Texas artist and professor who produced a prolific bod...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood
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