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Period: Mid-20th Century
Antique American Cubist Abstract Flower Still Life Large Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, re...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Composition - Japanese Abstract French
By Jun Dobashi
Located in London, GB
JUN DOBASHI 1910-1975
1910 - Tokyo-1975 (Japanese)
Title: Composition, 1962
Technique: Original Signed and Dated Oil Painting on Canvas
size: 93 x 75 cm / 36.6 x 29.5 in
Additio...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By John Opper
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, signed and dated verso.
62.25 x 56.25 in.
64 x 58 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a natural cherry wood floater.
Provenance
Washburn Gallery, New York
Behnke Doherty Gallery, Washington Depot, CT
Born in 1908 in Chicago, John Opper moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1916. In high school, he began studying art and attending classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
After graduation, he enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art (now Cleveland Institute of Art), only to withdraw after a year and move to Chicago, where he took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. He eventually returned to Cleveland, enrolling at Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve), receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1931. The Depression has taken hold during this period, so Opper found work by teaching metalworking and sketching classes at the Karamu Settlement House, the oldest African American theater in the United States.
In 1933, Opper traveled to Gloucester, Massachusetts, eventually connecting with the artist Hans Hofmann, who was teaching at the school run by Ernest Thurn. Hofmann encouraged Opper to work “in a more modern vein and start finding what it’s all about.” Heeding this advice, Opper relocated to New York, co-founding a mail-order club of American and British prints for dissemination to schools and museums.
By the mid-1930s, he joined the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Easel Division, and also began attending the 57th Street school that Hans Hofmann had established after leaving the Art Students League. Looking back at his time at the school, Opper felt that beyond Hofmann’s teaching, most advantageous was his contact with fellow artists, including Byron Browne, Rosalind Bengelsdorf, and George McNeil. At the time, he also met Giorgio Cavallon and the sculptor Wilfrid Zogbaum.
In 1936, Opper became a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, along with Balcomb and Gertrude Greene. The organization was formed to provide an opportunity for artists to show abstract works at a time when such opportunities were scarce. This led to his first solo show in 1937 at the Artists’ Gallery in New York.
During his summer in Gloucester in 1933, Opper came to know Milton Avery. Painting in Avery’s informal studio in New York City the following winter, he became acquainted with Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko. Opper participated in a couple of shows during the 1930s of the American Artists Congress Against War and Fascism, whose president was Stuart Davis. About the same period, Opper joined the Artists’ Union and served as the business manager of its publication, Art Front.
During World War II, Opper worked for a ship design company creating drawings for piping systems used in PT boats...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$25,000
KUPFERMAN American Abstract 1959 Expressionist Painting
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Kupferman (1909-1982) is an American Abstract painter and founder of the Boston Expressionist school. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Mu...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Still Life
Located in Wiscasset, ME
This vibrant work by noted 20th century American artist, Joel Durand, employs a bold palette and sophisticated approach in this dramatic and abstracted sti...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
H. Wilson Smith California Artist Geometric Abstract Painting, circa 1940s-1950s
Located in Phoenix, AZ
H. Wilson Smith (1901-1981) California Artist
Oil on board in the original frame.
Painting measures 24 x 20.
Frame: 25 x 21.
Titled on the verso “Nude - Automatic Elevator”
Signed lo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
Phenomena High Born by Paul Jenkins - Abstract painting
By Paul Jenkins
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Phenomena High Born by Paul Jenkins (1923-2012)
Acrylic on canvas
91.44 x 50.8 cm (36 x 20 inches)
Signed lower left Jenkins
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse
Executed in 1964 which makes this a very early work and so more valuable
Biography
Born at Kansas City in Missouri (USA), the multi-media artist, poet and playwright Paul Jenkins studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Students League in New York City. After his discharge from military service at the end of February 1946, he briefly studied playwriting with dramatist George McCalmon at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Thereafter, Jenkins spent four years studying with Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi in New York City. His first solo exhibitions were held at Studio Paul Facchetti in Paris in 1954 and the Martha Graham Gallery in New York City in 1956. Over the past thirty years, numerous retrospectives have been curated across the globe and Jenkins’ work can found in national collections from Europe and the United States to Israel, Australia and Japan.
The diversity of his work springs from Jenkins’ wealth of eclectic influences. Some of his earliest works included what he called "interior landscapes" influenced by ancient natural forms like the caves he visited in the Ozark Mountains in his native-Missouri. Frequent student visits to the Frick Collection in New York fostered a love of the great masters: Bellini, Holbein, Vermeer, Rembrandt, de la Tour, Turner and Goya. In compliment, lingering student visits to the renowned Eastern collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City evoked powerful sympathy for a monumental Chinese fresco...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
1963 French Japanese Art Brut Abstract Oil Painting Akira Kito Diable et Rouge
Located in Surfside, FL
Akira Kito, Japanese, 1925-1994
Diable et Roge
Oil on Canvas
Titled, signed, and dated 1963 verso
Hand signed lower center
Dimensions: 32 x 12 3/4 in. (81.3 x 32.4 cm.), Frame: 33 1...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Picasso "Toros & Toreros" Photolithography
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
This framed Picasso print, is an offset lithographic book plate from a captivating book, entitled Toros y Toreros (Bulls and Bullfighters), which features the iconic artwork of Pablo...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
1950s New York City Abstract Skyline - Moody Night Cityscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
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, ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Magician oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.”
To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.”
Exhibited
1964 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
This work retains its original frame which measures 54" x 42" x 2"
About this artist: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism.
The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman.
De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
Untitled
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated
Oil and watercolour on paper, mounted on board
18 x 22 inches
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early Modern Orange, Blue, and Yellow Toned Abstract City Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern colorful abstract city landscape by American artist Richard W. Dempsey. The work features a heavily abstracted street scene of the front of a building with a white door ...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
ABSTRACTION Mid-Century Abstract Color Field oil American Modern James Daugherty
Located in New York, NY
ABSTRACTION Mid-Century Abstract Non-Objective Color Field oil American Modern
James Daugherty (1887 – 1974) "Unidentified Flying Object," 12 x 16 inc...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Abstract Framed Oil Painting - Waves
Located in Bristol, GB
WAVES
Size: 48.5 x 67.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A rhythmic and richly textured mid-century abstract composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
Embracing the principles of...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled Abstraction-008 casein tempera on board by Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed and dated "Vytlacil 38" lower left, and signed and dated verso.
Provenance: Estate of the artist #1602; Martin Diamond Fine Art
About this artist: Born in 1892 to Czechoslov...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Casein, Board
Expressionist French Landscape, Bright Colours, Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Expressionist French Landscape, Bright Colours, Oil Painting
circle of Pierre Ambrogiani (French 1907-1985)
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Beautiful ...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Textured Botanical Landscape
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Textured Botanical Landscape
Artist: Elvic Steele
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 6 height x 4.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenanc...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue and Black Abstract
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Blue and Black Abstract,
Artist signed and dated 1968
Size: 31x36.5 framed 32x37.5
Born in Sloviansk, Ukraine in 1942. A graduate of Kent State University, receiving a B.S. in Art Education and an M.A. in Painting. Studied in Paris, France. Professor of Art at Lakeland Community College. He was awarded the rank of Professor Emeritus in 2002 by Lakeland Community College, and held a retrospective of his work, "A Look Back 1965-2001," at the LCC Gallery in 2003. Listed in Marquis’ “Who’s Who Dictionary of International Biography,” “ Leaders of America,” “Who’s Who in the Arts, 1971-1972,” Artists/USA, 1972-1973, 1974-1975,” “Outstanding Young Men of America,”1971,” International Who’s Who in Art and Antiques, 1972,”
Annuaire De L’Art International, 1974-1975, 1975-1976,” “Library Of Human Resources...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Tarleton Golf Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Tarleton Landscape 1967. 9 x 12 inches. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Excellent condition.
Born in...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Study #26, 1960s Gouache painting Signed Framed Pace & Hudson Gallery provenance
Located in New York, NY
Jack Youngerman
Untitled Study #26, 1967
Gouache painting on paper (with original JL Hudson and PACE Gallery labels)
Hand signed and dated '67 on the front; J.L. Hudson Gallery Label on Verso.
Unique Abstract Expressionist work on paper
Frame included
Framed
Measurements:
Framed:
15 inches by 15 inches by 1.5 inch
Artwork:
7.75 inches by 7.5 inches
Provenance
From the estate of Anne Markley Spivak
J. L. Hudson Gallery Label affixed to verso (back).
The J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
This 1967 unique, signed gouache painting by renowned abstract expressionist painter Jack Youngerman was acquired from the estate of Anne Markley Spivak. It is held in the original vintage metal frame with the original J.L. Hudson Gallery label, as well as the PACE gallery label on the verso
The artwork has been newly loated and framed in a museum quality white wood frame; the original labels from the original back board have been affixed to the back to preserve provenance.
Jack Youngerman Biography
Jack Youngerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri on March 25, 1926. He moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 1929 and studied at the University of Missouri, Columbia from 1944 to 1946 under a wartime navy training program. He graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1947 and, that same year, he returned to Missouri to finish his Bachelor’s degree in Journalism before moving to Paris on a G.I. scholarship.
In Paris, Youngerman enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, studying drawing with Jean Souverbie. He explored Paris, taking in the cathedrals, museums, and history in order to grasp a greater sense of art history. He also traveled to the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Italy, and Greece on fine art excursions.
In 1948, Youngerman became friends with Ellsworth Kelly, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Cesar – fellow students at Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He married Delphine Seyrig in 1950, and later that year he had his first group exhibition at Galerie Maeght in Paris. He visited the studios of Constantín Brancusi and Jean Arp and became heavily influenced by the organic forms present in their work. He also met artist Alexander Calder through his father-in-law, Henri Seyrig, and experimental filmmaker and artist, Robert Breer...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Brutalist Abstract Enamel Mounted Wall Panel Plaque Artwork
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stunning modernist abstract enamel plaque composition is dated circa 1960. The brutalist design has contrasting red, orange, black, and white colors. There is no visible artist ...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Copper, Enamel
The Death of the Minotaur - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media Abstract by G. De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne, Paris. Returned to Budapest to study art at the Fine Arts Academy, then continued his studies at the Academie Julienne, Paris, where he was influenced by the post impressionist artists including Picasso, Salvadore, Dali and Chagall. His motto was “history is the inevitable conveyance of great situations by great personalities.”
He came to England due to the Hungarian uprising in 1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and commercial illustrations in 1961.
Keywords: Oil, Abstract, Mid 20th Century, mixed media, The Death of the Minotaur, mythical, wood, techin, hand, 2 headed snake...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Sea and Land Abstraction
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sea and Land Abstraction, 1936, oil on canvas board, 16 x 20 inches, signed and dated lower left, exhibited at the 18th Annual Paintings and Sculpture Exhibit at the Los Angeles Muse...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled
By Hans Hofmann
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is an oil on canvas painting made by Hans Hofmann in 1962. The artwork size is 25 x 30 1/4 inches. The framed size is 33 1/4 x 38 1/4 x 2 inches. The painting is signed lo...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$325,000
Einar Petersen Monterrey Harbor Oil on Canvas, Circa 1930's
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Well executed oil on canvas by Danish-American artist Einar Petersen (1895-1986)
This dock scene titled “Monterrey Harbor” is in excellent condition.
It measures 22 x 19 inches and i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Abstraction"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Arthur B. Carles (1882-1952)
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Arthur Carles was a painter whose work went through phases...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
April 10, 1961
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right; signed, titled, dated verso.
48 x 60 in.
49.75 x 61.75 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a solid maple floater, with an heirloom white finish.
Provenance
Kootz Gallery, New York
Collection of John G. and Kimiko Powers, New York/Aspen, CO
Prentice-Hall Corporate Art Collection, New York
Kyle Morris was born in Des Moines, IA in 1918. After serving in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, he completed M.F.A. programs at both Northwestern and Cranbrook Academy of Art before settling in New York and renting a studio on Mercer Street in downtown Manhattan during the 1950s. Transitioning away from the figurative painting of his formal training, he began to create the bold gestural works that would serve as his hallmark in the ever-growing fraternity of the New York School.
Morris’ first major solo exhibition occurred at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1952. This show served as the catalyst for his recruitment onto the rosters of the prominent Stable and Kootz galleries in New York. In 1961, he was included in the Guggenheim’s landmark exhibition, American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, which surveyed the abstract expressionist movement that would come to dominate contemporary American art...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
UNTITLED
By George Hoehn
Located in Portland, ME
Hoehn, George (American, 1935 - ?) UNTITLED ABSTRACTION. Gouache on heavy wove paper, 1969. Signed and dated, lower right. Tondo, 3 1/4 inches diameter, (image), 15 x 11 inches (shee...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Modernist Painting on Canvas
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Striking modernist painting on canvas with a hot palette that conveys a strong reference to the sun's energy. Signed in the upper left C. Rosenberg ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Other Medium
Sunken Caesarea
By Mordechai Ardon
Located in Jerusalem, IL
A one of a kind piece by world famous Israeli artist Mordechai Ardon.
It is a framed oil on canvas painting.
65X54 cm (25 5/8 x 21 ¼ in).
Signed and dated "Ardon 60" (upper right).
S...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Fruit and Flowers (Mid-Century Framed Impressionist Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A lovely still vintage Impressionist still life that is almost all the way to abstraction, with the color passages around the fruit and flowers gently blending into one another. Comes framed, but I think it's worthy of a larger gold frame...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Still Life
Located in New Orleans, LA
Frederick Conway (1900-1973) was a painter, educator, and lecturer. From 1929 to 1970, Conway was a member of the faculty of the Washington University Art School. When Max Beckmann was in residence at Washington University, he and Conway became close associates. Conway was one of the first to realize the importance and seriousness of Beckmann's teaching. In 1949, Beckmann painted Conway's portrait.
Conway was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, and studied at the Saint Louis School of Fine Arts and in Paris at the Academie Julian, the Academy Moderne, and the Academy Grande Chaumiere. He painted murals for the WPA (Works Progress Administration...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cepheus B" Yeffe Kimball, Orange, Female Native American Abstract Expressionist
Located in New York, NY
Yeffe Kimball (c. 1905 - 1978)
Cepheus B, 1963
Signed, titled, and dated on the reverse
Acrylic on canvas
34 x 40 inches
Provenance:
Private Collection, New York
Estate of the above, 2022
Born in Mountain Park, Oklahoma, in 1914, Effie Y. Goodman subsequently spent her early years on her grandfather’s farm in Missouri. She attended college in Ada and the University of Oklahoma in Norman from 1931-1935. After college, she went to New York where she worked under distinguished artists such as George Bridgman and John Corbin at The Art Students League in New York in the early 1940s.
She adopted the name Yeffe Kimball, adapting her first husband's surname of Campbell to form Kimball, and never returned to her small-town roots. She became a world traveler and student, studying intermittently with Fernand Léger in Paris from 1940-1941. In 1948, she married Harvey L. Stalin, an atomic scientist. Her art was influenced by Stalin’s work and she entered a new era, focusing on burning planets, atmospheric gases, and flashing comets. Her work was also inspired by American Indian spiritual...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bolmes
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed, dated, and titled verso.
46.5 x 36 in.
47.5 x 37 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a maple floater.
Charles Strong, who was born in Greeley, Colorado on Christmas Day in 1938, was one of the youngest artists of the San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism. He was a colleague of vanguard artists such as Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Jack Jefferson...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,000
"Lights at Night" 1960s Large Abstract Cityscape Oil Painting, Vibrant Urban Art
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating abstract oil on canvas painting, titled Lights at Night, was created by 20th century artist Vincent Pershing O'Brien (1919-1999) in 1962. A striking example of Mid-C...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
David Lan Bar - Composition - 1956
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Composition
1956
Oil on panel
Signed and Dated
73 x 100 cm
The painting is framed.
This beautiful painting is representative of David Lan Bar's 1950's compositions.
Dav...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Flock - Monotype, Oil and Tempera on Paper - 1965 ca.
By Mark Tobey
Located in Roma, IT
This original artwork by Mark Tobey is a Monotype with tempera, heightened with tempera on paper.
Signed Tobey lower right
Signed Mark Tobey with the remark GOOD! on the back.
Prove...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Tempera
Mid-Century Abstract Expressionist Oil, 'La Vendeuse d'Oranges'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A mid-century French Abstract Expressionist oil on board painting of an orange seller by Raphael Arnal. Presented in a gilt wood frame. Signed an...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Radiant Reflections Abstract 1950s Oil Mid 20th Century American Woman Artist
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harold Christopher Davies Abstract Expressionist Oil on Paper, 1968
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Harold Christopher Davies (1891-1976) abstract painting.
Signed lower left
Rubber stamp on the back from Hoover Gallery, San Francisco
Initialed and dated on the back, 1968
Oil on pa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mother and Child
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Bruno Lucchesi (b.1926). Mother and Child, ca. 1960. Oil and charcoal on sized paper mounted to masonite, measuring 11 x 21 inches; 15.5 x 25.5 inches in original gold leaf frame. Si...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Oil
$560 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled Abstract Expressionist painting
By Eve Peri
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Watercolor on paper, sheet measures 13 x 18.5 inches. 17 x 22.5 inches framed.
Signed lower left.
EVE PERI (1897-1966)
Born in Bangor, Maine, Eve Peri worked predominantly as an...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Slate Stone Collage Painting - African American Artist
By Alvin C. Hollingsworth
Located in Miami, FL
African American Artist Alvin Hollingsworth creates a mixed-media abstract painting/collage that abounds with inventiveness and creativity. Large s...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Stone, Slate
Synchromy
Located in Miami, FL
The work is executed at the heyday of abstract expressionsim in the mid-50s.
Colors are saturated and bright.
Goldfield (of Goldfield Gallery). Written on the stretcher. Goldfield G...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Piece - Mid 20th Century Animal Abstract Piece by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled Abstraction
Located in Summit, NJ
Gouache on paper by Rolph Scarlett c. 1950s. The piece is signed "Scarlett" on the front in two places. The piece is in perfect condition. Unframed it measures 10.75 x 13.5.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$1,400 Sale Price
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1957 Vintage Modernist Abstract Figurative Framed Oil Painting- Senoritas
Located in Bristol, GB
SENORITAS
Size: 48 x 62 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
An outstanding semi-abstract figurative oil composition, painted in 1957 by the established Swedish artist Ivar Morsing (1919-2009), whose works have been exhibited in public collections including the National Museum in Stockholm, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Kalmar Museum, and Jönköping Museum.
The artwork captures the poised and elegant presence of five Spanish ladies...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Figure Composition"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed 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 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...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Abstract Expressionist Painting American 1960's Mid Century New York Colorful
Located in Buffalo, NY
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...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
$340 Sale Price
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Abstract Clown Character Playing The Tzouras Post Impressionist Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Clown Character
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed on front and back
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 18 x 13 inches
Colors: Dark blue colors, yellow, red, green an...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1966 French Abstract Expressionist COLORFUL painting “Feu de Marquis”
Located in New York, NY
I have 5 paintings I purchased recently for sale by this artist. They are all beautiful and colorful with gallery labels as pictured. They all come
From the estate of Guy Joseph Émile Nairay…. Famous French Diplomat who owned many major artists in his collection.
Sarthou is a famous French abstract painter whose colors are very vibrant.
Here for sale:
MAURICE ELIE SARTHOU...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
In the constructing. oil on cardboard, 58x88 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001)
Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art, Saratov Art School, graduated from the Depar...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Geometric Abstract Oil Painting Masquerade
Located in Bristol, GB
MASQUERADE
Size: 59 x 53.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A lively and captivating mid-century geometric abstract composition, executed in oil onto board by the established Swedi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled Mid-Century Painting - Group of Men
Located in Soquel, CA
Untitled painting of a group of men by Antonio Rodríguez Luna (1910-1985.)
This moody piece by Antonio Rodríguez Luna is an excellent example of his work from the early 1960s, which...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Abstract Mid-Century Style Painting 'Discovering Beefcake 1965 #1' Nude Male Gay
Located in Glenford, NY
In the Mid-Century Modern style of the 1960s, artist Gregory Cary recalls discovering "Beefcake" male nude photography when he was thirteen years old via male model magazines which h...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Photographic Paper
Wall Jumping
By Harold Town
Located in Vancouver, CA
Experience the vibrant artistry of Harold Town with "Wall Jumping," a striking piece offered from the artist's estate. As a co-founder of Painters Eleven, Town was instrumental in br...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Paul Brach
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right.
41.75 x 61 in.
44 x 63 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a hardwo...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$30,000
1960s Abstracted Figural Triptych 'The Dance of Salome' Vibrant Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"The Dance of Salome" is a striking 1960s Triptych painting by Edward Marecak, capturing the iconic Dance of the Seven Veils in a semi-abstract, cubist style. The three oil-on-board ...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boxing Scene. Vanquished Boxer in his Corner. Sports Illustrated Boxing Story
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
There are a lot of people in the art world today who dismiss illustrators are being commercial solely because the artists identified as being commercial artists and that the work was done on assignment.
Sadly these art world people have limited imagination and a restricted sense of curiosity.
This boxing illustration/painting was done for Sports Illustrated...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
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