Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings

5-3185 Oil on artist board set in a thin wood frame

Richard Anuszkiewicz Metallic Water, 1964 Painting with Liquitex on canvas. (1964 Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition and J.L. Hudson Gallery) Signed boldly and dated 1964 on the ver...

Reclining Nude French School worn away faint signature dated verso 1977 oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 25.5 x 21.5 inches Inscribed verso Provenance: private collection, Paris Co...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Number Evolving" Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 3 height x 4.5 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintings we have by ...

Still Life by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed & dated signed oil on canvas canvas: 15 x 18.5 inches original oil painting condition: very good a...

Larry Zox Red, White and Blue painting, 1963 Original acrylic painting on board Signed and dated upper right front; Signed, titled and dated on the back as well Unique This work was originally sold by Jill Kornblee of the legendary Kornblee Gallery, with the back of the panel bearing Kornblee's original Upper East Side address before the gallery moved to West 57th Street Frame included: Elegantly double framed. Measurements: Outer Frame 13.5 inches vertical by 13.5 horizontal by 2.5 inches Original Frame: 10 inches vertical by 9.75 inches horizontal Painting 9.25 inches vertical x 9 inches horizontal Larry Zox Biography: A PAINTER who played an essential role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s, Larry Zox is best known for his intensely and brilliantly colored geometric abstractions that question and violate symmetry.1 Zox stated in 1965: “Being contrary is the only way I can get at anything.” To Zox, this position was not necessarily arbitrary, but instead meant “responding to something in an examination of it [such as] using
a mechanical format with X number of possibilities.”2 What he sought was to “get at the specific character and quality of each painting in and for itself,” as James Monte stated in his introductory essay in the catalogue for Zox’s 1973–1974 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.3 Zox’s robust paintings reveal
a celebrated artist and master of composition who is explored and challenged the possibilities of Post-Painterly Abstraction and Minimalist pictorial conventions. Zox began to receive attention in the 1960s when he was included in several groundbreaking exhibitions of Color Field and Minimalist art, including Shape and Structure (1965), organized by Henry Geldzahler and Frank Stella for Tibor de Nagy, New York, and Systemic Painting (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 1973–1974, the Whitney’s solo exhibition of Zox’s work gave recognition to his significance in the art scene of the preceding decade. In the following year, he was represented in the inaugural exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Wahsington, DC, which acquired fourteen of his works.
 Zox was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1937. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, and then studied under George Grosz at the Des Moines Art Center. In 1958, Zox moved to New York, joining the downtown art scene. His studio on 20th Street became a gathering place for artists, jazz musicians, bikers, and boxers, and he occasionally sparred with visiting fighters. He later established a studio in East Hampton, a former black smithy used previously by Jackson Pollock. In his earliest works, such as Banner (1962) Zox created
collages consisting of pieces of painted paper stapled onto sheets of plywood. He then produced paintings that were illusions of collages, including both torn- and trued-edged forms, to which he added a wide range of strong hues that created ambiguous surfaces. In paintings such as For Jean (1963), he omitted the collage aspect of his work and applied flat color areas to create more complete statements of pure color and shape. He then replaced these torn and expressive edges with clean and impersonal lines that would define his work for the next decade. From 1962 to 1965, he produced his Rotation series, at first creating plywood and Plexiglas reliefs, which turned squares into dynamic polygons. He used these shapes in his paintings as well, employing white as a foil between colors to produce negative spaces that suggest that the colored shapes had only been cut out and laid down instead of painted. The New York Times in 1964 wrote of the works in show such as Rotation B (1964) and of the artist: “The artist is hip, cool, adventurous, not content to stay with the mere exercise of sensibility that one sees in smaller works.”4 In 1965, he began the Scissor Jack series, in which he arranged opposing triangular shapes with inverted Vs of bare canvas at their centers that threaten to split their compositions apart. In several works from this series, Zox was inspired by ancient Chinese water vessels. With a mathematical precision and a poetic license, Zox flattened the three dimensional object onto graph paper, and later translated his interpretation of the vessel’s lines onto canvas with masking tape, forming the structure of the painting. The Diamond Cut and Diamond Drill paintings...

Nude in Interior by Maurice Delavier (French mid 20th century) signed and dated 1944 oil on board, unframed board: 18.5 x 14.5 inches inscribed verso provenance: private collection, ...

French Modernist artist, 1960's signed & dated oil on canvas laid on board, unframed board: 18 x 22 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: good and sound condition

The Winding River French School, 1947 signed & dated oil on canvas, framed framed: 20 x 24 inches canvas: 14 x 18.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good...

Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), Untitled (Central Railroad), watercolor, c. 1945. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '697' in ink. A fine, modernist re...

Work on canvas Wooden frame with golden patina 65,6 x 56,5 x 3,5 cm

"Nightgale" Birds Fly in a Surreal Still Life in a Blue Landscape Surreal landscape by Kennard M. Harris (American, b-1930). A table is set with a broken glass and surreal objects, becoming a landscape; roiling clouds lurk nearby as a flock of Nightingales fly in the distance. Kennard Studied art at the Art Center School in Los Angeles Signed with his Monogam lower left The Hammer Galleries ink stamp on paper backing and title "Nightgale #62, a label 14. Nightgale on board. Possibly indication of a number of paintings exhibited at the Hammer Galleries. Image, 24.5"H x 20"W Frame, 27.5"H x 23"W x 1.5"D EXHIBITED: Hammer Galleries, New York, 1962 First: San Diego, Orr's Gallery, Kennard Harris...

Jesse Redwin Bardin (1923-1997). Untitled, ca. 1960. Oil on canvas, 18 x 31 inches; 21.5 x 36.5 inches framed. Signed lower right. Provenance: Private collection, Philadelphia; F...

Large American modernist abstract oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 50H by 40L.

Impressive early American modernist still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed.

Oil on wood panel, 1951. Unique work, titled and hand-signed in felt pencil by artist on the verso. Work size: 30 x 30 cm Framed size: 33 x 33 cm Very good conditions, with deep bri...

Fiery Abstract, Orange Colour, Original Oil Painting By French artist Sophie Danielle Rubinstain 1922-2018 Stamped by the artist verso Oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas size: 3...

Nicely painted American school abstract geometric oil painting in a period frame. Signed lower right "Flemming" but without an artist determined.

This stylish abstract cubist oil on board painting with a monogram signature "M.J." is from a German artist (20th Century). The colorful painting features a stylized abstract composi...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Floating: Abstract Floral Composition Artist: Elvic Steele Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 5.5 height x 6 width Condition: Good ...

Ron Gorchov Untitled early 1960s Abstract Expressionist work, 1962 Ink and watercolor painting on paper Signed and dated in black ink lower left recto Frame included: elegantly floa...

Roger Lersy, French (1920 - 2004) Painting on paper (not sure if this is watercolor, acrylic or oil, the paper has a velvet finish and texture to it and there is some texture to the ...

"Untitled" is a painting by artist David Smith. The work is signed and dated in the upper left "David Smith (symbol) 1936". When David Smith set up a workshop on the Brooklyn Navy Pier in 1933 to learn direct-metal techniques, he shared the space not with artists, but with professional welders. Yet as he stated in 1964, ‘…all my early friends were painters…I never conceived of myself as anything other than a painter because my work came straight through the raised surface.’ Picasso and Cubism would be dominant influences in Smith’s work. He understood that Picasso imagined the world as a sculptor might, and not necessarily limited to the unavoidable impact of Cubism. In addition to pursuing a kind of rethinking of the world in three-dimensionality on his own terms, by the late 1920s, Picasso had shown interest in surrealism. That meant drawing not as a depiction of reality, but rather as a reconfiguration of the body in an assemblage of often precariously balanced, interconnected forms — some expressed in a three-dimensional form, others as drawings or paintings. Those processes are reflected in this work by David Smith; three fanciful totemic assemblages set within a landscape perspective of ground, mountains, and sky and whose presence is surreal enough to cast shadows under a presumed solar presence. Untitled, 1936 embraces surrealism, yet also serves to demonstrate the extent to which his thought processes are inextricably linked to sculpture and related to scale, spatial orientation, and three-dimensionality. With that in mind, it is not surprising to know that Smith saw no demarcation between sculpture and painting, or that a painting such as Untitled (1936) can exist outside of planning or design for future three-dimensional work. Provenance: Estate of David Smith, New York Hauser & Wirth Private Collection Exhibition: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, ‘David Smith: Skulptureen, Zeichnungen [David Smith: Sculpture and Drawings]’ Dusseldorf/DE, March 14 – April 27, 1986 (travelled to: Städtische Galerie im Stäelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt/DE, June 19 – September 28, 1986: Whitechapel Art Gallery...

GJ Rogers Surreal Octopus 1959 Oil on Canvas 36"x24.5" Signed and dated in paint lower right George Jay Rogers was born in Yonkers, New York on June 9, 1926. During the Great Depression George's mother being a single mother and falling on hard times sent George to a home for boys in New York City. George remained there and later attended The School of Industrial Arts in New York City. Shortly after his 18th birthday George enlisted in the Army. He was sent to Germany where he drove a light truck as a message center courier. He was given an honorable discharge and moved back to New York City. Under the GI Bill he enrolled in the Art Students League of NYC in 1948. Here George studied under noted artists Robert Brackman, Morris Kantor, Louis Bouche, Harry Sternberg and Robert Beverly Hale to name a few. He was a student at the League from 1948-1956. In order to support his desire to paint, George worked as a message courier in NYC. In the late 1950s George painted...

A painting by Arne Heirsoux. "Mem Sahib" is an acrylic and paper on canvas, abstract painting by Post War artist Arne Hiersoux. "Mem Sahib" is depicted in deep reds, blues, blacks, t...

Very finely painted modernist landscape by Robert Noel Blair (1912 - 2002). Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed Image size, 22 by 29 inches. In excellent original condition. ...

Signed Lower Right Bror Julius Olsson “B.J.O.” Nordfeldt (1878 - 1955) Bror Julius Olsson was born in Tullstrop, Sweden in 1878. He immigrated to the United States in 1891, later adopting his mother’s maiden name of Nordfeldt. Beginning his art studies at the Art Institute of Chicago where he was chosen to assist fellow artist, Albert Herter, with a large mural project for the McCormick Harvester Company. In 1900, he was sent to Paris by McCormick to help set up the completed mural at the Paris Exposition. While there, he studied briefly at the Academie Julian before traveling to England to study woodblock printmaking under F. Morley Fletcher. Returning to Chicago in 1903, Nordfeldt would spend the next ten years painting mainly figurative works in an academic style similar to that of the Old Masters. By the mid-teens he had developed a bold dramatic modernist style and divided his time between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. There, he invented the “Provincetown Print...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Warm Hearted" Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4.25 height x 3.25 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintings we have by...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed and dated 1950 lower right. Richard Peter Hoffman (1911-1977) Richard Peter Hoffman was a precisionist painter, ph...

Artist: Claude Lagouche (French 1943-2020) Claude Lagouche was born January 2, 1943 in Naves, died January 16, 2020. He quickly gained recognition for his talent and his work, exh...

signed ‘Gropper’ (lower right); with the artist's studio stamp (on the verso)

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed and titled verso. 40.25 x 56.25 in. 40.75 x 56.75 in. (framed) Custom framed in a wh...

This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1962, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper...

"Abstract Composition" signed by Armand Rottenberg (French 1903-2000) oil painting on card, unframed painting: 19.5 x 13 inches Superb original painting by the French abstract a...

Remo Farruggio Untitled Mid Century Modern abstraction (original oil painting), ca. 1947 Oil painting on masonite board Hand signed by Remo Farruggio on the lower right front 16 × 20...

Mathieu Rosianu, a painter with a humanist backbone, wanted to give Art the power of a fighting weapon and bring it to the people. Therefore, it is no coincidence that the years befo...

Abstract Expressionist Sky Composition by Gerard Guegueniat (French 1970's) signed oil painting on board, framed: 16.5 x 32.5 inches board: 15.5 x 31.5 inches provenance: private co...

Vegetable Abstract by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 19.5 x 24 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condi...

An abstract acrylic and paper on canvas painting by Post War artist Arne Hiersoux. "Yonder Cisco" is executed in bold strokes, splashes and drips of violet, blue, green, yellow, whit...

Sun Flower Roots by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 19.5 x 16 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound...

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

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

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

Antique Israeli American modernist folk art landscape by Malcah Zeldis. Mixed media painting on paper. Framed. Signed. Measuring 18 by 22 inches overall and 11 by 14 painting alone....

This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1966, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper...

Antique American modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1930. Signed. Housed in period frame. Image size 45L x 32H.

Mixed media on board; Signed lower right and dated 1961 Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Vaclav Vytlacil (Vas-lav Vit-la-chil) was born in New York City in ...

Fabulous mystery midcentury abstract. It is oil on board measuring 60 inches wide by 20 high. Frame is 1/2 around. Painting is signed Kirstein. The artist was obviously very talented...

Early, original oil on canvas painting by the well known American abstract expressionist artist, John Little. Signed and dated lower right, 1958. Signed and dated verso. Rose Fried...

A vibrant example of the artist's precisionist style where a tight semi-abstract geometric composition is inspired by architecture and is reduced to simplified geometric shapes with...

Richard Anuszkiewicz Old Door, 1953 Watercolor on paper Signed and dated by the artist on the lower right front 20 × 14 inches Unframed This unique and extre...

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...

Harbor Party by John von Wicht, German (1888–1970) Date: circa 1965 Gouache and Pastel on Japon, signed in pencil lower right Size: 15.5 x 23 in. (39.37 x 58.42 cm) Frame Size: 22 x ...

Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right and verso, titled verso. 39.25 x 31.75 in. 40.25 x 32.75 in. (f...

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 ...

Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century Title: Expressionist portrait of a man Medium: oil painting on board, framed framed: 27.25 x 27.5 inches canvas: 21.75 x 18 inc...

An abstract acrylic and paper on canvas painting by Post War artist Arne Hiersoux. "Cassandra Kiss" is executed in bold strokes, splashes and drips of deep blue, red, back and white ...

Eugene Berman is a keen observer of his surroundings but never translates his vision in a literal way. In "Sicilian Landscape," the artist transfor...

Expressionist Abstract by Armand Rottenberg (French 1903-2000) Signed oil painting on board, unframed Board size: 29 x 21 inches provenane: the artists estate, France Stunning origi...