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Period: Mid-20th Century
"Othello" Gestural Abstract Painting
By Norman Bluhm
Located in Houston, TX
Energetic abstract expressionist watercolor painting of large black and orange splatters done by Norman Bluhm in 1962. Signed and dated in lower left corner. Hung in a black and gold...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Interior Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Buffalo New York Regionalist Modern Landscape Signed Exhibited Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape painting signed "Welch '42". Oil on board, circa 1942. Signed. Image size, 16L x 14H. Housed in a modern frame.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
"Untitled" Diana Kurz, circa 1959 Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann Influence
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Untitled, circa 1959
Signed lower right
Signature and address on verso
Oil on canvas
42 x 38 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938,...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orange Abstract - Italian/South African sixties abstract art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This vibrant abstract oil painting is by Italian born but South African based artist Armando Baldinelli. It was painted circa 1960 after Baldinelli left Italy for South Africa and wa...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Paris School Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive modernist still life by Miguel Guzman. Oil on canvas. Nicely framed. Great color and composition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
20% Off
Robert McChesney Watercolor Titled "Investigators"
By Robert McChesney 1
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Impressive watercolor by California Abstract Impressionist, Robert McChesney (1913-2008).
The painting is in excellent condition and measures 21 x 15 inches. The frame is 31 x 24.
A label is seen on the verso with the title: "Investigators," and "From the Okinawa Series #47."
Signed lower right. McChesney was a wonderful painter and this work is from his best period in my opinion.
Post-War California artist, Robert Pearson McChesney became an Abstract Expressionist painter, assemblage artist, printmaker, sculptor and teacher. He was born in Marshall, Missouri, and with the exception of a year in Mexico, 1951, and World War II military service aboard a ship, he spent his career in California where he moved in 1936. He lived and had his studio north of San Francisco in Petaluma, atop Sonoma Mountain...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
1967 "Abstract 4 Pink, Blue and Yellow" Mid Century Watercolor Abstract
Located in Arp, TX
Michael Knigin
Abstract 4 Pink, Blue and Yellow
1967
Ink brush and watercolor on paper
8.25"x11" unframed $675
Signed and dated in ink lower right
Came from artist's estate
*Custom f...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Abstraction 5. 1965, paper, gouache, 83, 5 x 59, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Abstraction 5. 1965, paper, gouache, 83,5x59,5 cm
Gunars Klava (1933 – 1989)
Gunars Klava was born in 1933 in Priekule.
1953 - graduated from J. Rosenthal Art School
1964 - began t...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Large Abstract Oil on Canvas Painting by Sandra Gierke
By Sandra Gierke
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandra Gierke, American
Title: Untitled
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 48 x 48 in. (121.92 x 121.92 cm)
Frame Size: 49.5 x 49.5 inches
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
sin titulo
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Josep María De Sucre
1950
Untitled
Oil on canvas
Signed
:73 x 54 cm
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Composition
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Gray wooden frame
60.3 x 49.7 x 4.5 cm
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spring
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Flush wooden frame
63.5 x 48 x 2.5 cm
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Night Trees
By Walter Hahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Early in the 1950s, WALTER HAHN was a force to be reckoned with in Chicago painting. In 1951, his final year as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Hahn won first prize in oil in the Chicago and Vicinity exhibition. As this was a purchase prize, this placed his work in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, provoking jealous awe from some of his teachers. Born in 1927, Hahn studied with Kathleen Blackshear...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cosmos Radiance"
Located in Astoria, NY
Fred Biesel (American, 1893-1954), "Cosmos Radiance," Oil on Board, 1949, brightly colored flowers and leaves, signed lower right: "Fred Biesel," signed, dated, and titled to verso, ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Modernist Abstract Flower Field European Town Landscape Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique European flower field oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 18H.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Shifting Strata Paris 1963 - Greek art Abstract Expressionist painting Fontana
By Valerios Caloutsis
Located in London, GB
This amazing large 1963 abstract landscape mixed media composition is by Greek artist Valerios Caloutsis. His work is similar to Lucio Fontana, Spatialist. This movement focused on t...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Circle Composition Abstract
Located in Greenwich, CT
A vibrant and fun work by the celebrated and beloved Sir Terry Frost - British artist. Framed in clean and contemporary white matting and lacquered frame this is an attention gettin...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Mushrooms and mountains. 1968, paper, gouache, 83, 5 x 59, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Mushrooms and mountains. 1968, paper, gouache, 83,5x59,5 cm
Gunars Klava (1933 – 1989)
Gunars Klava was born in 1933 in Priekule.
1953 - graduated from J. Rosenthal Art School
1964...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Polish French Mid Century Modern Abstract Judaica Hebrew Calligraphy Lithograph
By Abram Krol
Located in Surfside, FL
Pencil signed Lithograph or Xylograph
Biography: Abram (Abraham) Krol was born January 22, 1919, in Pabianice (Lodz), Poland.
Krol went to France in 1938 to study civil engineering...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
"Untitled" Edward Zutrau, Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Colorist Painting
Located in New York, NY
Edward Zutrau
Untitled
Signed and dated on stretcher
Oil on linen
26 x 31 1/2 inches
Edward Zutrau is among the American artists who worked within the whirlwind of diverse abstract...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Suspension
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist oil painting depicting an orange and yellow geometric canvas with subtle highlights of red and white by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Acq...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,850
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Nature Study Virginia Trees Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted abstract landscape by Nancy Weyl. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,820 Sale Price
20% Off
Walt Hines Hard Edge Acrylic Painting on Canvas 'Space Shaft', 1970s
Located in Dallas, TX
This painting was commissioned by a prominent modernist family in Connecticut by hard-edge painter Walt Hines in the early 1970s. Designed to hang on the diamond as shown but could b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Acrylic
Deauville
By Lou Fink
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lou Fink, American (1925 - 1980)
Title: Deauville
Year: 1968
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso
Size: 48 x 36 inches
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$16,000
Purple and Blue Underwater Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed abstract acrylic painting of a microcosmic underwater realm by an unknown San Francisco Bay area artist (American, 20th Century). Signed indistinctly lower right side. Unfra...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
$940 Sale Price
20% Off
"Aerial Composition" - Mid Century Magenta & Red Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Emotive abstract in warm colors by Anna Ballarian (American, 1918-2010), playing with deep contextualized Magenta and Ochre and blurred collage blocks to an extraordinary Kinetic aff...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$2,200 Sale Price
20% Off
1967 "Abstract 8" Ink Brush Drawing NYC Artist Michael Knigin Mid Century
Located in Arp, TX
Michael Knigin
Abstract 8
1967
Ink brush drawing, with acrylic paint on paper
10.5"x14" unframed $675
Signed and dated in ink lower left
Came from ar...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Israeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Jerusalem Kotel Oil Painting Judaica
By Efraim Modzelevich
Located in Surfside, FL
Efraim Modzelevich (1931-1995) Work is abstract in subject, and expressive in terms of technique. The artist uses a muted color palette, and thick layers of paint to build up his co...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ideologist. 1968, gouache on paper, 86x61 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ideologist
1968, gouache on paper, 86x61 cm
Gunars Klava (1933 – 1989)
Gunars Klava was born in 1933 in Priekule.
1953 - graduated from J. Rosenthal Art School
1964 - began to pa...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Landscape, Woodstock, New York
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Abstract landscape view overlook mountain, Woodstock, NY , 1960's.Oil on canvas, estate signature stamp lower right. Also, Pinajian estate signature stamped back of the canvas. Arc...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Conceptual Abstract - Monochrome British 60's Abstract Expressionist ink canvas
Located in London, GB
An original ink on canvas by Theodore Mendez who played an important role in the Post War British art movement and the Post Modern art movement. This simple yet stunning work, circa ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink
'Old Carmel Village', Woman Artist, San Francisco Art Association, Bay Area
By Dora Masters
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Dora Masters (American, 1913-2003) circa 1960. Stamped verso with certification of authenticity. Acquired from the artist's son.
Dora Masters exhibited widely and with su...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
On the corner. 1947, paper, mixed technique, 18.5x22.6 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity.
“I am 58, and in five Years my c...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
$1,682 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Expressionist 1960s Assemblage Collage Painting
By Francis Jennings
Located in Surfside, FL
Heavily ttextured, layered collaged painting. signed lower right and with a label from American Friends of th Tel Aviv Art Museum verso along with an original label. reminiscent of t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Cool-Colored Abstract Expressionist Sailboats and Boat House
Located in Houston, TX
Oil painting with boats and boat house. The artist uses color and line to create the illusion of texture within the painting. Placed in a dark, ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
abstract 1, 1954 - oil on panel, 100x65 cm., framed
By Henriette Gremeret
Located in Nice, FR
Wonderful oil on panel by Henriette Gremeret. Dated 1954, signed low left. The painting has been wonderfully framed on a glass support frmed in oakwood.
Cette artiste peintre ( 1895...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Metallurgy, Pop Art Painting by Jack Brusca
By Jack Brusca
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jack Brusca, American (1939 - 1993)
Title: Metallurgy
Year: 1968
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, dated and titled verso
Size: 20 x 20 in. (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Composition DB5, 1962 - oil paint, 115x146 cm, framed
By Damiano Bernard
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas, signed on the back.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstraction. 1966, paper, gouache, 44 x 32 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Abstraction. 1966, paper, gouache, 44x32 cm
Gunars Klava (1933 – 1989)
Gunars Klava was born in 1933 in Priekule.
1953 - graduated from J. Rosenthal Art School
1964 - began to part...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Abstract American Modernist Oil Painting "Dressing for the Party" by Zoute 1951
Located in Rochester, NY
Abstract Modernist oil painting by Zoute dated 1951. Oil on Masonite. I believe the subject in the painting is the artist's wife Thelma Salter. Zoute used himself and his wife almos...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Abstract Expressionist Forest Interior Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. No signature found. Image size, 24L x 20H. Framing available.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Storm Clouds II, Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting by Daniel Newman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Daniel Newman, American (1927 - 1994) - Storm Clouds II, Year: 1960, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated on verso, Size: 14 x 18 in. (35.56 x 45.72 cm)
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Oil, gouache and color crayons on paper. Signed i, v. Wicht, lower right recto.
Provenance: private collection, Chicago, IL.
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Oil, Gouache
Harriet Thorpe "Fire Bird" Original Abstract Oil Painting c.1960s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Harriet Thorpe "Fire Bird" Original Abstract Oil Painting c.1960s
Excellent vintage abstract painting by California artist Harriet Thorpe.
Created wit...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spray Paint Abstraction
Located in New York, NY
Oil and spray paint on canvas
23 1/4 x 24 in.
Framed: 25 3/4 x 25 3/4 x 2 in.
Signed lower right
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint
$1,500
Abstract composition XIV, 1965 - oil paint, 106x86 cm, framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Gérard Souzay (né Gérard Marcel Tisserand le 8 décembre 1918 à Angers, Maine-et-Loire, et mort le 17 août 2004 à Antib...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
City on Fire, Abstract Landscape Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown
Title: City on Fire
Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed lower right (Anderson?)
Size: 14 x 18 inches
Frame Size: 20 x 24 inches
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
Abstraction
By Agnes Hart
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right
Agnes Hart was born in Meridan, Connecticut. She studied at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida; at Iowa State University with Josef Presser, Paul Burlin and Lucile...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Sandstone
$25,000
Abstract Self Portrait - Clowns - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media 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, Board
'Abstracted Sunset in Scarlet and Ochre', Woman Artist, California Modernist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Certification of authenticity stamped verso for Janice Haefner (American, 1919-2002) and painted circa 1965.
A substantial mid-century oil abstract comprising adjoining and overlapp...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French 20th Century Modernist Painting Bright Colour Interior Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Interior Abstract
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
oil on artist paper, unframed
painting : 24 x 19.5 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$979 Sale Price
30% Off
"White Red and Blue" Diana Kurz, 1960 Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
White Red and Blue, circa 1960-61
Oil on canvas
61 1/2 x 33 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Conceptual Abstract I - British sixties art oil painting female artist
Located in London, GB
This striking conceptual abstract oil painting is by British artist Penelope Ellis. It was painted in 1962. A superb image and ahead of the conceptual ideas of the swinging sixties a...
Category
Conceptual Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$3,580 Sale Price
20% Off
L'Eau, Abstract Painting by Jacques Zimmermann 1959
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jacques Zimmermann was born in Antwerp in 1929. He said: "The abstraction is not for me or a genre painting, nor a limit. It is a starting point. From there, by the automatic gesture...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
European School Man and Woman
Located in Astoria, NY
European School, Man and Woman, Oil on Canvas, depicting a couple seated on a garden bench on abstract ground, signed "Kovkas Z (?)" lower right, orange painted wood frame. Image: 41...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Random House Hold Items Abstract French 20th Still Life Century Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
House Hold Items
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
oil on artist paper, unframed
painting : 18 x 24 inches
stamped verso
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and s...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$979 Sale Price
30% Off
French 20th Century Modernist Painting Flowers In Clear Glass Vase Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Flower Abstract
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
gouache on artist paper, unframed
painting : 25 x 19.5 inches
stamped verso
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$367 Sale Price
73% Off
Black Night
Located in Columbia, MO
HELEN DEMOTT
Black Night
1946
Tempera on Strathmore board
14 x 11 inches
Framed: 21.25 x 18 inches
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
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