Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings

Work on canvas Autumnal landscape painted on the back of the canvas

The Chateau Lake by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed front and back oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 29 x 24 inches Colors: Green colors, blue, yellow and white Ver...

Freeman Baldridge's impressionistic depiction of the impact of a wave on land, with a swirl of colorful flowers and bird overhead. Oil on canvasboard...

Oil Painting: A Pekingese "Lovely Maid of Kyratown" by Dorothy Alexandra Johnson (1902-1988) signed lower right oil painting on canvas, unstretched 5.0 x 7.0 inches A delightful ...

Chantilly French Expressionist artist, 20th century oil on board, framed framed: 17.5 x 21 inches board: 13 x 16 inches inscribed verso provenance: private collection, France condit...

Vintage modernist still life with a cat. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Robert McIntosh(1916-2010), was a prolific American artist that worked and exhibited throughout his life in California. In 1948, McIntosh was awarded first prize at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and again ion 1949 at the San Francisco Museum of Art. "The Birdcage...

Neo Impressionist Dog in a Tent by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998) signed lower left gouache painting on paper, unframed measurements: 11.75 x 16.5 inches provenance: private collection of the artists work, Provence, France Condition report: very good, colour strong, very shallow crease to lower right corner of sheet Interesting Neo-Impressionist 1950's French painting of a rather lively dog at the entrance to brightly coloured canvas tents...

Artist/ School: David Vivian, British 20th century, signed lower left Title: The Pekingese Dog Medium: oil painting on board, framed Size: painting: 1...

Monogram work A.B. Work on cardboard Plaster moldings frame and gilded wood 44.5 x 39.5 x 5 cm

Vintage American School cat portrait painting. Cubist / Precisionist style Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Framed. Image size, 29.25 by 23.25H.

The goldfinch is an modern artwork realized by the artist Enotrio in the half of 20th Century. Mixed colored oil on masonite Hand signed on the lower m...

Maurice ALBE (Beaugency 1900 - Périgueux 1995) Falcon hunting, from a 16th century tapestry Oil on canvas (hessian type) H. 150 cm; L. 120 cm Signed and dated lower right 1554 (for 1...

Wonderful mid-century watercolor of abstracted jellyfish by Bobbi Merrill (American, 20th Century), 1964. Signed lower left corner. Title "Jelly fish in Red Sea" and dated "4/5/64" o...

Olaf Wieghorst (1899 - 1988) California, New York, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas Artist Image Size: 20 x 24 Frame Size: 29.5 x 33 Medium: oil 1946 "Home Corral" California Olaf Wieghorst Without a doubt one of if not the most colorful Wieghorst paintings ever done. Signed lower left. Titled on verso. Dated on verso. In very nice condition. Has been professionally cleaned. Has very fine craquelure in the tree branches and a small spot below the horse that is really only visible if you are extremely close to the painting or with magnification. One of his finest paintings. Also please view my other Wieghorst from the same estate. I have included close up photos as well as photos taken in natural light, spot light and fluorescent lighting. Olaf Wieghorst (1899 - 1988) California, New York, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas Artist Image Size: 20 x 24 Frame Size: 29.5 x 33 Medium: oil "Home Corral" Dated 1946 Biography Olaf Wieghorst (1899 - 1988) Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and horses became a major focus of his admiration and later his painting. In 1918, he arrived in the United States, having worked as a cabin boy on a steamer. He served in the 5th U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border in the days of Pancho Villa. He later recalled a favorite horse from that period and said that riding through El Paso in 1921, the horse fell on his ankle and broke it. The outfit was heading to Douglas, Arizona, and not wanting to be left behind with his injury, he stayed on the horse which carried him all the way through the New Mexico desert on one of the hottest days of the year. The horse died during the night, having expended all his energy on saving Wieghorst. He later wrote that when the Cavalry discarded the use of horses, "they took the soul out of that great branch of the service" ("Widening Horizons"). He wandered extensively through the West sometimes on horseback, finding work in Arizona and New Mexico as a cowboy. Then he went to New York and served as a mounted policeman until 1944, spending most of his time on a horse named Rhombo patrolling the Central Park bridle paths and saving many people injury from runaway horses. He began painting in his spare time, and he was successful enough that his work was represented by the Grand Central Art Galleries of the Biltmore Hotel. In 1944, he settled in El Cajon, California. His paintings include cowboys, horses, and Indians in landscape, but there is little if any collectible art of his done during his early days in the West. His primary output came after his return to California when he began painting cowboys and horses extensively. He did numerous horse portraits, spending time on ranches studying their unique personalities. He painted celebrity horses including Roy Rogers' Trigger, Gene Autry's Champion and Tom Morgan's stallion. He was a large, powerful, handsome, and very personable man. Source: Kathleen Wade Olaf Carl Wieghorst (1899-1988) He arrived in the U.S. in 1918, joining the U.S. Cavalry, & patrolled the Mexico border in New Mexico & Arizona . When he mustered out of the army, he drifted, ending up as a wrangler on the Cunningham Ranch near Alma, New Mexico. By the mid-twenties, Wieghorst was in New York City, working as a mounted policeman - his relationships with the many horses that were a part of his life became the common denominator of his paintings. Living in California by the end of WWII, he began a career that spiraled to success, in part due to his engaging personality. His paintings have appeared in numerous solo & retrospective exhibitions including the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City (1974), The Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona (1981), & the San Diego Historical Society, California (2002). His work was the subject of the 1970 biography, "Olaf Wieghorst" by William Reed...

Signed hunting scene by Alfred Grenfell Haig (1870–1963). Haig's masterful oil on canvas brings to life the exhilarating spirit of a hunting scene, with a huntsman leading a pack of ...

"Nude with Cat" by R. Walker is a charming portrait of a woman and cat posed by a window.

Signed lower right, 'Dusso' for Leon D'Usseau, Jr. (American, 1918-1991) and painted circa 1965. A substantial, Modernist oil showing a mare and foal frolicking in a deep chestnut landscape interspersed with foliage and areas of bright color. Born in Los Angeles, Leon D'Usseau began training under the guidance of his father, who was among the earliest fine-art film directors to work in Hollywood. At the age of twelve, Leon was drawing seriously and, at fifteen, received a working scholarship at Chouinard School of Art where he studied under Merrill Gage and Alexander Archipenko. At this early age, he was also employed by Chouinard to teach a line-drawing class. Adopting the anglicized brush-name of Dusso, he exhibited widely and with success including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1937-40), the California Palace Legion of Honor (1941), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1942), the Laguna Festival of Arts, Los Angeles Artists Association (1945), the California Watercolor Society (1946) and the Audubon Association (1945). Leon Dusso...

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...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Saturday Evening Post cover June 19, 1937

Mid Century Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Cats and Birds Composition in Acrylic on Paper How many cats and birds do you see? This striking painting by San Francisco's Bay Area abs...

Vibrant watercolor of two blue fish painting by Florence, Italy artist Vittorio Guidotti. Unsigned. "Original watercolor by Vittorio Guidotti" on ve...

Signed lower right, 'G. Bundgaard' for Gunnar Bundgaard (Danish, 1920-2005) and dated '57'. A light-filled, panoramic landscape showing Holstein cattle grazing in a grassy field beneath sun-lit clouds. This listed Danish painter first studied at Copenhagen's Gronvang School where he was particularly influenced by the romantic academic style of Niels Pederson...

Pekingese: "Mimi" by Dorothy Alexandra Johnson (1902-1988) signed lower left watercolour and gouache on artists heavy paper 5.5 x 7.5 inches Delightful painting by the highly rega...

Signature: Signed Lower Right Medium: Watercolor on Board Cover illustration for "The Saturday Evening Post," March 19, 1932, a copy of whic...

French pastel on paper portrait of a sleeping cat by Renée Jullien. The drawing is signed bottom left and presented in a custom wood frame with cut card mount under glass. A charmin...

Charming mid century country landscape with cottage with thatched roof and chickens foraging. Signed "H. H." and dated "1955." Condition: good; some edge and corner wear consistent w...

19th century Hudson River School landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, ready ...

Signed lower right, 'Jay Risling' (American, 1896-1993) and dated 1941. A psychologically penetrating study of a contented, golden-eyed ginger cat shown re...

John Farrar (American, 1928-1972) Signed: John Farrar (Lower, Left) “ Pardner ”, 1943 Titled Above Signature (Lower, Left) Oil on Canvas 26 ⅛” x 32 ⅛” Housed in a 2 ½” period ornamented Newcomb-Macklin frame in toned gold leaf, in good original condition. Outside Size: 30 1/2" x 36 5/8" A recent discovery of a painting that appears to be Farrar’s family dog. This was done when he was just fifteen years old. As a teenager in the 1940s, Farrar received much local acclaim in the Washington D.C. art Scene. Words like “Child Prodigy”, “Brilliant” and “Gifted” were used to describe him in the local newspaper. He had a great bout of early success which included developing patrons among Washington DC’s art elite but this was short lived as he was afflicted with schizophrenia and alcoholism as an adult causing him to spend much of his life in mental institutions. In 1942, Farrar won the Washington Times-Herald's outdoor art fair. This painting was executed the following year when he was 15 (1943). That same year he won the top prize at Atlanta University’s third annual “ Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Prints by Negro Artists ” with a piece titled “ Queenie ”. Approximately one hundred and fifty works of art were included in the show, representing the best works of more than seventy-five contemporary African American artists. This show included works by Romare Bearden, who was awarded Honorable Mention for his painting “ The Two Genrerations ”. Also included among the exhibitors - Charles H. Alston, Allen Rohen Crite, Aaron Douglas, Fredrick Flemister, Sargant Johnson, Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence, Marjorie Wheeler Brown, Hughie Lee Smith, Lois Mailou Jones...

Signed lower right 'Spazzali' for Luciano Spazzali (Italian, 1911-1997) and dated 1958. A complex and lyrical equestrian work by this notable Italian Modernist and exponent of Magi...

Horse & Foal in Landscape signed by Léon Schwartz -Abrys ( 1905 - 1990) French School, expressionist oil on board, unframed board: 21.5 x 25.5 inches Provenance: private collection...

Original Schnauzer gouache, probably Belgian, done as a design for a series of matchboxes.

Vintage American modernist surreal landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Unframed. Image size, 28"L x 20"H.

Signed oil on canvas animals in landscape by French expressionist painter Andre Brasilier. The piece depicts goats and birds in front of green trees with a blue sea beyond. This earl...

Really impressive early American modernist painting. Oil on board. Framed.

Signed lower right, 'Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966); additionally titled verso 'Consort' and dated 1954 with inscription, 'by the one and only buk, made for Ruth'....

Large scale and dramatic, ""Langostina, an abstract painting by Harold Black (American, 1913–1993). Signed lower right and on verso. Presented in giltwood frame. Image, 40”H x 22”W. ...

'Springtime in the Camargue' by Yves Brayer (circa 1960s). The Camargue region in the South of France is a stunning expanse of wetlands that boasts a unique blend of landscapes and w...

Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, R.A. (1901-1979) The fashion parade signed ‘CF Tunnicliffe’ (lower right) oil on canvas 25 ⅛ x 30 ¼ in. (63.8 x 76.8 cm.) frame 30 ⅞ x 36 in. (78.4 x 9...

Charming painting of colorful Gallic "Le Coq Gaulois" roosters by listed California artist Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American,1903-1997), circa 1950. Born in...

EMILIO GRAU SALA Spanish, 1911 - 1975 COURSES signed "Grau Sala" (lower left) signed, dated and titled "GRAU SALA / 1967 / “Courses”" (on the reverse) oil on canvas 23-5/8 x 29 inche...

"The Polo Player" Pierre Bosco, (1909-1993) Oil n canvas Signed lower right 15 x 12 inches Pierre Bosco showed an interest in art at an early age. His commitment and dedication to ...

Elizabeth Nelson Fairchild (American, Born 1910) Signed: E. Fairchild (Lower, Left) " Portrait of a Horse ", c. 1940 Oil on Board 9" x 7" Housed in a 2" Gold Leaf Frame Overall...

"Little Bear" is a captivating mid-century oil painting by American artist Harold Vincent Skene (1883–1978). This traditional Western landscape, painted in...

Sunil Das - Early Horses X - 34 x 20.75 inches (unframed size) Charcoal on paper ( Framed & Delivered ) Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmodernist painters and rose t...

Behind the barn 1950s. Oil on cardboard. 42,5x49,5 cm "Behind the Barn" is likely to be a captivating and nostalgic artwork that celebrates the beauty of rural life and the tranquility of the countryside. Through the careful composition and skillful use of oil paints, the artist aims to transport viewers to a simpler and idyllic time, where nature and agriculture coexist in harmony. Aleksandra...

Mid century acrylic painting on canvas of two parrots in a tree with rain drops executed with bold tropical colors and a sense of movement. One can almost hear this painting. Signed ...

RAFAEL ZABALETA Spanish, 1907 - 1960 PERDICES Y RECLAMO signed "RZabaleta" (lower left) oil on canvas 32 x 39-1/2 inches (81 x 100 cm.) framed: 33-1/4 x 41-1/8 inches (84.5 x 104.5 c...

33.5x27, sight size 28x22 Lionel Kalish born 1931 New York, NY A painter and childrens book illustrator. Education: 1951 Cooper Union of the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY Selected Solo Exhibitions: 1978 Forum Gallery, New York, NY 1980 Galerie Brusberg, Hannover, Germany 1981 ACA Galleries, New York, NY 1982 Galerie Stubler, Frankfurt Germany 1984 Galerie Brusberg, Berlin, Germany 1990 Sid Detuch Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Lewis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA Galerie Brusberg, Berlin, Germany 1996 The Horwitch Newman Gallery, “Italy: The Poetry of Landscape,” Scottsdale, AZ Gremillion & Co. Fine Arts, “Italy: The Timeless Landscape,” Houston, TX 1997 Hoorn-Hashby Gallery, “Color and Light: The Italian Façade...

Signed lower left, 'Wilenchick' for Clement Samuel Wilenchick (American, 1900-1957) and painted circa 1955. A dynamic, post-impressionist oil showing horses frolicking together agai...

Edward Avedisian ( 1936-2007 ) 7.5 X 5.75 Oil paint on wood panel This is not signed on front. It bears his name verso. Provenance: Hudson, N.Y. estate of noted Art Collector Albert...

Aleksandra Belcova (1892-1981) Studied at the Art School in Penza (1912-1917), State Free Art Workshops in Petrograd with N. Altman (1918-1919). Together with her husband Romans Su...

Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1940 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts workers loading wood onto a cart being pulled by a white ho...

Siamese Cat with Kittens by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Egg tempera on linen 39 x 48 cm (15³/₈ x 18⁷/₈ inches) Signed lower right Orovida and dated lower left 1934 Provenance J Ankri, 8th October 1967 Literature K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 51, p. 56 (illustrated) Exhibition London, The Leicester Galleries, Paintings by Orovida, February 1935, no. 6 Women’s International Art Club, 20th February - 13th March 1937, no. 273 London, Redfern Gallery, Ten Years of Work by Orovida, 5th-28th May 1938, no. 7 London, The Royal Society of British Artists, Summer Exhibition, 1947, no. 281 (possibly the etching) London, O’Hana Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Coloured Etchings: Orovida, 3rd-18th October 1957, no. 13 Artist biography Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies. She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy. Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects, such as Mongolian horse...

This work embodies a beautiful color scheme that is evident in the treatment of the sky and the huge cloud structure. that Signed and Dated lower right Original Period Frame On Vers...

Summerhouse. Cardboard, oil, 33x48 cm Harijs Veldre (Bullis till 1947) (1927.8.III – 1999.6.V) Harijs Veldre learned in Riga school of applied arts (1942 – 43), in studio of L. Svem...

Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 18H x 24L. No signature found. Very nicely painted.