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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1960s
Period: 1950s
Pouring Down in the Streets - Rainy Cityscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Dramatic cityscape of a crowded street in the rain by an unknown artist (20th Century). A crowd of people navigate the streets in the rain, some holding umbrellas. The rain is depict...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Morning Swim Impressionist Nude Woman Portrait
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Morning Swim Impressionist Nude Woman Portrait
Artist signed, titled verso.
Wallace Bassford was an American painter and illustrator, known particularly for his floral still-lifes an...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1960’s French Cubist Signed Oil Painting on Canvas Group of Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Cubist artist, circa 1960’s
signed oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 27 x 22 inches
canvas: 26 x 21 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: overall good...
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pierrot the Musician Singing Little Girl Clown Paris
Located in Soquel, CA
Pierrot the Musician Singing Little Girl Clown Paris
Pretty street musician "Pierrot by French artist Santini Poncini (unknown) (French/Italian, B-20th...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"Little girl with dog " Oil cm.35 x 25 1950
Located in Torino, IT
Dog,Child,Little girl,impressionisme
KLARA VLASOVA (Moscow, 1926)
MUSEUMS
St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum
Moscow, Pushkin Museum
Moscow, Museum of History and Reconstructio...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Coquillage et réveil en rouge by Henri Hayden - Still Life Painting
By Henri Hayden
Located in London, GB
Coquillage et réveil en rouge by Henri Hayden (1883-1970)
Oil on paper laid down on isorel
33.5 x 46 cm (13 ¹/₄ x 18 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower le...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Laid Paper
Banks of the Seine River, Parisian Cityscape Painting by Charles Cobelle
Located in Long Island City, NY
An idyllic painting of the bustling Seine river in Paris, by French artist Charles Cobelle. Cobelle was an accomplished French artist who studied under Marc Chagall and Raoul Dufy. U...
Category
1960s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Canvas, Acrylic
"Sausalito" Harbor and Angel Island Mountains - Sail Boats - Oil on Canvas 1963
Located in Soquel, CA
"Sausalito" Harbor and Angel Island Mountains - Boats Oil on Canvas 1963
Detailed and exceptional painting of "Sausalito" Harbor and Angel Island Mountain by William (Bill) Frederick Dorhmann. (American, 1906-1989). Dohrmann studied at the California School of Fine Art, New York School of Fine Arts, and in Paris at Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
Born in San Francisco in 1906 he lived for many years in Burlington, California and in 1959 settled in Sausalito, California. An Impressionist, his work includes landscapes of Marin County and scenes of the sail boats and ships on San Francisco Bay.
This idyllic setting was just right. He worked in watercolors, pastel oil, black and white line drawing...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Figure - Painting by Behçet Safa - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Figure is an original contemporary artwork realized by the artist Behçet Safa (1934-2018).
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Hand signed and dated on the back.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
1960’s French Stylish Portrait of a Woman Modernist Oil 1965
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School signed A.Bertin
signed on back, dated 1965
Title: Period portrait of a woman
Medium: oil on board, framed
Framed: 18.5 x 12.5 inches
Board : 18 x 12 ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Geometric Abstract Oil & Collage Painting - Le Club 55
Located in Bristol, GB
LE CLUB 55
Size: 33 x 24 cm
Oil on canvas
Le Club 55 is a legendary and glamorous beach club in the south of France, and we can infer that the setting of the ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Warm-Toned Abstract Figurative Portrait of Boxer Jack Johnson
Located in Houston, TX
Warm-toned abstract figurative painting by an unknown artist. The painting depicts Galveston, TX boxer John Arthur Johnson in profile view. Unsigned. Unframed but framing options are...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Figurative Oil Painting - Off to School
Located in Bristol, GB
OFF TO SCHOOL
Oil on canvas
Size: 32 x 25.5 cm (including frame)
A lovely and endearing miniature oil on canvas depicting a scene of a pedestrian walkway on a fine summer’s day.
A ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Figure de Notier" framed, signed oil on canvas painting by artist Max Papart
By Max Papart
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Figure de Notier" oil on canvas painting of a human figure by Max Papart. Signed Max Papart on front. Signed and titled "Max Papart Figure de Notier" on back. Additional markings o...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Man - Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Subtle and moody portrait of a Pensive man by Joan Tidwell (American, 1930-2002). The sitter in the portrait is a middle-aged man looking slightly downwards, wearing a collared shirt. This piece is completed in a tan and green palette, creating a somber feeling. Of particular note are the confident, thick brushstrokes - each one is well-placed in the modernist style. Similar in some ways to Picasso's portraits.
Signed "Joan Tidwell" on verso
Unframed.
Canvas size: 30"H x 22"W
oan Gay Tidwell (American, 1930-2002) was born and raised in Hollywood, CA, where she had some success as a child actor. Later, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Washington with a Master's Degree in English Literature and Drama. Tidwell moved to the Bay...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris Street Scene, Mid Century Figural Landscape by Marc Ottee
Located in Soquel, CA
Paris Street Scene, Mid Century Figural Landscape by Marc Ottee
Charming mid century urban landscape of Paris by Marc Ottee (20th c.). Figures, signage and...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Fauvist Portrait of a Man
Located in Soquel, CA
Striking and colorful mid century Fauvist portrait of a man by Sydney Helfman (American, 1926-2010). The expressive and vibrant color palette, a signatu...
Category
1960s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Red Roses” Oil cm 52 x 48 1968
Located in Torino, IT
Flowers, Roses, red,pink
MAYA KOPITZEVA (Gagra, Georgia, 1924 - 2005)
Maya Kopitzeva’s works have been acquired by the Russian Ministry of Culture, by the Foundation for the Rus...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1960’s French Surrealist Abstract Collage Oil Painting Nude Figurative Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Surrealist artist, circa 1960’s
oil painting on canvas with stuck on magazine art, unframed
canvas: 15 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris
condition: overall good
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Magazine Paper
Woman in a Red Dress, Mid Century Female Illustrator/ Artist, Elizabeth Taylor ?
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century female illustrator/artist Gladys Rockmore Davis paints a compelling portrait of a contemplative beauty who looks like Elizabeth Taylor. Frontal and lateral forces work together in this pyramidal composition. The sitter stares down at the viewer creating a frontal tension. Her hypnotic gaze is counterbalanced by the lateral movement of her crossed hands and triggers an emotional response. Gladys Rockmore Davis is both a work-for-hire illustrator and a fine artist- She was an illustrator for clients such as Upjohn, Munsingwear, Elgin Watches, and Johnson & Johnson. Davis had a show at the prestigious Midtown Gallery and Babcock Gallery in New York. She studied at the California School of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, and Art Students League. William R. French Gold Medal...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Swedish Oil Painting, Framed Street Scene - Pedestrians
Located in Bristol, GB
PEDESTRIANS
Size: 35 x 30 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A small yet very impactful modernist street scene composition, executed in oil onto board.
This composition presents a b...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Paris, Flower Market', Young Mademoiselles, Gamines des Fleurs, Jeunes Filles
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Francois Gerome (French, born 1895) and accompanied with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Born in Paris in 1895, Francois Gerome is best known for paintings of young, fash...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Modernist Surrealist Woman Color Oil Painting Lazzaro Donati La Signora
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977)
Oil on board. Colorful woman. La Signora, Vestita Di Giallo, 1969
Hand signed upper right. signed, titled on back of panel.
Dimensions: (Frame) H 38" x W 30", (Panel) H 28" x W 20"
Lazzaro Donati was born in Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence. Within three years eleven exhibitions followed in Italy, and as his reputation grew he was invited to give major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. He is considered one of the foremost contemporary Italian painters and his paintings hang in museums and private collections throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His work is recalling the works of the french Raoul Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Francois Gall and Jean Jansem. This particular work is reminiscent of the work of Manolo Valdes. Donati lived and worked at 24 Piazza Donatello in Florence, the square where generations of artists have created works worthy of the great Florentine tradition. As you entered the narrow hallway to his studio, a gilded life-size Venetian angel beckoned you to his door. Once inside, the present faded away and you found yourself in an atelier where early masters might have worked during the Renaissance. Within, luxurious Persian rugs set off the innumerable objects d’art and antique furnishings...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mid Century Modern Portrait Polka Dot Suit Clown by Joan Tidwell
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Man in a Polka Dot Clown Suit - Oil on Canvas
Portrait of a man in a white and red polka dot suit by a Joan Tidwell (American, 1930-2005...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'French Riviera View', French School (circa 1950s)
Located in London, GB
'French Riviera View', oil on wood, French School (circa 1950s). Discovered in the South of France, this charming oil painting depicts one of the small coastal village towns of the R...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Children's Book Cover - Mid-Century Blond Girl - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Female Illustrator Barbara Briggs Bradley was an in-demand illustrator in the 1950s. Merrill Publishers of their famous children's books hired Barbara Briggs Bradley to d...
Category
1950s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil
Still Life with Pitcher
Located in London, GB
'Still Life with Pitcher', oil on paper, by Charles Réal (circa 1950s). Still-lifes make voyeurs out of all of us. No matter the era to which they belong, they always give us the sense that we’re spying on a table set for a night of gluttony or perhaps, romance. Whatever is set on the still-life table can transport us to another place limited only by our imaginations. What is not well known is that those tabletop items often had coded meanings. The secret meanings behind the paintings and their unofficial language spawned several sub-genres, including floral still life, breakfast paintings...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Mutual Admiration" Flower Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting Monterey Artist
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mutual Admiration" Flower Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting Monterey Artist
Mid-Century Modern painting of a little blonde girl in a white apron adoring her flowers by Monterey Artist Rose Marie (Smith) Ansel, (American, 1921-2012)
Rose Marie was born and lived in the Monterey area all her life. She volunteered in various city government associations and founded the Parade of Nations in 1970 which celebrated the many ethnic cultures on the Monterey Peninsula...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Head with Plant
Located in New York, NY
Lester Johnson "Head with Plant" 1959 oil on paper. Early figurative expressionist painting on paper. Nicely framed.
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Snow White
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Golden wooden frame
38.8 x 46.5 x 3.2 cm
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"In the Brush" Mid Century Oil Painting of Figures & Flowers Landscape
Located in New York, NY
A modernist depiction of figures in a landscape with a woman balancing a basket top her head. This native oil painting is reminiscent of post impressionistic artist Henri Rousseau. With colors of cobalts...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pont Neuf, After Pissarro - MidCent. French Impressionist Paris Street Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
Pont Neuf, After Pissarro - Mid-Cent. French Impressionist Paris Street Scene
A wonderful mid-century copy of Pissarro's timeless Fr...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Horses, Chicken, Ducks, Rooster and Pigs - Children's Book -Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Cover illustration for mid-century children's book publisher Merril Publishers. Signed lower right. Unframed. Retta Scott or Retta Worcester was (February 23, 1916 – August 26, 1990) was an pioneering Female Illustrator / American artist. She was the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Scott worked on storyboards to develop scenes of Bambi, his mother, and the film’s hunting dogs, on which she spent weeks to develop them into “vicious, snarling, really mean beasts.” Male artists in the company were stunned who initially assumed that only a man could create drawings with such intensity and technical skill. Her sketches caught the eye of Disney, so when the film went into production, she was assigned to animate scenes of hunting dogs chasing Faline. She worked under the film's supervising director, David D. Hand,and was tutored by Disney animator Eric Larson. This was a significant coup for the young woman, since at the 1930s-era Disney studio, women were considered only for routine tasks: "Ink and paint art was a laborious part of the animation process, and was solely the domain of women..." Her promotion to animator was in part thanks to the success of herself and other women such as Bianca Majolie, Sylvia Holland, and Mary Blair as storyboard artists. Even after receiving a promotion to animator, she and her animations continued being under appreciated in the industry. Though the most recognized Walt Disney female artist is Mary Blair, it is Retta Scott who opened up the doors for women in the animation industry. She became the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator. By the spring of 1941, Scott was also considered a "specialist in animal sketches."
Scott helped produce Fantasia and Dumbo, as well as an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows that was later cancelled. She also made an appearance in The Reluctant Dragon...
Category
1950s Feminist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Banana Plantation Guadeloupe
Located in London, GB
'The Banana Plantation Guadeloupe', oil on canvas, by Robert Humblot (1959). In 1959, when the artist visited French Guadeloupe, he painted several colo...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid 20th Century Canadian snow covered landscape, Halliburton Highlands Ontario
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding Oil on board a snow-covered Canadian landscape of the Haliburton Highlands near Ontario.
Andrew B Phin is a painter, who is listed as a 20th-century Canadian painter of ...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Classic 1950s Husband and Wife and Gagged Parrot, Esquire Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Juliette Kida Renault (as JKR) Esquire Magazine Illustration Original Art (Hearst, c. 1950s). "He said his first word to-day". A fixture of Esquire ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
Meditation on African Sculpture, mid-century figural abstract painting
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in Beachwood, OH
Beni E. Kosh/Charles Elmer Harris (American, 1917-1993)
Meditation on African Sculpture, 1957
Oil on found wood panel
Signed and dated lower left
20 x 15 inches
Charles Elmer Harris...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Folk Art Naive Judaica Klezmer Hasidic Musicians
Located in Surfside, FL
Jewish Chassidic Klezmer Shtetl Musicians
Category
1960s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Réalisme Fantastique, L'Etabli, The Work Bench, Mid Century Fantasy Surrealist
Located in Cotignac, FR
French, réalisme fantastique, Surrealist oil on board by Claude Verlinde. Signed and dated bottom left. Presented in plain wood frame with gilt filet.
...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Jean Robert Ithier (1904-1977) Ars en Ré, view of the church, oil on canvas
By JEAN ROBERT ITHIER
Located in Paris, FR
Jean Robert Ithier (1904-1977)
Ars en Ré, view of the church
oil on canvas
signed lower left
80.5 x 60 cm
No frame
The church of Ars en Ré, a pittoresque village on the atlantic i...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ciel de Printemps - Fauvist Oil, Horse & Figures in Landscape by Jules Cavailles
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas circa 1950 by French painter Jules Cavailles who was part of a group of artists called "La Realite Poetique". This charming piece ...
Category
1950s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Italian Modernist Surrealist Woman Colorful Oil Painting Lazzaro Donati
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977)
Oil on board. Colorful woman.
Hand signed upper right. signed, titled on back of panel.
Dimensions: (Frame) H 37" x W 29", (Panel) H 27.5" x W 20"
Lazzaro Donati was born in Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence. Within three years eleven exhibitions followed in Italy, and as his reputation grew he was invited to give major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. He is considered one of the foremost contemporary Italian painters and his paintings hang in museums and private collections throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His work i faucist recalling the works of the french Raoul Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Francois Gall and Jean Jansem. This particular work is reminiscent of the work of Manolo Valdes. Donati lived and worked at 24 Piazza Donatello in Florence, the square where generations of artists have created works worthy of the great Florentine tradition. As you entered the narrow hallway to his studio, a gilded life-size Venetian angel beckoned you to his door. Once inside, the present faded away and you found yourself in an atelier where early masters might have worked during the Renaissance. Within, luxurious Persian rugs set off the innumerable objects d’art and antique furnishings. Light poured in through the sloping glass wall on the north side. A dramatic stairway led to an overhanging balcony which served as a private gallery where the artist hung some of his favorite early works. To the left of the entrance was a smaller studio where Donati sculpted, with a window overlooking the famous old English cemetery where tourists laid flowers on the grave of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
In the main studio itself, where Donati received his clients in an atmosphere as polished as an office of a top executive, one hardly realized that it was here that the artist actually painted. His easel was covered with Persian blue velvet, the painting on the easel was already framed, his chair was upholstered in red velvet and on his palette the colors were arranged with the precision of a Byzantine mosaic. In a corner stand were his latest works, framed and ready to be sent off to his next exhibition in Europe or America. He spoke fluent French and English as well as some Spanish and German. “After all”, he said, “you've got to know how to sell...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
“Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in Paris. Circa 1955. Signed by the artist lower right. Condition is excellent; recently professionally cleaned. No restorations. Original wood, gesso and gold frame. Overall framed measurements are 13 by 15.5 inches. Provenance: A Long Island, New York collector.
Charles Blondin was a French impressionist painter and print maker known for his depictions of Paris during different seasons. Born in 1913 in France his most active period dates from c. 1928 to the 1950s.
The Paris Etching Society...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Blue nude" Oil cm. 50 x 60 1953
Located in Torino, IT
blue,nude
Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989)
From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and expressive results dominated by an imp...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Swedish Figurative Unframed Oil Painting by Hans Osswald - The Pair
Located in Bristol, GB
THE PAIR
Size: 80 x 60.5 cm
Oil on Canvas
A large and very unique mid century modernist oil composition of two figures, painted onto canvas.
The artist has flattened the surface, r...
Category
1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Young Court Jester Holding a Puppet', Commedia dellArte, Post Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'M. Dietrich' (German-American, 20th century) and dated 1963.
A powerful, character-driven portrait of the young man, shown gazing directly towards the viewer. w...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
1950s Abstract Painting New York Skyline Cityscape, Buildings, Blue Yellow Red
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage 1950s original signed abstract painting of New York City by Charles Ragland Bunnell from 1951, cityscape mid century modern skyline. Presented in a custom black frame, outer dimensions measure 21 ⅜ x 26 ⅜ x 2 inches. Image size is 19 x 24 inches.
Painting is clean and in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a complete condition report.
Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote.
About the artist:
Charles Bunnell developed a love for art at a very young age. As a child in Kansas City, Missouri, he spent much of his time drawing. When he was unable to find paper he drew on walls and in the margins of textbooks for which he was often fined. Around 1915, Bunnell moved with his family to Colorado Springs, Colorado. He served in World War I and later used his GI Training to study at the Broadmoor Art Academy (later renamed the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) during 1922 and 1923.
In 1922, he married fellow student, Laura Palmer...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
20th C French Impressionist landscape a Villa in the South of France or Rivera
Located in Woodbury, CT
20th C French Impressionist landscape a Villa in the South of France or Rivera.
Lucien Potronat was a French painter best known for his depictions of ...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'In the Sycamore', Large Figural Oil, Carmel, California Woman Artist, Muralist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Caswell' for Helen Rayburn Caswell (American, 1923-2018) and painted circa 1955.
A substantial, mid-century figural oil by this listed California woman artist who showed her talent at an early age. In Saratoga, Caswell began a successful career as an artist and portrait painter, displaying in galleries in Carmel and teaching artist workshops. In addition to her work as a fine artist and portrait painter, Helen wrote and illustrated over 30 books for children and adults. In 1981, Helen moved to Occidental in Sonoma County where, in addition to continuing to paint and teach, she designed stained glass windows for the Sebastopol United Methodist Church. She was also commissioned to paint numerous murals including at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco and for the Elizabeth Seton Center in Menlo Park.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Girl with Mandolin”
By Etienne Ret
Located in Southampton, NY
Acrylic paint and watercolor mixed media painting of a young girl playing the mandolin. Circa 1950. Signed lower left in the paint. Condition is very good. The painting is in it’s d...
Category
1950s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Henry Ernst Schnakenberg, (Still Life with Scull)
Located in New York, NY
Henry Schnakenberg is mostly known for New York City scenes. This is clearly a departure.
It is signed at the lower left and dated '4-53' on the r...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Edna Hibel Mother and Child Original Oil Painting on Silk
By Edna Hibel
Located in San Francisco, CA
Edna Hibel: 1917-2015. Well listed important American artist. Mostly associated with Florida and Massachusetts. There is a Hibel Museum in Florida. Some called her the latter 20th ce...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950's French Modernist Signed Oil La Visitation Surrealist Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, signed verso
circa 1950's
'La Visitation'
oil painting on canvas, unframed
painting: 10.5 x 9 inches
provenance: private French collection
condition: overall very good
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surroundings in countryside. 1963, cardboard, oil, 45 x 58 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Surroundings in countryside. 1963, cardboard, oil, 45 x 58 cm
Landscape painting of Latvia countryside.
Gentle and careful brushstrokes in the foreground accents sunny day.
Color u...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Italian Modernist Surrealist Woman Color Oil Painting Lazzaro Donati La Regina
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977)
Oil on board. Colorful woman. La Regina (the Queen)
Hand signed upper right. signed, titled on back of panel.
Dimensions: (Frame) H 37" x W 29", (Panel) H 27.5" x W 20"
Lazzaro Donati was born in Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence. Within three years eleven exhibitions followed in Italy, and as his reputation grew he was invited to give major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. He is considered one of the foremost contemporary Italian painters and his paintings hang in museums and private collections throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His work is recalling the works of the french Raoul Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Francois Gall and Jean Jansem. This particular work is reminiscent of the work of Manolo Valdes. Donati lived and worked at 24 Piazza Donatello in Florence, the square where generations of artists have created works worthy of the great Florentine tradition. As you entered the narrow hallway to his studio, a gilded life-size Venetian angel beckoned you to his door. Once inside, the present faded away and you found yourself in an atelier where early masters might have worked during the Renaissance. Within, luxurious Persian rugs set off the innumerable objects d’art and antique furnishings. Light poured in through the sloping glass wall on the north side. A dramatic stairway led to an overhanging balcony which served as a private gallery where the artist hung some of his favorite early works. To the left of the entrance was a smaller studio where Donati sculpted, with a window overlooking the famous old English cemetery where tourists laid flowers on the grave of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
In the main studio itself, where Donati received his clients in an atmosphere as polished as an office of a top executive, one hardly realized that it was here that the artist actually painted. His easel was covered with Persian blue velvet, the painting on the easel was already framed, his chair was upholstered in red velvet and on his palette the colors were arranged with the precision of a Byzantine mosaic. In a corner stand were his latest works, framed and ready to be sent off to his next exhibition in Europe or America. He spoke fluent French and English as well as some Spanish and German. “After all”, he said, “you've got to know how to sell...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Paris Opera
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lovely oil painting of elegant people at the Paris Opera.
Nice original frame.
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Les Halles Food Market
By Roland Hamon
Located in London, GB
'Les Halles Food Market', oil on canvas (circa 1960s), by Roland Hamon. This artwork captures a typical day in the old food markets of Paris, called Les Ha...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Demitasse
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present outstanding original oil on canvas by American artist William Gropper (1897-1977.)
William Gropper was an artist and illustrator, known for his exceptional a...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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