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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: Early 1900s
Lavandaie, ca 1905
Located in BLARICUM, NL
OTTO VAN REES
Freiburg im Breisgau 1884-1957 Utrecht
WASSENDE VROUWEN I LAVANDAIE
1905
Oil on canvas
43 x 52 cm.
Signed: lower left ‘OvR’
Particularities: ID 35.
Provenance: Pri...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman and Tiger
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by artist lower left.
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Cover
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil
The Charming Ghost
Located in London, GB
Ink and watercolour
Image size: 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (9.5 x 14.5 cm)
Contemporary frame
Provenance
Private family collection
This painting was created in the early 1900's when the Decadent Movement...
Category
Early 1900s Aesthetic Movement Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Louis Cabié (1853-1939) - The river at Les Eyzies in summer - Dordogne
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Louis-Alexandre CABIE
(Dol-de-Bretagne 1853 - Bordeaux 1939)
The Vézère at Les Eyzies in summer
Oil on panel
H. 19.5 cm; L. 28.5 cm
Signed lower right, dated 1900. Located on the back.
Provenance: Private collection, Versailles
Louis Cabié...
Category
Early 1900s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Young Woman
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Sergei Besedin was born in the village of Ruska near the Ukrainian city of Lozovaya. He was born into a working class family who were staunch communists. Besedin, shortly after the R...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Gods of Voodoo
By Harold McCauley
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Signature: Unsigned
Dimensions: Sight Size 18.00" x 24.00;" Framed 28.50" x 35.50"
Cover for Fate Magazine - August 1953
The original cover painting by H.W. McCauley used for the August 1953 cover of Fate (True Stories of the Strange and Unknown), illustrating "The Gods of Voodoo" by North Hildabrand. In this offering a dancing pin...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This sunbathed painting will light up your room with warmth. Sundblom's painting technique has the freedom and quick energy in his paint application. His subjects are bathed in the ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Company K - Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Book cover for "Company K" by William March.
Subject matter features three army soldiers in monochrome ...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
The Savior, Paperback Cover
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 23.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This is the paperback cover for A Bullet For My Love by Octav...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Do Bee Book of Manners
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Grosset & Dunlap, Illustration, Art Seiden was a top children's book illustrator in the 1950' - 1060's Work comes in two parts that are butted together by the artist
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Ink
Lighthouse Keeper, Brant Point
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left ‘Stevan Dohanos’
Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Laid Down on Masonite
The present work was published as the cover illustration of the June 26th, 1954...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Board
Girl Peeling Apple, Johnson & Johnson Advertisement, 1959
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed 'John Falter' Lower Right
Sight Size 7.00" x 9.375;" Framed 9.50" x 12.00"
Johnson & Johnson reproduced the present work as an advertisemen...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Fred C. Dobbs Paddle Steamer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This illustration dates circa 1950.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
(Untitled)
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1958
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 23.20" x 33.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Story illustration for Good Housekeeping magazine, December 1958. Image of woman and two sailors leaving house at Christmas time.
Exhibited: The Triumph of Winter, National Arts Club, New York, December 16, 2013- January 5, 2014
A Native American finding a Raggedy Ann doll...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pajama Party
By Victor Kalin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Gouache on Board
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
"End of Track, " Paperback Cover, 1951
By Jerome Rozen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
End of Track - Paperback Cover, written by Ward Weaver, Popular Library, 1951.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine illustration, December 1906
Literature: This illustration appeared in O. Henry's shor...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
The Lion and the Throne, The Atlantic Magazine Cover
By James Avati
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Contact for exact dimensions.
The Atlantic Magazine Cover Illustration.
November 1956, Volume 198
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Backwoods Hussy, Paperback Cover
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 22.25" x 16.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This classic Nappi painting was first published as the cover for Backwoods Hussy by Hallam Whitney (PBO, Original books...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right
Printer's and designer's marks in margins
"Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom."
Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in Horror and Terror at Gunpoint
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right.
Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.'
Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Signed M. Maccari Post Impressionist Figurative Painting dated 1956 oil canvas
By Mino Maccari
Located in Florence, IT
The painting (oil on canvas, 44.5 x 35 cm; with wood frame 64 x 54,5 cm) represents a moment on deception.
It's signed Maccari on the bottom left, and it's dated 1956 and titled "ins...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ben Franklin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Size: 42.00" x 37.00"
PRICE ON REQUEST-
This image was used in magazine advertisements and promotion...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Crime Scene
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1956
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Size: 22.70" x 16.20"
A Native American finding a Raggedy Ann doll on ...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Katrina Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Painting
Signature: Unsigned
Contact for dimensions.
Katrina, By Jeramie Price. Publisher is Pocket Books, Inc. (1956). Comes with book.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
The Hatchet - Movie Moment of High Drama
By Amos Sewell
Located in Miami, FL
High drama and fear is exressed on the faces of 5 kids as they anticipate the outcome a scary event.
Signed lower left
From the Estate of Charles Martignette.
Most likey for the Sa...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Charles Laughton, Time magazine cover Illustration, March 31, 1952
Located in Miami, FL
Archivally Matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches
Signed lower left
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Mixed Media
Enfant dans un berceau
Located in Washington, DC
Signed with initials upper left
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Civil Rights, Racial Justice Little Rock
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent who symbolizes evil - wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Lady
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Study of the Violinist for Holy Motherhood, pre-raphaelite, newlyn school, Oil
Located in London, GB
Thomas Cooper Gotch
1854 – 1931
Study of Violinist for Holy Motherhood
Oil on canvas, on board
Image size: 28 ¾ x 21 inches
18th century frame
Illustrated in "The Golden Dream, A bi...
Category
Early 1900s Aesthetic Movement Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Family Picnic, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 34.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover for The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, May 31, 1952.
Clymer's coverscape takes you to Massachusetts' tidelands where the frost is on the pumpkin and the red and gold areon the trees. Gloucester harbor and the inlets roundabout-- for three centuries this haven has been the homeport of renowned and valiant fisherman. They were the Captains Courageous of Rudyard Kipling, the hero’s of Longfellow's The Wreck of the Hesperus and of James B. Connolly's tales of the sea.
John Ford Clymer's success as an artist can be traced to his boyhood in the Kittitas Valley located in the central regions of Washington state. It was there that he developed an enthusiasm for the world around him and an abiding respect for historical accuracy. Over the years John Clymer received numerous awards and honors including the revered Prix de West in 1976, from the national Academy of Western Art. Other great achievements included both gold and silver metals for his oils and charcoal drawings from the Cowboy Artists of America, "Western Artist of the Year" from the National Wildlife Art Collectors Society, and both John and Doris were honored at the Ellensburg National Art Show and Auction for their contributions to western heritage. John's highest honor came in 1988 when he was awarded the prestigious Rungius Medal from the Wildlife of American West Art...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coming up Roses
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left, "Hughes"
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Framed 24.50" x 26.50"
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, June 8, 1957.
The Post described, “...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Untitled abstract expressionist mid-century painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
Untitled, c. 1950
oil on masonite
8 x 10 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reverie - Neo-Impressionist Nude Figurative Oil Painting by Georges Lemmen
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled oil on board nude circa 1905 by Belgian neo-impressionist painter Georges Lemmen. The work titled 'Reverie' depicts a red-haired lady who is kneeling down and resti...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting -- San Francisco Shore Birds
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting of San Francisco Bay Shorebirds at Surf's Edge
1950's abstract expressionist painting of shorebirds at water's edge by San Francisco arti...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Rice Paper, Watercolor
Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
RICHARD ANDRES
American, 1927–2013
Untitled, c. 1950
oil on canvas
signed lower left
10 x 7 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Clevelan...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist Mid century Swedish tram and figure scene in Fauvist colors
Located in Woodbury, CT
Acquiring a mid-20th-century Fauvist painting by Wilhelm Henning is an opportunity to own a piece of art that captures the vibrant spirit and expressive color palette of the Fauvist ...
Category
1950s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Latin American Modern Surreal Painting, 1950
Located in Washington, DC
Wonderful Surreal Latin American painting. Painting is oil on masonite board with original frame. Appears to be unsigned. Condition is excelle...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vintage Montmartre Paris Impressionist Oil Landscape 1950's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3253a Oil on canvas od the streets of Paris set in a vintage wood frame
Image size 9.5x8"
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Freight Dock
By John Rockwell
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Freight Dock" is an original oil on canvas by noted American artist John Rockwell, 1902-1960 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist, and also signe...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life - 1950s - Pio Semeghini - Painting - Contemporary
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated by the artist lower right. Includes a beautiful contemporary wooden gilded frame. In excellent conditions.
References:
- Catalogo della mostra di Pio Semeghini...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Orientalist: "Arabian Horseman" dated 1903 André Chaumière
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Fantasia of Arabian Horseman" dated 1903
André Chaumière (French, XlX-XX)
Oil on canvas
Handcrafted original wood frame with bronze applique
20 3/4 x 12 3/4 (28 1/2 x 20 frame) inc...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Rochelle France mixed media painting urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Emilio Grau Sala (1911-1975) - La Rochelle - Mixed media
Artwork 49x65 cm.
Frame measures 69x85 cm.
Son of cartoonist Juan Grau Miró, he was born in Barcelona in 1911. Although he a...
Category
1950s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Juan Pablo Salinas Spanish Wedding
Located in Dallas, TX
Juan Pablo Salinas (Spanish, 1871-1946),
The Marriage
Oil on wood panel
Signed lower right: “J Pablo Salinas Rome”
Panel: 17.5 x 21.5 Inches
Framed: 24.25 x 28.25 Inches
Condition:...
Category
Early 1900s Italian School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
William Arthur Breakspeare RBA RBSA ROI, The Captain Of The Guard
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by British artist William Arthur Breakspeare RBA RBSA ROI (1855-1914) depicts an upstanding self-assured cavalier with his arms folded.
Breakspe...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Gathering
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe.
His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academiJirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe.
His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute.
es on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute.
The Gathering...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Polish French Ecole de Paris Mid Century Modernist Oil Painting Clown Juggler
By Abram Krol
Located in Surfside, FL
Abram Abraham Krol was born January 22, 1919, in Pabianice (Lodz), Poland.
Abram Krol went to France in 1938 to study civil engineering at the University of Caen. In 1939 at the be...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a woman at the bistro with an Absinthe glass and cigarette
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
André DEVAMBEZ
(Paris, 1867 - Paris, 1944)
Portrait of a woman in a bistro
Oil on mahogany panel
H. 22 cm; L. 16 cm
Signed lower right
Around 1905/1910
Provenance : Galerie de la Sc...
Category
Early 1900s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Calabaza (Pumpkin). Expressionist still-life. Colorful Orange, yelow, turquoise.
Located in Segovia, ES
Calabaza (Pumpkin) . Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Chico Montilla.
Measurements: (H) 116x (W) 81 x 2 (D) cm.
Framed 139 x 104 x 4.5 cm.
Colorful expressionist still-life.
Beautif...
Category
Early 1900s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
San Antonio
Located in Segovia, ES
San Antonio . Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Chico Montilla.
Measurements: (H) 65 x (W) 81 x 2 (D) cm.
Framed 85 x 101 x 5 cm.
San Antonio, another expressionist view of the countr...
Category
Early 1900s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Barranco del Noi (Almuñecar). Expressionist landscape.
Located in Segovia, ES
"Barranco del Noi" (Almuñecar) . Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Chico Montilla.
Measurements: (H) 81 x (W) 100 x 2 (D) cm.
Framed 104 x 123 x 6 cm.
The Noi ravine, in Almuñecar, G...
Category
Early 1900s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Narcisos
Located in Segovia, ES
"Narcisos" . Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Chico Montilla.
Measurements: (H) 81 x (W) 100 x 2 (D) cm. Framed 104 x 123 x 6 cm.
Colorful expressionist still-life with daffodil flow...
Category
Early 1900s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Au Port de Bordeaux
Located in Los Angeles, CA
BORIS CHEMETOV
"AU PORT DE BORDEAUX"
OIL ON CANVAN, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1950
26 X 32 INCHES
FRAMED 33.5 X 39 INCHES
______________________________________________________
Boris C...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967) Les Oliviers, oil on panel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967)
Les Oliviers, A landscape with olive trees
signed "EODV Guillonnet" lower right
Oil on wood panel
38 x 46 cm
Framed : 44 x 52 cm
Provena...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Anemone Pool Abstraction
Located in Lawrence, NY
Casein on paper
Like many of his compatriots of the time, Shulman transitioned from representation to abstraction in the post-WWII period as he studied with Hans Hoffman. Yet, his wo...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Femme se Coiffant
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Georges Dayez
1907-1991
Georges Dayez was born on July 29, 1907. His father Jules was a commercial printer. In 1909, the Dayez family moved to Vaires-sur-Marne. Dayez’s father fough...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lovely 1950s Park Painting
Located in Larchmont, NY
Untitled, 1951
Oil on canvas
19 7/8 x 24 in.
Framed: 28 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.
Signed and dated lower left
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Figurative Paintings for Sale
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