Figurative Paintings
Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Color: Gray
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
Oil, Board
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
Oil, Board
(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
Capitola, California, 1950s Framed California Seascape Marine Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Capitola (California) is an oil on board painting by Jon Blanchette (1908-1987) circa 1955. Marine seascape painting with crashing waves and buildings along the coast painted in shad...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Le port de Sète (South of France) - Oil on canvas, 66x92 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on Canvas by François Desnoyer, not framed. It depictes the port at Sète, in Occitanie, France.
François Desnoyer, né à Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) le 30 septembre 1894, et mort...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Elevated Platform)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our current exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Elevated Platform), 1950, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 30 x...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Figurative Seascape with Sailboats
By Henryk Dzienczarski
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century figurative seascape with boats by Henryk Dzienczarski, (Poland, b-1917). Signed "H. Dzienczarski" lower right. Displayed in a wood fra...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
City Street Scene, Damascus, Syria /// Orientalist Oil Painting Middle East
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Unknown (European, Active Early - Mid 20th Century) (Orientalist School)
Title: "City Street Scene, Damascus, Syria"
*Signed illegibly lower left
Circa: 1950
Medium: Original...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil, Wood Panel, Board, Panel
On the Path
Located in London, GB
'On the Path', pastel and ink on art paper, by Suzanne Tourte (circa 1950s). Executed with a lively palette of colour, this is a surprisingly sophisticated modern work of art which belies its rather naive style. Flowered fields, green grassy patches, a curved path and blue skies all figure in this engaging landscape with two figures. Newly framed and glazed in anti-reflective glass, this work is in good overall condition. Signed: 'S X Tourte' in the lower right hand. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying the listing. Upon request, a video may be provided.
About the Artist: Suzanne Tourte (1904-1979) was a French painter, engraver, medalist, fresco artist, lithographer and illustrator. She was also an excellent vocalist. She studied at the school of Beaux-Arts in Reims while continuing her musical studies at the Conservatoire de la Ville. She chose painting as a profession and returned to Paris to continue her studies. She was friends with artists Yves Brayer and Robert Humblot...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink
Seated figure "Gong Hill Border of Tanganyika - Kenya"
Located in Genève, GE
Oil on wood
Golden wooden frame
84.5 x 73.5 x 6.5 cm
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Cafe Weber, Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original post impressionist oil on canvas painting of the landmark Cafe Weber in Paris by C.H. Duval. Circa 1950. Signed by the artist lower left. Condition is excellent. Titled and signed again verso on top left wood stretcher. The painting is housed in its original gold over wood frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 20.75 by 24.75 inches.
Cafe Weber was located on Rue Royale near Le Madeleine and adjacent to the outdoor flower...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for Oil's First Century
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist Lower Right
The present work is a study for the cover illustration of Rockwell's American Petroleum Institute Quarterly: Centennial Issue
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
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Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm (28 ³/₄ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated upper right Orovida 1951
Provenance
Estate of the artist
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
G Hassell, 25th November 1988
With John Noott, 10th June 1992
Literature
K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 141 (illustrated)
Exhibition
London, Redfern Gallery, Recent Paintings: Orovida, 3rd-26th January 1952, no. 51
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...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Drunken Golfer by Peter Hobbs Golf Original Painting Caricature c1950
By Peter Hobbs
Located in FR
Drunken Golfer by Peter Hobbs Golf Original Painting Caricature c1950
Amusing original sketch caricature of a Golfer
The Drink
Ready to frame
From a series of golf caricatures by the...
Category
1950s English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink
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
“L’Babit Blanc”
Located in Southampton, NY
Exquisite, early original oil on canvas painting of a harlequin by the well known artist, Charles Levier. Titled verso “L’Babit Blanc” or the “The White Robe” and signed verso. Signed lower left on the front of painting as well. Circa 1955. Condition is excellent; recently professionally cleaned. No apparent restorations. Framed in a reproduction of the period wood frame. Overall framed dimensions are 38 by 32 inches. Provenance: A Greenwich Village, New York collector.
Charles Levier. 1920-2003 – Artist Charles Levier,
aka Maurice Verrier, was born in 1920 of a French father and an American mother in Corsica. He held a fascination with color and form that led him, at age seventeen, to the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs for private studies.
World War II broke out and Levier served in the French army in North Africa, later becoming Liaison Officer with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. Coming to America...
Category
1950s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Modern Surreal Figurative Oil Painting Clowns on flying Balloons by W.Morinet
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3910a Surreal oil on canvas set in a black frame
Two clowns on a flying balloon
Signed W.Morinet
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape painting by Paulémile Pissarro - 'Les Deux Arbres...'
Located in London, GB
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Les deux arbres au bord de la rivière dans la forêt de Lyons by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Oil on canvas
65 x...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roman Night - Oil on Canvas by Giovanni Stradone - 1954
By Giovanni Stradone
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Night is an original modern artwork realized by Giovanni Stradone in 1954.
Oil Painting on board.
Signed, titled and dated on the back
Includes frame
Provenance Galleria Ve...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Cafe Pepinier, Paris
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of the Cafe Pepinier in Paris by Andre Picot. Condition is very good. Signed lower left by the artist. Titled “Cafe Pepini...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Femme Rousse Sur Fond Bleu", Albert Bertalan, Original Oil, Blue, Figurative
Located in Dallas, TX
"Femme Rousse Sur Fond Bleu" is an original oil on canvas impressionistic portrait of a woman by Albert Bertalan. A red-headed lady sits with her hand pressed upon her cheek thoughtfully thinking in front of a blue background. The painting is framed with an ornate gold frame.
From the late 19th century until World War Two, Paris was the center of the art world. Artists and intellectuals from around the globe descended on Paris, drawn by the atmosphere of creative freedom established by the French Impressionists. Because of the Impressionists’ innovations the direction of art had changed forever, the times were ripe for another Renaissance. The School of Paris, as this broad-based group of artists are referred to embodied the spirit of modernism.
Albert Bertalan was born on September 21, 1899 in Jaszbereny, Hungary. He is known for painting compositions of figures in unique environments, including women by the sea, among other similar subject matters. He studied at the Nagybanyai Art School under some of the most important Hungarian artists, including Ivànyi Grünwald...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Paper
Caterwaul by Orovida Pissarro - Animal painting
Located in London, GB
Caterwaul by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
51 x 61 cm (20 ¹/₈ x 24 inches)
Provenance
Estate of the artist
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
G Hassell, 25th...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Le Pantheon - Paris, 1905", Edouard Cortes, 13x18, Oil on Canvas, Impressionism
Located in Dallas, TX
Vaudeville Theatre by Edouard Cortes was painted circa 1955-60 and signed lower left. It is oil on canvas measuring 13x18 in original unlined condition. The piece is included in the ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Fortune Teller by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
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The Fortune Teller by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₄ inches)
Signed and d...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Cafe Le Dome, Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of the landmark Cafe Dome in Paris by Andre Picot. Adjacent to the Dome is another famous cafe, Cafe Tabac as seen in thi...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
In Soquel, California, 1950s Farm Landscape with Silo, Blue, Green, Gold, Gray
Located in Denver, CO
"In Soquel (California)" is an original oil on board painting by Jon Blanchette (1908-1987) circa 1955. Farm landscape with figure hanging laundry and silo, painted in colors of blue...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
The call for recess at boarding school
Located in Genève, GE
Oil on canvas
Beige wooden frame
60 x 71 x 4 cm
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Baie de Villefranche - Post Impressionist Oil, Sea Landscape - Raymond Thibesart
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed post impressionist landscape oil on canvas circa 1950 by French painter Raymond Thibesart. The work depicts a view of the bay of Villefranche through two trees on a clifftop o...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Migrating horses by Orovida Pissarro - Animal painting
Located in London, GB
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Migrating horses by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
71.1 x 81.4 cm (28 x 32 inches)
Signed and dated l...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of Paris from Montmartre. 1955, oil on canvas, 38x46 cm
Located in Riga, LV
View of Paris from Montmartre. 1955, oil on canvas, 38x46 cm
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Animal painting by Orovida Camille Pissarro titled 'Exercising Ponies'
Located in London, GB
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Exercising Ponies by Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on board
101.5 x 76 cm (40 x 30 inches)
Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1954
Provenance
Estate of Orovida Pissarro
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
Sotheby's London, 12th October 1988
G Hassell, 25th November 1988
With John Noott, 10th June 1992
Literature
K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 161 (illustrated)
Exhibitions
London, Bowmore Gallery, Women in Art 1850-1989, 2nd-11th November 1989
Fort Lauderdale, Museum of Art, Camille Pissarro and his Descendants, January-April 2000, no.123
This work was included in the above important museum exhibition and a catalogue of the Fort Lauderdale museum show will be included with this painting.
Biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, the only child of Lucien and Esther Pissarro, was the first woman in the Pissarro family to become a professional artist and the first Pissarro of her generation to take up painting. Born in Epping, England, in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London, where she was a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style from her father and, after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913, she renounced formal art schooling.
Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment, she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed an unusual style that combined elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which, for the Pissarro family, was a way of life, and her simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and use simply Orovida as a nom de peintre, reflected a desire for independence and distance from the family legacy, of which she nevertheless remained proud.
Orovida's most distinctive works are her paintings from the 1920s...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
In the evening, 1950's, oil on cardboard, 46, 5х34 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In the evening, 1950-ties, cardboard, oil, 46,5х34 cm
Anatoly Lebedev (1935-2014)
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
La Madeleine, Paris Street Scene
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century oil on canvas painting of a Paris street scene with the columns of La Madeleine in the distance, signed Deuvray bottom left. The canvas is on its original stretcher ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Parisian Street Scene. Oil on canvas, 32x46 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Parisian Street Scene. Oil on canvas, 32x46 cm
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flower market in front of the Madeleine in Paris. Oil on canvas, 54x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flower market in front of the Madeleine in Paris. Oil on canvas, 54x65 cm
In this fascinating painting by artist Constantin Kluge You can view Paris. This city is famous with many t...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Village near St. Petersburg" cm. 66 x 71 Oil 1959 Countryside, Party, Summer
By Gleb Savinov
Located in Torino, IT
Countryside, Party, Summer,Green,
Shipment included in the price
GLEB SAVINOV (Charkev, 1915 – St. Petersburg, 2000)
Works by Gleb Savinov can be found in various private collecti...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Iles à Cantepie by Paulémile Pissarro - River scene painting
Located in London, GB
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Les Iles à Cantepie by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed l...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stones on the seashore. 1959. Canvas, oil, 50x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Stones on the seashore. 1959. Canvas, oil, 50x70 cm
In the artist's work, the stones on the seashore are painted with safe strokes. The color of the work is soft and saturated at the same time.
Waves are lapping in the distance.
The artist has devoted his attention to the depiction of a rocky seashore on the coast of the Vidzeme Sea, which is the eastern shore of the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea.
Aleksandrs Zviedris...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antoni Costa Woman. original figurative academician drawing painting
By A. Costa
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
woman. original figurative academician drawing painting.. frame
Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965
It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD....
Category
1950s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
'Man Playing a Banjo', American Mid-Century Cubist-Derived Figural Oil, Fifties
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Paula Melcher' (American, 20th century) and dated 1956.
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Village in Tyrol
Located in Wien, 9
In the summer of 1952, Motesiczky took a holiday in the Austrian alpine village of Judenstein in Tyrol, near Innsbruck. Back home in London and workin...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Deux Baigneuses dans un Paysage by GEORGES MANZANA PISSARRO - Bathers
Located in London, GB
Deux Baigneuses dans un Paysage by GEORGES MANZANA PISSARRO (1871-1961)
Oil on canvas
38 x 46 cm (15 x 18 1⁄8 inches)
Signed and dated lower left, Manzana Pissarro 55
This work is ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Fisherman
Located in London, GB
'The Fisherman', oil on canvas, French School (circa 1950s). A delightfully colourful depiction of a young fisherman admiring his considerable catch, a l...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with Victor di Gesu estate stamp.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the L...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
Paysage d'Hiver by Paulémile Pissarro - River scene, oil painting
Located in London, GB
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Paysage d'Hiver by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Original Old Hollywood Portrait -- Peter Lorre with Yellow Scarf
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful old Hollywood portrait of a middle aged Peter Lorre (1904-1964) by Charles Kingham (American, 1895-1984), circa 1955. Unsigned. Acquired with oth...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Plowed Over Driveway, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Earl Mayan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1954
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 21.00" x 21.00", Framed 26.00" x 26.00"
Saturday Evening Post cover painting, December 18, 1954
...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cabins in the Camargue
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Cabins in the Camargue' by Yves Brayer (circa 1950s). The Camargue is a vast, swampy delta near Arles, very exotic, with tall marsh grasses where pink flamingos, black bulls and white horses roam freely. This image depicts one of the gardians in a small gathering of cabanes, hat hanging cowboy-style around the back of the neck, as he approaches his horse grazing outside its modest stable. Although there are many horses that still run free in the Camargue, there are cowboys like this one — called gardians — who ride the white horses on the beaches...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Hyper Realist Marine with Boats Vigo Bay Spain, French Oil
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful atmospheric seascape by French Henri Cadiou (1906-1989), depicting the Galician beach of Vigo - a rare painting, exhibited at a major international exhibition in 1958!
He...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Painter's family. Oil on cardboard, 50x79, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Painter's family (Ed. Kalnins). Oil on cardboard, 50x79,5 cm
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Saint Germain-des-Prés under the snow. Oil on canvas, 60x92 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Saint Germain-des-Prés under the snow. Oil on canvas, 60x92 cm
Constantin Kluge was a Russian-born French painter best known for his naturalistic scenes of Paris and French countrys...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'6th City Wire Works' — Mid-Century African-American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), '6th City Wire Works', watercolor, c. 1950s. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '859' in ink. A fine, spontaneous waterc...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Carmel Valley Figurative Landscape -- The Roadside Grocer
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous figurative landscape of a Carmel roadside grocer by Edda Maxwell Heath (American, 1874 - 1972). Signed and dated lower left corner. Presented in giltwood frame. Image, 20"H ...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wells Fargo Express, Gold Country -- Columbia, California
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming oil painting of the Wells Fargo Express Office building in the gold country town of Columbia State Historic Park in Columbia, California by Cecil ...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Mountain Landscape
Located in London, GB
'Mountain Landscape', oil on canvas, by Louise-Jeanne Cottard-Fossey (circa 1950s). A very idyllic, verdant scene depicted by this renown French fem...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tales of the Arabian Nights with Flying Carpet - Random House Gustaf Tenggren
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Miami, FL
Gustaf Tenggren- Attributed This masterfully designed and graphic interpretation of the Arabian Nights saga features a monumental figural profile while small figures float above on a magic carpet. Gustaf Tenggren (American 1896-1970) Attributed - We are not certain if Tenggren did this work. There is stylistic evidence to support Tenggren. It's the brilliance factor of how he assembles all the elements of the work and composes it into a cogent and readable form. This says Tenggen. As a former New York advertising agency art director, I have seen artists work in different styles. Usually this is not the case but great artist can do it. Their styles can change but the brilliance remains.
Untitled
Untitled
1957
Gouache on illustration board - Unframed
Not signed
9 x 7.25 live - 10.5 x 9.5 board
Original book illustration...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Figurative Paintings for Sale
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