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Period: 1940s
Pair of Art Deco Female Nudes Study Gouache Painting by Gustave Kaitz
Located in Atlanta, GA
So elegant pair of Art Deco female nudes nymph gouache on paper with airbrush by Gustave Kaitz (1913 - 1992). The mirrored images form a perfect matching pair of paintings. Original ...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Old Hollywood Portrait -- Peter Lorre
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful old Hollywood portrait of a young Peter Lorre (1904-1964) by Charles Kingham (American, 1895-1984), circa 1940. Unsigned. Acquired with other works by the artist. Unframed....
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
A Prairie Rose, Book Cover, 1941
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: Sight Size 30.00" x 21.00," Framed 32.50" x 23.00"
This was illustrated on the cover and on page 39 of A Prairie Rose...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century At the Cafe -- Cat and Dog
By Elizabeth Evelyn Sherman Sellon
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful oil painting of a cat and a dog by Elizabeth Evelyn Sherman Sellon (American, 1896-1986). Also known as Elizabeth Sherman. Signed "E.S. Sellon" lower middle right faintly. ...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Saint of the Flaming City," Oil on Canvas signed by Raymond Breinin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Saint of the Flaming City" is an original oil painting on canvas by Raymond Breinin. It depicts a group of figures looking over an abstracted and green city as the colors of fir...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Le Roi de Rome, d'apres Laurance", Impressionist Portrait, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Le Roi de Rome, d'apres Laurance", Impressionist Portrait, Signed
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed and dated '1942' by the artist on the lower right hand corner...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Interior of Synagogue with Rabbi', Polish Orthodox Judaica
By Mieczyslaw Watorski
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'M. Watorski' for Mieczyslaw Watorski (Polish, 1903 - 1979) and painted circa 1950.
This Polish history and landscape painter is particularly revered for his doc...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paul Bunyan American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism WPA Folk Hero
Located in New York, NY
Paul Bunyan American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism WPA Folk Hero. Canvas measures. 40 x 20 inches. Signed lower right.
Provenance: The estate of William Gropper. Labe...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Night Journey
By Byron Browne
Located in Miami, FL
In Byron Brown's "The Night Journey", 1947, Picasso meets Jackson Pollock. Here Brown strikes a balance between fanciful representation and abstraction. Notice the drip painting th...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cannes et le vieux port - Post Impressionist Oil, Landscape by Marcel Dyf
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in landscape oil on canvas circa 1940 by sought after French post impressionist painter Marcel Dyf. The piece depicts people enjoying a sunny winter's day at the port ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Une Apres Midi – Ouezzane – Morocco - Landscape Oil by Elie Anatole Pavil
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled landscape oil on panel circa 1940 by Elie Anatole Pavil the Russian impressionist painter. The work depicts a view of Ouezzane, a town in northern Morocco.
Signat...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique American School Abstract Expressionist Signed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Image size, 24L x 30H. Signed.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Santa Fe, New Mexico
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Cleveland, OH
Frank Wilcox
1949
Signed & Dated Lower-Left
Oil on Masonite
21.5 x 29.5 inches
26.5 x 34.25 (framed)
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Menagerie Tent: Ringling Brothers Circus" Charles Baskerville, Elephants Camels
Located in Larchmont, NY
Charles Baskerville
Menagerie Tent: Ringling Brothers Circus, 1940
Signed lower left; signed and titled on the reverse
Oil on canvas
22 x 30 inches
Provenance:
Private Collection, U...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bouquet de dahlias
By Louis Valtat
Located in Jerusalem, IL
A beautiful oil painting by French artist Louis Valtat.
Featuring a colorful display of a flower bouquet of dahlias.
Category
Fauvist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thoroughbred Horse 1940 by Ada (Kruse) Ducker - Exhibited Nevada State Museum
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous horse portrait by Ada Ducker Kruse a Santa Cruz artist (American, 1900-1995), 1947-1948. Signed and dated lower right corner "Ada Ducker "1940". Presented in vintage giltwo...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"The Postman Always Drinks Twice", Preliminary Study for Life Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Preliminary study for Life magazine, Circa 1941. Features a study of the work titled; "The Postman Always Drinks Twice." Life Magazine page...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Real Happy New Year, Amoco Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Monogram Lower Left
Sight Size 20.00" x 45.00", Framed 26.00" x 51.00"
This piece was used for at least two separate Amoco advertisements. "A...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Clever Sister.", Story Illustration for Woman's Home Companion
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: December, 1946
Medium: Gouache and Graphite on Board
Dimensions: 17.50" x 26.75"
Signature: Unsigned
"The Clever Sister." Illustration for the first part of the story of the s...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Graphite
Disconnected
By Weston Taylor
Located in Minneapolis, MN
A dazzling original 1942 pastel on illustration board by Weston Taylor, commissioned by the C. Moss Calendar company for a pin up calendar titled "Disconnected." This is a classic ar...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Pastel
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
"New York Subway," 36 x 48 inches. Oil on Masonite (backed with a wood frame), Signed and dated ’47 up...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Art Institute
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original 1942 oil on board painting by American female artist Catherine Koenig depicting the interior of the Buffalo Art Institute which was home to the legendary Charles Burchfie...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
The Queen , 1947, by French Transgender Artist JM Poulain
Located in Paris, FR
By French famous Transgender artist, Michel Marie Poulain (Born Paris December 5, 1906. Died 1991) this rare oil on canvas it represents the Queen and her child in a style of som...
Category
Feminist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Bouquet of Flowers French Modern Still Life
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Bouquet of Flowers in Blue Vase
Louis Marchand des Raux was born 1902-2000 in Touraine in the tiny village of Tourettes in France, where he grew up in such poverty that he was not ...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bord de lac by Paulémile Pissarro - River scene, oil painting
Located in London, GB
Bord de lac by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Oil on canvas
46 x 55 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 21 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile- Pissarro.
Executed circa 1940
This work is accompanied ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism
By Kyra Markham
Located in New York, NY
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed on stretcher, c. 1940s. Frame is likely original to the painti...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
At the Ball - Post Impressionist Oil, Dancers in Interior by Marcel Cosson
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A beautiful oil on canvas circa 1940 by sought after French Post Impressionist painter Jean-Louis-Marcel Cosson depicting a group of elegantly dressed couples attending a ball in a g...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Le port de la Chaume. Oil on canvas, 33x41 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Le port de la Chaume. Oil on canvas, 33x41 cm
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative Landscape Horse Drawn Sleigh Ride
By J.A. Waine
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3288 Oil on board set in a gilt wood frame
Image size 19.5x15.5"
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1940's Snowy Night in Algiers
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous impressionist painting in style of Albert Marguet of wintery night scene with figures of French or Algerian street, by an unknown artist, c.1940. Unsigned. Image size: 12"H ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Portrait of Bert Lahr as Burlesque Clown - The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
Bert Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is depicted in his comedian's costume which he wears while staring in Jean Dalrymple's production of "...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
American WPA Jewish New York Modernist Madonna Mother and Child painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A magnificent oil on canvas by Russian American WPA artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984), dating from 1943.
Depicting a Maternity scene - or possibly a modernist take on the virgin ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After the Bath Nude
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3308 Oil on canvas set in acustom gilt wood frame
Image size 15.5x11.5"
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Surreal Family”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and dated top right, 1942. Condition: Good. Old relined canvas.. Provenance: Estate of The artis...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Cubist mid century 1950s Portrait of a young girl
By Alain Mettais Cartier
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful French mid-20th-century portrait of a young girl holding her hand up.
The artist was a highly talented painter in the Cubist style. He painted interiors, portraits, and la...
Category
Cubist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Los Alamos Mesa, American Modernist Figurative Southwestern Painting
Located in Doylestown, PA
Peter Miller was an artist, a philanthropist, a mystic, and a woman of endless passion for adventure. In the early years of studying, she was greatly inspired by the European masters...
Category
Abstract 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Study of a Young Woman', Tonalism
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'A.F' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1940.
A tonalist study of a young woman with bobbed brown hair, shown gazing to the viewer's left and painted...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"There is No Love," Saturday Evening Post Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
The oil on canvas illustration is bearing a Saturday Evening Post label verso, used to illustrate the short story There Is No Love, in the October 18th, 1941 i...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Harriet Toby, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Conference
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...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Laurel & Hardy
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Wood Panel
Signature: Unsigned
This Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy illustration was used as a traveling show sign.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
"Copenhagen" Post-Impressionist Coastal Denmark Landscape Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in New York, NY
An outstanding oil painting of a coastal view of Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen. Executed with fast brush strokes in a highly impressionist manner with a thick use of paint capturing ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for 'Happy Landing' Amoco Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
During his over four decades as the preeminent illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, Joseph Christian Leyendecker's clever ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pencil
"Dance Rehearsal" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Modernism Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
"Dance Rehearsal" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Modernism Social Realism
William Gropper (1897 - 1977) "Dance Rehearsal," 60 x 44 inches, Oil on canvas, 1947. Signed lower lef...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Pueblo Village New Mexico - Southwestern Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century New Mexico village scene with small figures going about daily life among adobe buildings that are iconic of the Southwest, by William “Will” Frates (American, 1896-1969)....
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard, Masonite
"Tauromaquia", 20th Century Oil on Wood Panel by Spanish Artist Celso Lagar
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
TAUROMAQUIA
signed "Lagar" (lower right)
oil on wood panel
9-1/4 x 12-3/4 inches (23.5 x 32.5 cm.)
framed: 16-3/4 x 20 inches (42.5 x 51 cm.)
PROV...
Category
Fauvist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Sausalito Hillside, California, 1940s Modernist Framed Landscape Oil Painting
By Hugh Weller
Located in Denver, CO
American modernist landscape of houses on a hill in Sausalito, California, by Hugh Weller (1898-1982), original oil painting on board depicts houses and trees on a hillside in colors...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Surrealist Nocturnal Hawaiian Figurative Landscape w. Blue Skirted Woman & Moon
Located in Soquel, CA
Surrealist Nocturnal Hawaiian Figurative Landscape w. Blue Skirted Woman & Moon by Marguerite Louis Blasingame
Striking mid century modern Hawaiian nocturnal figurative landscape wi...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Gondola In Venice, 1947
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Original Use: Interior Illustration for The American Magazine
Excellent Condition
This luminous, expressive oil on masonite wa...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Still Life with Vase of Flowers - Original Oil by Artur Murle - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Vase of Flowers is an original modern artwork realized in 1946 by Artur Murle.
A mixed colored oil on canvas.
Includes a wooden frame.
Hand signed and dated by the...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Market Day in Piazza Grande Locarno Switzerland
Located in London, GB
'Market Day in Piazza Grande, Locarno, Switzerland', oil on board, by unknown artist (1947-48). Locarno is an utterly charming Italian-speaking resort located on the northern shore o...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled, Surrealist
Located in Lawrence, NY
Provenance: Estate of Sam Esses
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Couples Greeting at Hotel, The Saturday Evening Post - Alexander Sharpe Ross
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross beautifully renders a romance scene in a loose and quick style. The artist captures the moment when an attractive late 1940s couple meets.
Work is unframed. Ex...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
A Game of Cards by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
A Game of Cards by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
59 x 72 cm (23 ¹/₄ x 28 ³/₈ inches)
Signed and titled upper right Orovida 1949
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarr...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Halleluja, A story
Located in New York, NY
Initially read as archaic and simple, Halleluja is a complex celebratory spring painting full of color, imagination, and humor and combines many elements seen throughout her later ca...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fisherman by Reuvin Rubin - Oil painting
By Reuven Rubin
Located in London, GB
Fisherman by Reuvin Rubin (1893-1974)
Oil on canvas
55 x 44.5 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 17 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed lower right, Rubin
Executed in 1940
Provenance
Private Collection, London
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys
...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Preparing for the Ballet - Post Impressionist Figurative Oil by Marcel Cosson
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Post impressionist figurative oil on board circa 1940 by French painter Marcel Cosson. The work depicts ballerinas getting dressed in white tutus preparing for a performance. A wonde...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
