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Elisabeth Dujarric de la Rivière (1930-2005) Self-portrait with apple
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Elisabeth DUJARRIC de LA RIVIÈRE
(Jouy-en-Josas 1930 - Excideuil 2005)
Self-portrait with apple
Oil on canvas
H. 100 cm ; L. 73 cm
Signed on the back
Provenance: Private collection,...
Category
Cubist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New York - Impressionist Oil, Night Riverscape by Johann Henrik Carl Berthelsen
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A stunning oil on canvas circa 1955 by American impressionist painter Johann Henrik Carl Berthelsen. The piece depicts a view of the illuminated waterfront buildings from the East Ri...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Skaters " Oil cm. 47 x 33 1950
Located in Torino, IT
Sport ,Winter sport,Ice-skating,
KLARA VLASOVA (Moscow, 1926)
MUSEUMS
St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum
Moscow, Pushkin Museum
Moscow, Museum of History and Reconstruction
Mo...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eugene Brands 1956 Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Eugene Brands: 1913-2002. Very important Dutch painter with auction records over $165,000. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde Cobra School. This powerful example is oil o...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jean Robert Ithier (1904-1977) La Rue Thouin, Paris, signed watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Jean Robert Ithier (1904-1977)
La Rue Thouin, Paris
signed lower right
Watercolor on paper, varnished
54 x 45 cm
No frame, in its original mounting (some foxings) 68 x 60 cm
Titled ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Newsweek Cover , Visitor from the Kremlin, Russia
By Robert Engle
Located in Miami, FL
Work is in excellent condition. It is meticulously rendered in a photo realist style. Portrait of the not-so-friendly looking communist official is framed by the ramparts of the Kre...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
'Seated Woman', Louvre, LACMA, Académie Chaumière, California Post-Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso 'Victor Di Gesu' (American, 1914-1988); seal and stamp of Di Gesu estate verso and painted circa 1955.
An Expressionist-style oil study of the artist's wife, Janet Amen...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coup de vent sur l'Orne - Impressionist Oil, Riverscape by Paul-Emile Pissarro
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed landscape oil on canvas circa 1950 by French impressionist painter Paul-Emile Pissarro. The work depicts a view of the river Orne in Normandy, north west France from the river...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Musicians WPA Social Realism American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Music Chairs
Located in New York, NY
Musicians WPA Social Realism American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Music Chairs. 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches. Signed lower right.
Provenance. The Estate of William Gropper
BIO Willia...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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.
Notes: Carol Bla...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Art Deco Figurative Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
A classic example of her work. Egg tempera or oil on board. Her paintings are highly prized by collectors of works by American, female surrealists of the early 20th century.
America...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled Couple Mid Century Jewish Expressionist OIl Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstracted painting of a man and a woman, the paint has been applied to textured plastic.
An abstracted painting of a couple applying paint to the textured plastic surface. Genre Ex...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plastic, 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...
Category
1950s 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
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"My Name is Freddie" - Portrait of Black Woman with Headscarf
By Lucille H. Olpin
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful, painterly portrait of a young black woman with colorful headscarf and sarong by Lucille H. Olpin (Ethel Lucille Harman Olpin), (American, 1909-1990). Signed "Olpin" lowe...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dans le jardin - Impressionist Oil, Garden Landscape by Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist oil on canvas garden landscape circa 1950 by sought after French painter Jules Rene Herve. This beautiful and large piece depicts a garden scene on a summer's da...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Pescadores" Expressionistic Style Mexican Scene by the Water with Fishermen
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the Mid Century by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wond...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Woman Seated', Louvre, LACMA, Académie Chaumière, California Post-Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, "Di Gesu" for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988), with estate stamp, verso, and painted circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attend...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Foam Board, Paper, Oil
1950s Original Illustration of Man at Breakfast Table "Post" Advertisement
Located in New York, NY
This piece was completed and published in "This Week Magazine" May 4, 1958 for an advetisment with "Post." The slogan reads in the magazine above the illustration:
"Any Cereal my fa...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Gouache
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
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter Evening Fifth Avenue - New York at Night
By Ernest Fiene
Located in Miami, FL
Ernest Fiene depicts Fifth Avenue looking down from 57th Street with an unobstructive view of the Empire State Building. It's the absence of newer glass and steel architecture that g...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Swami Told Me...
By Walt Otto
Located in Minneapolis, MN
The distinguished American artist and illustrator Walt Otto created this glitzy magic-themed original published pin up oil on canvas calendar painting in the late 1950's. A curvy mid...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
market day in spain oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Canvas size 45x54 cm.
Frame size 63x72 cm.
Older brother of Josep Maria Vayreda Canadell.
He died a young promise of painting at the age of 18.
Few are the works that are preserved ...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Samurai, Semi-Abstract Figurative Oil Painting in Blue, Yellow, and Red
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painting by Edward Marecak (1919-1993) titled "The Samurai" from 1957. Shows an abstract portrait of a samurai in a red hood and black robe. Presented framed, outer dime...
Category
Abstract 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Summer Porch Provincetown," George Segal, Cape Cod, Figurative Expressionism
By George Segal
Located in Larchmont, NY
George Segal (1924 - 2009)
Summer Porch Provincetown, 1956
Oil on canvas
48 x 71 inches
Signed and dated lower right; inscribed and titled twice on the reverse
Provenance:
The Artis...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Belgian Market Square' - Saint-Amand Church, Mouscron, Belgian
By Jean-René Nys
Located in London, GB
'Belgian Market Square', oil on paper, (c. 1950s), by Jean-René Nys (1907 - 1972). This church, Saint-Amand, and market square in the Walloon region of Belgium, in the town of Mouscr...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Concert, Figurative Oil Painting by William Harnden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Harnden, American (1920 - 1983)
Title: Concert
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed
Image Size: 15.5 x 20 inches
Frame Size: 22.5 x 27 inches
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Parisian Street Scene. Oil on canvas, 32x46 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Parisian Street Scene. Oil on canvas, 32x46 cm
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Brightly Colored Oil Painting of a Bird and Flowers, Teal, Purple
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painting by Martin Saldana (1874-1965) titled "Bird" circa 1950-1955. Painted in bright colors of teal, orange, purple, and yellow. Presented framed, outer dimensions me...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fishing Boats at Sunset
Located in London, GB
HERMANN MAX PECHSTEIN 1881-1955
Zwickau 1881 - 1955 Berlin (German)
Title: Fishing Boats at Sunset Fischerboote bei Sonnenuntergang, 1951
Technique: Signed and Dated Watercolour o...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Circus
By Pal Fried
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pal Fried, (1893-1976), Hungarian American artist, was born in Budapest and studied at the Hungarian Academie under Professor Hugo Pohl and in Paris under Claude Monet and Lucien Sim...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Indian Raj Dancer Reverse Painting on Glass Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3890 Reverse painting on glass of a dancer
Hand decorated frame
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Overlooking A City c. 1958 (Vintage Cityscape Painting, Gold Wooden Frame)
Located in Hudson, NY
Overlooking A City, 1958, oil on canvas by Anthony Toney
45 x 56 inches framed
Anthony Toney's work is marked by an intellect that looked at the world and saw a complex reality. Fo...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
High Score, This Week Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Center
Contact for exact dimensions.
High Score, By Frank Bennett, This Week Magazine, September 10, 1950, p.15 "I guess we...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1970s Abstract Figurative Framed Oil Painting, Modernist City Scene With Couple
Located in Denver, CO
1950s oil on board painting by George Cecil Carter portraying a modernist couple, thought to be Alfred Stieglitz & Georgia O'Keefe. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions meas...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
1950’s CubisM abstract Flag Arrangements
Located in New York, NY
1950’s Cubist abstract arrangements of flags by Edward August Landon (1911 - 1984). Acrylic/oil on board, signed lower right Landon. Housed in the original frame. Overall with fra...
Category
Cubist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Feeding the Horse a Carrot
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Reginald Wilson, American (1909-1993)
Title: Feeding the Horse a Carrot
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 36 in. (60.96 x 91.44 cm)
Frame Size: 3...
Category
Folk Art 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Paint by Numbers, 'African Drummer'
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Unsigned and painted circa 1955.
A colorful, stylized illustration of a West African man playing an Ashiko drum and wearing a leopardskin loincloth and a flowing headdress with fibr...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Portal View-Sailboats in Harbour", 20th C. Oil on Masonite by Ism. de la Serna
Located in Madrid, ES
ISMAEL GONZÁLEZ DE LA SERNA
Spanish, 1898 - 1968
"PORTAL VIEW - SAILBOATS IN HARBOUR"
unsigned
oil on masonite
25-1/4 x 22-1/2 inches (64 x 57 cm.)
framed: 33 x 30 inches (83,5 x 76 ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blondin Crossing Niagara
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This piece was published as an illustration in True Magazine titled "Blondin Crossing Niagara" in 1953. Born Jean-François Grave...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Lunar Encounter with Child, Surrealist Portrait, Oil on Canvas, 1958, Framed
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Lunar Encounter with Child" by Philadelphia born modernist painter Leon Kelly, is a large, brightly colored surrealist portrait of two figures. The 40" x 30" oil on canvas was paint...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Child at Photographer, Saturday Evening Post Cover, Sep. 26, 1959
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Paperboard
Signature: Signed 'Kurt Ard' Lower Left
This work was published as the cover of the September 26, 1959 edition of The Saturday Evening Post.
Li...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board, Pencil
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
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sacred Family, 1950s Abstract Figurative Oil Painting, Red Blue White Green
Located in Denver, CO
"Untitled (Sacred Family)" is an abstract oil painting on board by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968) circa 1950. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Abstracted view of ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Figurative Nativity Scene w Hummel Figurines, Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Located in Soquel, CA
Nativity scene on an architrave of a cathedral, done in the style of Hummel figurines by Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" in the lower left corner. There are...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Figures in an interior with fruit bowl, Paris 1959", Oil on Canvas by Grau Sala
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA
Spanish, 1911 - 1975
FIGURES IN AN INTERIOR WITH FRUIT BOWL, PARÍS 1959
signed "Grau Sala" (lower right)
signed again, dated and located "Grau Sala, Paris 1959", ( o...
Category
Fauvist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Theatre Modern Figures
Located in New York, NY
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Theatre Modern Figures. Oil on paper mounted to canvas. 21 x 35 inches.
Provenance. The Estate of William Gropper
BIO
Will...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
"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
Abstract 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for advertising campaigns, most...
Signat...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Self Portrait
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
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Collettes, Cagnes sur Mer. Mid-Century Post-Impressionist Oil on Wood Panel.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid Century post-impressionist French oil on wood panel scene of Les Collettes at Cagnes sur Mer in the south of France by Andrée RUY PETROFF. Signed bottom right and presented in gi...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"The Informer" Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modern Political Senator Colorful
Located in New York, NY
"The Informer" Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modern Political Senator Colorful. The canvas 19 1/2 x 27 x 12 inches. Signer lower center.
BIO
William Gropper (1897- 1977)
Throughou...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Place de la Concorde
By Jean Salabet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Juan Bayón Salado, Bay-Sala, J. Bayon, J.B., Jean Salabet (1913-1995)
A Biscayan artist, Juan Bayón Salado, was born in Logroño on June 24th, 1913. He died in Bilbao on April 2nd,...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern Still Life
Located in Los Angeles, CA
EMANUEL ROMANO
"STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED
AMERICAN, C.1950
36 X 28 INCHES
Emanuel Glicen Romano
1897-1984
Born in Rome, Italy, Emanuel Romano became a paint...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Djeuner Champtre
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marcel Dyf
French, 1899-1985
Djeuner Champtre
Oil on canvas
23 ½ by 28 ¾ in. W/frame 31 ½ by 36 ¾ in.
Signed lower left
Marcel Dyf (Marcel Dreyfus) was born in Paris on October 7,...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Erte, Les chatters, deuxieme version, unique gouache
By Erté
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a unique, original gouache on paper by Erte, also known as Romain de Tirtoff. Erte was a vastly diverse artist who excelled in an array of fields including fashion, jew...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
