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Period: 1950s
Voodoo Devils Take the Sick - The Fight of Good vs Evil - Vodou
Located in Miami, FL
Artist Wilson Bigaud paints a graphic narrative of mid-century life in Haiti without modern medicine. A man is dying yet there is no doctor present. In the struggle between good and...
Category
Outsider Art 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Mid Century French Color Lithograph "Homme au Feuillage" (Man with Foliage)
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful early 20th Century color lithograph of abstracted man with leaves titled "Homme au Feuillage" (Man with Foliage) by French artist Jean Lucat (French, 1892 - 1966), circa 19...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Screen, Paper
1950s Divisionist Style Portrait of Nonna -- Oil Painting on Board
By Raul Viviani
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful portrait of older woman, possibly a Nonna (Grandmother) with Gardenia by Raul (or Raoul) Viviani (Italian, 1883 - 1965), circa 1950. Lovely tex...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Marché Cluny - Market at Cap-Haitien - Haitian Street Art
Located in Miami, FL
A bustling street scene of everyday life in front of the famed Marché in Cap-Haïtien is rendered in Sénèque This is a relatively early work by Obin's signature brightly colored and f...
Category
Outsider Art 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Nude Woman Still Life - Pencil Figurative Still Life of Nude Lady by A. Bradbury
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Born on the 17th September 1892 in Preston, Lancashire. He specialised in painting portraits, landscapes and marines on oil, watercolour and pastel and was an accomplished etcher and...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
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
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 Champs-Elysees, Original Antique Painting, Oil on Canvas French Signed Dated
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
This oil on canvas from 1955 offers a dynamic representation of Les Champs Elysées, encapsulating the vibrancy and movement of Paris's most famous aven...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Green Hat' Louvre, LACMA, Académie Chaumière, California Post-Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left "Di Gesu" for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and dated 1954.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and th...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
“Montmartre, Rue Norvins et Sacre-Coeur”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original oil on canvas painting of a busy street scene in Montmartre, Paris. The scene is Rue Norvins with Sacre-Coeur in the background. Signed by the artist lo...
Category
Post-War 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Abstract Figurative Framed Oil Painting - Enigma
Located in Bristol, GB
ENGIMA
Size: 49 x 57 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
An emotive and skillfully executed mid-century abstract figurative composition, painted in oil onto canvas.
The piece featur...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Guinovart. 23 Thoughtful Man Black and White. drawing on cardboard
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Guinovart. Thoughtful man. black and white. drawing on cardboard
Josep Guinovart i Bertran (Barcelona 1927-2007) was a painter, draftsman and engraver from Catalonia, Spain.
After ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.5 x 40.6 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.5 x 40.6 cm
Provenance Bonhams
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Provenance Bonhams
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's, Figurative Painting "Morning Sun, 1957"
Located in San Francisco, CA
1950's, Figurative Painting "Morning Sun, 1957"
Oil on canvas
36 x 36 on framed, 37 x 37 framed
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Abstract Figurative Oil Painting, Ivar Morsing - Altea
Located in Bristol, GB
ALTEA
Size: 25 x 38 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A brilliantly executed semi-abstract mid-century modernist oil composition, painted in 1959 by the established Swedish artist I...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Boats in the Harbour, Original French Oil on Canvas, Post Impressionist
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
This painting from 1951 by a French artist is a vivid oil on panel that captures a serene maritime scene. The artist has skillfully rendered the gentl...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
1951 Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Figurative Nude Oil Painting - Hannah
Located in Bristol, GB
HANNAH
Size: 57.5 x 76 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A brilliant mid-century modernist style composition, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1951.
The composition presents ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Cityscape Oil Painting - City Dream
Located in Bristol, GB
CITY DREAM
Size: 56.5 x 66cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A poignant and atmospheric mid-century cityscape composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
In the foreground, a group o...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Oil Painting - Crocheting in the Garden
Located in Bristol, GB
CROCHETING IN THE GARDEN
Size: 52 x 43.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
An endearing narrative oil painting that captures the essence of a serene moment in time, and dated 1950....
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris France oil on board painting european art xx century
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Durancamps (1891-1979) - Paris - Oil on board
Oil measures 22x27 cm.
Frame measures 48x53 cm.
Rafael Durancamps i Folguera (Sabadell, March 29, 1891 [1] - Barcelona, January 4...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Figurative Oil Painting - The Store
Located in Bristol, GB
THE STORE
Size: 42.5 x 34.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A vibrant and lively mid-century narrative painting, executed in oil onto canvas.
The composition captures a scene at...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Figurative Oil Painting - Seated in Red
Located in Bristol, GB
SEATED IN RED
Size: 74.5 x 65.5cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
An expressive and brilliantly executed large mid-century figurative painting, painted in oil onto board.
The compos...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Still Life Oil Painting - The Gentlemen
Located in Bristol, GB
THE GENTLEMEN
Size: 44 x 36.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A very pleasant and atmospheric modernist style street scene painting, executed in oil onto canvas board.
Three sma...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spanish seascape oil on canvas painting european art xx century cadaques
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Durancamps (1891-1979) - Cadaques - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 38x61 cm.
Frame measures 52x75 cm.
Rafael Durancamps i Folguera (Sabadell, March 29, 1891 [1] - Barcelona, January 4...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Figures Running - Early Abstract Expressionism like Willem de Kooning
Located in Miami, FL
Salvatore Grippi was my art professor at Ithaca college from 1970- 1971
Who was doing paintings like this in 1950? Jackson Pollack, Willem De Kooning and Salvatore Grippi, and a few...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Place de la Republique - Le Soir - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist oil on canvas landscape circa 1950 by sought after French painter Edouard Cortes. The work depicts an evening scene of the Place de la Republique square in Paris...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Family in an Interior - British 1950's art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This interesting British Post Impressionist figurative interior oil painting is by noted artist Charles Cundall and entitled A Conversation Piece. Painted circa 1955 the composition ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Landscape Oil Painting - Fruit Tree Pickers
Located in Bristol, GB
THE FRUIT TREE PICKERS
Size: 58.5 x 50.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A brilliantly executed and playful figurative composition with abstract qualities, painted in oil onto ca...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Oil Painting - Abstract Figures in the Park
Located in Bristol, GB
ABSTRACT FIGURES IN THE PARK
Size: 46 x 53 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A characterful mid-century abstract composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
Abstract in nature, we c...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Listed Signed Female Vintage Modernist Paris Cafe Street Scene
Located in Buffalo, NY
Listed female vintage modernist Paris cafe street scene by Elise Shaw. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Girl on the Armchair - Oil on Canvas by Anonymous Italian Artist - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Girl In The Armachair is an artwork realized in the 1950s by Anonymous artist.
Original oil painting on canvas applied to cardboard.
Includes wooden frame:60 x 7 x 50.5 cm
Good co...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Couple
Located in PARIS, FR
Since the 1940s, the Egyptian painter Hamed Abdalla is not only a visionary pioneer of modern art for the global south and Arab countries; he is also one of the first of his generation to envision painting as political art and activism. The current display focuses on a specific time of defeat and disillusion for a whole generation of Arab artists and intellectuals, in the aftermath of the “Six Days War” led by Israel and their allies (a war title which a lot of Arab activists consider propagandist, preferring to call it “The Defeat of 1967” or simply the “June 1967 War”). This persistent ideological wound became the symbol of failed dreams for the “Arab Nation” or Arab states alliances – including the short but emblematic Egyptian-Syrian achievement of the United Arab Republic.
Another major failure, to which Abdalla will respond through the paintings on display here, is the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat program of “opening up” (Infitah) the Egyptian economy and give way to political compromise with the US and Israel – Abdalla assimilating this period to a vast state of Coma for all Arab people and territories.
In a collective statement by a group of Egyptian artists exiled in Paris (including Abdalla), published in the Egyptian local journal Al-Dustur, on 5 December 1977, one can read: “This disaster is far greater than the defeat of June 1967. Rather, it approaches the scale of the disaster that took place in 1948 (…) To destroy the Arab people’s noble three decades-long struggle against imperialism and Zionism (…) Sadat is exploiting the stifling economic crisis that Egypt is currently facing (…) We must resist this betrayal of our nation or be crushed under the wheels of global imperialism for generations to come.”
The works presented here reflect Abdalla’s transformation of the Hurrufiyyah aesthetics, to achieve his own way of “Arab Letterism”. It claims for a deeply experimental, non-decorative, politically committed and non-commercial use of the Arabic letter...
Category
Abstract 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Princess and Prince, Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina Fairy Tales
Located in Miami, FL
Italian illustrator Gianni Benvenuti paints a charming fantasy scene. It's of an extreme closeup of a tiny crowned and winged Prince and Princess They are standing upright in a dand...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mid-20th Century abstract geometric oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
Untitled, c. 1950
Oil on paper
Signed lower right
12.5 x 19 inches
Joseph O'Sickey, bo...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Expressionist Figurative Female Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3240a Oil on artist board set in a vintage black wood frame
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Reclining Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salons d'Automne et 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 Los...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Rice Paper, Oil
Untitled (Motorcycle Mechanics)
Located in Chicago, IL
A unique painting depicting motorcycle mechanics by Mid-Century Swedish artist Ann-Sofi (Helena) Breuer in a handsome gun metal-toned frame. The motorcycle depicted is a Danish, Nim...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Boulevard des Capucines (Paris) in Winter, Original Vintage Oil on Canvas
By Armand Lourenco
Located in PARIS, FR
*The dimensions include the frame
Armand Lourenço's oil on canvas, believed to be created around 1955, beautifully captures the lively ambiance of the Boulevard des Capucines in Par...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Boulevard of Paris, Original Antique Oil on Canvas, French Impressionist
By Henri Renaud
Located in PARIS, FR
Henri Renaud's oil on canvas, believed to be crafted around 1950, offers a captivating glimpse into the bustling life of a Parisian boulevard. The scene is vibrant with activity, as ...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Cityscape Oil Painting - Paris Street Life
Located in Bristol, GB
PARIS STREET LIFE
Size: 41.5 x 49.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A whimsical mid-century oil composition that transports viewers to the charming streets of Paris, specifically...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Boats on the River, Impressionist Landscape, Original Vintage Oil on Wood
Located in PARIS, FR
This captivating oil on canvas by Pierre Plouhinec, dated around 1950, embodies the essence of Impressionism. Plouhinec's brushwork, vibrant and seemingly spontaneous, captures the f...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Interior Oil Painting - A Quiet Afternoon
Located in Bristol, GB
A QUIET AFTERNOON
Size: 53 x 29 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
An intimate and beautifully executed composition of an interior setting, painted in oil onto board.
In the center ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
River in the countryside of France, Original Vintage Oil on Wood
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
Gabriel Deschamps' circa 1950 oil on wood painting is a luminous ode to the French countryside. Spanning a medium-sized painting, the work captivates w...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vadstena Town Hall, 1954
Located in Stockholm, SE
Erik Tryggelin (1878-1962) Swedish
Vadstena Town Hall, 1954
oil on canvas laid on masonite board
signed and dated E.Tryggelin 19-21/9 1954
unframed 10.5 x 16 cm
framed 19.5 x 25 cm...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
“The fairy tale” oil cm 40 x50 1955
By Boris Nicolaiev
Located in Torino, IT
child,mother,book
Boris Nicolaie (1925/2017)
Museums
St. Petersburg: Museum of History
St. Petersburg: Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts
Moscow: Ministry of Culture
Kiev: Museum of ...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Birch grove. Oil on cardboard. 27, 5 x 21, 3 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Birch grove. Oil on cardboard. 27, 5 x 21, 3 cm
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Along the fence. Plywood, oil, 14x14 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Along the fence. Plywood, oil, 14x14 cm
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
To shed. Oil on cardboard. 21, 3 x 26, 8 cm
Located in Riga, LV
To shed. Oil on canvas. 21,3x26,8 cm
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Helen - Mid 20th Century Pencil Figurative Nude Lady by Arthur Royce Bradbury
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Born on the 17th September 1892 in Preston, Lancashire. He specialised in painting portraits, landscapes and marines on oil, watercolour and pastel and was an accomplished etcher and...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Sun Cycles
By Rudolph Weisenborn
Located in Lawrence, NY
Born in Germany, Weisenborn was an early American modernist painter. Encounters with the proto-cubist work of French artist Paul Cézanne and other avant-garde artists spoke to Weisen...
Category
Hard-Edge 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
1957 Mid-Century Abstract Signed Swedish Lithograph by Esaias Thorén - Baskets
Located in Bristol, GB
BASKETS
Sheet size: 58 x 45.5 cm
Image size: 49 x 38 cm
Lithograph on paper
A mid century limited edition (164/260) coloured lithograph, signed by Esaias Thorén and dated 1957.
It ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Toujours la Vie Recommence
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Edouard Goerg (1893-1969), France, 1958. Life is always the same. Acquired in 2017 from the personal collection of Edouard Goerg. Measurements : with frame : 62.5x53...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishing Village - Massachusetts Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Fishing Village - Massachusetts Watercolor on Paper
Cloudy day on the Massachusetts Coast by Richard Clark Hare (American, 1906-1959). Richard Clarke Hare was a painter best known f...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Still Life with Candlestick and Book by Joseph Pressmane - Still life painting
Located in London, GB
Still Life with Candlestick and Book by Joseph Pressmane (1904-1967)
Oil on board
35.5 x 42 cm (14 x 16 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed and dated lower left, J. Pressmane 57
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Festivities Buckingham Palace - British 1950's figurative landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb British Post Impressionist figurative landscape oil painting is by war artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. Painted circa 1953 it depicts festivities outside Buckingham Palace, L...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Folk Singer oil painting by Byron Browne
By Byron Browne
Located in Hudson, NY
Painting measures 18" x 14" and framed 24" x 20" x 1 3/4"
Signed "Byron Browne" lower left.
Inscribed on canvas verso: Byron Browne / 1958 / – Folk Singer– / 18 x 14 / N.Y.C.
About this artists: Through an oeuvre displaying the re-envisioning of figural subjects and the formation of an abstract expressionist style, Byron Browne stands out among the American abstractionists of his generation. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1907, the artist was a bright talent at the National Academy of Design in his teens. From 1924 to 1928 Browne studied at the Academy under notable artists Robert Aitkin, Charles Courtney Curran, Charles Hawthorne, Alice Murphy...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
