1950s Figurative Paintings

#5-3004 Fantasy oil painting on board, displayed in a dark-wood frame

Blast Furnace: Dynamic Machine Age industrial View of a Steel Mill by Notable New York Illustrator and Cartoonist Herb Field Jr. (Am. 1909-1999). Artwork size: 23 x 26 inches; oil...

'Sicilian Farmhouse', oil on canvas, by Yves Brayer (circa 1950s). A dedicated lover of Mediterranean countries and their varied landscapes, this charming and diminutive work by the ...

A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Jean Salabet. Salabet was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His wor...

A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Jean Salabet. Salabet was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His wor...

Lucien Potronat (1905–1981) “Le Trayas, Côte d’Azur”, circa 1950 Oil on canvas Signed lower right Original French frame This radiant oil painting by French artist Lucien Potronat ...

Le jardin de Daubigny Style of Vincent Van Gogh by Stephen Goosson The painting depicts the enclosed garden of Charles-François Daubigny, a French landscape painter whom Van Gogh ad...

Ink painting of a traditional Balinese river scene attributed to Dewa Putu Lopid. Intricate and dynamic ink wash painting of a traditional Balinese river and village scene. In the f...

Mid Century Modern Jazz Quartet Figurative -- "The Band Box" Signed A vivid, mid-century modernist interpretation of a jazz ensemble by Louis M. Centofanti (American, 1921-2018). "B...

Marie-Lucie Nessi Valtat Bouquet of Flowers ca. 1950 Oil on paper mounted on board 13 3/4 x 10 2/3 in l 35 x 27 cm Frame size: 15 3/4 x 12 2/3 in l 40 x 32 cm Marie-Lucie Nessi Valt...

Frame size 70x61 cm. José Muntané Balaguer (1889 - 1963) Immerse yourself in the spiritual beauty of "Woman Praying," a sublime work by the acclaimed Spanish artist José Muntané Balaguer. This oil on canvas captures the serenity and introspection of faith, showcasing a masterful use of light and shadow reminiscent of great masters such as Joaquín Sorolla, Ignacio Zuloaga, and even the emotional restraint of Diego Velázquez in his most intimate portraits. The painting depicts the purity of a devotional moment, where the female figure seems to transcend the canvas, inviting the viewer to reflect on spirituality and human connection. The meticulous attention to detail and subtlety in expressions place Muntané Balaguer in the tradition of artists who immortalized scenes of everyday life with unique sensitivity, much like Julio Romero de Torres...

John Devoluy (1903-1982) The Cat, 1950 c. Oil on canvas 28 3/4 x 24 inches l 73 x 61 cm With frame: 30 3/4 x 26 inches l 78 x 66 cm Signed lower left John Devoluy was born in 1903 a...

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...

Large Catalan Harvest Landscape Painting Pyrenees Olot School Figures Oil SPECIFICATIONS Artist: Salvador Corriols i Pagès (Olot, 1907 – 1975) Medium: Oil on canvas Date: Mid-20th ...

Herbert Young Passing Freighter, Hudson River New York, 1956 Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches

Vintage Orientalist market scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 16 by 18 inches overall, and 10 by 12 painting alone. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.

Here for your consideration is a mid century modern oil painting on masonite by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. The painting depicts an old man with a long wispy beard holding a group of birds. Signed lower right and dated 1954. Presently unframed. Condition is very good. Provenance: The estate of the artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Nahum Tschacbasov Biography : Russian-American artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984) is known for his cubo-surrealistic works which feature a strong psychological element. Some of his work bears a resemblance to work of another Russian-American artist--David Burliuk. He was somewhat of a late starter, moving to Paris in 1932 to study under Adolph Gottlieb, Marcel Gromaire and Fernand Leger. He had his first exhibition in Paris in 1934. He then returned to the US where he joined Rothko and Gottlieb at the Galery Seccession. He was one of the co-founders of The Ten, a group of social conscious abstract painters which included Rothko, Gottlieb, Joseph Solman and Ilya Bolotowsky, among others. In 1944, he began to work at Stanley Hayter's Atelier 17, a center for surrealistic ideas. Between 1936 and 1943, he had five one-man exhibitions at the ACA Galleries and participated in five group shows. He also exhibited at the Whitney, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Knox Albright Museum, the Chicago Institute of Fine Art and Corcoran, among others. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Met, the Whitney, the Brooklyn Museum and the Jewish Museum. Tschacbasov has been the subject of two recent retrospective at Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY and Arthur...

Signed figures in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1950 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Cortes. This stunning and wonderfully coloured work depicts a view of The Av...

Frameless. The work is signed by the artist, “Pascual Roch Minué,” in the lower right corner. Pascual Roch Minue (1899-1977), promoter of Spanish impressionism. His work is in seve...

ARTIST: John Walton RP (1925-2023) British TITLE: "Self Portrait Of The Artist And His Wife" (c.1953/1954) SIGNED: verso with numerous Bourlet exhibtions MEDIUM: oil on board SIZ...

A charming 1950s Modern painting of a little red house, titled "Corner of the Brick House with Last Snow Bank, Calais, VT" by notable Chicago artist, Harold Haydon. Painted near the...

'Reclining Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Acad. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA ------ Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with Victor di Ges...

'Still Life with Pitcher', oil on paper, by Charles Réal (circa 1950s). Still-lifes make voyeurs out of all of us. No matter the era to which they belong, they always give us the sense that we’re spying on a table set for a night of gluttony or perhaps, romance. Whatever is set on the still-life table can transport us to another place limited only by our imaginations. What is not well known is that those tabletop items often had coded meanings. The secret meanings behind the paintings and their unofficial language spawned several sub-genres, including floral still life, breakfast paintings...

Albert Kotin (American, 1907-1980) Modernist Composition (Two Heads / Double Portrait), c. 1950s Oil and gouache on paper Sight: 10.5 x 9 in (26.7 x 22.9 cm) Framed: 16.5 x 15 in (41...

André Brasilier Village de l'Aisne en Automne, 1956 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 21 1/4 x 29 inches André Brasilier is a French painter, born in Saumur, France, who studied at t...

Female nude figure at the beach by listed artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Jon Blanchette" verso. Image size, 24"H x 18"W. Jon Blan...

A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist Jean Salabet. This exceptional work captures the prime of his career, depicting vibrant flower vendors along the Arc de Triomp...

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 : 62.5x53.4 cm - 24.6x21 inches, without frame : 55x46 cm - 21.7x18.1 inches, format 10F. Signed "E.Goerg" (see photo). Preserved by the painter, then by his family since his death in 1969, this painting appeared in 2017. Entitled "Always life begins again", it is a crepuscular work. Testamentary one could say, so much the statement which is made there is definitive. The fact that he kept it until his death tends to consolidate this vision. Far from the empty looks and death faces of the rebellious era of sarcastic expressionism, the terrifying and compassionate testimony of the Spanish war, and the post-WWII flower women, we are dealing here with a a form of reasonable abdication, but honest. This idea that although everything changes, nothing changes. Changed times, actors, ideas, the same comedy occupies the society. Having given up the idea of ​​changing the latter, Goerg accepts the fact that the only alternative is to stay there or get lost. But stay afloat with his values, completely independent, whatever the cost is. This work is similar to La Vie Recommence of 1935, reproduced on page 54 of Gaston Diehl's book devoted to the painter (Éditions de Clermont, 1947). On the latter, the artist depicts his vision of life, from birth to death, made of hope, fear, cruelty, resignation and fatality. 23 years later, Toujours La Vie Recommence shows us the road traveled by the painter. It is no longer a matter of denunciation, but ultimately of acceptance of reality and the difficulty of staying there yourself. The admirer of Hieronymus Bosch gives us an inspired composition. The hand of God, the only expression of physical beauty in this work, comes down from heaven to give life. Symbolically, it holds an egg that dispenses the element from which the human protagonists find their birth, and in which they move and tangle more than they impose. Beautiful allegory of society. Four characters, two women and two men evolve in this societal marigot. The man in the foreground, ruddy face, evolves with ease. His body is supple, flexible, adaptable. The woman on the left observes him with admiration. Obviously, this man is in his place and causes rapture. The right man with massive shoulders and wrapped, shows a physical maladjustment to the activity he is doing. He struggles to stay afloat, his face expresses effort, even exhaustion. But he assumes. He does with what he has, with what he is. The other woman shows him the greatest indifference. What is not the case of the demonic archangel (recurrent in the works of Bosch) with the stunted body, who leads the dance and holds this character, we understand the painter, under his control as to have fun. As this character cannot change bodies, Goerg cannot change values. He does it with. Had he not said to the critic Roger Brielle: "Independents, sensitive and just men, that's what we must strive to stay in this world in disarray". Goerg will have come to narrative expressionism to give us a balance sheet allegory of his deep self and his condition. Édouard Goerg is one of the major artists of his generation. Coming from a Champagne family, he was born in Sidney, Australia, in 1893, during a professional stay of his father. After passing through London, he arrives in Paris at the age of seven. At twenty, between 1913 and 1914, he studieds painting at the Académie Ranson with Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier. He travels to Italy and India. Mobilized in 1914, he is sent to Artois, then to Argonne. From 1920, he exhibits at the Salon des Independants, then at the Salon d'Automne where he joins with Laboureur. At Berthe Weil, in 1924, he participates in the exhibitions of the Gromaire group, a prelude to a series of exhibitions in Paris (Berthe Weill, Bernheim Jeune), as in Brussels (Le Centaure). Goerg illustrates books including Table of the beyond by F.Boutet. In 1928, he meets Paul Guillaume who exhibits his works in Boston and the Art Institute of Chicago. He continues to show his works, satires of the bourgeois manners, at Bernheim Jeune, then at Lucie Krogh. In 1934, he travels to Belgium and Holland where he paints surrealist paintings that will be exhibited at Jeanne Castel. In 1935-1936, he meets Aragon, who opened the doors of the houses of the cultures created by the Association of Writers and Revolutionary Artists. The Spanish war and the Second World War mark it deeply. He must protect his daughter and his Jewish women...

5094 Scandinavian pensive young beauty oil painting set in a carved wood gilt frame Signed Kahzn 71

Albert Kotin (American, 1907-1980) Modernist Composition (Biomorphic Figure), c. 1950s Oil and gouache on paper Sight: 12.5 x 9.5 in (31.8 x 24.1 cm) Framed: 18.5 x 15.5 in (47.0 x 3...

Walter Emerson Baum Manayunk, 1953 Signed and dated lower right; titled and dated on the reverse Oil on board 12 x 14 inches Walter Baum was born December 14, 1884 in Sellersville,...

Firmado por el autor en la parte inferior "J. Gil" También en la parte trasera va nuevamente firmado, titulado y fechado del año 1954 El estado de la obra es bueno Se presenta enm...

Marie Lucie Nessi-Valtat Garden in summer, ca. 1950 Oil on canvas Canvas: 19 × 22 1/2 in l 48 × 57 cm Frame: 21 2/3 x 25 1/4 l 55 x 64 cm Signed lower right Marie-Lucie Nessi Valta...

1950's, Figurative Painting "Morning Sun, 1957" Oil on canvas 36 x 36 on framed, 37 x 37 framed

C. Andronis French River Landscape, signed and dated 1959 Oil on board Original carved French frame This luminous and expressive painting by C. Andronis captures the vibrant spirit...

JOHN HAYMSON – "BROOKLYN BRIDGE" ⚜ Oil on Canvas ⚜ Hand Signed ⚜ Conservation Frame NEW YORK ICON IN VIVID DETAIL This atmospheric oil painting by John Haymson captures the enduring...

Marie Lucie Nessi-Valtat Summer landscape, ca. 1950 Oil on canvas Canvas: 17 1/3 × 21 in l 44 × 53 cm Frame: 19 2/3 x 23 1/4 l 50 x 59 cm Signed lower right Marie-Lucie Nessi Valta...

Marcel Dyf Le Bassin des Tuileries a Paris, 1950 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 18 x 21 1/2 inches Provenance Private Collection, Louisville, Kentucky Marcel Dyf, born Marcel Dr...

Modernist Portrait of Woman with Green Background, Original Framed Oil Painting Beautifully rendered portrait by Maxim Bugzester (Poland/American, 1909-1978). The woman in the portr...

3981 Children's fantasy figurative oil painting set in a hand painted oak frame Image size 15.5x19.25"

A vibrant, colorful, 1950s Mid-Century Modern painting of a matador and bull fight by notable Chicago artist, Francis Chapin. Oil on canvas, presented in a period, dark walnut brown...

‘The Gate’, a masterpiece from 1955 painted on canvas by the Florentine artist Ottone Rosai (Florence 1895 – Ivrea 1957). Ottone Rosai Archive, curated by Dr Giovanni Faccenda Signed...

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 ...

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...

A striking circa 1951 abstract cityscape by important American modernist and Abstract Expressionist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), depicting the New York City skyline through a...

Oil on hardboard signed R. QUEYRIE, France, 1950s. "Walking the streets". With frame: 55x47 cm - 21.65x18.5 inches - without frame: 46x38cm - 18.1x15 inches. 8F format. Signed "R. Qu...

Tua Hayes Maryland Summer, circa 1953 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 14 x 20 1/4 inches Florine Huger “Tua” Hayes was an important Delaware artist who exhibited at the Delaware A...

Signed oil on canvas riverscape circa 1950 by French post impressionist painter Marcel Dyf. The work depicts the Mauldre - a long river in north-central France which is an estuary fo...

Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with estate stamp. Framed dimensions: 21 H x 1.5 D x 24.75 W inches Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Vic...

6198 Cubic oil painting Woman with Horse Aet in a wood frame Image size 15x11"

Abstract Expressionist painting of Bay Area Hills by Honora Berg Berkeley San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionist landscape by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). A brilliant e...

6201 Paris street scene made with enameled glass on copper plate Framed Image size 9.5x7.5" Signed Mingolla

Oil on cardboard realized by Filippo De Pisis in 1950 ca. Hand signed lower right. Certificate of Authenticity by Associazione per Filipp De Pisis. Archived in the Artist's Offici...

Maurice Ambroise Ehlinger (1896–1981) — Portrait of Mademoiselle France Noël, 1957. Radiating timeless Parisian elegance, this exceptional mid-century oil on canvas by noted French p...

Choosing to acquire a Swedish mid-20th-century modern Impressionist landscape by Helge Cardell is an opportunity to bring a harmonious blend of artistic innovation and natural beauty...

Mid-Century Seascape Painting with Boats, Signed, 14.5x17.25 Mid-century figurative seascape with boats by Henryk Dzienczarski, (Poland, b-1917). Expressive maritime scene depicting...

Como podrán ver en las fotografías, va firmado en la parte inferior y fechado del año 1952 El estado de conservacion tal cual se aprecia Se presenta enmarcada la obra (el marco pre...

6202 Parisian lady in red dress.Made with vitrus enameled glass on copper. Set in a carved wood frame Image size 9,5x7.5"

Hand signed lower left Seymour Remenick (1923-1999) American; Philadelphia, PA. Oil on canvas painting Folk Singers and musicians.Seymour Remenick (1923-1999), was born in Detroit,...

Bucks County Farm in Winter is a figurative landscape by Pennsylvania Folk Art painter, Jean Halter. The 12" x 16" oil on board painting is framed and signed "Jean Halter" in the lower right. Jean Harris Halter was born in 1916 and spent her youth between Thornburg, Pennsylvania where her father oversaw Harris plumbing, and Camden, South Carolina, where they also had a home. She studied art, among other things, in Converse College. In 1939 she married Robert Halter, a musician with a traveling big band, which he quit soon after marrying. While he was gone for three years with the Signal Corps in the South Pacific, Jean took care of their two little daughters, their kennel of Pulis, and began to paint antique chairs...