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Style: Modern
Period: 1950s
Vintage Swedish Mid-Century Modern Street Scene Framed Oil Painting - "Stroll"
Located in Bristol, GB
STROLL
Size: 47 x 55 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An expressive mid century modernist street scene composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
Working under a mostly monochrom...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Framed Oil Painting - The Children
Located in Bristol, GB
THE CHILDREN
Size: 36.5 x 66 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A richly textured and endearing mid century modernist style figurative portrait, painted in oil onto board.
Rendered ...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Seated Nude - Oil Paint by Giuseppe Torelli - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Seated Nude is an artwork realized by Giuseppe Torelli in 1950s.
Oil on cardboard.
64x48 cm with frame.
Handsigned in the lower right margin.
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Still Life With Roses - Oil Painting - 1950 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Still life of roses is an artwork of mid-20th made by an unknown artist.
Oil on canvas, monogrammed H.v.D. and dated (19)57 lower left.
36 x 30 cm, framed 45 x 38 cm.
Very good c...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Geometric Abstract Oil & Collage Painting - Le Club 55
Located in Bristol, GB
LE CLUB 55
Size: 33 x 24 cm
Oil on canvas
Le Club 55 is a legendary and glamorous beach club in the south of France, and we can infer that the setting of the ...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Prophet, Modernist Judaica Oil Painting Biblical Jewish Rabbi at Prayer
Located in Surfside, FL
An oil on board Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. The work depicts a standing prophet with white robes raising his arms towards heaven. The work is signed "Ben-Zion" in the bottom right corner. The work is signed and dated "4/14/59" on verso.
Provenance: Ex. Sotheby's Parke Bernet
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Framed Oil Painting - The Priests
Located in Bristol, GB
THE PRIESTS
Size: 60 x 48 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A brilliantly painted mid century figurative portrait of 2 priests, exec...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On the Beach - Oil Paint by Renzo Vespignani - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
On the Beach is an artwork realized by Renzo Vespignani in 1955.
Oil on Canvas, 128x102 cm. It Includes a gilded modern frame.
Hand signed and date lower left.
Good conditions.
Renzo Vespignani was born in Rome on February 19, 1924 to Guido Vespignani and Ester Molinari, great-grandson of Virginio Vespignani, a famous architect. After the death of his father, a surgeon and cardiologist, he had to move very young with his mother to
the proletarian area of Portonaccio, adjacent to the San Lorenzo district, where he grew up.
He began to paint during the Nazi occupation, hiding with the engraver Lino Bianchi Barriviera, his first teacher. Other important points of reference, which influenced his artistic beginnings, were Alberto Ziveri and Luigi Bartolini while, especially in his first
paintings, the influence of expressionists such as George Grosz and Otto Dix seems evident. In 1945 he exhibited his first personal exhibition and began to collaborate with various political-literary magazines (Domenica, Folla, Mercurio, La Fiera Letteraria) with
satirical writings, illustrations and drawings. His work, between 1944 and 1948, describes the attempt to resurrect an Italy destroyed by the war. In 1956 he founded, with other intellectuals, the magazine Città Aperta, focused on the problems of urban culture.
In 1961 he was among the winners of the Spoleto Prize; an essay was dedicated to the selected artists accompanied by large-format reproductions (black and white and four-color) of the exhibited works.
In 1963 a work by him was exhibited at the Contemporary Italian Paintings exhibition, set up in some Australian cities . In 1963-64 he exhibited at the exhibition Peintures italiennes d'aujourd'hui, organized in the Middle East and North Africa.
Since 1969, Vespignani has been working on large pictorial cycles dedicated to the crisis of the society of well-being: Imbarco per Citera (1969), concerning the intellectual class involved in '68; Album di Famiglia...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Framed Oil Painting, "Cubist Dancer"
Located in Bristol, GB
CUBIST DANCER
Size: 54 x 35 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A very charming mid century figurative composition, painted in oil onto canvas.
Characterised by a cubist ethos, a ba...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Portrait Polka Dot Suit Clown by Joan Tidwell
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Man in a Polka Dot Clown Suit - Oil on Canvas
Portrait of a man in a white and red polka dot suit by a Joan Tidwell (American, 1930-2005...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Figurative Oil Painting - Off to School
Located in Bristol, GB
OFF TO SCHOOL
Oil on canvas
Size: 32 x 25.5 cm (including frame)
A lovely and endearing miniature oil on canvas depicting a scene of a pedestrian walkway on a fine summer’s day.
A ...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Henry Ernst Schnakenberg, (Still Life with Scull)
Located in New York, NY
Henry Schnakenberg is mostly known for New York City scenes. This is clearly a departure.
It is signed at the lower left and dated '4-53' on the r...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950's French Modernist Signed Oil La Visitation Surrealist Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, signed verso
circa 1950's
'La Visitation'
oil painting on canvas, unframed
painting: 10.5 x 9 inches
provenance: private French collection
condition: overall very good
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Demitasse
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present outstanding original oil on canvas by American artist William Gropper (1897-1977.)
William Gropper was an artist and illustrator, known for his exceptional a...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman with Hat - Oil Paint by Edmondo Maneglia - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Woman with hat is an oil painting realized by Edmondo Maneglia (1925 - 2003).
Woman sitting at the table with glass.
Oil painting on canvas.
Handsigned in the lower left and on th...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flowers - Oil Paint - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is an original oil painting on canvas realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Good Condition with discoloration and aged margins.
The artwork is represented beautiful...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Glamorous Redhead Iconic Mid-Century Illustration
By Al Parker
Located in Miami, FL
Glamorous Redhead is a poster-like iconic image that sums up an era in American visual history - The 1950s. Al Parker is a giant in the history of American Illustration. He possess...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Classic 1950s Husband and Wife and Gagged Parrot, Esquire Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Juliette Kida Renault (as JKR) Esquire Magazine Illustration Original Art (Hearst, c. 1950s). "He said his first word to-day". A fixture of Esquire ...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
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 measure 20 ⅝ x 13 ½ x 1 ⅞ inches. Image sight size is 16 ⅞ x 9 ⅞ inches.
Painting is clean and in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a complete condition report.
Provenance: Private Collection, Denver Colorado
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About the Artist:
George Cecil Carter was born in Oklahoma in 1908 and became a noted Colorado abstract expressionist alongside contemporaries including Al Wynne, Mary Chenoweth...
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American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Blue Eyed Girl', PAFA, Philadelphia Museum, Pennsylvania Artist, Trompe L'Oeil
By Robert Childers
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed center right, in the 53 stub, 'Childers' for Robert Childers (American, 1924-1984) and dated 1954.
Robert Childers first served in the U.S. Navy for six years after graduating from Medford High School in 1941. Following World War II, he studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art where he was the recipient of a gold medal and, upon graduating from the Museum's school, was the recipient of a Cresson scholarship and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he received his Masters degree. Childers continued his education with classes at Fleisher Memorial and performed for two years with the Philadelphia Dance Theater.
Following his studies, he worked in fabrics, film production, toys and illustrations for publishers with du Pont in New York City. At the same time he maintained a studio and old twine factory over the Cherry Lane Theater. He lived in Greenwich Village for 19 years before accepting a position developing new products for American Greetings Inc. While there he designed the Hobbie Holly cloth doll...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Heavy Hauler - Mid-Century Illustration - Children's Books
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Art Seiden was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1923. He received a BA at Queens College and studied for eight years (!) at the Art Students League. Mario Cooper was among his instructors. Up...
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American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink
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
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'In the Sycamore', Large Figural Oil, Carmel, California Woman Artist, Muralist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Caswell' for Helen Rayburn Caswell (American, 1923-2018) and painted circa 1955.
A substantial, mid-century figural oil by this listed California woman artist who showed her talent at an early age. In Saratoga, Caswell began a successful career as an artist and portrait painter, displaying in galleries in Carmel and teaching artist workshops. In addition to her work as a fine artist and portrait painter, Helen wrote and illustrated over 30 books for children and adults. In 1981, Helen moved to Occidental in Sonoma County where, in addition to continuing to paint and teach, she designed stained glass windows for the Sebastopol United Methodist Church. She was also commissioned to paint numerous murals including at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco and for the Elizabeth Seton Center in Menlo Park.
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cute Cow Milks into Bottle. Mid Century Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
George Giusti is in the Art Directors Hall of Fame. George Giusti’s graphic designs and illustrations have graced the covers of Time, Fortune, Holiday. He collaborated with Herbert ...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Pointilliste View of Istanbul - Painting by Stan Reszka - 1951
By Stan Reszka
Located in Roma, IT
Pointilliste View of Istanbul is a modern artwork realized by Stan Reszka in 1951
Oil on Canvas.
Hand signed Stan Reszka.
Titled, signed, dated on the reverse.
Includes frame.
S...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
'Dockside' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Alex Minewski, 'Dockside', gouache on paper, 1953. Signed in the image, lower left. Annotated 'April 1953, Minewski, ‘Dock Side’, verso. A fine, modernist re...
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American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Deux Harlequins" Abstract Figurative Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Blue and green-toned modern abstract figurative portrait painting by Houston, TX artist David Adickes. The work features two men figures standing side by s...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Risque Trout" Modern Abstract Yellow Figurative Nautical Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract figurative nautical landscape painting by Houston, TX artist David Adickes. The work features a grouping of three elongated figures gathered next to a boat labeled "R...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950s Abstract Figurative Composition with Brown, White, and Black, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
1950s abstract oil on canvas painting by Henriette "Yetti" Stolz from 1956. Completed in shades of brown, white, black, and gray. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Presented in a vintage frame measuring 42 ¾ x 16 ¾ inches. Image size measures 42 ¼ x 16 ¼ inches.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Henriette "Yetti" Stolz
Painting is in good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report.
About the Artist:
Henriette “Yetti” Stolz was born in Serbia in 1935 ( and is still living ). Her family emigrated to Denver, Colorado, in the early 1950s after WWII and she attended East High School before studying art at Colorado College, in Colorado Springs in the mid to late 50s. While there studying she would have been exposed to modernist artists working both at the college ( ie. Mary...
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American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Meditation on African Sculpture, mid-century figural abstract painting
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in Beachwood, OH
Beni E. Kosh/Charles Elmer Harris (American, 1917-1993)
Meditation on African Sculpture, 1957
Oil on found wood panel
Signed and dated lower left
20 x 15 inches
Charles Elmer Harris...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
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
Oil, Canvas
Spring (Primrose Gathering) by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Spring (Primrose Gathering) by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on board
101.5 x 76.4 cm (40 x 30 inches)
Signed and dated lower centre Orovida 1956
Provenance
Estate of Orovida Pis...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Seaside. - Painting by Fioravante Seibezzi - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Seaside is an original modern artwork realized by Fioravante Seibezzi in the mid-20th Century.
Oil on wood.
Includes frame
Fioravante Seibezzi (Venice 1906...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
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
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Mid Century Modern Mixed Media Painting -- Day at the Beach
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century mixed media coastal/figurative in loose/painterly style by Irmal Gertrude Attridge (American, 1894-1962), circa 1950. Signed lower right. Presented in vintage frame under glass (included as-is). Image size: 9"H x 12"W.
Irma Gertrude Attridge was born in Chicago and studied at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles with Henry McFee and Oscar Van Young. Member of Calif. AC; AEA; Cal. WC. Soc.; Women Painters...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Color Pencil, Watercolor
Ice Cream Picnic by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Ice Cream Picnic by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on board
101 x 76 cm (39 ¾ x 29 ⅞ inches)
Signed and dated lower left Orovida 1953
Provenance
Richard Pissarro, gifted by the ar...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Seymour Remenick Figurative Oil Painting "Folk Singers"
Located in Surfside, FL
Seymour Remenick (1923-1999) American; Philadelphia, PA. Oil on canvas painting Folk Singers and musicians.Seymour Remenick (1923-1999), was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in ...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist, Jean Calogero. Circa 1950. Signed lower left
Overall in museum quality gold leaf frame 17.5 by 15.75 inches. Condition: Good. Provenan...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Nude by the Mirror" Mid-Century Modern Expressionist and Cubist Figure
By Byron Browne
Located in New York, NY
Byron Browne (1907 - 1961)
Nude by a Mirror, 1958
Oil on canvas
26 x 20 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Doyle New York, Doyle + Design, June 7, 2017, Lot 20
Born in Yonkers,...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Horse Traners
Located in Los Angeles, CA
UMBERTO ROMANO
"HORSE TRAINERS"
OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED
AMERICAN, DATED 1952
23.74 X 35.75 INCHES
Born: 1905 - Naples, Italy
Died: 1984 - New York C...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
'Concert', San Francisco Bay Area Expressionist Oil, National Academy, Guitarist
By Martin Snipper
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'M.S.' for Martin Snipper (American, 1914-2009) and dated 1952. Additionally signed, verso, 'Martin Snipper' and dated on stretcher bar.
Artist photo courtesy of The Lost Art Salon.
This Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative painter, mixed media artist, and sculptor was born in New York City in 1914 and grew up in Los Angeles. During the Great Depression, he rode the rails back to New York with just $5 in his pocket to attend the National Academy of Art, where he met his first wife. Snipper applied to the academy twice to ensure he would be accepted: once under his given name and once under his mother's maiden name. When he was accepted as Martin Snipper, he adopted the name permanently. In addition to his career as a fine artist, Snipper became a foundational figure in the development of the San Francisco Bay Area art movement of the 1960's and 1970's.
Snipper remains a legendary figure in San Francisco, both for boldly expanding the Arts Commission during his tenure as Executive Director (1967-1980), and for helping shepherd the Neighborhood Arts Program into existence over 40 years ago. His innovative grass-roots approach inspired similar programs in cities across the United States while San Francisco's own program continues to bring writers into public schools, oversee the city's publicly owned cultural centers, and fund art programs and events.
"He took the commission from being a sleepy operation ... and transformed arts in this town to a place it had never been before," said Stephen Goldstine, who ran the Neighborhoods Art Program under Mr. Snipper and later became president of the San Francisco Art Institute. "He was a person of unusual vitality - into his 90s he was still driving his truck to a stone yard...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“The Wizard”
Located in Southampton, NY
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...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Horse - Enamel on Paper by Esperia Gava - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Horse is an original artwork realized by Italian artist Esperia Gava.
Enamel on paper
Applied on cardboard.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Very good conditions.
The artwork...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Shovel Handles, 1950s Framed American Modernist Oil Painting, Green Bronze Blue
Located in Denver, CO
"Shovel Handles" is an original vintage 1953 modernist oil painting by mid 20th century Denver artist, Paul K. Smith (1893-1977). Signed dated by the artist in the lower margin, titl...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
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
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Entertainment, 20th century American family scene watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
The Entertainment, c. 1955
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
20 x 30 inches
Exhibited: 1955 May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art
"The first district schools were log houses...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Knight and Girl - Painting - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Knight and Girl is an original painting realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Painting in tempera, watercolor, and China ink on paper.
Included a Passepartout: 41 x 51 cm.
...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Watercolor
“Woman with Birds”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original mid-century modern oil on canvas board painting of a woman with birds by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and ...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Football Game, Oil Painting by Miriam Bromberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Miriam Bromberg, American XXth
Title: Football Game
Year: 1959
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower left
Size: 28 in. x 36 in. (71.12 cm x 91.4...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Study for "Getting up" – 1955, a preparatory drawing by Balthus (1908 -2001)
Located in PARIS, FR
In 1955, as he was residing at the Château de Chassy in the Morvan for two years, Balthus created a large painting entitled "Getting up". Balthus was inspired for this painting by t...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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
Landscape - Tempera - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
"Landscape" is an original painting in tempera and collage on cardboard, realized by Anonymous Artist of 20th Century.
In good conditions.
The artwork represents a summer landscape...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Tempera
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