1960s Figurative Paintings

Arresting woman and faces figurative abstract oil painting by Renard (American, 20th Century). Unframed. Signed "Renard" on verso, an undiscovered bay area figurative artist...

Artist: Adolf Adler, Romanian (1917 - 1996) Title: Parading the Torah Year: circa 1965 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 19.5 x 27.5 in. (49.53 x 69.85 cm) Frame Size: 21 x 29...

Standing Nude (29) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 28 in. x 22 in. (71.12 cm x 55.88 cm)

Latin American school Oil on canvas Mother carrying child Circa 1960s – 1970s Geometric style 27.75×31.5 framed 23.25×27 unframed

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Air Chamber, 1965 Collage, graphite and gouache on paper Signed and dated upper left 30 x 22 inches Provenance: Descended through the family. Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...

Partial signature, lower right, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with Certification of Authenticity Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Ge...

Wonderful figurative by Patricia Gren Hayes (American, 20th Century). Signed on verso. Unframed. Size: 30"H x 40"W. Bay Area Figurative / Bay Area Feminist Art Movement artist, Patricia Gren-Hayes, studied at Winnipeg Public Art School in 1950. She received early recognition in Museum and Gallery competitions and exhibitions and was awarded a Special Education in Art recognition by the Winnipeg Museum of Fine Art, and was awarded a scholarship to the Banff College of Fine Art. Further studies were at The University of Manitoba. She was a Member of Winnipeg Free Press Sketch Club and was a Cartoonist and paste-up for a French-English bi-weekly, in Eastern Canada; She studied outdoor impressionism in New York in 1960; in 1962, attended The California College of Arts and Crafts, and in 1976 B.A., U.C. Berkeley where she studied under Elmer Bischoff, David Simpson, Joan Brown, Felix Ruvolo, Yolanda Lopez and Vincent Perez...

Genre: Classic Subject: Portrait, Sabra in Haifa Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: United States Bacia Gordon (1904-1977) came to the United States from Poland and studied at th...

Oil on canvas painting done in heavy impasto paint. Signed lower right. Has 2 patches that are much bigger than actual holes. Each repair is half the size of a dime and is not visible from the front of the painting. Original bill of sale from the Gallerie Ferrero in Geneve comes with the painting. Titled in French verso "La Cartomancienne" which translates to the fortune teller...

Béla Czóbel, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, R. S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1996: no. 60 and reproduced on page 95 of catalogue.

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Torso No. 5, 1967 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated upper right 25 x 20 inches A mid-century figural abstract painting. Clarence Hol...

The frame adds a few inches to the size and was selected by the artist. Jack Henderson (1931-1998) taught at the Art Students League for many years and had a studio in at 30 East 14th Street, New York City. In that building were many other artists including Henderson's teacher and long-time collaborator, Edward Laning. A Kansas City native, Henderson was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He continued the Miller/Laning tradition of travel to Italy to study the masters of the Renaissance and the goal of fine figure painting as the ultimate artistic achievement. A version of his monumental triptych, New York in Ruin, 1967, is in the collection of the New York Landmarks Commission. Work by Jack Henderson was shown at the Susan Teller Gallery...

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: X-Ray Series (with Lily) Year: 1964 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 44 x 36 inches Inscription: Signed, dated by the artist, verso Notes: Lowell...

Acrylic painting by Robert Carroll, realized in 1969 ca. Very good condition. Robert Carroll is an american artist born in 1934 in Painesville, Ohio. He did study Arts at the Cleveland Institute of Arts where he graduated in 1957. Since the end of 1950s he has been associating with some of the most important writers and intellectuals of the beat generation...

ANDRE AMSTUTZ (1925-2015) Punting Signed l.l. Oil on board Framed 27 by 19.5 cm., 10 ½ by 7 ¾ in. (frame size 45.5 by 38 cm., 18 by 15 in.) Reproduced: Guinness Time, Summer 1968...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Pinnacle, c. 1960s Acrylic and collage on scintilla 22 x 8 inches 23.25 x 9 inches, framed A surrealist mid-century figural abstract p...

This painting depicts a whimsical portrait of a young lady washing her laundry in front of a house. This piece was most likely executed in the 1930's, as the colors are darker than Z...

A beautiful oil on canvas which has been laid on board by the English artist David William Burley depicting a group of friends playing football in a park. Signed lower right and pres...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Departing from the System, 1961 Mixed media on paper Signed and dated lower right 36 x 24 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abst...

Night Life in the City - Figurative Cityscape Mid 1960s cityscape by an unknown artist. Oil on artists board. Image, 16"H x 20"W

Le Duel, Artist signed and titled on reverse. Born on March 21, 1906, in Moscow, she arrived as an emigrant to Paris at the age of 15, bearing in her young experience, the weight of ...

An original mid century portrait of an artist and his muse or model inside his studio. This work is signed "Simon" although a definitive artist has not been determined.

Ken Gore: 1911-1990. Well listed American artist with Auction records over $3500, but sells for more in galleries. Is best known for his paintings around Glou...

Charming French oil painting c1960. Beautiful French frame.

A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1963 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his figures in water landscapes with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. This piece is from later in his career, but we can feel this underlying style throughout. Art measures 18 x 21.75 inches Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City. Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. Since for the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient light of science.” By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett, were the winners. In his 1924 naturalization application, he indicated that he was sometimes known as “Michael Posner Baxte.” One of the witnesses to his application was Bernard Karfiol, a Jewish American artist. That’s when Michael may...

Artist: Harry Gottlieb, Romanian/American (1895 - 1992) Title: Card Players Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 20 x 24 inches Frame Size: 28 x 32 inches

Luminoso paesaggio con splendida cornice Leonid VAICHLIA (San Pietroburgo, 1922 – 2013) Allievo del Maestro Yuri Neprintcev all’Accademia di Belle Arti di San Pietroburgo. Membro ...

Oil on canvas painting of a young girl with a yellow scarf by the well known Italian artist, Edgardo Corbelli. Signed lower right. Titled on canvas verso, “The Proud Girl”. Circa ...

Original oil by Moshe Katz depicting a figure sitting playing the flute Oil on canvas 1966 52.75" W × 22.75" H, framed 45" W x 15" H, unframed

In this minimalist acrylic portrait , Albert Radoczy deploys an aesthetic where simplicity becomes not only elegance, but also a form of plastic manifesto. Far from demonstrative exc...

Ben Zion Magal (1908 - 1999) Ben Zion Magal was born in 1908 in Kishinev - Russia and there, years later, graduated from the Art Academy. He arrived to Erertz Israel together with hi...

Portrait of Joan Brown Bay Area Expressionist Seated Nude in Oil on Canvas Heavy impasto painting of a seated nude woman (Joan Brown) by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Bold depiction of a nude woman with dark hair. She is sitting in a dark blue chair, body slightly angled towards the viewer. The wall behind her is a deep red. Both the chair and the model are made out of many small brushstrokes of varying colors, creating a pointillist feel. Honora Berg also painted and portrait of Manuel Neri (Joan's Husband) which we acquired also from the Larry Miller Estate. Unframed. Canvas size: 30"H x 24"W Signed and dated "Honora Berg 60" in the lower right corner. Signed "H. Berg" on verso. Tag from Larry Miller Fine Art on verso. Provenance: Estate of Honora Berg, David Carson...

Lazar Obican 1944-2004 Genre: Other Subject: People Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Dimensions: 35" x 16.5 Dimensions w/Frame: 35.5" x 17.25 An impasto composition that depicts a colorful scarecrow clown with a bird perched on his shoulder with a bottle of French Vin (wine) Artist signature L OBICAN to bottom and dated 1968. Title to verso. Work Size: 36 x 25 in. Framed 37.5 x 26 x 1 in The artist Lazar Obican iconic style is child-like yet masterfully adult; a style that tells a story with sociological overtones. His funny little people are always colorful, full of spirit, living with music and birds to bring them happiness. Lazar Obican artist, painter, sculpture and mosaic ceramic artisan was born in Cannes, France, to his Yugoslavian family. He finished his training, imbued with the spirit of his native country, the people, their legends, and their philosophy. It has been said that his work has a "timeless quality" and a naive, folk art, outsider art brut quality, child-like primitive style. Obican is identified with his style the world over, a style that is simple yet sophisticated; child-like yet masterfully adult; a style that tells a story with psychological, philosophical or sociological overtones. His funny little people are always colorful, full of spirit, living with music and birds to bring them happiness. Best known for his depictions of folklore and traditional costumes rendered in a playful, childlike style and for his happy Jewish wedding scenes. He often used bright colors and black outlines in his renderings of figures and animals, giving his work an illustration-like quality. Thematically, the artist’s work is similar to Marc Chagall and Jean Dubuffet for its dreamlike images and so-called naïve style of painting. Over the course of his career, the artist maintained a studio in Boca Raton, Florida and Dubrovnik, Croatia—part of former Yugoslavia— where he developed an interest in Eastern Europe’s Jewish culture. Many of his mature works depict Jewish traditions and ceremonies, including traditional Jewish weddings, the dancing of the Hora, and traditional music. There is a display of his works in his former Dubrovnik studio. His style is a unique conglomerate of tradition, history, legends, heroes, old customs and folklore. It is a self-standing style, recognizable, cheerful, whimsical and a happy creation. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusée in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil...

Signed lower right, 'Dusso' for Leon D'Usseau, Jr. (American, 1918-1991) and painted circa 1965. A substantial oil painting showing two lovers reclining in a barge on a stream before a Persian palace crowned with domes and minarets; the pair elegantly dressed, with the young woman bejeweled and the young man playing a lute. Born in Los Angeles, Leon D'Usseau began training under the guidance of his father, who was among the earliest fine art film directors in Hollywood. At the age of twelve, he was drawing seriously and, at fifteen, he received a working scholarship at Chouinard School of Art where he studied under Merrill Gage and Alexander Archipenko and also taught a line-drawing class. Adopting the anglicized brush-name of Dusso, he exhibited widely and with success including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1937-40), the California Palace Legion of Honor (1941), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1942), the Laguna Festival of Arts, Los Angeles Artists Association (1945), the California Watercolor Society (1946) and the Audubon Association (1945). Leon Dusso...

Sophie is an expressive and highly individualistic Post Impressionist work reminiscent of Chaim Soutine. Cottavoz isn known and celebrated for using incredibly thick paint that is a...

Spring is an artwork realized by Cesco Magnolato in 1967.  Oil on Canvas.  73 x 92 cm; No frame 48 x 68 cm. Hand signed in bottom right and signed and dated on rear.  Very good c...

One of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Painting is on casein paint on plaster on board. Catalogue of a postumous retr...

Mid-Century Modern Dancers Figurative Abstract, Bay Area Figurative School 1960s A gorgeous and colorful mid-century modern figurative abst...

Snow , woods,grey withe LEONID VAICHLIA (St. Petersburg, 1922) Works by Leonid Vaichlia can be found in various private collections in Europe, Japan, United States and in the follo...

Dipen Bose - Durga Acrylic on Canvas 36 x 30 inches (Framed & Delivered) In this striking acrylic work, Dipen reimagines the divine form of Goddess Durga with bold lines, vibrant re...

Stunning large-scale, Bay Area Figurative School, painting of a woman sitting by a window overlooking a lakeside view, influenced by her teacher Richard Diebenkorn, by Sally Kissing...

The frame adds a few inches to the size and was selected by the artist. Jack Henderson (1931-1998) taught at the Art Students League for many years and had a studio in at 30 East 14th Street, New York City. In that building were many other artists including Henderson's teacher and long-time collaborator, Edward Laning. A Kansas City native, Henderson was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He continued the Miller/Laning tradition of travel to Italy to study the masters of the Renaissance and the goal of fine figure painting as the ultimate artistic achievement. A version of his monumental triptych, New York in Ruin, 1967, is in the collection of the New York Landmarks Commission. Work by Jack Henderson was shown at the Susan Teller Gallery...

Image dimensions: 31 x 22 cm. The Dancing Painter is an original artwork realized by Esy Beluzzi in 1963. Original tempera and pencil on cardboard. Hand-signed and dated on the lo...

Virgilian wood is an original modern artwork realized in the 1960s by the italian painter Luigi Venturini. Mixed colored oil on board. Hand signed by the artist on the lower left m...

Untitled is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1962 by the italian artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original Oil painting on canvas. Hand-signed by the artist. The frame ...

A rare surrealist painting depicting a scene which appears to reference outer-space. Great composition, color and texture. Signed Krause but...

Egon Hofmann war nicht nur als Maler wichtig und wegweisend, sondern auch als Netzwerker, der als Gründer und langjähriger Präsident der Künstlervereinigung „März“ eine wichtige Roll...

Saturated, intimate depiction of sharing a bed with a partner by Narcissus Robert Quagliata (Italian-American, b. 1942). While four fingers dominate the composition, the focus of the...

Sakti Burman - Untitled Watercolour on Paper 26 x 20 inches, 1960 Born : 1935 Kolkata Education : 1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata and the Ecole Nationale des ...

Portrait of a man Oil on artist board 28"x22" Artist signed lower left, gallery label on verso. Sylvain Vigny is a French painter born in Vienna (Austria) on April 8, 1903. He moved to Nice in 1934. He died in Nice on February 4, 1970. Self-taught artist, coming from Austria like Willy Eisenschitz...

Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - ) Title: Black Hair, Purple Girl Year: circa 1962 Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r. Size: 24 x 20 in. (60.96 x 50.8 cm) Frame Size: 33 x...

Lithograph on washi paper Exemplaire B/165

Margaret Putnam (1913-1989) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 9.5 x 12.75 Frame Size: 17 x 20 Medium: Color Etching "A Drink" Biography Margaret Putnam (1913-1987) Margaret Putnam left...

The most common motif depicted by Philippe Alfieri is the clown or harlequin. Often posed for a portrait but regularly also seen paused between moments of action, Alfieri's harlequins are somber and reflective, straddling between the joyous nature of their role and the depressing nature they are so regularly depicted in contemporary media. This oil painting is nicely framed in gold and signed by the artist on the lower right. Royal Harlequin Philippe Alfieri, Italian/American (1921–2009) Date: ca 1965 Oil on Canvas...

Watercolor portrait of a clown by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "M. Blake" in the lower left corner. Unframed. Marjorie May Gulley Blake...

Genre: Modern Subject: Music Medium: Oil Surface: Board Country: France Dimensions: 36.5" x 23.5" Dimensions w/Frame: 43.5" x 31" NISSAN ENGEL Israel, b. 1931 Multidisciplinary art...

Oil on masonite painting by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed top right and dated 1966. Titled verso. Condition is good. Unframed. Provenance: Sarasota, Flor...

An original Gouache painting measuring 16 x 20 inches by Joseph Margulies. The painting is signed lower right. Born in Vienna, Joseph Margulies becam...

Estado de conservación muy aceptable La obra se presenta enmarcada (el marco presenta algunas leves faltas) Medidas obra: 46 cm altura x 54 cm ancho. Medidas marco 80 cm altura x ...

Scottie Wilson, born Louis Freeman was a Scottish, Jewish, outsider artist known particularly for his highly detailed style. Starting his artistic career at the age of 44, his work w...