1960s Figurative Paintings

Signed lower right, 'Z. Kavin' for Zena Kavin (American, 1912-2003) and dated 1966. Born in Berkeley, California, Zena Kavin studied at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and, privately, with Kravchenko in Moscow. She lived in Berkeley and in Oakland her entire life, except for four years spent in New Mexico in the late 1930s. In 1949, she married artist Jon Cornin and settled with him in Oakland. Under the peudonym Corka, the Cornins produced cartoons for the Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker. Kavin worked in various media, including wood engraving, lithography and sculpture. She was a member of the San Francisco Artists Association and exhibited with them as well as at the San Francisco Museum of Art Inaugural (1935), the California–Pacific International Exposition, San Diego (1935), the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939). Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Davis Art Center, the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of California. Reference: Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, page 610; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, page 1801; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Supplement, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Medieval Heads, 1966 Acrylic on scintilla Signed and dated upper right 23.5 x 30 inches Clarence Holbrook...

Smoke Portrait is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in Italy by Danilo Bergamo (b.1938) in 1969. Original ink, tempera and oil painting on cardboard Hand-signed and dated b...

Acrylic on canvas painting by Washington DC artist Joe Shannon (b.1933). The painting is titled "In Bad Spirits" and is dated 1969. The painting was exhi...

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...

Judith Yellin Ginat is one of the most prominent artists working in Israel today. She was born in Jerusalem and is a fifth generation Israeli. Her work has a naive, folk art quality...

Presenting a just discovered original pastel by American artist Hans Burkhardt. The Artists Model, is an original pastel on paper, signed, dated 1966, good original condition, with ...

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...

Somnath Hore - Untitled Brush on Paper, 7.6 x 11 inches ( Framed & Door Delivered ) Figurative work by Master Sculptor and Painter Somenath Hore. A gorgeous subtle rendition of a ...

Margaret Putnam MCM Mid Century Modern (1913-1987) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 7 x 9 Frame Size: 16 x 18 Medium: Watercolor and Gouache 1960s Untitled Biography Margaret Putnam ...

Mid Century Modern Mother and Baby Playing Figurative - Nude Wonderful small scale ink and acrylic paint of a mother and baby by Dorothea Stevenson Casady (American, 1910 - 2006). Signed lower left corner. Presented in gilt-toned and velvet filet mid-century frame. Image size: 6"H x 8.25"W Frame: 9.5"H x 11.25"W x 2.25"D (velvet liner has age toning) Casady was a painter and muralist and served as Chairman, Oklahoma City University Art Department, 1939-1943; an Art instructor, Classen High School; Education: University of Oklahoma, B.F.A., 1931; M.F.A., Norman, OK; studied with Emil Bisttram, Taos School of Art and Nan Sheets; Foundation des Etats Unis, Paris, Fance, 1935-1936; New York School of Industrial Arts; studied fresco and egg tempera under Professor Leugi Arcangeti, Florence, Italy, 1937; Oklahoma City University; Julian Academy Paris, France, 1936 Memberships: Oklahoma State Artists Association; Kappa Pi, art fraternity; Delta Delta Delta...

Dancer 1969. Oil on canvas, 92,5x92,5 cm The artist's portrayal of the dancer captures the grace and elegance associated with ballet. The ballerina's pose and body language convey ...

Very unique original oil on canvas painting by the well known American artist, John Barnes Dobbs. Titled “Motel Window” and if you look carefully y...

Colorful and bold impasto oil portrait with dynamic, expressive brushstrokes by Richard Lofton (American, 1908-1966). The name of the sitter, Kenneth Lucas, is inscribed along the ri...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Mandala No. 5, 1968 Acrylic on scintilla Signed on verso 29.5 x 22 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artist...

Three Figures - Black and White Illustration in Ink on Paper Bold illustration of three people by an unknown artist (20th Century). The figures are depicted in a tight cluster, as i...

Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977), Framed oil painting "La Ragazza Ungherese" The Hungarian Girl. Dated 1961. Framed: 36.25 x 28.5 inches. In good condition. Lazzaro Donati was b...

Artist: John Hultberg, American (1922 - 2005) Title: At The Border Year: 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated, verso Size: 32 x 40 in. (81.28 x 101.6 cm)

Model. 1968. Oil on canvas, 118x65 cm Blond woman in magenta dress Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes (19...

Solitary Mister 1964 Oil on canvas 52 x 38 inches (132.1 x 96.5 cm) This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

Abstract Expressionist painting of nude and reader dated December 1966 by Jennifer Wallace (American, 20th Century). Image 44"L x 37.75"H. Jennifer Wallace Mack received a Bachelo...

"Hunting Scene II," a lithograph by American artist Ynez Johnston created in 1964, is part of a series published by the International Graphic Arts Society (IGAS) in September 1965. L...

Italian Illustrator Gianni Benvenuti depicts a Pushkin's Fairy Tales Princess in a winter landscape of stylized trees with exaggerated curves and twisting branches. The princess is d...

In the mid-1960s Joseph Solman (American, 1909 - 2008) was commissioned to create portraits of the Begg family. This is a portrait of Marian Begg, the mother in the mid-century nuclear family...

A peaceful place is an original contemporary artwork realized by Dimitri Godycki Cwirko (1901-1987) in 1954. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the lowe...

Portrait of Woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Not signed. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargn...

Lithograph on Arches paper Exemplaire B/165 Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, ...

Ella la Luna y Yo:A truly touching picture of a young couple on a magical moonlit night. de Horna really shows in this painting the effect of his simple graphic approach to the subje...

Figures is an original artwork realized by Sergio Barletta in 1963. Mixed colored oil and tempera on paper. Hand signed and dated on the lower left. Label on the back. Includes fr...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY “Untitled” painted in India Ink of two heads was done during what has been call Lester Johnson’s Dark Paintings of the 1960s. In 2013 John Yau wrote with much insight about that period of Johnson’s work - “Lester Johnson (1919-2010) was an innovative figurative painter who has never quite fit into any of the accepted narratives of postwar American art, and that alone makes his work worthy of a longer look. The 1960s was an explosively turbulent era marked by assassinations, race riots, space flights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Beatles’ and Rolling Stones’ first American tours, and the rapidly escalating Vietnam War. Everyone was wary and on edge. Meanwhile, in the New York art world, all eyes were fixated on the rise and triumph of Pop Art, Minimalism and Color Field painting. Johnson was one of the few artists that attuned to the dismay that everyone was feeling during the violent and schizophrenic time, the sense that it could all come crashing down. However, his work was never overtly political or didactic. While his dark, brooding, monochromatic paintings of anonymous men gained a small and loyal following, they also became part of that largely invisible history of a time when New York was a tough scary and exciting place to be. More than fifty years after they were made, Johnson’s Dark Paintings continue to retain a coarseness that we associate with gestural Abstract Expressionism and Jean Dubuffet’s anti-psychological, anti-personal portraits incorporating sand and gravel. One sees in them the antecedents of Joyce Pensato’s gestural exaggerations of Groucho Marx, Homer Simpson and Minnie Mouse. While Pensato brings an infectious humor to her work, Johnson was more somber. I cannot help but think that both these artists chose their bedraggled subjects out of empathy and a trace of identification.” Lester Johnson, was born in 1919 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended Minneapolis School of Art, where he studied under Alexander Masley who was a former student of Hans Hofmann. Johnson continued his artistic career in New York City where he opened his first studio on 6th and Avenue A. His neighbor there was fellow painter Wolf Kahn. During his time there he would share a loft with Larry Rivers and married the art historian Josephine Valenti. In 1961 he briefly taught at Ohio State University before returning to New York City to share a studio with Philip Pearlstein. Jack Tworkov would invite Johnson to teach at Yale, an offer that Lester Johnson would accept and spend the rest of his life in Connecticut. Johnson passed away in 2010. Johnson's work has been exhibited in the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Walker Art Center, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This work has been framed inside of a custom frame with museum glass...

Sunny seascape of seagulls over ocean waves breaking on the coast by Joe Hazel Conrad (American, 20th century). Presented in a wood frame. Signed ...

Oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Louis Marcy. Signed lower left. Not framed. Exhibited at Salon of Indépendants in Paris in 1964. Label verso. Inventory 2613. Louis Marcy...

Tonight I wait at the window is an original modern artwork realized in 1968 by Franco Rivola. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Hand-written dedica...

Signed lower left, 'Freda L. Hansen' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1965; bearing, verso, Alameda Art Association label with artist information and titled, 'Ladies in a G...

Stamped verso with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1965. A bold, Post-Impressionist figural oil of a young woman, shown seated on a bench wi...

Figures on the Beach is an original Oil on Canvas realized in the 1960s by the italian artist Alberto Cavallari (1924-2016). Hand signed on the lower margin. Signed and titled on the...

Nicely painted mid century abstracted figurative painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Great color and composition. Nicely framed in a period modernist molding.

"Olympic Star", Large Scale Hard Edge Surfer Figurative by Erle Loran Vibrant hard edge painting of a surfer "Olympic Star," a bold and bright figurative piece by Erle Loran (Ameri...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Houses is an original modern artwork realized in 1964 by the artist Claudio Mossino. Mixed colore oil painting on canvas. Includes frame. Hand signed and dated on the lower right ...

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...

Syril Frank (American, 1929-2021) Untitled, c. 1960s Oil on canvas 35 7/8 x 23 3/4 x 3/4 in. Provenance: Estate of the Artist Syril Harriet Frank was born in Brooklyn to Israel and...

Two Portraits is a contemporary artwork realized by Dimitri Godycki Cwirko (1901-1987). Mixed colored oil on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the lower...

Lewis Brown, American (1928 - 2011) - The Lieutenant #18, Year: 1966, Medium: Gouache and Oil on Board, signed, titled and dated in marker, Size: 22 x 14...

Ortisei is an original artwork realized in 1966 by the artist Amelia Cugini Tumiotto. Mixed colored oil painting on board. Hand signed and titled on the lower left margin and on th...

Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post magazine, published January 23, 1960 A businessman sits on the beach at a resort surrounded by financial newspapers and office communica...

Combination of several figures in various poses by Robert Moesle (American, b. 1932), (Paralipomenon) The figures overlap in multiple layers, highlighting certain aspects of each person. Careful attention was paid to the texture and folds in clothing. White gouache is used as a highlight. Signed in the lower right corner. Presented in a wood frame with a rose colored mat and anti-glare glass. Card size: 17.5"H x 12.5"W Robert Moesle was born in San Jose, California in 1932. He graduated from San Jose State College and attended The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, England. Moesle lives in the Chateau region of France, which he finds to be an ideal location for a watercolorist. Moesle paints outside and enjoys watching the landscape change through the seasons. Unlike most watercolorists, Moesle takes his time painting and tries to capture the feeling of durability in his subjects. Moesle has exhibited his work in shows in London, Paris and throughout the United States. “Figurative painting by Robert Moesle are…lyrical, visionary, softly dream-like… Moesle’s Harlequin Prince offers a memory of early Picasso...

Robert Carroll is an american artist born in 1934 in Painesville, Ohio. He has been studying Arts at the Cleveland Institute of Arts where he graduated in 1957. Since the end of 19...

Figures on Horseback (6) by John F. Leonard, American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board (unsigned) Size: 36 in. x 38 in. (91.44 cm x 96.52 cm)

Musicians (7) by John F. Leonard, American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Canvas (unsigned) Size: 23 in. x 47 in. (58.42 cm x 119.38 cm)

At night. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to...

Gloria Dudfield (1922-2015) Untitled c.1960s Mixed media: gouache, pastel and encaustic on newsprint 11"x15.5" unframed Unsigned Gloria (Fischer) Dudfield July 12, 1922 – May 27, 20...

Oil on canvas original painting by the Soviet born artist, Oleg Vukolov. Done in 1960. Signed and dated top left. In good unrestored condition. Vukolov’s paintings are in the Ludwig...

Lithograph on washi paper Exemplaire B/165 Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, i...

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...

Signed lower right, 'Fiedler' (20th century) and painted circa 1965. A sensitively realized study of a young boy dressed for a costume party as Arlequino and shown gazing directly t...