1960s Figurative Paintings

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...

Grace Pischner Miller was born in Washington on January 12, 1912. She painted primarily in watercolors. She specialized in landscapes and seascapes of California. Two paintings of "Raggedy Ann...

The Easel is an original mixed color artwork realized by Paul Nicholls in 1967. Colored oil painting on canvas. Hand-signed by the artist. Original tit...

Heights & fast sketch. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 9,5x6 cm; 9x6cm Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in...

Three Dancers (60) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 14 in. x 24 in. (35.56 cm x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: 17.5 x 28 inches

Seated Figure in Cloak (62) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 19 in. x 22 in. (48.26 cm x 55.88 cm)

American Jumpsuit (12) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Canvas Size: 30 in. x 20 in. (76.2 cm x 50.8 cm)

Man with Bird (21) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 25 in. x 20 in. (63.5 cm x 50.8 cm)

Religious Scene with Sword (27) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: 1965 Oil on Board Size: 15 in. x 31 in. (38.1 cm x 78.74 cm)

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Cicada, c. 1960s Watercolor on scintilla 30 x 20 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that wa...

Signed lower center with artist monogram, 'B.S.' for Benjamin Silva (Brazilian, born 1927) and dated with roman numerals, 1968; additionally signed, verso, dated and titled. A dramatic and animated oil painting of a crowd scene showing the feared, mounted police of Mexico City in action against the students in the demonstrations of October 2nd that preceded the opening of the Mexican Olympic Games...

Figure Study (35) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Charcoal on Board Size: 17.5 in. x 20.5 in. (44.45 cm x 52.07 cm)

man. original figurative academician drawing painting. framed Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965 It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD. H...

Wonderful mid century abstract figurative of nude mother with baby and bird in background by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). A nocturnal setting adds more interest and dimension. Signed on verso "Berg." Unframed. 34"H x 37"W. Honora Berg an early Bay Area Figurative and Abstract Expressionist painter. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff, and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell...

Matador and Bull (37) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 20 in. x 16 in. (50.8 cm x 40.64 cm)

The Graduate (40) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 22 in. x 15 in. (55.88 cm x 38.1 cm)

Religious Scene (41) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 12 in. x 18 in. (30.48 cm x 45.72 cm) Frame Size: 14 x 20 inches

Regal Figures (64) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 26 x 22 in. (66.04 x 55.88 cm)

Poppies,Red ,Flowers,russian,art,1960 NADEZHDA VOROBIEVA (Moscow, 1924 - 2011) Works by Nadezhda Vorobieva can be found in various private collections in Europe, Japan, United Sta...

Kalman Istokovits (1898-1990) Hungarian Artist Painter, graphic artist. In 1918 he decided to go to America but changed his mind and returned from Milan. H...

Signed lower right, 'Haefner' for Janice Haefner (American, 1919-2002) and painted circa 1960; additionally signed, verso, and with artist address. This life-time member of the Pacific Art League lived in Los Altos...

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...

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

Bob Thompson Untitled, 1964 Felt tip pen on printed paper 11 x 20 1/2 inches Provenance: The artist Kathy Komaroff Goodman (gift from the artist) Hollis Taggart, New York Exhibited...

Original Oil on Canvas by Jose Salazar Ruiz Esparza signed by the artist lower left. The work presents in the original frame and is in excellent condition. Created circa 1960's. The...

This painting is iconic of Pichas Shaar's aesthetic, and stylistic influences. A ceramic mosaicist and sculptor as well as a painter, Shaars strong decorative sense was evident in his colorful canvas, with their frequent rectilinear geometry, depicting stylized figures, often mythological or biblical subjects. 23.75 X15.75 inches without frame. Pinchas Shaar (born Szwarc, later Shaar) was born in Lodz, Poland in 1923. already at a young age he drew small graffiti and characters of fairy tales. at sixteeen he met the Polish painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, a disciple of the Russian painter Kazimir Malevich, who encouraged Pinchas’ artistic education. Strzeminski encouraged Pinchas' artistic education and introduced him to the works of such painters as Picasso, Leger, Matisse, and Mondrian. Pinchas had his first exhibition in 1938 and also completed photomontages for a poetry book by Moshe Broderson that was published in 1939. Then, in September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. On February 1940 the Jews of Lodz had to move to a ghetto and perform forced labor. The artist experienced the horrors of war and the Nazi holocaust concentration camps. Pinchas worked in a prefabricated furniture factory. However, after his artistic abilities were discovered, he became a draftsman. He also designed decorations for the ghetto's theater. In 1944 the Germans liquidated the Lodz ghetto...

This unique artwork by Richard Proctor is part of a series of 3 (see last pictures and other listings). It is a self-portrait repeated 3 times in diffe...

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...

Vibrant and expressive figurative work by John Lancaster (British, Born circa 1930). An adult figure looks into the distance, with its back to the viewe...

J. Robert Miller (1928 -2005) Abilene Artist Image Size: 16 x 20 Frame Size: 21 x 25 Medium: Oil "Going Home" Biography J. ROBERT MILLER (1928-2005) J. Robert Miller was an ...

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...

Janis Mednis (1910 28 05 Valka, Latvia – 1997 30 09) – painter Mednis learned at Smiltenes secondary school, where teacher Zegners creates to him first interest about painting and t...

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Dynamic abstract figurative painting by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" lower right. Unframed. Image size: 30"H x 24"W. Doris Warner first achieved recognit...

Artist: Rene Brochard, French/Canadian (1926 - ) Title: Faces de Jazz, New Orleans Year: 1963 Medium: Oil and Metal Collage on Board, signed upper right ...

Signed lower right, 'Marian Stahl' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1960. Inscribed verso, 'Meyer St, Tucson AZ' with artist address. A finely drawn, mid-century view of ...

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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...

Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003) Title: Woman with Cat Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 31 x 20 in. (78.74 x 50.8 cm)

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...

Substantial and period painting, a Mid Century Modern portrait of a woman in an abstracted landscape by listed California artist Tarmo Pasto...

Compelling figurative watercolor of blue-eyed brother and sister feeding birds by California artist Lee Whittier (American, 20th Century). Circa 1...

Somnath Hore - Family Pen & Ink on Paper, 13.6 x 10 inches ; 1991 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Inclusive of shipment mounted not framed, Should you wish to receive the same framed and s...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Double Ovoids with Blue and Black, 1960s Acrylic on scintilla 15.25 x 12.25 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting....

Signed lower center, 'Ebenstein' titled verso, 'Seduction' and painted circa 1966. Accompanied by 1966 exhibition label from Barzansky Galleries, New York. A substantial, Expression...

Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Panama Garden, c. 1964 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 46 x 38 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...

The Gift Of The Two Lines 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 the most transformi...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Seeing Egg, c. 1960s Acrylic on textured paper 30 x 22 inches 38.5 x 30.5 inches, framed A surrealist mid-century figural abstract pai...

Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003) Title: Woman in Yellow Jacket Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: ...

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...

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...

Signed lower right, 'J. Meyer Andersen for Johan Meyer Andersen (Danish, 1919-2005) inscribed "Paris" and painted circa 1960. An intimate, Parisian interior scene showing a beautifu...

Painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Work is untitled and signed. Measures 22" x 12". Painting is casein paint and plaster on board. Catalogue of an exhibition in 2008 at the...

Benjamin Kopman: 1887-1965. Well listed artist born in Russia, but came to U.S. in 1903. He studied at the National Academy of Design in NYC. He has had auction results over $5000 bu...

Indra Dugar - Untitled - 10.5 x 8 inches (unframed size) 16 x 18.5 inches ( framed size ) This is a two sided work, Recto & Verso. Ink on paper. Inclusive of shipment in framed fo...

Lorraine Fox was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for were Woman's Day, ...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Torso No. 1, 1967 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated upper right 15 x10 inches 24 x 20 inches, framed A mid-century figural abstract painting. 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...

P Clment 1968 Partially Nude Figure Oil Painting Oil on canvas 32 x 36 unframed