1960s Figurative Paintings

ALFRED RETH 1884-1966 Budapest 1884-1966 Paris (Hungarian/French) Title: The Gardeners (Personnages), 1962 Technique: Original Signed and Dated Oil and Collage Painting on wood s...

Wonderful 60's chic is on full display in this beach scene. It's masterfully designed. The beautiful model horizontally fills the center space while supporting players fill background spaces. The style is very flat with lots of gray muting the colors and defining the artist's palette. Fuch's was a giant talent who is overlooked by today's art world participants. His style could be described as a post-post impressionist. This particular work is so deftly designed and exhibits the most intriguing positive and negative spaces. The model is rendered with loose, quick and authoritative brush strokes which give an air of chic confidence. Most of all, it's her dreamy blue eyes that truly captivate the viewer. All parts of the eye ( Iris, Pupil, Sclera ) are composed of a soft robin's egg blue which is in counterpoint the pink day-glow color on her lips. She looks at you. You look back and the process is repeated and repeated. Fuch's not just a great painter, designer, academic artist but a brilliant and innovative colorist as well. To demonstrate how great this simple work is, out of a world population of 7.2 billion people, as a betting man, I would say there may be no other artist who could render a scene this good. An artist such as Peter Doig, who does nice and beautiful work, may come close to the talent of Fuchs. Bernard Fuchs American, 1932 - 2009 Girl at the Beach...

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

Beautiful Godzilla like monster illustration from 1961. Wenzel was a prolific Disney Artist for decades. The work is beautifully matted and framed and lookes better in person.

Hans Bendix (1898–1984) “View in Paris”, circa 1960 Oil on canvas Signed lower right In this lively and sunlit Parisian street scene, Danish artist Hans Bendix offers a vivid and m...

Fabulous illustration depicts a costume for Broadway production. Gouache on illustration board, image measures 10.5 x 16.5 inches; 15 x 22 inches framed. Excellent condition in ori...

Original oil on canvas painting of a Parisian beauty in Paris, France by Gustave Cheri Manes. Signed lower right “Cheri” the artist’s middle name. Condition is very good. Circa 196...

Anita Roy Chowdhury - Untitled Charcoal on Paper 10 x 16 inches, 1960 (Framed & Delivered) In this tender charcoal sketch, Anita Roy Chowdhury captures the gentle innocence of a you...

Unique figurative harlequin painting with Picasso style and abstract elements with dream-like layering by Robert Moesle (American, b.1932). Signed "Moesle" lower left. Titled "The Harlequin Prince" on verso. Displayed in a rustic painted giltwood frame with linen liner. Image size: 40"H x 32"W. Framed Size; 45"H x 37"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...

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)

Dancing with Sun (22) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 26 x 21 in. (66.04 x 53.34 cm) Frame Size: 27 x 22.5 inches

A pair of naive folk art portraits of Mrs. Marion White and Jake Clements by American artist Earle T. Merchant (1903-1997). Merchant was born in Gloucester, and started his law educa...

Watercolor and gouache on paper laid on board Magazine Illustration defined by bold graphic composition and limited color palate yielding a powerful image that jumps off the page. u...

Original Oil Painting of Man's Morning by Cynthia Bissell Wonderfully evocative mid century figurative of male awaking to day by artist Cynthia Bissell (American, 1924 - 2000), 1961...

Original acrylic on heavy archival paper by the well known French artist, Andre Francois. Signed top left “Francois”. Condition is excellent. Circa 1965. Young, wide eyed girl hol...

5210 Vintage Impressionist oil painting of a blue eyed young girl peeking thru the flowers Framed signed Susy Jones 1965 Image size 19.5x15.5"

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

Dragon Boats Chinese New Year San Francisco Bay Area Original Oil on Canvas 1960s A seminal abstract expressionist work by Peter Lowe (American, 1916-1922). A fun and heavy impasto painting of Chinese New Year revelers in Dragon Boats, swirls of colors and abstraction creates a tumultuous vision of the excitement and action. Image, 25.25"H x 35.25"W x 1"D Signed upper right Peter Lowe '60 - 1977 Evidently begun in 1960 and work resumed on the piece in 1977. Years of the Dragon were 1952, 1964, 1976. Peter Lowe studied Chinese Buddhist Sculpture...

Religious Interior Scene (69) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: 1969 Oil on Board, signed l.r. Size: 17.5 in. x 17 in. (44.45 cm x 43.18 cm)

This graphic and flatwork was an Interior illustration for the Saturday Evening Post. George Giusti( Italian - American 1908-1990)- ''The Last Snapshot''- ink and acrylic on illust...

An original vintage 1960s semi-abstract painting by celebrated Colorado artist Edward Marecak, titled "The Phoenix." This dynamic composition bursts with expressive energy, rendered ...

Karl Zerbe (1903 - 1972) Boy from Mansos, 1963 Collage and acrylic on canvas 35 x 23 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Lee Nordness Galleries, New York Karl Zerbe was born on September 16, 1903 in Berlin, Germany. The family lived in Paris, France from 1904–1914, where his father was an executive in an electrical supply concern. In 1914 they moved to Frankfurt, Germany where they lived until 1920. Karl Zerbe studied chemistry in 1920 at the Technische Hochschule in Friedberg, Germany. From 1921 until 1923 he lived in Munich, where he studied painting at the Debschitz School, mainly under Josef Eberz. From 1924 until 1926 Karl Zerbe worked and traveled in Italy on a fellowship from the City of Munich. In 1932 his oil painting titled, ‘’Herbstgarten’’ (autumnal garden), of 1929, was acquired by the National-Galerie, Berlin; in 1937, the painting was destroyed by the Nazis as "Degenerate art...

Harry Jelinek (1905-1986) “Lady Posing in a Red Dress” Signed and dated 1965 Acrylic on board

Signature: Signed Lower Right

La Camacunta Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Spanish (1941) Date: 1966 Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 29.5 x 24.5 in. (74.93 x 62.23 cm) Frame Size: 30.5 x 25.5 inches

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

3944 Antique oil on artist board,1965 Set in a period frame Image size 19.5x15.5" Signed

La obra va firmada a mano por el artista en la parte inferior y fechada del año 1960 (creo) digo creo porque no sé si es 1950 o 1960... por la tela y el número diria que es 1960 Se ...

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

Santa has a quickie with Mom. Elmer Simms Campbell was the first African American Illustrator to work for major newsstand magazines. Published December, 1963 Signed in pencil lower...

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

Andre Renoux: 1939-2002. Listed French artist with auction results over $5000, but sells for much more in galleries. This is a truly wonderful mid century...

Portrait of Young Girl is an artwork realized by Pietro Alimonti, 1969. Oil on Canvas. 49 x 39 cm ; 88 x 68 cm. Handsigned in the lower left margin. Good conditions!

5-2581 Oil on board Displayed in a faux bamboo wood frame Image size 15.5x19.5"

Medium: Mixed Media on Board with Collage Signature: Unsigned

Oil on canvas Signed verso

A vibrant landscape by French artist Charles Cobelle. Signed lower right Rainy Parisian Day Charles Cobelle, French (1902–1994) Date: Circa 1960 Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.r. Size:...

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...

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...

Como pueden apreciar, la obra va firmada en la parte inferior Se presenta enmarcada la obra El estado de la obra es aceptable Medidas obra: 45 cm. de altura x 50 cm. de ancho Med...

"Blue Heart Wife Love" San Francisco Figurative School -Joe Lysowski "Prankster" Portrait of his ex-wife while studying for his MFA in Fine art in Mexico by Joe Lysowski (American, 1938-2016) Signed on verso "J. S. Lysowski - Mexico - 6-65 Blue Heart - Wife Love" Image, 46"H x 36"W Frame, 47.25"H x 37.25"W x 1'D Joe Lysowski, former painter for the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Kauai Hindu Monastery for Denny’s in-production film, Atlantis Risen. A Marine, Surfer, Artist, Ken Kesey...

Paris under the snow is an original modern artwork realized by Roberto Bertola. Oil on Board. Signed and dated lower right and on the back. Includes frame: 53.5 x 59 cm

Oil on canvas painting by the National Academy Artist, Robert Philipp. Signed lower left. Signed verso as well. Provenance: Estate of Dr. Arthur and Ruth Sokoloff, Coral Gables, FL...

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...

Ramón Llovet (1917-1987) - Father and son - Oil on canvas Canvas measures 50x61 cm. Frame measures 56x67 cm. Ramon Llovet Miserol (Barcelona, ​​August 7, 1917 - Barcelona, ​​August ...

Mid-Century Cyclists - The Field Sprint Pierre Bosco (Italy/France, 1909-1993) Oil on canvas 15 x 12 inches, frame size “The savage art of Bosco bears its rudeness and its mystery....

#9 Geeks and Gargoyles (for Nelson Algren) Mixed Media and Collage Provenance: Obelisk Gallery, Boston, 1967 (label verso) the word Chicago is featured prominently in this piece. Sometimes described as Rhode Island’s most famous New York artist, Richard Merkin has led a dual life for nearly 40 years - teaching at RISD while enjoying a celebrated painting career based in New York City. He has exhibited in countless gallery and museum shows in the US and abroad and is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the RISD museum and many others. In addition to contributing drawings and paintings to The New Yorker (along with, Art Spiegelman, Saul Steinberg, Harper’s, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and several books on Erotica and Baseball, he is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a former style columnist for GQ. Merkin’s honors include a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship and the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Museums and Selected Collections : The American Federation of Arts, New York, NY Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA First city Bank, Chicago, Ill Fisk University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN Hallmark Collections, Kansas City, MO Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Maimi-Dade Junior College, Miami, FL Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Minnesota Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Pennsylvania Acadamy of the Arts, Philadelphia PA Prudential Insurance Company, Boston, Ma Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Sara Robey Foundation, New York, NY Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC State University of Brockport, Brockport, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Selected Publications : 1986-Present Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair ..1988-Present, New Yorker... 1988-Present, style column, GQ...1997, Text and Illustration for The Tijuana Bibles, published by Simon & Shuster, 1995, Illustrated book, Leagues Apart: the Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues published by Morrow. 1967 Cover of the Beatles “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” Album (Mr. Merkin appears in the back row, right of center) RISD: MFA in Painting, 1963; Professor, Department of Painting special skill: Merging his role as flaneur (connoisseur of city life) with his role as painter and social historian, Merkin retrieves lost cultural artifacts – a Turkish cigarette, a gangster, a bowler and generally “things most people don’t know about” – and reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. (ala Robert Crumb and Ben Katchor) breaking in: Perpetually on the fly from his middle-class Brooklyn background, Merkin found the perfect escape in the mid ‘60s in George Frazier, a dapper Boston columnist who inspired the emerging New York painter’s overnight reinvention of himself. The elements of structure, stability and surprise he admired in this well-dressed dandy – a cool linen suit, a splash of suspender, a polka dot scarf and pearl-handled walking stick – soon surfaced in paintings peopled by impeccable underdogs of café society along with his personal pop heroes: William Burroughs, Bobby Short...

5-3424 Figural painting Mixed media on artist board Image size 12x10" Displayed in a black wood frame Signed Vanzina

Wonderful mid century cubist figurative of older woman with flowers and basket in style of Jacques Villon (French, 1875 - 1963). Signature (Possibly "Louyot") and dated "1964" lower right corner. Presented in original, gilt-toned painted frame (included as-is). Image size: 36"H x 25"W An early 1900s modern art movement, Cubism focused on exploring relationships between images, perspectives and materials, and opened the door to Abstraction. Cubism began in Paris with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The term 'Cubist' was a derisive description by a critic of a geometric landscape painting done by Braque in 1908. Juan Gris, the originator of Collage, joined Picasso and Braque in 1910. Originating influences on Cubism included geometric-shaped paintings of Paul Cezanne, Post-Impressionisms’ emphasis on flat picture surfaces, and Picasso's fascination with the abstraction he perceived in African tribal masks. Aspects of Cubism were Analytical Cubism and Synthetic Cubism (see Glossary). By 1914, the Cubist movement as an organizing force officially terminated with the beginning of World War I. But its effects remain today. "Almost all later art, figurative and abstract, two and three-dimensional, random or hieratic, was conditioned in some way by these new dimensions of reality." (Phaidon) Other French artists associated with Cubism concepts were Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp and Nicholas Delauney. In America, leading Cubist painters...

Como pueden apreciar, la obra va firmada en la parte inferior y fechada del año 1969 En la parte trasera, va nuevamente firmado Se presenta enmarcada la pintura El estado de la ob...

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...

Circus Backstage (At Play) (70) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 18.5 in. x 30 in. (46.99 cm x 76.2 cm)

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

Man. original figurative drawing painting. virtual frame Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965 It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD. He wa...

Work on panel Gray and silver wooden frame 85 x 115 x 2.3 cm

Mother and Child (3) by John F. Leonard, American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 44 in. x 29 in. (111.76 cm x 73.66 cm)

Artist/ School: French School signed A.Bertin signed on back, dated 1965 Title: Period portrait of a woman Medium: oil on board, framed Framed: 18.5 x 12.5 inches Board : 18 x 12 ...

Oil on wooden panel realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Hand signe. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his childhood years i...

Oil on wooden panel realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his childhood years in Rome, in th...

Oil on wooden panel realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his childhood years in Rome, in th...