Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Signed lower left, 'W. Schwartz' for Walter Erwin Otto Schwartz (Danish, 1889-1958), dated 1935 and inscribed 'Skagen' lower right. A substantial, psychologically penetrating portrait of a young woman with braids, shown dressed in a charcoal wool coat and wearing a copper-colored neck-scarf. The self-possessed sitter stands and meets the viewers gaze directly, proving herself an unusually confident subject for this noted Danish Modernist. Nephew of the Danish academic artist, Frans Schwartz, Walter Schwartz grew up surrounded by the painters who frequented the Danish art colony on the picturesque island of Skagen. Walter first studied formally (1904-8) with Michael Ancher...

Title: Charcoal Portrait of a Man in a Beret Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: signed black charcoal on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered Size: 7.5 (heigh...

Rafael de Soto - Village street - Oil on canvas Oil measurements 41x33 cm. Without frame.

A stunning copy of the Northern Renaissance masterpiece "Maddalena Dolente" by Quentin Matsys (1466-1530) which is in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie Berlin. Beautifully execut...

Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) signed oil on thick card, unframed painting: 18 x 13 inches provenance: the artists estate, France condition: very goo...

Aaron Bohrod, 1907-1992 Lobster Shack, 1938 Oil on masonite 16 x 20 inches Signed and dated ower left: Aaron Bohrod 1938 Bohrod-3 Provenance: Private estate, Rhode Island, 2004 Am...

Signed pointillist oil on panel figures in landscape by French neo-impressionist painter Yvonne Canu. This stunning piece depicts a couple resting under a parasol in a field of wildf...

Mid Century French Portrait Signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil on artists paper, double sided Size: 10.75 height) x 8 (width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good P...

This evocative vintage oil painting from the 1930s–1940s captures a classic adobe church in New Mexico, likely inspired by the historic San Francisco de Asís Mission Church in Rancho de Taos. Painted by Denver modernist Paul K...

6014 Impressionist figurative seascape a woman sitting by the sea seeing her reflection Image size 9.5x11.5" Signed Framed

Claude Benard (1926-2016, French), signed Portrait of a Fashionable Young Lady oil painting on canvas, unframed, signed upper corner painting: 32 x 24 inches provenance: the artists ...

5-3288 Oil on board set in a gilt wood frame Image size 19.5x15.5"

Le Pont Neuf, Paris by Edouard Henri Leon (French 1873-1968) signed lower front corner inscribed and titled verso oil on canvas in wooden surround slip frame wooden frame: 18.5 x 25....

'Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre at Willette Square, Paris', gouache on art paper (circa 1930s), by Lucien Génin. Created by the Director of Public Ways and Promenades under Napoleon III, Sq...

5-3494 Oil on canvas figurative traveling to orient. Set in a silvered wood frame

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1960's, signed with monogram Title: Portrait of a fashionable lady in an emerald green dress. Medium: oil...

WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers Seymour Fogel (1911-1984) Mural Study, untitled 11 x 49 1/4 inches (sight) Tempera on board Provenance:...

"Le Filet" Fisherman Mending Nets French School, mid 20th century signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 32 x 26 inches canvas: 25.5 x 20 inches Provenance: Private collection, France ...

A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987) Presents for George, Mary & Gladys Gouache and collage 46 x 33 cm c.1930 Provenance: Family of the artist A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist...

Vintage French Oil Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on artist paper stuck on board, unframed measures: 6 high ...

Surreal Full Moon Hawaii Cliff House Nocturnal Hawaiian 1940s Landscape Symbolic and surreal mid century nocturnal landscape of a lone house on a s...

Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Play Ball New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939 12 x 8 inches (sight) Framed 18 1/2 X 14 3/4 inches Gouache on board Estate sticker verso BIOGRAPHY: Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests. In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s. ‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune. Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...

Portrait of a Lady by Wladyslaw Szary, circa 1960’s See label reverse for bio details Oil painting on canvas with applied mixed media Canvas is 64cm x 44cm Original frame Good condi...

Female Figures by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 8 high by 10 inches wide condition...

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. This is a watercolor and gouache beach scene three young men bathing...

Famed Disney artist Mary Blair was also an illustrator for assignments outside Disney. The present work appears to be for a Gelolo Mchugh children's book called Baby's House. There i...

Jean Charlot Fresco style painting in plaster on board in the original artist made frame. Titled on a label on the verso: "Bed Time.” In excellent condition. Signed by the artist upp...

A gorgeous nude from 1969 by James Wallace, showing masterful foreshortening (very difficult to pull off this convincingly) and beautifully sensual. One tiny repair visible on back c...

Work on canvas Frame in molding and beige gray wood 50 x 63 x 6 cm

The Provence Cottage French School, mid 20th century faint signature oil painting on board, framed in original 'Montparnasse' style frame. framed: 18.5 x 15 inches board: 15 x 12 in...

Nude woman is a beautiful and impressive oil on canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli. It was realized between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of t...

MOONRISE WITH YELLOW CUP Size: 54.5 x 62.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A quiet and introspective mid-century modernist figurative painting, executed in oil onto canvas by the...

Artist/ School: Pierre PIGET (1907-1990), signed Title: 1960's portrait of a semi-nude lady standing in a Greek/ Roman setting amongst ancient ruins. Stunning image - a real 'power ...

The Artist at her Easel by Jean Dulac (French 1902-1968) signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 22 x 13 inches provenance: private collection, Lyon, France condition: very good and s...

Landscape is a modern artwork realized by Kurt Schwitters in 1936. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Signed with monogram and dated on the lower right rec...

Yves LAC (1944-2021) Place du Tertre Oil on canvas. Size: 60 x 73 cm Signed lower left. Painting in good condition. Montparnasse type frame. Offered Size with frame: 81 x 92 cm ...

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1950. The style is a combination of Fauvism and Modernism. Title: Seated Young Lady. Medium: oil painting on thick hessian canvas. Size: p...

Danish oil on board painting of two women making their way home in a coastal landscape, by Poul Møller. The painting is signed PM and dated 76 to the bottom right corner. To the reve...

Artist André Strauss was known for painting outdoors, on the motif. It gives his paintings a wonderful freshness and immediacy - you feel as if you were right there, in the grounds o...

This artwork titled "Desert at Death Valley, California, 178 Feet Below Sea Level" 1941, is an oil painting on canvas board by Italian/American artist Xavier Barile, 1891-1981. It is...

Oil on canvas mounted on board, realized by Francesco Settimj in 1930s. Good condition.

A dymanic mid century abstract expressionist painiting with geometric shapes in cool tones and two figures by Leslie Luverne Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Oil on masonite. Titled "...

Mid 20th Century sgraffito work on plaster by Jean Pierre de Cayeux. The work is signed and dated on the skirt of the card player, bottom right, and on the stretcher of the chair, bo...

Symbolist Portrait signed by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original oil on artist paper, mounted in a card frame overall size: 31.5 x 20 inches painting size: 27.5 x 18 inc...

Intimate Kitchen Scene Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...

Marseille Harbor French artist, circa 1952 signed oil on board, framed Framed: 29 x 24 inches Board : 24 x 19 inches Provenance: private collection, the South of France Condition: ve...

Ignasi Mundó Marcet (1918-2012) - woman in white - Oil on canvas Canvas measures 73x60 cm. Frame size 76x63 cm. MUNDO Ignasi Ignasi Mundó trained at the School of La Lonja, with Joa...

Maurice ALBE (Beaugency 1900 - Périgueux 1995) Falcon hunting, from a 16th century tapestry Oil on canvas (hessian type) H. 150 cm; L. 120 cm Signed and dated lower right 1554 (for 1...

Surreal Dreamscape with Nudes French artist, mid 20th century signed oil on canvas, unframed dated 1958? Canvas : 30 x 37.5 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: v...

Very finely executed modernist ballet scene. Pastel and gouache on paper. Handsomely framed. Image size, 12H by 16L.

Technical Data - Title: "Celebration in the Square" - Artist: Joaquin Tudela y Perales (1891-1970) - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 15.7 x 19.6 in - Period: Early 20th...

Coastal Scene signed by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001) mounted in a card frame oil painted on artist paper, beautifully painted. very good condition framed: 23.5 x 33 inches artist pap...

This artwork "Mother and Child" c 1940 is an oil painting on hardboard by noted American artist Victor Thall, 1902-1983. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The board size is 23.5 x 15.5 inches, framed size is 37 x 28.5 inches. Framed in original gold wash frame, with fabric liner. The painting is in excellent condition, the frame has some minor restorations. About the artist: Victor Thall belongs to that unique American brand of rugged individualist. Working closely for a time with such painters as Gorky and de Kooning, Thall wasn't content to join the burgeoning American clique of Abstract Expressionism. Instead, on the eve of its international recognition, he abandoned New York, making a worldwide tour of indigenous cultures attempting to find a solution to the crisis of abstraction. Thall felt that painting needed to communicate in a way that Abstract Expressionism could not. Using parts of its vocabulary, Thall created work that was modern in spirit but based on fundamental traditions that he believed connected the whole history of art. In this way he resembled his contemporary Max Beckman, and it is fitting that Thall was chosen with Beckman by The New Yorker art critic Robert Coates as the best painter of the 1949 Whitney Annual. Fiercely uncompromising in his opinions, Thall sadly fell into obscurity in his later years. Yet it was a willful obscurity. But America does eventually honor her difficult individualists, even if sometimes years after their deaths. Victor Thall was born in New York in 1902. He studied at the Art Students League under Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, George Luks, and John Sloan. Further studies were at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He left for Paris in 1924 continuing his studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academie Julien. Returning to the United States in the early 1930's, he became friendly with Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky. He participated in the WPA New Deal Art Project of New York City between 1935 and 1939. He taught at the Art Students League in the late forties and was represented in the Whitney Annual of 1949 and 1950. His paintings are in numerous private collections in the United States and Europe. He died in 1983. Education: 1914 -1927 Art Student's League - Studied with:Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, George Bridgman, George Luks, Von Schlegel, Robert Henri, John Sloan, Frank Vincent du Mond. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts - Studied with:Arthur B. Carles, Henry McCarter Ecole des Beaux Arts - Paris; Grande Chaumiere - Paris; Academie Julien, Paris Teaching: 1947 -1949 Art Students League Selected Bibliography: Falk, Peter Hastings , ed. The Annual and Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art 1918-1989. (New York): Sound View Press, 1991. Levick, L.E., "A Guide to the Art Galleries," New York Journal American, May 23, 1964. Review of one-man show at Southampton Gallery. 1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1950. Coates, Robert M., "The Art Galleries: Paul Klee, The Whitney Annual, and John Marin, The New Yorker, December 31, 1949, pp. 42-43. 1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1949. Lansford, Alonzo, "Thall at Binet," The Art Digest, December 15, 1947, ill. Upton, Melville, "George Binet Gallery," Sun, December 13, 1947. Devree, Howard, "Victor Thall at the Binet Gallery," New York Times, December 10, 1947. "Victor Thall at Binet Gallery," Art News, December 1947, p. 59. Oil Paintings by Victor Thall, New York: George Binet Gallery, 1947. Burrows, Carlyle, "Art of the Week," Herald Tribune, 1946. Review of group show at the Chinese Gallery. Coates, Robert M., "The Art Galleries: Past and Present," The New Yorker, May 27, 1944, pp. 68-69 Victor Thall at Puma Gallery," Art News, November 1-14, 1943, p. 22. Devree, Howard, "Victor Thall," New York Times, October 24, 1943. Burrows, Carlyle, "Victor Thall at the Puma Gallery," Herald-Tribune, October 24, 1943 Upton, Melville, "Victor Thall at Puma Gallery," Sun, October 23, 1943. Lansford, Alonzo, "Varied Shows of the Week," The Art Digest, October 1943. Review of Puma Exhibition. Victor Thall Oil Paintings, New York: Puma Gallery, 1943. Art News, "Our Own Exhibition Gallery," June-july 1943, ill. MacLeod, Norman. Thanksgiving Before November. New York, 1936. Book ill. Selected Public and Private Collections: Brooklyn Museum Desmond Child, Los Angeles Robert Crewe, Los Angeles Sidney Lumet, New York Newark Museum Billy Steinberg, Los Angeles 1968 DePoliolo Gallery, Palm Springs 1965 Studio Gallery, Naples, Florida 1964 L’lnstitute Francais d’Haiti 1964 Summit Gallery, New York City 1964 Southampton Gallery, New York City 1963 Guildhall Gallery, Chicago 1961 Leicester Gallery, London 1950 Whitney Museum , New York City 1949 Whitney Museum, New York City 1947 Binet Gallery, New York City 1946 Chinese...

Notre Dame Cathedral by Maurice Falliès (French, 1883-1965), an artist who specialised in Paris street scenes. His work was recently shown at the Musée...

EMILIO GRAU SALA Spanish, 1911 - 1975 ROND-POINT DES CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES signed "Grau Sala" (lower left) signed, located and dated "GRAU SALA / PARIS 1967" (on the reverse) oil on canvas ...

Artist/ School: French School, 20th century, signed Loiseau Title: Lady reclining in interior setting, window overlooking Provencal landscape beyond. Medium: oil on canvas, unfram...

Inscribed verso, 'P. Johnstone' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1965. A substantial Modernist figural oil of a young woman shown reading a book in a rose-colored room, wi...

The Castle By Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), Watercolour painting on canvas mounted on board and framed signed to lower right painting measures: 30.5cm x 23.5cm framed: 77.5cm x 70.5cm ...

MOONRISE Size: 50 x 57 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A nostalgic and evocative mid-century modernist style composition, executed in oil onto canvas by the established Swedish a...

A beautiful oil painting on canvas by the French artist Georges Gerbier, depicting a tremendously vivid and alive street scene from Paris in the 20th Century with a view of "Maxims C...