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Period: Mid-20th Century
Landscape with Red House - Oil Painting by Giovanni Omiccioli - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with red house is a modern artwork realized by Giovanni Omiccioli in the mid-20th century.
Mixed colored oil painting
Includes frame
Hand signed on the lower margin
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Crusade scene
By Henry Meylan
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Wooden frame and gilded plaster
97 x 83.5 x 5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Beautiful Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Seated Young Woman in a Pink Dress
Located in Chicago, IL
A beautiful, colorful Mid-Century Modern portrait of a seated young woman in a pink dress by famed Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin. A fashionably dressed, young model is seate...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Mid-Century Ink and Graphite Drawing of Village Among Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Mid-Century Ink and Graphite Drawing of Village Among Trees
by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Ink and graphite on unframed paper
Size:...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
SIGNED VINTAGE ENGLISH OIL PAINTING - CHILDREN PLAYING BY WOODLAND STREAM
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: English School, circa 1970's, indistinctly signed lower corner.
Title: Playing by the Woodland Stream.
Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed.
Size: canvas: 20 x ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,455 Sale Price
30% Off
"Happy Family", Mid Century Sepia Figurative Interior Scene, Illustration Art
Located in Soquel, CA
"Happy Family", Mid Century Sepia Figurative Interior Scene, Illustration Art by Charles Kinghan
A classic and heartwarming mid-century sepia toned figurative interior scene by Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). Circa 1940's. This mid-century piece exemplifies the classic style of illustrations and advertisements from the period, and depicts a family gathered in their living room.
Signed "Kinghan" in the lower right corner. Acquired with other works by the artist.
Displayed in a period giltwood frame.
Linen size: 36"H x 30"W.
Framed size: 45"H x 38.5"W x 2"D.
Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 1895-1984) was born in Anthony, KS on January 18, 1895. A teacher, he moved to Wichita as a teenager and did sign painting for the Western Sign...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Huge Mid 20th Century French Cubist Signed Oil Fisherman with Boats Harbor Quay
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Composition Cubiste aux Pecheurs
by Marguerite Lacroux (French/ Swiss 1898-1972)
signed oil on canvas, framed in original wooden studio frame
framed: 32.5 x 40
painting: 31.75 x 39 ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
ARMAND ROTTENBERG (1903-2000) LARGE FRENCH EXPRESSIONIST ABSTRACT OIL PAINTING
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Abstract Composition"
by Armand Rottenberg (French 1903-2000)
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 29 x 21 inches
Stunning original Cubist painting by the French abstract artis...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Circle of Friends Ringing Bells in Harmony Amidst Geometric Patterns French Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bell Ringing
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
gouache on artist paper, unframed
painting : 16 x 20 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Demitasse
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present outstanding original oil on canvas by American artist William Gropper (1897-1977.)
William Gropper was an artist and illustrator, known for his exceptional a...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Mid-20th Century Pastel Landscape of Trees and Distant Hills
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Mid-20th Century Pastel Landscape of Trees and Distant Hills
by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977)
Medium: Pastel on unframed paper
Size: 10.75 inches (height...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Road Less Traveled Hawaii Surrealist Mid Century Figurative Abstract Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Road Less Traveled Hawaii Surrealist Mid Century Figurative Abstract Landscape
Symbolistic and romantic Surrealist 1940s figurative abstract landscape with a figure journeying down a path in an idyllic landscape by Marguerite Louis Blasingame circa 1940-45. Signed Blasingame lower right corner; from a collection of her work. Unframed. Condition: Excellent; professionally cleaned and UV varnished. Image, 30"H x 20"W.
Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Swedish Mid Century Impressionist, cafe scene in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful Impressionist scene from Sweden
Painted with a great deal of care this scene is of an outside cafe scene with figures in an extensive landscape and town.
The artist was...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Amsterdam
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Amsterdam" c.1960, is an oil painting on canvas by Dutch artist Reinier Wynand Snapper, 1907-1988. It is signed and titled at the lower right corner by the artis...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Distinctive Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Man with Red Necktie, Joe Muldoon
Located in Chicago, IL
A distinctive Mid-Century Modern portrait of a man with red necktie by noted Chicago painter, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Chapin's estate records list the sitter as named Joe Mu...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Man in Armchair, Mid Century Short Story Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Excellent figurative oil painting of a man seated in an armchair with papers strewn about the interior space by Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 18...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolour of Boats and Lighthouse
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolour of Boats and Lighthouse
by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor on unframed paper
Size: ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Harbour Scene with Boats and Lighthouse
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Harbour Scene with Boats and Lighthouse
by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Acrylic on unframed paper
Size:...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mid Century French Post-Impressionist Oil, Fishermen tending their nets
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century
Title: Fishermen tending their nets.
Medium: oil painting on canvas stretched to board, unframed
canvas: 15.75 x 30.25 inches...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$827 Sale Price
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'Portrait of a Young Woman', Academie Chaumière, Paris, Chouinard, Art Center
By Leon Franks
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Leon Franks'; additionally signed and titled, 'Portrait of a Girl', on old label verso.
A bravura brushwork study of a young woman wearing a floral patterned shirt gazing calmly towards the viewer.
A noted portrait and still life painter, Leon Franks studied at the Academie Julian and Grande Chaumiere in Paris and, subsequently, in Los Angeles at the Chouinard Art Institute and the Los Angeles Art Center. Franks additionally studied privately with Nicolai Fechin, Will Foster and F. Tolles Chamberlain.
Before settling in Los Angeles in 1936, where Franks continued his education and began designing for the movie industry, he did portraits and decorations for Vancouver theaters. The author of several 'How to Paint' books, including titles 'How to Do Still Life' (1952) and 'Leon Franks on Techniques' (1964), Franks was a teacher. He privately taught several artists, including Vernon...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Union Square" NYC American Scene Social Realism Modernism WPA Mid-20th Century
By Agnes Hart
Located in New York, NY
"Union Square" NYC American Scene Social Realism Modernism WPA Mid-20th Century
Agnes Hart (American, 1912-1979)
"Union Square, New York City"
Sight: 14 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches
Gouache...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Still Life Flowers
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Still Life Flowers" 1966 is an oil painting on canvas by Canadian/Filipino artist Victor Santos, 1934-2003. It is signed and dated at ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Impressionistic Depiction of a Quaint French Village Scene with Stone Bridge
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Village Scene
signed by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
panting: 13 x 16.5 inches
condition: This painting is in e...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Landscape Scene of Mexican Villagers" Expressionistic Oil Painting on Masonite
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1971 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his landscape paintings, 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...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Huge Portrait Veiled Female in Dreamlike Fusion of Spirituality and Nature
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Enigmatic Portrait of a Veiled Figure
French/ Japanese? Inscribed verso
circa 1970's
oil on canvas over mixed media surface, framed
Framed: 52 x 26 inches
Canvas: 51 x 35 inches
Prov...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Mixed Media
$3,747 Sale Price
30% Off
Pair of Mid Century Blocking Portrait Study, Mid Century Portrait of a Woman
By Gordon Cook
Located in Soquel, CA
Blocking Study pair #1 and #2, portrait of a blonde woman, by Gordon Cook (American, 1927-1985). Circa 1960. Signed on verso "G. Cook (3) #1. unframed. Image size: 24"H x 20"W each. Bay area estate sale find.
Gordon Cook was born in 1927 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington where he received his B.F.A in 1950. Cook then went on to study fundamentals and life drawing at The American Academy of Art* in Chicago. The same year he studied intaglio* printmaking with Vera Berdich at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago*. He took graduate courses and continued studying intaglio printmaking under artist Mauricio Lasansky at the State University of Iowa.
In 1951, Cook moved to San Francisco. Soon after his works received the journeyman's card in International Typographical Union, Local 21. He began exhibiting his prints, drawings, and paintings at the Porpoise Gallery in San Francisco. Four years later, Cook became a charter member of the Bay Printmakers Society and exhibited in their annual exhibitions at the Oakland Art Museum for the next five years. His etchings portrayed mainly San Francisco landscapes such as the Golden Gate Park, Diamond Heights, and Lake Merced as well as flowers, especially roses.
He participated in his first weekly drawing group with artist Alvin Light, Manuel Neri, Joan Brown, and William H. Brown. Cook also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute*. His etchings where exhibited in a one-man exhibition at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. At this point Cook returned to painting. Moving to Rio Vista...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Street Riot Oil Painting Mounted Police WPA artist Social Justice Americana Art
By Arthur Smith
Located in Surfside, FL
Riot, Revolution, Police figures on Horseback in City Streets.
Hand signed lower right.
Painting measures 6 x 12, framed 9 x 15 inches.
Arthur Smith is a listed American painter mos...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Oil Painting of the North Rocky Coastline of Ireland by Northern Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Original Oil Painting of the North Rocky Coastline of Ireland by Northern Irish Artist, Joseph McLoughlin (1926-2018)
Art measures 16 x 12 inches
...
Category
Land Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Catedral de Toledo, Espana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Fermin Santos Alcade
Title: Catedral d Toledo, Espana
Year: Circa 1960
Medium: Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 29 x 21.5 inches
Framed size: 35 x 27.5 inches
Signature: ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A Bunch of flowers, Signed oil painting
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947)
A Bunch of pansies and nasturtiums
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
In good condition
35 x 24 cm
Framed : 51 x 40 cm
Maurice Asselin was particularly f...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Female Figure - Painting on Canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Female Figure is an original artwork realized in the 1930s by Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 - Gargnano, 1942).
Original Painting on canvas.
Hand-signed on the lower right corne...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Vibrant Cubist Portrait of a Musician with Guitar Mid 20th Century Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Portrait of a Musician
Marcel Seignobos (1892-1972)
signed oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas : 22 x 15 inches
Provenance: private collection, Cote d'Azur, France
Condition: very...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-Century Oil on Canvas. Harbour scene. 'Farewell to the Fishermen'..
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th century oil on canvas of a crowded harbour scene, showing the local fisherman or sailors saying farewell to their families before going to sea. The painting is signed bottom right but the artist remains as yet unidentified.
A colourful yet slightly brooding and dreamlike painting. The figures are faceless and the shapes loose and undefined reminiscent of the works by Balthus who in turn was influenced by LS Lowry and his scenes of industrial districts. The colours are deep and glowing and the shapes of the figures are rounded giving a sense of warmth and evoking the quality of light seen at either dawn or dusk.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his imagery.
Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of North West England in the mid-20th century. He developed a distinctive style of painting and is best known for his urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as "matchstick men".
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bold San Francisco Abstracted Still Life Composition in Oil on Board
By Frank Koci
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold San Francisco Abstracted Still Life Composition in Oil on Board
Bold still life composition by Frank Koci (Czech-American, 1904-1983). A table is set with a jug of wine and a bowl of fruit and a landscape in the background. It is composed of several layers of paint, with bold outlines. In some areas, paint has been scraped away to create additional texture. In broad terms, you can describe Koci’s paintings as a series of “people-scapes,” wherein people are shown having relationships (some fleeting, some enduring) with fellow humans. A better term is probably “preludes” — wherein each painting sets the stage for something momentous that will occur in the very next frame. In the best Kocis, the tension is palpable.
Signed in the lower right corner "Koci".
Presented in a wood frame.
Board size: 13"H x 30"W x .5"D
Born in 1904 in Pilsen Czechoslovakia to a widowed mother. Koci grew up in poverty. Leaving Pilsen at 17 he was already too sophisticated about arts and literature, drama, and polished...
Category
Outsider Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
$920 Sale Price
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Mid-Century Modern Abstract Geometric Trapeze Artists by Hilda Arp
By Hilda Arp
Located in Soquel, CA
Fanciful mid-century modern abstract of trapeze artists by Brooklyn artist Hilda Dora Pape Arp (b. 1909). This 1962 highly abstracted depiction of trape...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
woman in profile oil on canvas painting portrait
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Alexandre Siches (1921-2009) - Woman in profile - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 35x27 cm.
Frameless.
Alexandre Siches Piera (1921-2009)
Catalan painter with an innate capacity for dra...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Figurative Landscape -- Sisters on the Terrazza
By Ingvar Helgi
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century figurative landscape of two sisters on an opulent terrazza, complete with a fountain and villa in the distance by Ingvar Helgi (Swedish/American, 19th- 20th cent...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,200 Sale Price
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Pluie a Venice (Venice in the Rain)
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Pluie a Venice is painted in Hambourg's preferred palette of muted blue-green, grey, and gold with splashes of ruby red, deep blue, and emerald green. The soft colors work well for beach scenes and rainy days such as the ones portrayed in this painting. The impressionistic scene shows multiple pedestrians strolling down the boardwalk, shielding themselves from the rain with colorful umbrellas that provide pops of color and balance the overcast sky.
The background contains a three-masted ship and Piazza San Marco's famous bell tower and Basilica. Hambourg uses the minimum number of brushstrokes necessary to portray ships, seagulls, buildings and people as well as reflections on the glistening sidewalk. The brushstrokes in the sky have an interesting texture that is controlled yet carefree and there is heavy impasto throughout. His portrayal is both realistic and romanticized.
Hambourg was clearly influenced by the great Impressionist artists of earlier generations, perhaps none more than the one with a direct connection to his family. Hambourg's wife, Nicole Rachet, was born into a family with a large collection of works by Impressionist master Eugene Boudin. Rachet's grandfather was a contemporary and friend of Boudin's, and a collector of his work. In their later years, Hambourg and Rachet donated over 300 canvases by Boudin and other artists to the Eugene Boudin Museum in Honfleur, France. It was such a large and important gift that the collection bears...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Fauvist Portrait of Red Headed Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Striking Fauvist portrait with a vibrant, high voltage color palette, featuring a green woman with red hair by Sydney Helfman (American, 1926-2010). Aut...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$2,280 Sale Price
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"Modernist Portrait, Boy Seated " Mid Century Oil Painting on Board
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the 1950's of a Boy seated with a bowl of fruits. Comes displayed in a distressed wood frame, signed lower left illegibly.
Art measures 1...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$1,260 Sale Price
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Still life Flowers in a Vase
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Still Life Flowers in a Vase" c.1960 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist John William Orth, 1889-1976. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 36 x 30 inches, framed size is 46.5 x 40.5 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold with brown patina frame, with fabric and gold liner. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
John W. Orth was born in Bavaria in 1889. He sold his first painting, a water color, when he was 13. At age 15 studied under a scholarship at Nuremberg's College of Fine Arts. Three years later, again on a scholarship, he attended Munich's Academy of Fine Arts. From there he went on to study at the Art Academy Julien in Paris and then traveled throughout Europe, studying work by the Old Masters.
For Nuremberg's Albrecht Durer Museum, he was commissioned to reproduce a number of Durer's paintings, and representatives of The Rhineland's Barmen Museum purchased his painting of The Prodigal Son. In 1922, Louis Mayer, an accomplished artist himself, purchased Orth's The Prophet from among thousands of paintings displayed at Munich's Glas Palast. He declared Orth's painting "the work of a genius," and for three years The Prophet was hung, by invitation, in the Brooklyn Art Museum.
Already an established artist at age 34, Orth left his troubled country in 1923 to escape certain persecution for his outspoken liberal views on race, religion and politics. He came to America to start anew. Here, he felt certain, his restless spirit could continue to grow, his career to flourish in an environment of freedom, which encouraged individual expression and unrestrained thought.
In the United States, John Orth did portraits of notables including Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Marian Anderson...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bright and Vibrant Light Pink Dog Roses Thick Oil Impasto Still Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dog Roses
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed and stamped verso
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 18 x 13 inches
Colors: Pink colors, red, blue, brown and green
Very go...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Nuturing
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jean Dominique Van Caulert, (1897-1979), although most often associated with his celebrity portraits and works for the theater, he was also a true symbolist in the tradition of the Belgian symbolist's.
"The Nurturing", oil on canvas, dated 1947, is Van Caulert's depiction of the nurturing of post war Europe, as the shrouded woman offers an apple to an androgynous figure.
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Pineapple
Located in London, GB
'Still Life with Pineapple', oil on panel, by Lucien Martial (circa 1960s). Like human life, fruit is perishable and ephemeral, and thus many believe th...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$2,336 Sale Price
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1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting signed - Pianist & Violin Duet
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Pianist & Violin Duet
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on paper , unframed
size: 11.75 x 8.75 inches
condition: very good ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Composition with Head
Located in Stockholm, SE
A vibrant composition or portrait in a constructivist style by artist Lars Englund (born 1933), signed and dated "LED 56" (1956). This is an early work by the artist in which he has ...
Category
Constructivist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Mixed Media
1960's French Portrait Hunched Old Man Caricature
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Character Portrait
French school, Mid 20th Century
Gouache paint on unframed paper
Image : 11 x 10 inches
Superbly decorative 1960's French portrait painting. Ideal for man...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
$214 Sale Price
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1950s "Black Floor" Mid Century Bay Area Figurative Movement Gouache Painting
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedman Opper
Black Floor
c. 1940-1950's
Gouache on Paper
15" x 18" Unframed
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing time between 3-5 weeks.
From the estate of Ruth Friedmann Opper & Jerry Opper. Ruth was the daughter of Bauhaus artist, Gustav Friedmann.
San Francisco Abstract Expression
A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complacency.
Abstract Expressionism resulted from a broad collective impulse rather than the inspiration of a small band of New York artists. Documenting the interchanges between the East and West Coasts, she cites areas of mutual influence and shows the impact of San Francisco on the New York School, including artists such as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. San Francisco's Beat poets...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
19400's French Impressionist Signed Oil Portrait of Lady with Brown Hair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Claude Benard, signed and dated 1943
Title: Portrait of a Lady with Brown Hair
Medium: oil painting on board , unframed
Size:
board : 16 x 12.5 inches
Provenanc...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-Century Modern Swedish Semi-Abstract Oil Painting - Gathered by the Piano
Located in Bristol, GB
GATHERED BY THE PIANO
Size: 32 x 41 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
An intimate and lively mid-century semi-abstract composition that captures a dynamic group scene, painted in oi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Adolf Dehn 1940s Kresge's at Christmas Time
Located in San Francisco, CA
Adolf Dehn: 1895-1968. Well listed American artist with a high auction record of $20,000 which was achieved this year. He was born in Minnesota and studied at Minneapolis School of F...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Impressionist mid century view of Hammersmith Bridge over the Thames London
Located in Woodbury, CT
Pietro Sansalvadore was active during the early to middle of the 20th century.
He painted in an Impressionist manner and on a small scale.
Acquiring a late 19th-century Impressionist painting of Hammersmith Bridge by the Italian painter Pietro Sansalvadore is an opportunity to own a captivating piece of art that transcends both time and cultural boundaries. Sansalvadore's unique perspective, influenced by the Impressionist movement, infuses this painting with a luminous quality that captures the atmospheric essence of Hammersmith Bridge in a way that only a skilled artist with an international perspective could achieve.
This masterpiece not only showcases the artist's mastery in capturing light and movement but also represents a harmonious fusion of Italian artistic sensibilities with the iconic English landmark. The play of colors and the subtle brushstrokes transport the viewer to the late 19th century, offering a glimpse into the allure and dynamism of that period.
Owning this painting is not just acquiring a visual delight; it's investing in a historical and cultural artifact...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Snowy City Scene" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Snowy City Scene" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Syd J. Browne (1907-1991)
"Snowy City Scene"
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas. c. 1930s
Signed lower lef...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Danger" - Original Modernist Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Danger" - Original Modernist Oil Painting on Canvas
Striking modernist painting by Bay Area artist Jean Hyson (American, 1928-2023). Hard edge oil on canvas depicting a black square to the left of the canvas with a lit up cinema projector. A mans face can be seen appearing in the light coming from the projector. An orange square is seen parallel to the projector, with a yellow circle inside. The number "13" can be seen in the lower right of the orange square. Purple and light blue take up the background.
Signed "Hyson" lower right in black square.
Titled, signed and dated "Jean Hyson" "Danger 1966" verso.
Presented in a purple wooden frame.
Frame: 20 1/2"H x 24 1/2"W
Image: 19 3/4"H x 24"W
Born in Texas, Jean Hyson (American, 1928-2023) is best known for her modernist, sharp edge, paintings. Hyson attended the Art Student League in New York with George Grosz, Yaso Kumiyoshi and William Baziotes and Beaux Artes, Paris, France from 1954-59. She was an Artist in Residence and Instructor at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland from 1970-1974. Her work is held in the Oakland Art Museum, Oakland California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California and the California Container Corp. of America, Chicago, Illinois.
Jean Hyson and her then-husband Jacques Fabert (who typically painted under the name “Jean Faber Himbert”) were an important force within the midcentury San Francisco art scene. Her work has been featured in countless Bay Area gallery and museum exhibitions—including SFMOMA, the de Young, and the Legion of Honor—and is in numerous public and private collections.
In a fantastic in-depth interview with Hilda Pertha...
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Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Elegance – Oil Portrait of a Woman, Spanish Romantic Figurative Art
Located in London, GB
This captivating oil painting by Luís Muntané Muns exemplifies the artist’s mastery in figurative art, portraiture, and classical elegance. Renowned for his evocative depictions of finely dressed women, Muns presents a young woman in an opulent, multi-layered gown, her delicate posture exuding both grace and introspection. The artist’s soft yet expressive brushwork enhances the flowing fabric, creating a striking contrast against the dark, atmospheric background.
Muns, born in 1899 in Mataró, Spain, studied under José Mongrell...
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Romantic Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
LARGE OIL PAINTING by SALVATORE COLACICCO (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY PIECE
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING LARGE SALVATORE COLACICCO (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY
Very good condition for age , (see pictures)
FINE RARE MARTINE PAINTING ORIG...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signed Antique African Modernist Figural Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Exceptionally well painted African landscape painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Image size, 22L x 26H.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$600 Sale Price
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1960's French Portrait Stylish Fashionable Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Character Portrait
French school, Mid 20th Century
Gouache paint on unframed paper
stamped to the reverse
Image : 12.75 x 9.5 inches
Overall size: 25 5 x 19.75 inches
Superbl...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Large 1960's French Modernist Oil Painting Bizarre Figurative Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, c. 1960's
Title: Figurative Study
Medium: oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 36 x 25.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: The ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,946 Sale Price
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"Encounter" Indian & bear. Santa Fe Utah Colorado, Wyoming, Montana 1930s. Large
Located in San Antonio, TX
Frank Hoffman
(1888-1958)
New Mexico, Illinois Artist
Image Size: 27 x 41
Frame Size: 37 x 50
Medium: Oil
Circa 1930s - 1940s
"The Encounter" Indian & Bear
Frank Hoffman (1888-1958)
Growing up in New Orleans where his father raced horses, Frank Hoffman developed a great love for these animals, which was reflected in his paintings. He worked as an illustrator for the "Chicago American" newspaper, which gave him an opportunity to draw many subjects from opera to prize fights, and eventually he became head of the department. During that time, he took formal art training from J. Wellington Reynolds, a portrait painter.
In 1916, having been rejected for military service because of poor eyesight, he went West and lived with cowboys and Indian tribes and served as public relations director for Glacier National Park. Eventually he settled on a ranch near Taos, New Mexico, and became part of that art colony and studied with Leon Gaspard, who encouraged him to use color freely.
Advertisers including General Motors, General Electric, and the Great Northern Railway hired him because they loved his bold, broad brush work and striking colors. He also did magazine illustrations, specializing in western subjects. Because of the spaciousness of his ranch that he called Hobby Horse Rancho, he kept live models of cow ponies, thoroughbred horses, longhorn steers, several breeds of dogs, eagles, a bear and burros.
From 1940 Brown & Bigelow Publishing Company of St. Paul, Minnesota had him under exclusive contract, and during the next 14 years, he produced 150 paintings for that company.
Source:
Walt Reed, The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000
Known as a traditional Western illustrator, painter and sculptor, Frank Hoffman was born in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up around his father's New Orleans, Louisiana, racing stables.
Through a family friend, Hoffman was hired to make sketches for the Chicago American, later becoming head of the art department. While working for the paper, he had five years of formal art training in private lessons from J. Wellington Reynolds, a portrait painter. In 1916, Hoffman went West to paint, living with the Indian tribes and the cowboys. During that time, he also worked as public relations director for Glacier National Park, where he met noted artist John Singer Sargent.
In 1920, Hoffman joined the young art colony in Taos, New Mexico. He studied with Leon Gaspard, learning the use of color. Although focusing on his fine art, Hoffman also painted for corporate advertising campaigns and illustrated Western subjects for the leading national magazines in the 1920's.
Hoffman became the best-known New Mexico illustrator of the time. As his success grew, he bought his own Hobby Horse Rancho, where he raised quarter horses and kept as live models the longhorns, dogs, eagles, burros, and even a bear that he had begun to sculpt in the 1930's.
Later, beginning with 1940, Hoffman was under exclusive contract to Brown and...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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