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Period: Mid-20th Century
Mid 20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Group of Figures Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Modernist, circa 1950's-60's
signed with initials
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 14.5 x 11 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good and sound cond...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Grazing Horse - Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil and tempera on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand signed.
Includes a beautiful wooden frame cm. 66x54.5.
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Tempera, Cardboard
Mid-Century Impressionist French view of Montmartre, Paris, France
Located in Woodbury, CT
Y. Gonez (French, mid-20th century)
Market Scene, Montmartre with Sacré-Cœur, ca. 1950s
Oil on canvas, in a Montparnasse-style frame
In this lively street scene, Y. Gonez captures t...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Montmartre Hill" Parisian Street Post-Impressionist Oil Painting Canvas Framed
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts a city scene at the Montmartre Hill in Paris France, a popular subject of the times painted by many important Post-Impressionists 20th Century painters. This pi...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 1950's French Signed Oil Figures Bathing in Large River Green Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1950's, signed H. Eubriet
Title: 'Bathing'
Medium: oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 29 x 45 inches
Painting: 24 x 30 inches
Provenance: private ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
MID 20th Century VERY INTERESTING LARGE Oil Painting TWO SUSPICIOUS SPANISH MEN!
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: G.C.Neale (mid 20th Century) Spanish / English School
TITLE: "Two Suspicious Men At Night"
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 95cm x 80cm inc frame
NOTES: This original oil paint...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Strolling In The Tuileries Gardens Paris"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3256a Figurative Landscape in the Tuileries gardens in Paris
Image size 7.5x9.5"
Set in a vintage wood and gesso frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunset over Derwent Valley Signed English Oil Painting Gilt Framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vincent Selby (British, 1919-2005)
Sunset over the Derwent Valley
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 26 x 30 inches
canvas : 20 x 24 inches
Provenance: private collection, UK
Condi...
Category
English School Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Gouache Painting of Native American Antelope Hunt in Utah
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Native American Antelope Hunt in Utah
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
Si...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mid Century San Francisco Nocturnal Surrealist Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Nocturnal Surrealist Oil Painting--San Francisco Unreal Dreams by Russell Tripp
Dramatic and atmospheric San Francisco surrealist figurative painting by Russell R. Tripp...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$2,000 Sale Price
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1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Two Religious Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed
size: 16.5 x 9.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Washington Square Park in Snow" Impressionist Winter Street Scene Oil on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A truly stunning jewel and pertinent example of Berthelsen's charming New York City winter scenes depicting Washington Square Park in the snow. An iconic scene that so many have come...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Parisian Street Scene" French Post-Impressionist Plein Air Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A stunning and masterful depiction of a Parisian street view from the 20th Century. The artist executed this painting en plein air with street life and cars parked along into the dis...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait - Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil and tempera on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artis cm. 61x46.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Tempera, Paper
1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Busy Paris Street Scene Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Paris"
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1960's French Modernist Oil Painting Green background with Bizarre Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 1960's period
Title: figurative group, with deep green color background.
Medium: oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 36.5 x 26 inches
Provenance: pri...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Balinese Landscape - Tempera by I Ketut Soki - 1960s
By I Ketut Soki
Located in Roma, IT
Balinese Landscape by Ketut Soki – Tempera on Paper, Signed, 20th Century
This vibrant tempera painting by renowned Balinese artist Ketut Soki captures the lush tropical scenery and...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Paper
A Compelling '50s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Compelling '50s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Francis Chapin. Titled "Red Dress", the painting is oil on Masonite and dates circa 1950. A very well executed, co...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Original Oil Painting Portrait 1953 large work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
by Paul Briscoe, (British), signed & dated 1953
oil painting on board, unframed
size: 40 x 30 inches
condition: overall very good and presentable.
provenance: from a private collection in England
we can help arrange a suitable frame if buyers wish, prior to shipping.
A magnificent large scale portrait of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Portraits of Her Majesty in private collections are exceedingly rare and adding to the importance of this work is the fact it was painted in the year of her Coronation, 1953.
Her Majesty requires no introduction from us, but here is a quick reminder of the basic facts:
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.
Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth). Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, making Elizabeth the heir presumptive. She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince of Greece and Denmark...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Market Day Figurative Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3509 Acrylic an artist board
Set in a natural wood frame
Image size 13.5x10.5"
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$280 Sale Price
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1930's English Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Still Life Thick Impasto Paint
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Interior Still Life
by Harry Bloomfield (British, 1883-1940) *see notes below
signed verso oil on canvas, framed
framed: 28 x 24 inches
canvas: 22 x 18 inches
Provenance: private co...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Fishing Boats at Sunset off the Neapolitan Coastline, large signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Italian School, mid 20th century
Title: The Neapolitan Coast
Medium: oil on board, framed
Framed: 21 x 29 inches
Board: 19 x 26 inches
Provenance: private collect...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950's Big Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Figures Gathered
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on paper mounted on card
size: 18.75 x 24 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
A Radiant 1950s Mid-Century Modern Studio Portrait of a Seated Female Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Radiant, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Studio Portrait of a Seated Female Nude Model. Painted in a sensuous color palette of wonderful, expressive reds an cool creams, the painting exem...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine British Mid 20th Century Oil Painting Portrait of a Society Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: British School, indistinctly signed lower right, circa 1950's
Title: Portrait of an Aristocratic Lady. The previous owner believed the sitter to be a member of the Q...
Category
Victorian Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Fashionable 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait, "Young Woman in Yellow Sweater"
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fashionable, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait, "Young Woman in Yellow Sweater" by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Artwork size: 11” x 11 1/4” (Framed size...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Spanish town street oil on canvas painting Spain urbanscape
By Rafael Fernández de Soto
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael de Soto - Village street - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 41x33 cm.
Without frame.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait - Painting by Francesco Settimj - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized in the mid-20th Century.
Mounted on a stretcher.
Good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century French Expressionist Abstract Portrait Very Thick Impasto Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Portrait
French School, mid 20th century
oil on board, unframed
36 x 25 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound condition though there i...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Young Woman - Painting by Francesco Settimj - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait realized by Franco Settimj in 1932.
Oil on cardboard.
Hand signed and dated lower right.
Good condition except for some minor issing parts on edges.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Parisian Cafe Street Scene" 20th Century Post-Impressionist Oil Paint Canvas
Located in New York, NY
In this piece, the artist depicts his subject in an abstract and impressionistic way, capturing the busy Cafés in the streets of Paris portrayed in the dista...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Model Reclining on Green Sofa 1950's French Post Impressionist Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Lady Posing for artist on green throw
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
HM Queen Elizabeth II Portrait British Oil Painting signed oil on canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Late HM Queen Elizabeth II
Edne G. Simpson, British 20th century
signed oil on canvas, unframed
painting: 24 x 20 inches
provenance: private col...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Oil Landscape Art of Redwood Forest California by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Oil Landscape Art of Redwood National Park Forest in California by 20th Century Artist, Tobias Everet Spence
Art measures 14 x 17 inches
Frame measures 21 x 24 inches
Th...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood, Paint, Wood Panel
The Soda Fountain (New Yorker Magazine cover proposal)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). The Soda Fountain, ca. 1950s. Watercolor and ink on paper, 9 x 12 inches; 13 x 16 inches framed. Signed lower right. Exc...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$2,000 Sale Price
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Fine French Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait Elegant Lady with Parasol
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady
by Pio Santini (French 1908-1986)
signed
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 34 x 28 inches
canvas: 26 x 20 inches
Provenance: Private collection, Lyon, France
...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Henri-André Martin, Les Baux de Provence, Oil on Canvas, 1961
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Henri-André Martin (1918-2004), France, ca.1980s. Les Baux de Provence. With frame: 71x98 cm - 28x38.6 inches. Without frame: 65x92cm - 25.6x36.2 inches. 30P format....
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Grand Canyon, vibrant mid-20th century western landscape
By Andreas Roth
Located in Beachwood, OH
Andreas Roth (American, 1871-1949)
Grand Canyon, 1943
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
24 x 34 inches
29.5 x 39 inches, framed
Andreas Roth was a German painter. Son of th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cours Saleya Nice Market Old Town, Signed Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nice Market
by Robert Savary (French 1920-2000)
signed lower right
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 19.75 x 19.75 inches
Superb Post-Impressionist oil painting by the very well listed and highly sought after French painter, Robert Savary (1920-2000). The painting shows the famous Cours Saleya in Nice....which is the location for the famous flea market that happens there every week, as well as the fish and flower market too. Just yards from the blue sea of the Mediterranean, I can heartily recommend it! Incidentally, we bought this painting from a private home in Nice.
Figurative artist, Robert Savary is part of the New School of Paris . He was a student of Maurice Brianchon at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, and won the prize of Casa de Velázquez in 1948.
Savary won the Prix de Rome in 1950. He taught in 1957 at the Regional School of Fine Arts Rouen (which he became the honorary director) while living in Paris and spending summers in Collioure, in the South of France. He was appointed Painter of the Navy in 1987.
For more than forty years, he is part of the group of exhibitors invited by Maurice Boitel...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Town Hall of Les Baux-de-Provence
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'The Town Hall of Les Baux-de-Provence', oil on canvas, by Yves Brayer (1946). Having spent several months a year in Provence, the artist created dozens of wo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Figurative Expressionist painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Amazing Figurative Expressionism painting with exceptional color and movement. Oil on canvas, ca. 1960s. Measures 40 x 52 inches. Unsigned and unattributed. Excellent condition.
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$975 Sale Price
35% Off
A Charming, Colorful 1930s Painting of a Young Woman Knitting by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, colorful 1930s painting of a young woman knitting by famed Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin. A harmonious palette of cheerful yellows, reds and blues, where a young...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
20th Century French Modernist Painting Set of Four Dark Watercolour Scenes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of 4
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 8.75 x 6.5 inches
stamped verso
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good an...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Self Portrait of the Artist, Early 20th Century Oil Painting, Cleveland Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Kenneth Marcus Hugh (American, 1916-2011)
Self Portrait
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right and dated ’36
33 x 27 inches
39 x 33 inches, framed
Kenneth Marcus Hugh was born August 14, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon, ca. 1930's. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, panel measures 19 x 15 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition. Unframed.
Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ.
For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony.
In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques.
He found that talent in Barbara Shermund.
For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice.
Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence.
“Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League.
In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.”
“While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund.
And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral home...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Ink
$1,875 Sale Price
25% Off
Paris Montparnasse, the Bohemian life, the artist's model resting female nude
Located in Norwich, GB
this painting perfectly encapsulates the artistic Parisian Montparnasse bohemianism of the 1920s and 30s. We see a beautiful but certainly nonchalent woman seated on a day bed in the...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Figurative Composition in Oil on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Figurative Composition in Oil on Board
Boldly colored abstract composition by an unknown Bay area California artist (20th Century)...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
Modernist Mid century Swedish tram and figure scene in Fauvist colors
Located in Woodbury, CT
Acquiring a mid-20th-century Fauvist painting by Wilhelm Henning is an opportunity to own a piece of art that captures the vibrant spirit and expressive color palette of the Fauvist ...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Meditation" Portrait of Seated Young Man American Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
Located in New York, NY
A striking Mid-20th Century depiction of a young dressed up man seated on a chair with elbow on top of a table. The model posing is deep thought, which is fitting for the title the a...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Studio per -Aeroarmonie- Tempera 1933 cm. 62 x 49
Located in Torino, IT
Studio per l’opera Aeroarmonie esposto alla biennale di Venezia del 1934
Sul retro cartiglio :
Ufficio storico -Popolo d’Italaia-
Autentica prof. Duranti N° archivio 2272
Osvaldo Per...
Category
Futurist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Cardboard
Catalan Landscape with Masia oil on board painting spain spanish eupean art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Artist: Antoni Llobet Aracil (Barcelona, 1910 - 1983)
Title: Catalan Landscape with Masia
Technique: Oil on board
Dimensions: 13 x 16.1 in
Support: Board
Framing: Unframed
Period: 19...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Life Magazine Art Deco Showgirls Cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Showgirls Cartoon for Life Magazine, 1934. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, matting window measures 16.5 x 13 inches; sheet measures 19 x 15 inches; Matting panel measures 20 x 23 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition with discoloration and toning in margins. Unframed.
Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ.
For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony.
In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques.
He found that talent in Barbara Shermund.
For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice.
Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence.
“Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League.
In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.”
“While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund.
And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral home...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
$3,250 Sale Price
35% Off
Vintage portrait of a woman sewing by french artist Leon Garraud
Located in AIGNAN, FR
A quiet moment captured by the artist, Leon Garraud of a woman sewing. It's an oil on board framed under glass in beautiful tones of browns and greys highlighed by the light shining...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sentada Desnuda, Surreal Painting of a Seated Nude Woman, Mexican Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Guillermo Meza (Mexican, 1917-1997)
Sentada Desnuda, 1941
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
23.5 in. h. x 19.5 in. w.
31 in. h. x 27 in. w., as framed
He was born in México...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawing of Antibes with Palm Tree and Cacti
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawing of Antibes with Palm Tree and Cacti
by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977)
Medium...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
1960's French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Portrait Young Girl Beautiful Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Girl
by Anna de Banguy (French circa 1960's)
signed oil painting on board, framed
framed: 17.5 x 14 inches
board: 14 x 10.5 inches
provenance: private collection
...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Arc de Triomphe" Post-Impressionist Parisian Nocturne Street Scene Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Louis Van Der Pol (Dutch, 1896-1982) was active in the 20th Century and lived in Holland. He was known for his large format elaborate romantic portrait paintings and city street scen...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Seated Nude" American Impressionist Portrait of a Woman Oil on Board Painting
By Louis Bouché
Located in New York, NY
This is a wonderful example of Louis Bouché's charming Nude portraits. The artist was truly a master of capturing the energy of the times, and character o...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Parisian City Street Scene" Town & Figures Mid-20th Century Oil Painting Canvas
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts a colorful Mid Century Street in Paris France, a popular subject of the times painted by many important impressionist 20th Century painters. This piece is a bol...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Panel
Landscape with characters spanish original oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquim Marsillach i Codony (1905-1986) - Landscape with characters
Oil on canvas
Oil measures 46x55 cm.
Frame measures 69x78 cm.
Marsillach Codony...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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