Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Neon Lighting WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism American Scene Modern Figures MAURICE BECKER (1889-1975) 'Neon Lighting 17 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches Oil on masonite Signed, dated 1936 and titled on verso BIO Maurice Becker, painter, political cartoonist and social reformer, was born in 1889 either in Gorky or Niznij Novgorod, in Russia. His family came to the United States in 1892, to New York City. After high school, Becker worked in a clothing factory. He studied with Ash Can School artist Robert Henri in 1908, and exhibited in the famous 1913 Armory Show in New York City when he was only twenty-four years of age. At the Armory show, Becker showed a drawing of a dog's head...

Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013) Untitled, c. 1950 Oil on paper Signed lower right 12.5 x 19 inc...

Paris Street Scene, Mid Century Figural Landscape by Marc Ottee Charming mid century urban landscape of Paris by Marc Ottee (20th c.). Figures, signage and...

Figures At The Tomb signed by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 11 high by 8 inc...

Oil on Canvas realized by Miloslava Vrbova (1909-1991) in the mid-20th century. Good condition.

Nude is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on board Not signed.

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Contact for exact dimensions. Cover of Pictorial Review Magazine, December 1932. The woman in the illustration was modeled by th...

Original oil on masonite painting of Fleet Week with sailors flirting with young women on the dock by the American artist, Sarah Pace Carothers Rhode. ...

Joseph Glasco (American, 1925-1996) Standing Man, 1955 India ink and gouache on textured paper 10 x 8 inches 16.75 x 13.5 inches, framed Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Okl...

Stage - Opera view. 1935-37s, paper, ink, watercolor, 35,3x24 cm Women in evening dresses on the stage, mixed media on paper Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jur...

Old town on the Bay in Baja Mexico Original Oil painting on Linen by Palavicini Old Village in Baja Mexico by unknown Mexico artist Palavicini. (Mexico 20...

The Bar Interior French School, circa 1960's indistinctly signed oil on board, framed framed: 18 x 22 inches board: 12 x 16 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: v...

Georges Louis Claude (1879-1963) Still life with fruits, 1938 oil on paper 32 x 40 cm In good condition In a vintage white frame, 41.5 x 49 cm, numerous lacks of white painting (see photographs please) Georges Louis Claude was born in Paris in 1879. The artist first studied at the Bernard Palissy School of Drawing in Paris. There he learned mythological and religious subjects, the art of portraiture, still life and of course, wall decoration, which became his favourite medium. His career began as an architectural decorator for the Galland house in Paris. He then collaborated with the orientalist architect Alexandre Marcel. Noticed at the at the 1900 Universal Exhibition, he decided to emancipate himself and presented his his own projects. It was at this time that Georges-Louis laude was to seduce some of the most influential personalities of their time with his talent. First of all King Leopold II of Belgium, followed immediately by Baron Empain became infatuated with the artist to decorate palaces and flats. In Belgium, Georges-Louis Claude was chosen to decorate the Royal Palace of Laeken (Japanese Tower...

Cecil Chichester Woodstock in Winter, circa 1947 Signed lower left Oil on artist's board 12 x 16 inches Provenance Private Collection, Rhinebeck, New...

Oil on canvas realized by an unknown italian painter in 1933. Hand monogrammed and dated lower right. Good condition except for some craquelure.

Title: French Gouache Painting of Acoma Pueblo Corn Dance in New Mexico by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French) Signed: Yes Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper, Si...

Signed and titled oil on canvas figure in interior circa 1950 by Spanish post impressionist Emilio Grau Sala. The work depicts a red-haired lady in a red dress seated at a piano. A y...

Original mid-century modern oil on canvas board painting of a woman with birds by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and ...

3901 Posing Nude a 1940's oil on canvas Signed Pascal La Rocca Unframed Some losses to paint.

Woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Signature on the lower margin. Provenance Galleria Pesaro, Milan...

Henri Gadbois (Born 1930) Houston Artist Image Size: 29 x 13 Frame Size: 34 x 18 Medium: Oil 1953 Mid Century Modern Juggler Biography Henri Gadbois (1930 - present) 1930 Born Houston, Texas St. Joseph’s Hospital 1947 Ceramic Bowl accepted in the Texas General 1948 Graduated Lamar High School, Houston, Texas Houston Artists Exhibit 1948 to 1960 1952 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Houston Instructor Museum of Fine Arts, Houston School (Now the Glassel School) 1952 to 1965: “16 Texas Painters” Valley House Gallery, Dallas Texas 1953 Master of Letters, University of Houston Registrar, Business Manager, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston One-man Exhibit, James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas 1954 U.S. Army, Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, Camp Gordon, Augusta, Georgia Archives of American Art, Personal Papers 1954 to 1970 “Red Tights” Allied Art Purchase Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston “Clump of Trees, Hermann Park” Western Artists Exhibit, Denver, Colorado Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Art Rental Exhibit 1955 One-Man Exhibit, Herbert Institute, Augusta Georgia 793 MP Battalion, Nurnberg, Germany Studio space at University of Georgia, Furth, Germany 1956 Married Leila McConnell August 18, 1956 Art Teacher, Houston Public Schools Chaired Exhibit “Contemporary German Graphics” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Exhibit, Men of Art Guild, San Antonio, Texas “Landscape-Stuttgart” Flaxman Purchase prize, Houston Artists Exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1957 “Three Tiered Formation”, American Federation of Arts Survey of Texas Painting “Illogical Organism” Bute Gallery 1958 “Budding Stump”, Feldman Collection Exhibit, Little Studio, New York, New York “Espaliered Burlap” Autumn Show, Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana One-Man Exhibit, Rudi’s Club, Houston, Texas Texas Fine Art Association Exhibit, Austin, Texas TFAA Circulating Exhibit 1958-1959, San Marcos, Seguin, Corpus Christi, Edinburg, Brownsville, and Kingsville “Night Crossing”, Four-man Exhibit Petroleum Club, Houston, Texas “Gold Flow” Texas ’58 Circulating Exhibit “White Out” Honorable Mention, Houston Artists Exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston “Spring”, Terrace Show, Handmakers, Houston, Texas “Winter”, “Start With Art” Exhibit, Junior League, Houston, Texas 1959 One-man Exhibit, Driscoll Gallery, Austin, Texas One-man Exhibit, Houston Geophysical Club, Houston, Texas Faculty-Student Exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Dallas Art Rental, Dallas, Texas “Winter”, Western Artists Exhibit, Denver, Colorado “Portrait of a Dress” Junior League, Houston, Texas 1960 “Field Patterns, Europe” One-man exhibit James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas 1961 Instructor Hill Country Arts Foundation 1961 to 197? “ Katy Road”, Texas Annual Exhibit, San Antonio Art league Purchase Prize, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas 1962 “Field Pattern, Wurzburg” Western Arts Exhibit, Denver Colorado One-man Exhibit, St. Luke’s Church, Houston, Texas “Mystic Road, Germany” Azalea Trail Exhibit, River Oaks Garden Forum, Houston, Texas Art Teacher, Robert E. Lee High School, Houston 1963 One-man Exhibit, James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas “Landscape at Nysa”, Longview Invitational, Longview, Texas 1964 Chaired...

Artist/ School: M.Marchand, signed French 1950’s Title: Souks in Tunisia Medium: oil on board Size: 6.5 x 8.5 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: The paint...

French Interior by Y. Blanchon, French 1950's Impressionist watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting: 15 x 22 inches provenance: from a large private collection of this artist...

This painting depicts the world famous Untermeyer Garden in Yonkers, New York. Sawyer was an American painter, illustrator, and photographer. He took photographs and made paintings o...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Celebrating Figures) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Condition: Good Provenance:...

The Windy Landscape English Impressionist artist, mid 20th century signed oil on board, unframed board: 10 x 14 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and sound c...

Basket Weaver with his Baskets for the Market 1950s figurative oil Expressive and detail portrait of a weaver and his baskets, heading to market by California impressionist nna Oley...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Sorcerer Series: Beast Head, Spiderweb Year: February 1969 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 72 x 48 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Sign...

Portrait of Woman if a beautiful oil on wooden panel realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Very good conditions. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942) Antonio Felt...

Seated Nude Woman American Figurative School 1940s Mid-century American impressionist painting of a woman by American artist Frederick "Fred" Yost (American/Swiss, 1888-1968). He studied: at Mt. Union Col., Alliance, OH; American Students League, New York, and with Homer Boss, John Sloan, Robert Henri, R. Lahey. The painting gleans much form his studies with John Sloan and Robert Henri in the French post-impressionist style. Image 24"H x 18"W Frame, 30"H x 24"W x 1.5"D Signed "Yost" lower right Painter, lithographer, teacher, lecturer About Fred's life: by Hal Fry of the Herald “Fred Does Whatever He Likes” was a title given to a biography written about Fred Yost by Hal Fry of the Herald. The following is taken directly from this column: “Fred Yost’s living style is like his painting style. He has fun with it. Fred John Yost was born in Switzerland, he’ sure, on November 6, 1889, he thinks. His father John brought the family to his country when Fred was about a year old—first to New York and later to Canton, Sebring and finally Alliance, where Yost Sr. loaded freight for a railroad. Fred like drawing and painting so far back he can’t remember how or when it started—it was always that way. But through the public schools in Alliance he didn’t think of this as a career possibility. He wanted to be a newspaperman. He worked his way through Mt. Union College, finishing, he thinks, about 1912. Then he beat it for New York and after kicking around for a time got a job as a proofreader for the Wall Street Journal. He combined this and art school until World War I took him into the Army. In infantry, field artillery and ordnance duties he served with the 27th New York Division through St. Mihiel and the Argonne and the rest—in the process getting his hearing clobbered by blasts from his outfit’s own guns. Coming out a Sergeant in 1919, he went back to the Wall Street Journal briefly—then caught on as a staff artist for the (New York) Herald. For several years, when he felt like it, Yost would take a bus to the Mexican border and switch to a Mexican bus to carry him way down south, then make it any way he could to the places he wanted to see. On these trips he virtually becomes a peon, disappearing totally from those who know him—living with, like and clearly thoroughly liked by the people among whom he moves.” Yost was a graduate of the Art Students League and past president of the Ohio Watercolor Society. Fred Yost, a man who eminently loved the Mexican landscape, Exhibited: S. Indp. A., 1928, 1930-33; MMA, 1945; AIC; Butler AI, 1947-1951; Ohio WC Soc.; PAFA, 1948-1950; Akron AI, 1947-1951, 1958; Fla. Southern Col., 1952; Ohio Univ., 1950; Columbus Gal. FA, 1947-50; AWCS, 1958; Salons of Am.; 3 solo: Canton AI; Akron AI, Springfield Mus. A. Contributor to Ford Times, 1958-59. Awards: prizes, Massilon Museum, 1944; Ohio Watercolor Society, 1944, 1948; Indianapolis, Ind., 1944; Tri-State Pr. M., 1945, 1946; Butler AI, 1946; Youngstown Pub. Schools, 1946 (prize); Ohio Univ., 1950; Ethel Printz award, 1950; Fla. Southern Col., 1952; Akron AI, 1952, 1956-1958; Canton AI, 1961, 1963; medal, Phila. Pa., 1950 Member: Ohio Watercolor Society (president) Work: Massillon Mus.; Youngstown Pub. Sch. Coll.; Butler AI; Akron AI; Kennedy & Co., NY; Beaver Col., Beaver Falls, Pa.; Block Gal., Indianapolis; Prospect Park, NY; murals, Sioux City Steak House; Sioux City A. Center; City Hall, Sioux City; Akron AI; Evangelical Church, Akron; Rockefeller Center; Radio City, NY; Brooklyn Zoological Park. Affiliated with NYC Park Dept. Mural Projects. Comments: Came to U. S. in 1889. Position: teacher, Butler AI; Akron AI; instr., Akron AI, Akron, Ohio; cur. Historical House of Refuge...

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1960's, signed and dated lower right Title: Sleepy coastal town, South of France, painted in soft muted green tones. Medium: oil painting on b...

Oil on wooden table realized by Francesco Settimj in the 1930s. Painted on both sides, recto and verso. Good condition.

Le Cirque is a rare and most sought after image by the artist of the circus by collectors of Bombois. This painting shows the circus ring where the performers would perform, the audience of spectators, the ring master & the clown holding a bomb behind his back. It is a painting of GREAT detail. Bombois was a self taught artist and a strongman with the circus. Painting is in a 23 K. hand carved frame, linen mat & 23 K. gold leaf bevel & hand painted 23K. name plate. The painting & frame are in pristine condition. Photo certificate of Perls Gallery...

Artist/ School: Italian School, mid 20th century, indistinctly signed. Title: The Tranquil Canal, Venice. Beautiful green/ teal moody tones to the colour palette. Medium: oil pa...

One of the Stations of the Cross by Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) *see notes below oil painting on canvas, housed in original metal frame overall dimensions: 17 x 17 inches prov...

François Zdenek Eberl (born May 25, 1887 – October 8, 1962) was a painter born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire who primarily worked in Paris. The scene shows the wife of a prison guar...

A beautiful mid century nude figure study of a red haired woman standing with plants by California artist Genevieve Rogers (American, 1904-1984). Unsigned, but acquired with a collec...

Signed "C. VENARD" at lower right Overall dimensions, including the frame, are 33 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches

Outstanding Original Oil Painting by Mystery Artist c.1950s A scene from William Shakespeare's "King Lear" Oil on Paper, lined on canvas. The quali...

Hazel Janicki (American, 1918-1976) Ballet Mirage, 1945 Oil and encaustic on panel Signed and dated lower left 18.25 x 16 inches 26.5 x 24.5 inches, framed Exhibited: Cleveland Muse...

Old House at Capistrano, Laguna Beach Figurative Landscape by California Pioneer Artist Daisy A. Newell Kearns Substantial and historic mid-1930's period...

Oil on panel  realized by Miloslava Vrbova (1909-1991) in the mid-20th century. Framed, good condition.

One of the Stations of the Cross by Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) *see notes below oil painting on canvas, housed in original metal frame overall dimensions: 17 x 17 inches prov...

Painted by Anton Hansen (Danish, 1891-1960) circa 1935 and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity. Provenance: Airforce Captain A.P. Botved, a personal friend of the arti...

Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...

Winter in Paris signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) oil painting on canvas, unframed inscribed verso canvas: 36 x 29 inches very good condition...

Jules Schyl (Sweden, 1893-1977) Title: Ballet Dancers A Ballet Dancer painting is a rare find for an artist mostly known for his oeuvre with Cubism and Expressionist paintings. The current painting has many similarities with Degas sketches...

Portrait of Mr. Epstein by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes signed below oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 24 x 18 inches provenance: the artist...

Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967) Les Oliviers, A landscape with olive trees signed "EODV Guillonnet" lower right Oil on wood panel 38 x 46 cm...

The sweetness that characterizes the work of Mexican painter Jose Maria de Servin (1917-83) is a melancholy and placid one. While he worked in the most modern of styles, he adapted i...

Dramatic cityscape of a crowded street in the rain by an unknown artist (20th Century). A crowd of people navigate the streets in the rain, some holding umbrellas. The rain is depict...

Piazza San Marco, Venice by Maurice Delavier (French 1902-1986) signed oil on canvas, unframed dated 58' canvas: 21.5 x 25.5 inches provenance: private collection, France, with exhib...

French Portrait by Y. Blanchon, French 1950's Impressionist oil on board, unframed painting: 18 x 15 inches provenance: from a large private collection of this artists work in North...

Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century Title: The Fashionable Couple Medium: oil on board Size: 13 x 9.5 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: The pa...

This painting, exemplifies the type of traditional portraits the artist Ariane Beigneux was specially known for. Here, Beigneux depicts the portrait of a little boy and horse in a realistic, and seemingly idealized manner. The artist uses local colors and controlled brushstrokes to render the subject, paying close attention to details adding a special clarity to the naturalism of the portrait. it is painted on Whatman illustration board. some drawing in the margins. Ariane Beigneux was born to French parents in Roxbury, CT in 1918 and passed in 2011. She studied art at the National Academy of Design with Gifford Beal, Sidney Dickinson and Ivan Olinsky and at the Art Students League in New York with Jon Corbino and Jean Liberte. Ariane painted professional artist childrens portraits for six decades. Her work was included in the book 6 Artists Paint a Portrait: Alfred Chadbourn...

#5-3401 Red Hair Portrait, a vintage oil on board displayed in a wood gilt frame signed by Longo.Image size 8.75 H x 5.75 W

EMILIO GRAU SALA Spanish, 1911 - 1975 SOUS LA TONNELLE signed "Grau Sala" (lower right) signed, located, dated and titled “Grau Sala / Paris 57 / Sous la Tonnelle”” (on the reverse) ...

"Abstract Composition" by Armand Rottenberg (French 1903-2000) oil painting on board, unframed board: 36 x 28.5 inches Stunning original Cubist painting by the French abstract art...