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Period: Mid-20th Century
Saturday Evening Post Cover, Evening Gown May 21st, 1938
By Neysa McMein
Located in Miami, FL
Pastel on board - Saturday Evening Post Cover, Evening Gown May 21st, 1938 - Reproduced version looks better because the Saturday Evening Post Art Director retouched the plates before printing and strengthened the colors to give it more newsstand appeal -
Signed and inscribed lower left. Housed in an inexpensive period frame
From Wiki : as an American illustrator and portrait painter who studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York. She began her career as an illustrator and during World War I, she traveled across France entertaining military troops with Anita P...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Vintage Mid Century Modernist Figure Cityscape Oil Painting - Quiet Commune
Located in Bristol, GB
QUIET COMMUNE
Size: 49 x 56 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A minimalist and serene mid-century modernist style composition, executed in oil onto canvas by the established Swedis...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original JAX Beer Advertisement, Illustration of an Autumnal Hunting Scene
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original advertisement for JAX Beer (Jackson Brewing Company, New Orleans, LA), circa 1940s.
In this autumnal scene, a hunting party is enjoying JAX beer at their campsite when a bu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Original 20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Man in Punt Boat by Houses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Man in Boat
by Raymond Guidot (French, 1935 - 2021)
artists studio stamp verso
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 10.75 x 9 inches
stamped verso
condition: very good
provenance:...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Woman on the Sofa - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
"The Woman on the Sofa" is a beautiful and impressive oil on canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli.
It was realized between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s and represents...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
Jazz-scene
Located in Wien, 9
Werner Froemel is a German artist known for his work in the field of painting and visual arts. He was born in Germany in 1952 and has explored both classical and modern art technique...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,403
The Gathering
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe.
His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academiJirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe.
His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute.
es on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute.
The Gathering...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Oval Still Life - Oil on Canvas - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oval Still Life is an artwork realized by an unknown in the mid-20th centry.
Oil on canvas mounted on board.
37 x 49 cm ; 53 x 65 cm with frame.
Good conditions!
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern 1930s Workers
Located in New York, NY
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern WPA 1930s Industrial Workers
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Brick Layers
House Beautiful cover proposal, c. 1939
...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
It’s Never Too Late to Mend
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist Lower Right
Commissioned from the artist by Coats & Clark thread company circa 1939
Exhibited at the Mint Museum, January 2022
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Easter - Original Pencil and Tempera on Paper by Esy Beluzzi - 1958
By Esy Beluzzi
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 20 x 28 cm.
Easter is an original artwork realized by Esy Beluzzi in 1958.
Original tempera on paper.
Hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower right margin: Esy 58. On the lower right corner "Pascal Avenue Montaigne" is written in capital letters in pencil.
Mint conditions.
Colored work representing bright decorated eggs...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Woman - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on board
Not signed.
Antonio Feltrinelli...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
'Cubist Figural', American Modernist Gouache
By Steve Jakobsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Cubist gouache figural of a man wearing a sombrero and boots contrasted against a scumbled and dry-brush background of ochre, deep crimson red and umber.
Signed lower left, "Jakobse...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Board
Mid Century Portrait of a Girl in Bonnet
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century portrait of a girl in bonnet by listed artist Helen Mae Enoch Gleiforst (American,1903-1997), circa 1950. Unframed. Signed "Gleiforst" lower left corner. Image size: 20"H...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
Boys on a Fence, Preliminary Work for Johnson & Johnson Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed 'John Falter' Lower Right
Sight Size 7.00" x 9.375;" Framed 9.75" x 12.75"
This piece was probably created as a preparatory work for a John...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Modern Original Swedish Street Scene Figure Oil Painting - Moonrise
Located in Bristol, GB
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still life of Flowers in Cases - Oil on Canvas by G. Salvini - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Still life of flowers in vases" is the artwork realized by Giuseppe Salvini.
Oil painting on canvas 70 x 100 cm, frame included 92 x 122 cm.
Signed lower right G. Salvini.
Good...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Circus Acrobats - ( Friends with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo )
Located in Miami, FL
As they take center stage, four acrobats are depicted, forming an architectural structure composed of contorted human bodies. The small gallery of onlookers displays a variety of ex...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Confidences - Painting After Pierre Auguste Renoir. - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Confidences is an modern artwork realized by a mid-20th century Artist after Pierre Auguste Renoir.
Mixed colore oil painting.
Includes frame: 70 x 7 x 57 cm
The artwork is from o...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,077 Sale Price
25% Off
La Terrasse
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE (1889-1962)
"La Terrasse"
Oil on panel
Signed lower right and titled on the reverse
Dimensions:
Painting 33 x 24 cm
Framed 52 x 43 cm (20.5 x 16.5 in)
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'The Green Hat' Louvre, LACMA, Académie Chaumière, California Post-Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left "Di Gesu" for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and dated 1954.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the Chouinard Art School before moving to Paris where he studied with Andre L’Hote...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Sun and Fishing on the Costa Brava Spain oil on canvas mediterranean seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Sun and Fishing on the Costa Brava
Artist: Joaquín Terruella Matilla (Barcelona, 1891 – 1957)
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60 x 73 cm (23.6 x 28.7 in)
Support: Can...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fairgoers in front of roulottes
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
FAIRGOERS IN FRONT OF ROULOTTES
signed "Lagar" (lower right)
oil on canvas
18-1/4 x 15 inches (46 x 38 cm.)
framed: 29-1/4 x 26 inches (74 x 66 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private French Collector
Celso Lagar Arroyo (Ciudad Rodrigo, 1891 - Seville, 1966) was an expressionist Spanish painter of the first generation of the School of Paris, where he lived most of his life. He was influenced by avant-gardes of all kinds, such as cubism and fovism. He painted mainly landscapes and still lifes...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Surrealist Nocturnal Tide Hawaiian Islands God Symbolism Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Surrealist Nocturnal Tide Hawaiian Islands God Symbolism Landscape
Symbolic nocturnal landscape with tide God in foam of wave, in a dream-like surreal landscape, by Margu...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Future President, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1948
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Size: 20" x 16", Framed: 26" x 22"
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, September 25 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Red Chair" Diana Kurz, 1962 Figurative Expressionist Painting New York School
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Red Chair, 1962
Signed, titled, dated on verso
Oil on canvas
53 x 41 1/2 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fernande Horovitz-Edwards, Bathers, Large Oil on Canvas, 1930s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Large Oil on Canvas by Fernande Horovitz-Edwards, France, 1930s - "Bathers". This large oil on canvas by Fernande Horovitz-Edwards, titled Bathers, dates from the 1930s and showcases...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare French, Paris 1935 Judaica Oil Painting Rabbis Studying S. Fleischman
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Judaica Art. Jewish genre scene. In the tradition of Moritz Oppenheim, Isidor Kauffman and Maurycy Gottlieb and later of Tully Filmus, Zalman Kleinman and Itshak Holtz the artist captures this Jewish scene with a particular sensitivity. Part of the Ecole De Paris The term "School of Paris" was used in 1925 by André Warnod (fr) to refer to the many foreign-born artists who had migrated to Paris.
School of Paris artists were progressively marginalized. Beginning in 1935 art publications no longer wrote about Marc Chagall, just magazines for Jewish audiences, and by June 1940 when the Vichy government took power, School of Paris artists could no longer exhibit in Paris at all.
The artists working in Paris between World War I and World War II experimented with various styles including Cubism, Orphism, Surrealism and Dada. Foreign and French artists working in Paris included Jean Arp, Joan Miró, Constantin Brâncuși, Raoul Dufy, Tsuguharu Foujita, artists from Belarus like Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, and Jacques Lipchitz, the Polish artist Marek Szwarc and others such as Russian-born prince Alexis Arapoff. A significant subset, the Jewish artists, came to be known as the Jewish School of Paris or the School of Montparnasse. The "core members were almost all Jews, and the resentment expressed toward them by French critics in the 1930s was unquestionably fueled by anti-Semitism." One account points to the 1924 Salon des Indépendants, which decided to separate the works of French-born artists from those by immigrants; in response critic Roger Allard (fr) referred to them as the School of Paris. Jewish members of the group included Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Chaim Soutine, Adolphe Féder, Chagall, Moïse Kisling, Maxa Nordau...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Portrait of the Artist
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century self-portrait by California artist Myrtle Cureton (American, 1909-2000). Signed "Myrtle Cureton" lower left. Artist's Santa Cruz Art League ...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Langostina Abstract Figurative by Harold Black New York 1960
By Harold Black
Located in Soquel, CA
Large scale and dramatic, ""Langostina, an abstract painting by Harold Black (American, 1913–1993). Signed lower right and on verso. Presented in giltwood frame. Image, 40”H x 22”W. ...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Expressionist French Israeli Modern Oil Painting Chelsea Hotel, George Chemeche
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a bright, colorful modernist oil painting of a vase of Flowers
A great floral work.
George Chemeche was born in Basra, Iraq in 1934 He emigrated to Israel and studied at th...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Skaters " Oil cm. 47 x 33 1950
Located in Torino, IT
Sport ,Winter sport,Ice-skating,
KLARA VLASOVA (Moscow, 1926)
MUSEUMS
St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum
Moscow, Pushkin Museum
Moscow, Museum of History and Reconstruction
Mo...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,513 Sale Price
30% Off
Belisama
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Predominantly recognized as a self-taught painter, he also worked in architectural murals, sculptures, ceramics, prints and drawings.
Vigas is one...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Gouache, Board
$160,000
The Sea - Original Oil Painting - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Sea is an original painting realized by an anonymous artist in the mid-20th Century.
Oil panting on panel. Unreadable sign on lower margin.
The state of ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude Man In Bathing Suit, Male Nude in Speedo, Gay Art, Sex appeal
Located in Miami, FL
A handsome and fit young man with an introspective gaze is depicted in a Speedo Bathing suit as he sits against a tropical lake. The work is unframed and in fair to poor condition but has soul and sex appeal to it.
Louise Schacht...
Category
Naturalistic Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a little girl with a ball of thread. Oil on cardboard, 46x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait of a little girl with a ball of thread. Oil on cardboard, 46x40 cm
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Winter Scene, Lake Tahoe
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork " Winter Scene, Lake Tahoe" c.1970 is a oil painting on canvas by Russian artist Irina Belotelkin Roublon 1913-2009. It is signed lower right by the artist. The canvas size is 16 x 20 inches. It is in very good condition.
About the artist.
Irina Belotelkin Roublon, née Roudakoff, was born in Elisavetgrad, Ukraine to the Russian noblesse ancienne, descendant of Catherine the Great, she was a student at the Mariinsky Noble Ladies' Institute , Novocherkassk, Russia. She was orphaned at the time of the Russian Civil War after her father, General Paul Roudakoff, was fatally wounded in battle; 5 days later her mother died of typhus.
Still unaware of her parents' death, and after witnessing her two sisters' deaths from starvation, the young Irina, then 8 years old, made her way over 1,000 kilometers, alone and through many privations to Moscow and the Estonian embassy there, with whom her Estonian uncle Volodya Blonsky had made arrangements.
After a year in Moscow, and appeals to the Estonian consul, Irina was aided in a dramatic escape from the Soviet Union, to her aunt Anna Blonsky Lassburg (1882–1940) and her husband Doctor Genrick Lassburg in Tallinn, Estonia. Eventually, after in 1929, traveling through Ellis Island and admitted as a student, of voice studies, she joined her brother who had settled, in 1923, in the United States.
Irina came to San Francisco during the Second World War, Among Irina's devotions were ballet and opera. She often entertained friends Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Sergei Leiferkus when they were in town. Natalia Makarova and Yuri Possokhov were often guests at Irina's Russian Christmas and Easter parties.
From the early 1960s through the late 1980s, Irina studied and prolifically created still life and portrait paintings in oil and water color, excelling in flower compositions. She held studio and feature exhibitions; she competed and won prizes. Her work is in holdings throughout the San Francisco Bay area, Europe and Russia.
In 1965 she undertook private study with two prominent Russian painters, including Serge Ivanoff; she executed a portrait of her two masters. She cherished her portrait as executed by Serge Ivanoff.
Among her most accomplished pieces are those of iris and the large white Matilija poppy...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Girl with Guitar" Robert Gwathmey, Music, Southern Social Commentary, Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Robert Gwathmey
Girl with Guitar, 1965
Signed upper right
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Provenance:
The artist
ACA Galleries, New York
Mr. Moses Asch, New York
Terry Dintenfass Galle...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Goldfinch - Oil Painting by Enotrio Pugliese - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The goldfinch is an modern artwork realized by the artist Enotrio in the half of 20th Century.
Mixed colored oil on masonite
Hand signed on the lower m...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Haitian Village Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A gorgeous tempura painting of figures carrying goods and taking a break in a Haitian village by Frantz (Freddie) Lamothe (Haitian, b.1961). Signed "F. L...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Tempera
“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Early oil on canvas painting by the well known American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov done in the “Social Realism” period of the artist’s career. Signed lower left. Original artist inventory label on stretcher verso dates the painting to 1937. Condition of the painting is very good. The painting is housed in a contemporary version of a House of Heydenryk frame that measures overall 14.25 by 27.25 inches. Provenance: Estate of the artist Nahum Tschacbasov.
Nahum Tschacbasov
Biography :
Russian-American artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984) is known for his cubo-surrealistic works which feature a strong psychological element. Some of his work bears a resemblance to work of another Russian-American artist--David Burliuk. He was somewhat of a late starter, moving to Paris in 1932 to study under Adolph Gottlieb, Marcel Gromaire and Fernand Leger. He had his first exhibition in Paris in 1934. He then returned to the US where he joined Rothko and Gottlieb at the Galery Seccession. He was one of the co-founders of The Ten, a group of social conscious abstract painters which included Rothko, Gottlieb, Joseph Solman and Ilya Bolotowsky, among others.
In 1944, he began to work at Stanley Hayter's Atelier 17, a center for surrealistic ideas. Between 1936 and 1943, he had five one-man exhibitions at the ACA Galleries and participated in five group shows. He also exhibited at the Whitney, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Knox Albright Museum, the Chicago Institute of Fine Art and Corcoran, among others. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Met, the Whitney, the Brooklyn Museum and the Jewish Museum.
Tschacbasov has been the subject of two recent retrospective at Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY and Arthur...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting of Kingstown Dublin in 1910 by Modern Impressionist Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
An Original Oil Painting of George's Street Kingstown in 1910 by Modern Impressionist Irish Artist, Robert D. Beattie (1900-1979). The painting captures a historic moment...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life - 1950s - Pio Semeghini - Painting - Contemporary
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated by the artist lower right. Includes a beautiful contemporary wooden gilded frame. In excellent conditions.
References:
- Catalogo della mostra di Pio Semeghini...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Portrait - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Not signed.
On the back a portrait of a man.
Don't miss thi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Solitary Mister
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Solitary Mister
1964
Oil on canvas
52 x 38 inches (132.1 x 96.5 cm)
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Elegant Couple Shopping in Urban Street Scene - Magenta and Orange Mid-Century
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Bob Peak may be the heir to Norman Rockwell in portraying the American Scene. Yet Peak's graphic representations depart from Rockwell's tight academic style. In the present work from...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Fishing Boats
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Fishing Boats" 1966 is an oil painting on canvas linen by noted Filipino artist Cesar Buenaventura Espinosa, 1919/22-1983. It is signed and dated at the lower left corn...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Young Court Jester Holding a Puppet', Commedia dellArte, Post Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'M. Dietrich' (German-American, 20th century) and dated 1963.
A powerful, character-driven portrait of the young man, shown gazing directly towards the viewer. w...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Figurative Oil Painting - All Together
Located in Bristol, GB
ALL TOGETHER
Size: 55 x 64.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A richly textured mid-century abstract figurative painting, executed in oil onto canvas.
Simple yet effective in it...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Forains sur la plage
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
FORAINS SUR LA PLAGE
signed "Lagar" (lower right)
signed, located, dated and titled “Lagar Pennedepie sur Honfleur / 1951 / Forains dans la Grove” (o...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist New England Beach Bathers Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist bather scene by John Edward Costigan (1888 - 1972). Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris School Cityscape, Circle of Maurice Utrillo, La Mère Catherine Montmartre
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century Modern oil on canvas cityscape of Place du Tertre and the Basilica Sacré-Cœur in Montmartre, Paris by Augustin Francois Guille aka Archiguille a close friend and col...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Glasco Landscape" Albert Heckman, circa 1940 New York Modernist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Albert Heckman
Glasco Landscape, circa 1940
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
25 1/4 x 39 1/2 inches
Albert Heckman was born in Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art world in 1915 after graduating from high school and landing a job at the Meadville Post Office. In 1917, at the age of 24, Heckman enrolled part-time in Teachers' College, Columbia University's Fine Arts Department to begin his formal art education. He worked as a freelance ceramic and textile designer and occasionally as a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the early 1920s, at the age of almost 30, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia Teachers College. He was especially impacted by his instructor at Columbia, Arthur Wesley Dow.
After graduating, he was hired by the Teachers' College as a Fine Arts instructor. He stayed with Columbia Teachers' College until 1929, when he left to attend the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, Germany. Isami Doi (1903-1965), who was born in Hawaii, was arguably his most impressive student at Columbia. Doi is now regarded as one of the most prominent artists hailing from Hawaii. Heckman became an active member and officer of the Keramic Society and Design Guild of New York in the 1920s as part of his early commercial art career. The Society's mission was to share knowledge and showcase textile and ceramic design exhibits.
In 1922, Heckman married Florence Hardman, a concert violinist. Mrs. Heckman's concert schedule during the 1920s kept Albert and Florence Heckman apart for a significant portion of the time, but they spent what little time they had together designing and building their Woodstock, New York, summer house and grounds. A small house and an acre of surrounding land on Overlook Mountain, just behind the village of Woodstock, were purchased by Albert and Florence Heckman at the time of their marriage. Their Woodstock home, with its connections, friendships, and memories, became a central part of their lives over the years, even though they had an apartment in New York City.
Heckman's main artistic focus shifted to the house on Overlook Mountain and the nearby towns and villages, Kingston, Eddyville, and Glasco. After returning from the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in 1930, Mr. Heckman joined Hunter College as an assistant professor of art. He worked there for almost thirty years, retiring in 1956. Throughout his tenure at Hunter, Mr. Heckman and his spouse spent the summers at their Woodstock residence and the winters in New York City. They were regular and well-known guests at the opera and art galleries in New York. Following his retirement in 1956, the Heckmans settled in Woodstock permanently, with occasional trips to Florida or Europe during the fall and winter. Mr. Heckman's close friends and artistic career were always connected to Woodstock or New York City. He joined the Woodstock art group early on and was greatly influenced by artists like Paul and Caroline Rohland, Emil Ganso, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Andre Ruellan, and her husband, Jack...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Foret d' Ermenonville
By Gaston Girbal
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Gaston Girbal (French, 1888-1978)
Title: Foret d' Ermenonville
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Oil on hardboard
Board size: 21.65 x 15 inches
Signature: Signed lower left by the artist
Condition: Very good
Frame: Framed in a wooden gold frame
Description: The size including frame is 30.5 x 24 inches
About the artist.
Gaston Girbal ( 1888 - 1978 ), was a French illustrator and painter , known for his posters for the Folies Bergère , Édith Piaf , Josephine Baker , Genevieve Guitry, Lucienne Boyer, Casino de Paris and for numerous theater companies. He was also the draftsman of more than 70 sheet music covers in the years 1920-1940 for various Parisian music publishers. Most of his collected work are posters...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Freddy Wittop Ballet Drawing, Mixed Media
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Freddy Wittop (1911-2001)
Marking(s); notes: signed, marking(s)
Country of origin; materials: Dutch/American; mixed media on illustration board
Dimensi...
Category
Feminist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Board
Still Life Flowers
By Teunis Ooms
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Teunis Ooms (Dutch, 1906-1982)
Title: Still Life Flowers
Year: Circa 1935
Media: Oil painting on panel
Panel size: 19.85 x 15.75 inches
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Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Flood Rushes In - Disaster Landscape in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Dramatic depiction of a flood by an unknown artist (20th Century). Flood waters have risen and are rushing through a town, with rain still falling. One house is still standing, but another red one is completely upended and being caried away. Power lines...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vintage Original Old Hollywood Portrait -- Peter Lorre with Yellow Scarf
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful old Hollywood portrait of a middle aged Peter Lorre (1904-1964) by Charles Kingham (American, 1895-1984), circa 1955. Unsigned. Acquired with oth...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
The Blue Dress Young Woman Oil on Canvas Painting by Maurice Ehlinger
By Maurice Ambroise Ehlinger
Located in Atlanta, GA
Maurice Ambroise Ehlinger (1896–1981) — Portrait of Mademoiselle France Noël, 1957. Radiating timeless Parisian elegance, this exceptional mid-century oil on canvas by noted French p...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
'Two Women', San Francisco Bay Area Expressionism, Woman Artist, Large Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial oil painting of two women shown adjacent and seated and painted in bravura Expressionist style with a subtle and complex palette by an intuitive, bravura hand.
Signed...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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