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Period: Mid-20th Century
Style: Modern
Black and White Figures In Restaurant French 20th Century Modernist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figures In Restraunt
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
gouache paper stuck on artist paper, unframed
painting : 10 x 13 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
Figure in the shadow - Oil Painting on Canvas by N. Gattamelata -1968
Located in Roma, IT
Figure in the shadow is an original modern artwork realized by N. Gattamelata in 1968.
Mixed colored oil on canvas
Includes frame
Hand signed and dated on the back.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Tree, Meyrin, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Women - Oil Paint 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 canvas.
Signature on the lower margin.
Provenance Galleria Pesaro, Milan...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Quarry Workers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Quarry Workers, c. 1930s, mixed media on board, unsigned, 24 x 24 inches, possibly exhibited at...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Industrial Cityscape, Chicago" WPA Modernism Mid-Century Cityscape 20th Century
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
Midwestern Chicago artist Aaron Bohrod painted in 1931 this modernist industrial cityscape during the WPA of the 20th Century.
Aaron Bohrod (American 1907 – 1992), Industrial Citysc...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Nude - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on board
Not signed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
Six O'Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Six O-Clock, c. 1942, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches, signed and titled several times verso of frame and stretcher (perhaps by another hand), marked “Rehn” several times on frame (for the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries in New York City, who represented Craig at the time); Exhibited: 1) 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings from March 21 to May 2, 1943 at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. #87, original price $450 (per catalog) (exhibition label verso), 2) Craig’s one-man show at the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York City, from October 26 to November 14, 1942, #10 (original price listed as $350); and 3) Exhibition of thirty paintings sponsored by the Harrisburg Art Association at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg in March, 1944 (concerning this exhibit, Penelope Redd of The Evening News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) wrote: “Other paintings that have overtones of superrealism inherent in the subjects include Tom Craig’s California nocturne, ‘Six O’Clock,’ two figures moving through the twilight . . . .” March 6, 1944, p. 13); another label verso from The Museum of Art of Toledo (Ohio): original frame: Provenance includes George Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
About the Painting
Long before Chris Burden’s iconic installation outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Urban Light, another artist, Tom Craig, made Southern California streetlights the subject of one of his early 1940s paintings. Consisting of dozens of recycled streetlights from the 1920s and 1930s forming a classical colonnade at the museum’s entrance, Burden’s Urban Light has become a symbol of Los Angeles. For Burden, the streetlights represent what constitutes an advanced society, something “safe after dark and beautiful to behold.” It seems that Craig is playing on the same theme in Six O-Clock. Although we see two hunched figures trudging along the sidewalk at the end of a long day, the real stars of this painting are the streetlights which brighten the twilight and silhouette another iconic symbol of Los Angeles, the palm trees in the distance. Mountains in the background and the distant view of a suburban neighborhood join the streetlights and palm trees as classic subject matter for a California Scene painting, but Craig gives us a twist by depicting the scene not as a sun-drenched natural expanse. Rather, Craig uses thin layers of oil paint, mimicking the watercolor technique for which he is most famous, to show us the twinkling beauty of manmade light and the safety it affords. Although Southern California is a land of natural wonders, the interventions of humanity are already everywhere in Los Angeles and as one critic noted, the resulting painting has an air of “superrealism.”
About the Artist
Thomas Theodore Craig was a well-known fixture in the Southern California art scene. He was born in Upland California. Craig graduated with a degree in botany from Pomona College and studied painting at Pamona and the Chouinard Art School with Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Barse Miller among others. He became close friends with fellow artist Milford Zornes...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Figurative Landscape -- The Search
By Winifred Lucy Shaffer
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Figurative Landscape - The Search
A dreamlike landscape by Winifred Lucy Shaffer (American, 20th Century). Several figures are clustered together in a forest setting. Th...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
2000 Contemporary Semi-Abstract Figurative Oil Painting - Comfort
Located in Bristol, GB
COMFORT
Size: 63 x 72 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An emotive figurative composition capturing an intimate moment between two figures seated side by side on a bench, executed ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Male Portrait - Paint by Fernando Porfili - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Mixed media on canvas realized by Fernando Porfili (Porfirius) in 1961.
Hand signed and dated.
Includes a coeval wooden frame.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Cadets Football Game
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
14 1/4 X 1...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
French 20th Century Modernist Painting Female Figures Gossiping Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 15 x 19.5 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
c...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
"New York Subway," 36 x 48 inches. Oil on Masonite (backed with a wood frame), Signed and dated ’47 upper left. The colors of the painting are extraordinarily vibrant. The white gold frame, signed Richard Tobey...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, 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
Signed 20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Naked Woman on Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sur la Plage
French Modernist artist, 20th century
indistinctly signed
oil on canvas, framed
inscribed verso
framed: 20.5 x 26.5 inches
canvas : 20 x 26 inches
provenance: private c...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Entertainment, 20th century American family scene watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
The Entertainment, c. 1955
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
20 x 30 inches
Exhibited: 1955 May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art
"The first district schools were log houses...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid-Century Modern Man - Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Subtle and moody portrait of a Pensive man by Joan Tidwell (American, 1930-2002). The sitter in the portrait is a middle-aged man looking slightly downwards, wearing a collared shirt. This piece is completed in a tan and green palette, creating a somber feeling. Of particular note are the confident, thick brushstrokes - each one is well-placed in the modernist style. Similar in some ways to Picasso's portraits.
Signed "Joan Tidwell" on verso
Unframed.
Canvas size: 30"H x 22"W
oan Gay Tidwell (American, 1930-2002) was born and raised in Hollywood, CA, where she had some success as a child actor. Later, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Washington with a Master's Degree in English Literature and Drama. Tidwell moved to the Bay...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 1960's French Fantasy Abstract Oil Painting Nude Lady Walking through Woods
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Walking through Woodland Glade
French Modernist artist, circa 1960's period
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 26 x 39.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: ve...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
1950's Self Portrait of the Artist in Hat French Signed Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Self Portrait of the Artist
by Colbert Cassan (French 1899-1979)
signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 24 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound c...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil Painting Woman Portrait French Armenian Modernist Jean Jansem Ecole De Paris
By Jean Jansem
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian) 1920-2013
Hand signed upper left corner
Dimensions: 14 X 9.5 Framed 21 X 16.75
Jean Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian) 1920-2013
Bursa, Ottoman Turki...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nu au Tub
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed "C. VENARD" at lower right
Overall dimensions, including the frame, are 33 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape - Bohemian Forest - Oil Paint by Miloslava Vrbova - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on Canvas realized by Miloslava Vrbova (1909-1991) in the mid-20th century.
Good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mountain Landscape - Painting by Francesco Settimj - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard realized in 1930s.
Good conition
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Male Wacky Artist Portrait Swirly Moustache French Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist Portrait
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 19.5 x 15.5 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Three Klezmer Musicians Modern Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Klezmer Musicians
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame without frame 16X12
Country: United States
The imagery of Maurice Kish (189...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Mutual Admiration" Flower Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting Monterey Artist
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mutual Admiration" Flower Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting Monterey Artist
Mid-Century Modern painting of a little blonde girl in a white apron adoring her flowers by Monterey Artist Rose Marie (Smith) Ansel, (American, 1921-2012)
Rose Marie was born and lived in the Monterey area all her life. She volunteered in various city government associations and founded the Parade of Nations in 1970 which celebrated the many ethnic cultures on the Monterey Peninsula...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
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
Mid 20th Century French Modernist Portrait of a Young Lady Green & Yellow Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
French Modernist artist, mid 20th century
S.Ascher
signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 16 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris
condition: very good...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Interior Scene Animals Figures Rare Cityscape Oil Painting 1963
Located in Buffalo, NY
A fantastic MidCentury interior scene painted in 1963 and signed illegibly.
This work comes in a contemporary wood frame.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Expressionist Landscape Oil Painting - Sea Catch
Located in Bristol, GB
SEA CATCH
Size: 54.5 x 87 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A brilliantly executed and lively mid-century modernist composition in oil, painted onto canvas.
In this scene, we see ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
Wedding Day - Norman Rockwell Americana - Female Illustrator
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Recently, women artists have been soaring in price to millions of dollars. In many cases, many of these women were quite obscure. For example, recently acknowledged Gertrude Abercrombie, a naive surrealist artist, has recently seen her paintings rise to the area of $400K. Lorraine Fox, who is a consummate female artist/ illustrator whose work rivals any of the recently anointed female stars is still an unknown quantity. She has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum and is in the collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and she is a member of the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut along with Norman Rockwell, Today she is relatively unknown and completely off the radar of the so-called art establishment. Wedding Day is a wonderful example of her mid-century, somewhat naive style. The work is signed lower right and was exhibited at the Brandywine River...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Self Portrait of the Artist Man in Hat Exhibited Paris Salon 1985, large oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Self Portrait of the Artist
by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes below
dated 1985
signed oil on board, unframed
board: 18 x 15 inches
provenanc...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1960's French Modernist Oil Bar Tavern Interior Men Hunched over Tables
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sleeping Woman - Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping woman is an artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Oil on canvas, 110 x 160 cm.
Very good conditions
Antonio Feltrinell...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge Mid 20th Century French Oil Painting Two Figures Entwined
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figures Entwined
by Joel Lacroix (French mid 20th century)
signed and dated verso
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 39.5 x 32 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Four Figures, Framed Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting by John Uht
By John Uht
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Uht, American (1924 - 2010)
Title: Four Figures
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 40 in. x 30 in. (101.6 cm x 76.2 cm)
Frame Size: 46.5 x 36.5 in...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Snowy Street in Czech Republic-Oil Painting by Miloslava Vrbova-Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on panel realized by Miloslava Vrbova (1909-1991) in the mid-20th century.
Framed, good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of Child - Painting - 1933
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by an unknown italian painter in 1933.
Hand monogrammed and dated lower right.
Good condition except for some craquelure.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century French Painting Figures Working in Factory Post Impressionist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Factory Workers
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 15.75 x 19 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and s...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Centurion, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
This vertical format abstract painting by Modernist artist Stanley Bate measures at 26" x 50" framed. The original gold-hued floater frame pulls out the vibrant and warm pops of yell...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"View in the Court of Rue Du' Jardinet"
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a oil on academy board painting by the American artist, Alvin Raffel. Signed and titled verso. Circa 1930's. Condition is good. Small puncture in the ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Old Woman - Painting by Francesco Settimj - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on wooden table realized by Francesco Settimj in the 1930s.
Painted on both sides, recto and verso.
Good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950s "Orange Nude" Mid Century Nude Gouache Painting
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedman Opper
Orange Nude
c. 1950's
Gouache on Paper
15" x 18", Unframed
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framin...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Untitled - Fisherfolk
By Moshe Katz
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Moshe Katz – Romanian/Israeli (1937-)
Title: Untitled - Fisherfolk
Year: 1966
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 24 x 36 inches
Framed size: 28.5 x 40.5 inches
Signature: Signed, d...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
1930 Oil Painting Sea Side Sailboats American Modernist WPA Artist Morris Kantor
Located in Surfside, FL
Morris Kantor, American, 1896-1974
Seaside View, 1930
Hand signed M. Kantor and dated 1930 lower right
Oil on canvas
22 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches
24 1/2 x 21 (frame)
Morris Kantor (Belarusian: Морыс Кантор) (1896-1974) was a Russian Empire-born American painter based in the New York City area. This is a beautiful boat scene with a river or lake probably on Long Island.
Born in Minsk on April 15, 1896, Kantor was brought to the United States in 1906 at age 10, in order to join his father who had previously relocated to the states. He made his home in West Nyack, New York for much of his life, and died there in 1974. He produced a prolific and diverse body of work, much of it in the form of paintings, which is distinguished by its stylistic variety over his long career. Perhaps his most widely recognized work is the iconic painting "Baseball At Night", which depicts an early night baseball game played under artificial electric light. Although he is best known for his paintings executed in a realistic manner, over the course of his life he also spent time working in styles such as Cubism and Futurism, (influenced by the Art Deco movement) and produced a number of abstract or non-figural works. A famous cubist, Futurist, painting of his "Orchestra" brought over 500,000$ at Christie's auction house in 2018. Kantor found employment in the Garment District upon his arrival in New York City, and was not able to begin formal art studies until 1916, when he began courses at the now-defunct Independent School of Art. He studied landscape painting with Homer Boss (1882-1956). In 1928, after returning to New York City from a year in Paris, Kantor developed a style in which he combined Realism with Fantasy, often taking the streets of New York as his subject matter. He did some moody Surrealist Nude paintings and fantasy scenes. In the 1940's he turned towards figural studies. Later in his career, Kantor himself was an instructor at the Cooper Union and also at the Art Students League of New York in the 1940s, and taught many pupils who later became famous artists in their own right, such as Knox Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Sigmund Abeles and Susan Weil...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1960's French Modernist Oil Painting Fashionable Couple Holding Hands Pink & Blu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century Portrait of man with Glasses by listed Polish Artist Oil on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oval Portrait - Oil on Canvas - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oval Portrait is an artwork realized by an unknown, mid-20th Century.
Oil on canvas mounted on board.
47 x 37 cm.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
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 ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Still Life with Florist', Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Large Post-Impressionist
By Guily Joffrin
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, "Joffrin" for Guily-Jeanne Joffrin (French, 1909-2007) and painted circa 1965.
Photo of the artist in her studio, 1995. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
Born in Paris, Joffrin first attended the École Supérieure Sophie-Germain before, in 1928, studying at the École des Beaux-Arts, initially in the studio of Lucien Simon. She continued her studies there for several years in the studios of Jacques Despierre and Lucien Fontanarosa. After receiving her diploma, Joffrin was appointed Professor of Drawing and taught in Paris until 1945, when she began to devote herself exclusively to her career as a fine artist. Over the course of a long career, she exhibited internationally with success including at more than forty exhibitions in France (Paris, Aurillac, Rennes, Strasbourg, Reims, Rodez, Toulouse, Barbizon, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Cannes) as well as in Geneva, Vevey, San Francisco and Tokyo among other cities.
The human face was of particular interest to Joffrin and she created many portraits of academic notables including Paul Guth...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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