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Modern Figurative Paintings

MODERN STYLE

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Pensive Young Woman - Oil Paint by Giovanni Maria Mossa - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pensive young woman is an original modern artwork realized by the artist Giovanni Maria Mossa (1892-1973) in the early 20th Century. Mixed colored oil painting on board. Hand signe...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Madame in the Blossom Garden - Tempera on Paper by Lucie Navier - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Madame in the blossom garden is an original painting realized by Lucie Navier in the 1931. Original tempera on paper. Very good conditions. Colorful composition representing a f...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Tempera

Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Gouache American Modernist Powerline
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Oil, Board

Oriental Scene - Oil Paint by Giulio Rosati - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental scene is an orientalist artwork realized by Giulio Rosati (1857 – 1917) . The artwork depicts an oriental palace with lady and horse rider in l...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi - Oil Painting - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Garibaldi is an original modern artwork realized by an unknown Artist in the late 19th Century.
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

UNTITLED (HASIDIC YOUTH) Israel/Palestine Judaica Painting
By Shmuel Ovadyahu
Located in Surfside, FL
Dimensions w/Frame: 16" x 14" Shmuel Ovadyahu was born in Ukraine to an orthodox Jewish family, when Shmuel was 7 years old the family moved to Lodz, Poland. Although Ovadyahu’s el...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Sephardic Jewish Men Vibrant Judaica Vintage Oil Painting Israeli Artist Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts Middle Eastern jewish men of Sefardic descent. At least one appears to be a Rabbi. ALBERT GOLDMAN Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1922, Albert Goldman started drawing and painting at the age of 8. He began his art education 1936 Art with Italian and Greek artists at the "Atelier", in Alexandria, Egypt; continuing 1956 with Avraham Yaskiel and Zvi Mairovich, Haifa and with Moshe Propes, in Tel Aviv. In 1940 he obtained a diploma of commerce and opted for a career in the hospitality industry, following in the footsteps of his parents who operated the Majestic Palace Hotel in Alexandria. He moved to Cairo in 1942 to study Swiss Hotel Management at Egyptian Hotels Limited, the largest hotel company in the Middle East at the time. In 1946 he decorated an evening gown for an American singer, Catherine Essex, who sang before King Farouk. By 1947 he was the manager of the Luxor Hotel. In 1948, during an air raid over Alexandria, he was attacked by an Arab mob accusing him of signaling Israeli planes. He miraculously survived 12 stab wounds to the back. In March 1950 he married Lucette Blumenthal. He was put on the blacklist by the Ministry of Interior in Egypt, and in 1951 he managed to leave Egypt and came to Israel in September 1951 aboard the ship Artza. In 1956 he attended a drawing and painting course with Meirovich and Avraham Yaskiel in Haifa. He organized the Jerusalem Art Cellar in 1958 and settled in Jerusalem. He paints mostly Israeli landscapes, particularly of Jerusalem. This is done in a style reminiscent of Tully Filmus and Itzhak Holtz. Albert Goldman was born in 1922 in Egypt Awards And Prizes 1983 Bnai Brith Prize, Dan region 1990 Certificate of Registration in the Golden Book of Keren Kayemet LeIsrael Exhibition of Paintings The Municipal Museum - Bet-Emanuel, Ramat Gan Artists: Pinchas Abramovich, Lea Avisedek, Albert Goldman, Shaul Ohaly, Robert Baser, Claire Szilard, Itamar Siani...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Odalisques - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Odalisques is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas, realized in 1930s. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942) He was born in Milan on June 1, 1887 to Giovanni Feltrinelli, the nephew of Giacomo, who was the founder of the Feltrinelli partnership. Feltrinelli was not only a prominent figure in the Italian economic and financial field, but he was also a painter, who was characterized as a strong, impetuous hot colorist, and preferred still lifes, portraits and landscapes. He started his career in 1930 at La Permanente (Milan), where he exhibited a portrait and a still life that won him the Fornara award. That same year, Feltrinelli exhibited his work at the Venice Biennial and at the Pesaro Gallery in Milan. Together with other prominent avant-garde artists, he participated in various foreign exhibitions on modern Italian painting...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Man
By Yvonne Guégan
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Man', oil on canvas, by Yvonne Guégan (circa 1970s). This is not a portrait of the reclusive billionaire, Howard Hughes. Regrettably, we d...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Striking Hollywood Regency Portrait of a Red Haired Lady by Kughler 1932
Located in Rochester, NY
Hollywood regency portrait painting of a young woman by Francis Kughler (American 1901-1970). Oil on canvas board. Circa 1932. Unframed. Born in New York City in 1901, Francis Vandeveer Kughler attended Cooper Union, the Mechanics' Institute, and the National Academy of Design School of Art where he met Charlotte Livingston, an artist, whom he was later to marry. During this period he was the winner of a Tiffany scholarship, which provided him a summer of landscape painting at the Louis Comfort Tiffany estate at Oyster Bay, L.I. In the 1940s, Kughler became the President of the Salmagundi Club, a well-known art club in Washington Square in New York City.Well-known as a muralist, society portrait painter and lithographer, he was a prolific painter who made cityscapes, landscapes, and nudes. He and his wife, Charlotte Livingston, lived and worked in Bronx, New York. mid century modern wpa impressionist...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Seaside - Mixed Colored Oil on Canvas by Gennaro Villani - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Seaside is an original modern artwork realized by Gennaro Villani in the first half of 20th Century. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Hand signed on the lower right margin. Includes f...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Model with Swan - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Model with swan is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Oil on plywood. Beautiful and representative artwork of a female figure. Anton...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Signed Antique American School Modernist Cubist Jazz Piano Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract piano painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24"L x 20"H.
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Basketball Player
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Basketball Player Gouache on card stock, c. 1940 Signed by the artist in ink lower center A study for the fresco mural in the Social Security Buildin...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Knucks Down
By Karl Witkowski
Located in New York, NY
Signed upper left: Witkowski
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tonight I Wait at the Window - Oil Paint by Franco Rivola - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Tonight I wait at the window is an original modern artwork realized in 1968 by Franco Rivola. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Hand-written dedica...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Vetriculus Egg, Surrealist Ovoid acrylic and collage painting, Figural Abstract
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Vetriculus Egg, 1965 Acrylic and collage on textured paper Signed and dated lower right 30 x 22 inches A surrealist mid-century figura...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Tanzszene
By Helga Hormann
Located in Wien, 9
The dancing couple with a seated lady is painted entirely in the style of New Objectivity. The seated lady in the foreground is depicted extremely frontally and looks directly out of...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood

The Little Concert (Concertino) - Oil Paint by N. Cecconi - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Little Concert (Concertino) is an original oil on canvas realized by the italian painter Niccolò Cecconi (1835-1901) in the late 19th Century. Very good condition. Hand signed i...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Woman on Sofa - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman on Sofa is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s. Another painting of human figure on rear. Includes frame. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942) He was born in Milan on June 1, 1887 to Giovanni Feltrinelli, the nephew of Giacomo, who was the founder of the Feltrinelli partnership. Feltrinelli was not only a prominent figure in the Italian economic and financial field, but he was also a painter, who was characterized as a strong, impetuous hot colorist, and preferred still lifes, portraits and landscapes. He started his career in 1930 at La Permanente (Milan), where he exhibited a portrait and a still life that won him the Fornara award. That same year, Feltrinelli exhibited his work at the Venice Biennial and at the Pesaro Gallery in Milan. Together with other prominent avant-garde artists, he participated in various foreign exhibitions on modern Italian painting...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary Leon Bibel (1912 - 1995) "The Audience," 52 ½ x 41 ¼ inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1963. Signed lower right. Framed. BIO Painter, printmaker and sculptor, Leon Bibel was born in San Francisco in 1913. He trained at the California School of Fine Arts and received a scholarship to study under the German Impressionist Maria Riedelstein. He worked in collaboration with Bernard Zackheim, a student of Diego Rivera, to create frescoes for the San Francisco Jewish Community Center and the University of California Medical School. In 1936 Bibel moved from California to join the Federal Art Project at Harlem Art...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Over and Above: Kangaroo, Mid-Century Figurative acrylic painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Over and Above: Kangaroo, c. 1960s Acrylic on paper, mounted on matte board Signed lower right 14 x 5 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Nude - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude woman 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 a nude woma...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Paint

Sitzende Dame / Seated Lady
By Leo Putz
Located in Wien, 9
This work by Leo Putz was created during his Expressionist period. The broad stroke, the reductions and the distance from the realistic mode of representation are significant. The li...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Babu, Charcoal and Conte on Paper, Brown Color by Lalu Prasad Shaw "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Lalu Prasad Shaw - Babu - 21 x 15 inches Charcoal and Conte on Paper, 2011 (Unframed & Delivered) Style : Known widely for his highly stylized portraits of Bengali women and couples...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Conté, Charcoal

Vetriculus, Surrealist Ovoid acrylic painting, Figural Abstract work on paper
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Vetriculus, c. 1970s Acrylic on paper 4.5 x 3.5 inches 11 x 10 inches, framed A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting. Cl...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Portrait of Noblewoman - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Noblewoman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Not signed. Label on the back. Antonio Feltrine...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Paint

Mexican Siesta Pastel Drawing Ecole D'Paris, WPA, Bezalel Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled t...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Pastel

Christ, Figurative, Mixed Media on Paper by Modern Artist Suhas Roy "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Suhas Roy - Christ Mixed Media on Paper , 12 x 16.5 inches , 2011 ( Framed & Delivered ) Suhas Roy 's mystic woman which he calls 'Radha', either Oil on canvas or soft colored pastel on Paper or board are a series of work where he sees an ethereal mystic godlike and innocent spirit in every woman he meets. Style : He is one of the biggest and the most enduring names in the genre of Indian modern art. Often dubbed the father of female figurative forms. Radha Series and the Christ Series in soft pastel on paper and intense Oil on canvas paintings .Consequently, his recent body of works, "Drops of Silence", executed in oil, pastels and pen-and-ink etchings on backdrops in watercolours, are all studies of "mysterious slightly surreal nude women floating in a void". Roy's forte is Radhika - dark, enigmatic, beautiful Indian women with the slightest smile and ethereal in its quality . About the Artist & his work : Born : 1936, Bangladesh. Education : 1953-58 : Diploma in Painting, Indian College of Art and Draughtsmanship, Calcutta. 1956-66 : Studied graphic art under the guidance of S.W. Hayter, Atelier 17 and mural art at cole Superior Des Beaux Art, Paris. Exhibitions : His works have been exhibited all over the world through exhibitions like the Asian Graphic Prints Traveling Exhibition, USA, the Tokyo Print Biennale, Japan, Contemporary Indian Art...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

'Modernist Figural', California, New Mexico, Oakland Museum, SFAA, SFMA, GGIE
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Z. Kavin' for Zena Kavin (American, 1912-2003) and dated 1966. Born in Berkeley, California, Zena Kavin studied at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and, privately, with Kravchenko in Moscow. She lived in Berkeley and in Oakland her entire life, except for four years spent in New Mexico in the late 1930s. In 1949, she married artist Jon Cornin and settled with him in Oakland. Under the peudonym Corka, the Cornins produced cartoons for the Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker. Kavin worked in various media, including wood engraving, lithography and sculpture. She was a member of the San Francisco Artists Association and exhibited with them as well as at the San Francisco Museum of Art Inaugural (1935), the California–Pacific International Exposition, San Diego (1935), the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939). Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Davis Art Center, the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of California. Reference: Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, page 610; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, page 1801; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Supplement, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Old Jew Taking Children to School (the Refugee)
By Marian Kratochwil
Located in Surfside, FL
Marian Kratochwil, Modern British artist (1906-1997) Painter and writer, born in Kosow, Poland, whose early training was in the studio of Stainislaw Batowski. First one-man exhibition in 1936 at Zacheta Gallery in Warsaw, brought him immediate success, the author Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, became a collector, buying the first picture sold at the exhibition. He read philosophy and history at University Lwow. After active service in World War II he painted in Scotland, then London, chronicling the life of the city, also painting widely in Spain. As a young impoverished artist he had the good fortune to inherit the estate of the artist Dame Ethel Walker. Dame Ethel in her seventies had met the young artist and had seen the promise in his work and unknown to Kratochwil had made him her beneficiary. In 1961 he married the artist Kathleen Browne, assisted in the running of her school and late in life published a perceptive monograph on her work. Like other Polish artists of his generation he made his escape in dangerous circumstances from occupied Europe and rejoined the Polish army...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950s Abstract Figurative Composition with Brown, White, and Black, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
1950s abstract oil on canvas painting by Henriette "Yetti" Stolz from 1956. Completed in shades of brown, white, black, and gray. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Presented in a vintage frame measuring 42 ¾ x 16 ¾ inches. Image size measures 42 ¼ x 16 ¼ inches. Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Henriette "Yetti" Stolz Painting is in good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. About the Artist: Henriette “Yetti” Stolz was born in Serbia in 1935 ( and is still living ). Her family emigrated to Denver, Colorado, in the early 1950s after WWII and she attended East High School before studying art at Colorado College, in Colorado Springs in the mid to late 50s. While there studying she would have been exposed to modernist artists working both at the college ( ie. Mary...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Composition - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s. Another painting of human figure on rear. Includes frame: 98 x 4 x 68 cm Mixed colored oil painting o...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Woman - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is an original oil on canvas realized in 1930s by Antonio Feltrinelli. Very good condition. Not signed. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942) He was ...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Family - Oil Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Family is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the mid-20th Century. Includes frame: 136 x 4 x 136 cm Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942) He was born in Milan on June 1, 1887 to Giovanni Feltrinelli, the nephew of Giacomo, who was the founder of the Feltrinelli partnership. Feltrinelli was not only a prominent figure in the Italian economic and financial field, but he was also a painter, who was characterized as a strong, impetuous hot colorist, and preferred still lifes, portraits and landscapes. He started his career in 1930 at La Permanente (Milan), where he exhibited a portrait and a still life that won him the Fornara award. That same year, Feltrinelli exhibited his work at the Venice Biennial and at the Pesaro Gallery in Milan. Together with other prominent avant-garde artists, he participated in various foreign exhibitions on modern Italian painting...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paint, Oil

1950s "Pink Towel" Figurative Gouache Painting
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedmann Opper Pink Towel c. 1940-1950's Gouache on Paper 15" x 18", Unframed From the estate of Ruth Friedmann Opper & Jerry Opper. Ruth was the daughter of Bauhaus artist, Gustav Friedmann...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Paper

Interior with Five Children - Oil Painting on Canvas - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Interior with Five Children is an original oil painting on canvas applied on panel. This painting has been realized between the end of the 19th century ...
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19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Woman in the Garden - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in the Garden is an original modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s. Includes frame: 98 x 4 x 68 cm Mixed colored oil painting on board Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942) He was born in Milan on June 1, 1887 to Giovanni Feltrinelli, the nephew of Giacomo, who was the founder of the Feltrinelli partnership. Feltrinelli was not only a prominent figure in the Italian economic and financial field, but he was also a painter, who was characterized as a strong, impetuous hot colorist, and preferred still lifes, portraits and landscapes. He started his career in 1930 at La Permanente (Milan), where he exhibited a portrait and a still life that won him the Fornara award. That same year, Feltrinelli exhibited his work at the Venice Biennial and at the Pesaro Gallery in Milan. Together with other prominent avant-garde artists, he participated in various foreign exhibitions on modern Italian painting...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Seated Man Portrait, Large Modernist Oil Painting WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Nahum Tschacbasov was born in Baku, in the southeast of Russia. When he was eight years old, he came to America, where his family settled in Chicago. His career, spanning more than five decades from the 1930’s to the 1980’s, is a kaleidoscope of influences, from modernism to the Byzantine style and expressionism of his Russian roots. Tschacbasov’s paintings of the 1930’s reflect the social and political preoccupations of the times. He received considerable critical attention for his powerful dramatic satirical depiction of social injustice. In the 1940’s he gained wider recognition when his style evolved into a fusion of Cubism and Surrealism. Through the influence of Jung, as well as currents brought to America by the newly arrived group of European Surrealists, he created a powerful personal iconography in which the inner workings of the psyche are revealed as myth and metaphor. His first encounters with modern art are the works of Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Rouault. 1932-33 Tschacbasov moves for a short time to New York City in order to be in a modern art center and then to Paris, where he adopts the name Tschacbasov, an anagram of different family names. He studies with Leopold Gottlieb for eight months, then with Marcel Gromaire, who teaches him pictorial structure, and briefly with Fernand Leger. Working in his studio on the edge of Montmartre and later in the Hotel de Sante in Montparnasse, he produces a large body of work, retaining fifty paintings. After trips to North Africa, Spain, and the Balearic Islands, he travels often from Paris to New York City, where he spends six months painting a series of Depression-inspired pictures after finding that his American business has gone bankrupt in his absence. 1934 In Paris, Galerie Zak exhibits landscapes from his trip to Majorca in the first one-man exhibition of Tschacbasov paintings; Salon de Tuileries also exhibits his work. His savings exhausted, he returns to New York via Tunisia in the midst of the Depression. 1935 Living on Pineapple Street in Brooklyn Heights, Tschacbasov works on the WPA Federal Arts Project, Easel Division, where he meets other artists and becomes politically involved. His works are shown at Galerie Secession with those of Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and other modernist and expressionist painters. Tschacbasov, Rothko, Gottlieb, Joseph Solman and others from Galerie Secession form a group called The Ten combining common aims of social consciousness with an expressionist and abstract style. Themes of social injustice are more dominant in Tschacbasov's work than in that of others of The Ten, as he draws on his own childhood experiences of the harsh realities of immigrant life in industrial Chicago. In the summer, a one-man exhibition of his non-objective paintings is held at Galerie Secession, and in December, Montross Gallery in New York City holds the first exhibition of The Ten, including two works by Tschacbasov, "Handout" and "Three Graces." 1936 In January, an exhibition of The Ten is held at Municipal Art Galleries in New York City, and later in the fall an exhibition, also of The Ten, is held at Galerie Bonaparte in Paris. 1936-38 Among the paintings exhibited in the "Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting" at the Whitney Museum of American Art are Tschacbasov's "Deportation", "Clinic", "Friday Night", "Harbor Sunset", and "The Matriarch". 1936-37 Tschacbasov is appointed business manager of Art Front Magazine, a publication associated with the Artists' Union. His circle of friends at this time include Philip Evergood, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, David Burliuk, William Gropper, the Soyer brothers, Robert Gwathmey, Marsden Hartley, and Max Weber. Due to cut-backs in WPA funding, he teaches at his 38 West 22nd Street studio and at the American Artists' School. On the faculty are David Burliuk and the Soyer brothers, as well as Elaine de Kooning and other artists with similar aesthetic and social points of view. Personal and artistic crises lead to his entering into Jungian psychoanalysis, which provides new impetus and direction to his painting. Under the influence of analysis, he starts to write portions of a surrealistic autobiography, The Moon is My Uncle. His paintings, "Refugees" and "Friday Night" are shown with works by Avery, Burliuk, and DeHirsh Margules in a group exhibition at Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. In September, the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts focuses on themes of social criticism in an exhibition entitled "The World Today", curated by Elizabeth McCausland, which includes Tschacbasov's, "Little Red School House". 1940 Tschacbasov takes up photography. Photographing the works of friends and other artists, he builds a collection of color slides...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Spring (Primrose Gathering) by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Spring (Primrose Gathering) by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Oil on board 101.5 x 76.4 cm (40 x 30 inches) Signed and dated lower centre Orovida 1956 Provenance Estate of Orovida Pis...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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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.
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paint

Winged Woman - China Ink Drawing by Albert Decaris - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Winged woman is a fine ink drawing, realized by Albert Decaris (1901-1988) . Good conditions. Albert Decaris was a French artist, engraver and painter. ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Shopping the Market Israeli Modernist Oil Pastel Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
OIl Pastel on Parer Tel Aviv, 1942 – Israel-born, France-based artist, Daid Azuz is FIGURATIVE painter, with a rich, colorful style. His paintings are masterfully drawn and full ...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel

1950's Big Modernist/ Cubist Painting - The Couple In The Carriage
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original gouache on card size: 19 x 25 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: the artists atelie...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Sitting Woman - Oil Painting on Canvas by A. Feltrinelli - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Sitting woman is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in 1928. Oil on canvas. Beautiful and representative artwork of a female figure. Includes ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Reclined Nude - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude with Parrot is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Oil on canvas Beautiful and representative artwork depicting a reclin...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Untitle, 2020
By Donya MOTEDAYEN
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Painter & Graphic designer DM Art Studio
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Sketch n. 13 - Original Painting by Giovanni Brancaccio - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch n. 13 is an original modern artwork realized by Giovanni Brancaccio in 1948. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin. Good conditions.
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Rare Self Portrait Oil Painting Polish, Ecole D'Paris, WPA, Bezalel School
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed self portrait. Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his you...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Oil

'Nuns at Notre-Dame', Paris, Munich, Woman Modernist, AIC, Smithsonian, Carmel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, and lower right, 'Patricia Cunningham' for Patricia Stanley Cunningham (American, 1907-1984) and painted circa 1965. A vibrant, Post-Impressionistic oil showing a view of Paris with two nuns wearing wimples and cornets, one carrying a basket of daffodils, standing beneath the shade of a tree and with a view beyond to the facade of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame lit by bright sunshine. The first woman to serve as president of the Carmel Art Association, Patricia Stanley Cunningham first studied at UC Berkeley and, subsequently, with Hans Hofmann in Munich and with André Lhote in Paris. While in Paris, in 1930, she wed the American artist, John Cunningham. Settling on the Monterey Peninsula after returning from Europe, Cunningham joined the Carmel Art Institute, of which she became president, the Southwest Artists...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

The Attentive Nurse - Oil Painting on Canvas - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
The Attentive Nurse is an original modern artwork realized by a mid-20th century Artist after Jean Siméon Chardin. Oil painting on canvas. Frame ...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Untitled, Ink on Paper, Red, Black & White Color Indian Master "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Dhiraj Chowdhury - Untitled - 14 x 10 inches (unframed size) ink on Paper ( Unframed & Door Delivered ) Style of the Artist : He steadfastly believes that art has to be closely associated with life – with humanity, with humanism. And he comes through with this concept in his works – which are sometimes heart – reading, sometimes violent, brutal even chaotic, but always cogent, modern, and somehow loaded with both wisdom and hope. About the Artist and his work : Born : 1936, West Benagal, India...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Paper

View of Saint Moritz - Oil Paint by Carlo Ferrari - 1907
Located in Roma, IT
Saint Moritz is an original modern artwork realized by Carlo Ferrari in 1907. Mixed colored oil painting on board. Hand signed, dated and place on the l...
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Early 1900s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid Century Modernist Watercolor Landscape with Horse, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Sommer (American, 1867–1949) Spring Beauty Watercolor on paper Signed lower right 12.5 x 17 inches 18 x 22.75 inches, framed William Sommer is seen as a key person in bringi...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Portrait of Garibaldinian Soldier - Oil Painting - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Garibaldinian soldier is al modern artwork realized by Artist of 19th Century. Mixed colored oil painting. Includes gilded frame. A rare portrait of a Garibaldino, a v...
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19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Still life - Still Life Painting by Domenico Purificato - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Still life in the canister is an original modern artwork realized by Domenico Purificato in 1957. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Hand sign...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Odalisque and Guitar - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Odalisque and Guitar is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on board. Signed on the back Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 188...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

'Dockside' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Alex Minewski, 'Dockside', gouache on paper, 1953. Signed in the image, lower left. Annotated 'April 1953, Minewski, ‘Dock Side’, verso. A fine, modernist re...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

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