1940s Paintings

By French famous Transgender artist, Michel Marie Poulain (Born Paris December 5, 1906. Died 1991) this rare oil on canvas it represents the Queen and he...

This 1943 oil on cardboard by Danish painter Carl Hornung Jensen is an evocative piece reflecting the tranquil rhythms of rural life, captured in an impressionist style. Jensen's br...

Beautifully detailed mid-century coastal landscape of Pillar Point Fishing Dock near Half Moon Bay, California by William Winthrop Ward (American, 1901-1985). Signed lower left: "W. ...

UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) We Are All Members of the Human Race: UN Poster Proposal 21 x...

Abraham Baylinson, 1882-1950 Still Life, 1948 Oil on canvas 23 ½ x 33 ½ inches Signed and dated (lower right): A. Baylinson / 1948 Working in a real...

Accompanied by certificate of authenticity for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955. Additional painting, verso, with old inscription by the artist's wife, Jan...

A wonderful still-life, Cubist-style painting of playing cards and drinks on a table in orange and crimson tones. Gerhard Nordstrom was a prominent Swedish painter and graphic artist.

Signed and dated divisionist nude figure in interior oil on canvas by French post impressionist painter Pierre De Belay. This work depicts a seated blonde lady wearing an open bathro...

Signed and dated nude figure in interior oil on canvas by French post impressionist painter Pierre De Belay. This work depicts a painting of Pierre De Belay's wife - Helene. Here she...

Rose Louise Henriques 1889-1972, Lady Henriques, was a British artist and charity worker from the East End of London. This painting is of an East London church, St. Johns, Wapping, w...

Mid Century Fingerpainted Landscape in Acrylic, in Diamond-Shaped Frame Unique landscape by Hollywood, California artist Genevieve"Gen" Matucha (American, 1903-1989). The scene dep...

Kyra Markham Looking Out the Window, Vermont, 1947 Signed and dated lower right Oil on board 20 x 16 inches Kyra Markham was an actress, figurative painter and printmaker. Markham w...

Antique American modernist regional cow farm landscape. Really nicely framed and a very impressive painting in person. Signed illegibly.

Antique American modernist flower still life painting. Signed lower right. Framed.

Antique impressionist view out of a chic Paris apartment. Really well painted with great perspective. An unusual and incredible painting! Oil on board. Housed in a period giltwoo...

Hellmuth Bachrach-Baree, a German artist, apprenticed with neo-impressionist painters. His early compositions depicted rural life, integrating people and animals into familiar landsc...

Jimmy Ernst Personal Equation, 1950 Signed and dated lower right Oil on canvas 41 x 39 1/2 inches Provenance: Laurel Gallery, New York Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York Collection ...

"Mother and Daughter" Expressionist Portrait in Oil on Cardstock Mid Century expressionist portrait by unknown artist Jane W. Grace (American, 20th C...

Knut Ivar Johan Lundström, born 1892 in Östersund and died 1945 in Copenhagen, was a Swedish painter. Lundström attended Carl Wilhelmson's painting school from 1912 to 1915 and lived...

Birger Sandzen (1871-1954) Kansas / Colorado Artist Image Size: 40.5 x 48 Frame Size: 49.5 x 57 Hand carved gold leaf frame. Medium: Oil "The Flint Hills" Has his daughter's name on the verso. This painting was donated to Bethany college by Birger's Daughter. The college owned it for many years and then about 8 years ago it was sent to auction. It sold to an art dealer from Santa Fe, it was acquired from a gallery by a friend of mine who has owned it since that time. Biography Birger Sandzen (1871-1954) Born Blidsberg, Sweden, Feb. 5, 1871; died Lindsborg, June 19, 1954. Painter, specialized in landscapes. Etcher. Engraver. Lithographer. Teacher. Attended the College and Academy of Skara as a pupil of Olof Erlandsson. After graduation from Skara College, Sandzén spent a semester at Lund University attending art history lectures and continuing the study of French. Following Lund University he went to the technical high school at Stockholm, where he studied perspective and form drawing. Sandzén joined a group of young artists and they rented a studio at Anders Zorn's suggestion. They received instruction from Zorn as well as Richard Bergh, a well-known portrait painter and Per Hasselberg, one of Sweden's best sculptors. Sandzén then went to Paris to study with Aman Jean, where he began to associate with American students in the French studies. On returning home in 1894, a family friend sent Sandzén a booklet about Bethany College, Lindsborg and the town called "Little Sweden." Sandzén moved to Lindsborg in 1894 to teach French, voice, art history, drawing and painting at Bethany College where he remained on the faculty until 1946. He first painted in the Colorado Springs, CO area in 1916, and became a frequent visitor to Santa Fe and Taos, NM beginning in 1918. Sandzén spent the summers of 1923-24 teaching at the Broadmoor Academy in Colorado Springs (presently the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center). Sandzén also taught at Chappell House (the forerunner to the Denver Art Museum), Utah State Agricultural College, Stephens College, the University of Michigan, and the 188 Kansas City Art Institute. Sandzén's style of painting is unusual in its thick and heavy application of impasto in bold and bright color combinations, interpreting the landscape of the western United States. He is known for very colorful renderings of mountain lakes with boulders, cypress and aspen trees and moonrises along waterways. Sandzén was an important advocate for art in the region, spending time talking to people about art, organizing exhibitions and establishing art clubs. He donated artwork to the local art club to help raise money for the purchasing of art books for the library, the financing of exhibitions, and the occasional awarding of a scholarship. He painted murals for the Halstead Post Office, Where Kit Carson Camped, in 1941, for the Lindsborg Post Office, Smoky River, in 1938, and for the Belleville Post Office, Kansas Stream, in 1939. He illustrated three books, With Brush and Pencil (1905), In the Mountains, (1925), The Smoky Valley, (1922). SOURCES: Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)" Lindquist, Emory Kempton. Birger Sandzén: An Illustrated Biography. (Lawrence University Press of Kansas, 1993); American Magazine of Art, (Jan. 1927); International Studio ( Apr. 1923); Kansas Teacher (Nov. 1927); Greenough, Charles P. The Graphic Work of Birger Sandzén. (Lindsborg : Bethany College, 1952); Fielding, Mantle. Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, with an Addendum containing Corrections and Additional Material on the Original Entries. Compiled by James F. Carr. New York: James F. 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Josep Castellanas Garrich (Barcelona, 1896 - Majorca, 1980) Born in Barcelona in 1896, and in 1919 he moved to Mallorca following in the footsteps of Santiago Rusiñol, with whom he h...

This 1942 oil on canvas captures the awe-inspiring architecture of Rouen Cathedral with a level of detail and reverence that suggests both a mastery of technique and a deep appreciat...

A Calm Landscape Painting with Ducks Flying Towards Small Boat at Sunset Circa 1940's 25 x 40 unframed, 29.5 x 44 framed

Henri Ernest Clément DUPONT-CRESPIN (Notre Dame de Bondeville 1882 – Paris 1953) View of the rooftops of Paris Oil on canvas H. 65 cm; L. 92 cm Signed and dated lower right “3-1948” ...

John Garth (1889-1971) Mountain landscape painting with lake and Travelers Oil on canvas 1940 22 x 28.5 unframed, 27.75 x 31.75 framed

Karen Shelby African-American portrait, painting of Sapelo Island Midwife Katie Hall Underwood, 1941 Oil on canvas board 18 x 24 unframed, 21 x 27 framed

Up for sale is a Post Impressionist , Still life by Jane Wilson (1924-2015). Jane wilson was an important female Abstract Expressionists painter. She has been exhibited in many museu...

Striking early American school pastel of a ballet dancer. Signed lower right. Pastel on paper. 26 x 18 inches. Housed in its original carved and painted frame.

This oil painting is hand signed by the artist "Kremegne" in the lower right corner. The work was painted in circa 1948. Provenance: The Issachar Ber Frydman collection. Acquired i...

George S Bickerstaff (1893-1954) Circa 1940's - 1950's Rocky Coast Landscape Oil on canvas 24 x 30 unframed, 32 x 38 framed

This is one of the famous theater's in Montmartre where all the paintings and artists gathered in the famous square. Gen Paul (1895-1955 Fr.) lived in Montmartre, Paris France. He is...

This painterly mid-20th-century oil painting by Belgian artist Jan Van Looy (1882-1971) depicts a still life with ceramics, onions, lemons and tablecloth. Rendered with passion and ...

1940s New York Interior -- An Evening Scene of Artist and His Wife Wonderful moody 1940s New York interior and figurative oil painting in Ashcan Schoo...

Winter's Snowy Tatra Mountains with Pines and Stream Beautiful post-war winter snowy scene with mountains and pine by Laszlo Neogrady (Hungarian, 1896-1962), circa 1940. Lovely text...

Work on canvas Wooden frame 56.5 x 47 x 3 cm

Signed oil on board figures in interior circa 1940 by French post impressionist painter Jean-Louis-Marcel Cosson. The work depicts elegantly dressed ladi...

This oil painting is signed by the artist "Feininger" in the lower right corner. It was executed in 1940. It is also inscribed ‘Lyonel Feininger 1940 Architectural Composition I New ...

Signed post impressionist figures in interior oil on canvas circa 1940 by French painter Jean-Louis-Marcel Cosson. The work depicts dancers in white gowns standing in the grand foyer...

Albert Daniel Rutherston 1881-1953, British artist, painter and draughtsman, he designed posters and theater sets also illustrating books.

Signed lower left, 'J. Masson' for Jean Masson (French, 1900-1988) and painted circa 1945. A substantial, mid-century oil showing a wooden schooner drawn up to a quay with a man on board reefing in a sail and a view beyond towards pink-tinged sunset clouds above a tropical island. To the right, the stern of a larger vessel flies the French tricolor. Born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Masson first studied with Lucien Simon (French, 1861-19450) whose luminous Post-Impressionist landscapes of the coast of Brittany were to prove an enduring influence on Masson’s later paintings of the South...

Large vintage portrait of a woman, oil painting by Louise Alix of a woman in a hat in a garden setting. An unusual and striking bright portrait of a woman...

Albert Daniel Rutherston 1881-1953, British artist, painter and draughtsman, he designed posters and theater sets also illustrating books.

"Portrait of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel" is a 24 x 18 inches, oil on canvas Impressionist dog portrait by Gladys Logan Winner, granddaughter of 19th Century genre painter Willia...

This superb Scottish exhibited landscape oil painting is by noted artist Robert Houston. It was painted circa 1940 and exhibited at the Glasgow Institute in 1940 entitled Loch Lomon...

Manning de Villenueve Lee:1894-1980. Well listed American painter and illustrator with Auction records up to $22,500. This spectacular painting is one of our favorites. Probably pain...

Mid-century original still life oil painting by French artist, Louise Alix (1888-1980), signed in the lower right corner. A competent still life with plen...

This stunning Scottish Abstract Expressionist oil painting is by noted Scottish artist William Gear. Painted in 1949 it is an early and significant painting which dates to the early ...

Subjective Farm Landscape 1940 Oil on canvas, 24" x 30" 37.5" x 31" x 2" framed - frame is original to this artwork Signed recto lower right: "rosenborg 40" & arrow box cypher. Signe...

Early original oil on canvas painting of sailboats in stormy seas by the American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Artist signed lower right and dated 1945. Condition is very good. Prese...

This superb Post Impressionist Slade School female full length seated nude portrait oil painting is by female artist E A Jay. Painted in the 1940's, the sitter is a model in a women'...

This superb Post Impressionist floral oil painting is by noted successful Russian born female artist Nadia Benois. Benois came to England and settled in London in 1920 having married...

Signed lower right, "O Connor" and painted circa 1945. A panoramic view of an autumn landscape with leafless trees in front of a mountain lake and an olive green sky scattered with ...

This charming British portrait oil painting is by female artist Dod Procter. It was painted in 1949 and exhibited at the Royal Academy London the same year. The painting is of a litt...

This superb British portrait oil painting is by Scottish born artist John Rankine Barclay. It was painted circa 1940 when Barclay was already living in St Ives Cornwall. The sitter i...

This lovely British portrait oil painting is by noted artist Lionel Ellis. Painted circa 1940, the picture is a half-length seated portrait of a smiling woman wrapped in a red shawl,...

This early 20th-century oil painting by Spanish artist César Fernández Ardavín (1883-1974) depicts a cheerful young woman before a mirror. Buoyant and playful, she sits casually on ...

Beautiful little impressionistic piece of Yugoslavian history. This little gem according to the back of the painting is the Hotel Bristol in the Riva-Zadar Area of Yugoslavia during ...

Colliers Magazine 1947 American Scene Social Realism Modern Families in the Snow Katherine Wiggins (American 20th Century) "The Shrimp" 20 x 24 inches Egg tempera on masonite. c. 1...