1950s Paintings
Period: 1950s
Color: Gray
The Fisherman
Located in London, GB
'The Fisherman', oil on canvas, French School (circa 1950s). A delightfully colourful depiction of a young fisherman admiring his considerable catch, a l...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with Victor di Gesu estate stamp.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the L...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
1950's Mid Century modern oil portrait of a nude woman reading, seated
Located in Woodbury, CT
1950's Mid Century modern oil portrait of a nude woman seated reading in an interior.
The artist was a portrait and figure painter active during t...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Red, Blue, Green abstract mid century
By Carl Holty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Abstract, 1959 is a sophisticated Carl Holty, experimentingn with color, space, and form. Framed in a new white lacquer frame of high quality. An important artist in Art History wh...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paysage d'Hiver by Paulémile Pissarro - River scene, oil painting
Located in London, GB
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Paysage d'Hiver by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Rocky seashore. Evening sun. 1954, oil on cardboard, 33x61 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Evening sun. 1954, oil on cardboard, 33x61 cm
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Plowed Over Driveway, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Earl Mayan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1954
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 21.00" x 21.00", Framed 26.00" x 26.00"
Saturday Evening Post cover painting, December 18, 1954
...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Indonesian Landscape', Mooi Indië, Javanese, Djakarta, RMS Otranto
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Soekardji' for Raden Soekardji (Indonesian, 1880-1950), painted circa 1950 and bearing shipping label from RMS. Otranto.
An elegant and lyrical oil by this noted...
Category
Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid 20th Century Modernist; 'Meadow Landscape with Wildlife' Expressionist oil
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine Modernist/Expressionist oil by listed Swedish artist Sune Blomqvist (1919-1989)
'Meadow Landscape with Wildlife' circa 1950-60.
oil on canvas 33cmx41cm
gallery frame 40cmx48cm...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cabins in the Camargue
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Cabins in the Camargue' by Yves Brayer (circa 1950s). The Camargue is a vast, swampy delta near Arles, very exotic, with tall marsh grasses where pink flamingos, black bulls and white horses roam freely. This image depicts one of the gardians in a small gathering of cabanes, hat hanging cowboy-style around the back of the neck, as he approaches his horse grazing outside its modest stable. Although there are many horses that still run free in the Camargue, there are cowboys like this one — called gardians — who ride the white horses on the beaches...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Hyper Realist Marine with Boats Vigo Bay Spain, French Oil
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful atmospheric seascape by French Henri Cadiou (1906-1989), depicting the Galician beach of Vigo - a rare painting, exhibited at a major international exhibition in 1958!
He...
Category
Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape Morris Shulman Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract Maine landscape painting. Watercolor and gouache on paper, circa 1960. Signed on verso. Image size, 30...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painter's family. Oil on cardboard, 50x79, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Painter's family (Ed. Kalnins). Oil on cardboard, 50x79,5 cm
Category
Cubist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Saint Germain-des-Prés under the snow. Oil on canvas, 60x92 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Saint Germain-des-Prés under the snow. Oil on canvas, 60x92 cm
Constantin Kluge was a Russian-born French painter best known for his naturalistic scenes of Paris and French countrys...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Mid Century modern English oil portrait of a woman seated in an interior
Located in Woodbury, CT
1950's Mid Century modern English oil portrait of a woman seated in an interior
The artist was a portrait and figure painter active during the 1950s-1960s
Great use of color and abstract brush strokes...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Crimea. 1957, oil on cardboard, 35x71 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Crimea. 1957, oil on cardboard, 35x71 cm
Category
Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Artist's Studio, Painting by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg, American (1922 - 2005)
Title: Untitled - Artist's Studio
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Acrylic on Board, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 29.5 in. (60.96 x 74.93 cm)
Frame: 2...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Pantheon and Bridge 2, Watercolor Painting by Charles Cobelle
Located in Long Island City, NY
Title: Parisienne Fantasy 2
Year: 1959
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed
Size: 24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm)
Frame Size: 31 x 37 inches
Category
Fauvist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Still Life with Fruit and Flowers', Paris, Tokyo, London, Copenhagen Academy
By Ib Eisner
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Ib Eisner' (Danish, 1925-2003) and dated, lower right, 1953.
Displayed in a period, carved gilt-wood frame. Framed dimensions: 19 x 21.5 x 1.5 inches.
A lyrical...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
Landscape Near Florence
By Gandy Brodie
Located in Lawrence, NY
Note: oil pastel on paper
Gandy Brodie (American, 1924-1975) studied dance and jazz before teaching himself to paint, inspired by the paintings of Van G...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
Another female artist in need of rediscovery. Strautin was good friends with Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock and lived near them in Greenwich Village.
Category
Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Floral Still Life - Petunias in a Glass
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming Mid Century still life of pink, purple, and white petunias in a skillfully rendered translucent glass by listed California artist Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997), c.19...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Paysage de Pierres Mortes, Abstract Painting by Jacques Zimmermann 1959
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jacques Zimmermann was born in Antwerp in 1929. He said: "The abstraction is not for me or a genre painting, nor a limit. It is a starting point. From there, by the automatic gesture...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
'6th City Wire Works' — Mid-Century African-American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), '6th City Wire Works', watercolor, c. 1950s. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '859' in ink. A fine, spontaneous waterc...
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Carmel Valley Figurative Landscape -- The Roadside Grocer
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous figurative landscape of a Carmel roadside grocer by Edda Maxwell Heath (American, 1874 - 1972). Signed and dated lower left corner. Presented in giltwood frame. Image, 20"H ...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Tuscany Village Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful landscape of a village in Tuscany, with visual texture from use of color and impasto, by B. Ignacio, c.1950. Signed "B. Ignacio" lower right. Presented in a wood frame. Ima...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lakeside. 1959, oil on cardboard, 36x49, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Lakeside. 1959, oil on cardboard, 36x49,5 cm
Summer landscape by the lake
Edgars Vinters (1919-2014)
Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints ...
Category
Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Winter evening. 1950. Oil on canvas and cardboard, 29x23 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Winter evening. Oil on canvas and cardboard, 29x23 cm
Category
Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Canvas, Oil
Mykonos Greece Sea View Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3950 Mykonos Greece sea view landscape oil painting.
Canvas applied to board set in a blue wood frame
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Trees Park Slope
Located in Buffalo, NY
Harriet was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and lived with her husband in Park Slope for over 35 years.
She attended the Brooklyn Museum School at...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sea. Oil on canvas, 61x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sea. Oil on canvas, 61x70 cm
Dontsov German (1916. Saratow, Russia – 2001. Riga, Latvia)
His professional carrier began at Art School of Astrakhan (1934 – 1939) and cont...
Category
Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Wells Fargo Express, Gold Country -- Columbia, California
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming oil painting of the Wells Fargo Express Office building in the gold country town of Columbia State Historic Park in Columbia, California by Cecil ...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Fablicius Bridge, Rome by François André Raphoz - Oil on canvas 54x66 cm
By Francois André Raphoz
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Outskirts of town. 1959, oil on cardboard, 44x54 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Outskirts of town. 1959, oil on cardboard, 44x54 cm
Realistic sunny landscape
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was a...
Category
Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Mountain Landscape
Located in London, GB
'Mountain Landscape', oil on canvas, by Louise-Jeanne Cottard-Fossey (circa 1950s). A very idyllic, verdant scene depicted by this renown French fem...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape in Winter
Located in Miami, FL
At a time when Abstract Expressionism was raging, realist painterJohn Atherton nods his head to the movement with a semi-abstract work. Meticulously rendered and carefully thought o...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tales of the Arabian Nights with Flying Carpet - Random House Gustaf Tenggren
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Miami, FL
Gustaf Tenggren- Attributed This masterfully designed and graphic interpretation of the Arabian Nights saga features a monumental figural profile while small figures float above on a magic carpet. Gustaf Tenggren (American 1896-1970) Attributed - We are not certain if Tenggren did this work. There is stylistic evidence to support Tenggren. It's the brilliance factor of how he assembles all the elements of the work and composes it into a cogent and readable form. This says Tenggen. As a former New York advertising agency art director, I have seen artists work in different styles. Usually this is not the case but great artist can do it. Their styles can change but the brilliance remains.
Untitled
Untitled
1957
Gouache on illustration board - Unframed
Not signed
9 x 7.25 live - 10.5 x 9.5 board
Original book illustration...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Desert Gold, 1950s Framed Southwestern Landscape with Saguaro Cactus & Mountains
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage Southwestern Landscape Oil Painting with Mountains/Mesas, Saguaro Cactus and Trees in fall foliage and Brush in Autumn Colo...
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Work in the village. Oil on cardboard, 20x32 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Work in the village. Oil on cardboard, 20x32 cm
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Mid 20th Century Belgium. Gent, a Morning Market
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Belgium. Gent Morning Market
by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968)
signed front lower right, inscribed to the back
watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframed
Image 9.75 x 13.75 inches, sheet 11 x 15 inches
Charming painting by Leon. Rowe, dated on the back as June 1950. Inscribed to the back as a morning sketch in a market in Gent. It depicts a bustling market place, accessed though a stone archway. You can almost hear the clamour of people in this scene, it was clearly a very nice morning.
Belgium and Luxembourg were two of Rowe's favourite destinations for his painting trips overseas. Often incorporating figures into his work, his style is very similar to Thomas Morley's paintings of French and Belgian market town scenes.
Signed front lower right. To the back are his signature again, date and the inscription. This work forms part of a watercolour collection we currently hold by Rowe.
Known as Leon Rowe, the artist was born in central England...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
VUE DU SACRE COEUR - MONTMARTRE, PARIS
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Vue du Sacre Coeur, Paris
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Bouquet in Porcelain Pitcher”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on artist board painting of a bouquet in porcelain pitcher by the American artist Nicholai Cikovsky. Signed lower right. In good condition. In contemporary gold leaf frame 27 b...
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Abstract and Drip
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Description
An example of Scarlett’s abstract drip painting, this untitled work has linear and geometric elements rendered in shades of black, rose, and blue and...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Rive Droite - Le Marche De Fleurs au CHATELET , PARIS, 1952
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Marchand de Fleurs, Paris
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Woman with Birds”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original mid-century modern oil on canvas board painting of a woman with birds by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and ...
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Orange Ship in Harbor, 1950's Gouache Painting by Alexandre Sacha Garbell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexandre Sacha Garbell, French (1903 - 1970)
Title: Orange Ship in Harbor
Year: 1958
Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed
Image Size: 6.25 x 7.75...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mid 20th Century, Belgium, Antwerp Cathedral of our Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Belgium. Antwerp, Cathedral of our Lady
by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968)
signed front lower left, inscribed to the back
watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframed
Image 9.75 x 13.75 inches, sheet 11.25 x 14.25 inches
Colourful and busy painting by Leon. Rowe, likely to be 1950 in date as we have several on identical artists paper from Belgium by this artist dated that year. It is signed front lower left and inscribed "Antwerp". The artist painted this view of the Cathedral from a position in the large adjacent Grote Markt square, whilst he sat close to the famous 18th century fountain...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid 20th Century, Ghent, Belgium Chateau des Comtes from Hoofdbrug
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Belgium. East Flanders - Ghent
by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968)
signed in both front lower corners, inscribed and dated to the back
watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframe...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled, The Flag
Located in Lawrence, NY
Neuman's work assimilated a wide variety of influences, including Bay Area Abstraction, the New York School and European Art Informel. Not bad for a young man raised in the rural min...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Young dancer" Dancer, Dance, baby Oil cm. 60 x 76 1955
Located in Torino, IT
Italy,Dancer,White ,Grey Little Girl ,Italian Painter
Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989)
From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to techni...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blueprints into Reality - Building Construction Rebar Concrete Forms
Located in Miami, FL
Blueprints into Reality - Full-page ad for United Engineers that ran in Fortune Magazine, March 1958, and other business magazines. As Fred Taraba stated, this image is symbolic of optimism and potential.
Work includes the original issue of Fortune Magazine with the ad in which United Engineers mentions Stanley Meltzoff.
"Here Stanley Meltzoff dramatizes with tools and massive concrete forms...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Very Early 1950s Abstract Texas Desert Landscape
By Paul Maxwell
Located in Houston, TX
Early Abstract Paul Maxwell Landscape of the Texas desert done in blue tones. Watercolor on paper from the 1950s.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 15 in. x W ...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Boulevard de la Madeleine Oil on canvas, 33, 3x46 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Boulevard de la Madeleine. Oil on canvas, 33,3x46 cm
Street in Paris at evening
Category
Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
At the Beach - Oil Painting on Canvas by Ivan Mosca - 1950s
By Ivan Mosca
Located in Roma, IT
At the Beach is an original artwork realized by Ivan Mosca in 1950.
Original oil painting on canvas.
Hand-signed and dated on the back.
The artwork represents a group of people at...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ship repair. 1956, oil on canvas, cardboard, 43, 5x61, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ship repair. 1956, oil on canvas, cardboard, 43,5x61,5 cm
landscape with boats
Dontsov German (1916. Saratow, Russia – 2001. Riga, Latvia)
His professional carrier began...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Mid 20th Century, Luxembourg, Old Streets Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Luxembourg. "Old Streets"
by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968)
signed front lower right, inscribed to the back
watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframed
Image 14 x 9.75 inches, sheet 15 x 10.75 inches
Charming painting by Leon. Rowe, likely to be c.1950 in date as we have several on identical artists paper from Luxembourg by this artist dated around that year. It is signed front lower right and inscribed "Luxembourg". It depicts a busy little street with figures, a dog accompanying its owner who gazes into a shop doorway, and a horse drawn cart.
Belgium and Luxembourg were two of Rowe's favourite destinations for his painting trips overseas. Often incorporating figures into his work, his style is very similar to Thomas Morley's paintings of French and Belgian market town scenes.
Signed front lower right. To the back is his signature once again and an inscription "Old Streets". This work forms part of a watercolour collection we currently hold by Rowe.
Known as Leon Rowe, the artist was born in central England...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Three Pears
By Thomas Prentiss
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an outstanding original oil painting by American artist Thomas Prentiss b.1920.
Three Pears, is painted in the hyper realistic trompe l'oeil style, viewing this painting ...
Category
Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
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