1950s Paintings

Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

Sergei Besedin was born in the village of Ruska near the Ukrainian city of Lozovaya. He was born into a working class family who were staunch communists. Besedin, shortly after the R...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Book cover for "Company K" by William March. Subject matter features three army soldiers in monochrome ...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Unsigned Illustration celebrating important women throughout history, published in McCall's magazine, May 1959. Accompanied by a tear sheet of the p...

Date: 1952 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 23.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left This is the paperback cover for A Bullet For My Love by Octav...

This sunbathed painting will light up your room with warmth. Sundblom's painting technique has the freedom and quick energy in his paint application. His subjects are bathed in the ...

Grosset & Dunlap, Illustration, Art Seiden was a top children's book illustrator in the 1950' - 1060's Work comes in two parts that are butted together by the artist

Signature: Signed Lower Left ‘Stevan Dohanos’ Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Laid Down on Masonite The present work was published as the cover illustration of the June 26th, 1954...

"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent who symbolizes evil - wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...

Medium: Painting Signature: Unsigned Contact for dimensions. Katrina, By Jeramie Price. Publisher is Pocket Books, Inc. (1956). Comes with book.

Date: 1958 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 23.20" x 33.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left Story illustration for Good Housekeeping magazine, December 1958. Image of woman and two sailors leaving house at Christmas time. Exhibited: The Triumph of Winter, National Arts Club, New York, December 16, 2013- January 5, 2014 A Native American finding a Raggedy Ann doll...

The painting (oil on canvas, 44.5 x 35 cm; with wood frame 64 x 54,5 cm) represents a moment on deception. It's signed Maccari on the bottom left, and it's dated 1956 and titled "ins...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right This illustration dates circa 1950.

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left End of Track - Paperback Cover, written by Ward Weaver, Popular Library, 1951.

Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Signed 'John Falter' Lower Right Sight Size 7.00" x 9.375;" Framed 9.50" x 12.00" Johnson & Johnson reproduced the present work as an advertisemen...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Rex Ashlock (1918 – 1999) Born in Spokane, Washington in 1918 Rex Ashlock was known for his abstract, figurative expression...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right

Signed lower right. Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.' Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint

Signature: Signed Lower Right Medium: Gouache on Board

Date: 1952 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 34.00" x 27.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Cover for The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, May 31, 1952. Clymer's coverscape takes you to Massachusetts' tidelands where the frost is on the pumpkin and the red and gold areon the trees. Gloucester harbor and the inlets roundabout-- for three centuries this haven has been the homeport of renowned and valiant fisherman. They were the Captains Courageous of Rudyard Kipling, the hero’s of Longfellow's The Wreck of the Hesperus and of James B. Connolly's tales of the sea. John Ford Clymer's success as an artist can be traced to his boyhood in the Kittitas Valley located in the central regions of Washington state. It was there that he developed an enthusiasm for the world around him and an abiding respect for historical accuracy. Over the years John Clymer received numerous awards and honors including the revered Prix de West in 1976, from the national Academy of Western Art. Other great achievements included both gold and silver metals for his oils and charcoal drawings from the Cowboy Artists of America, "Western Artist of the Year" from the National Wildlife Art Collectors Society, and both John and Doris were honored at the Ellensburg National Art Show and Auction for their contributions to western heritage. John's highest honor came in 1988 when he was awarded the prestigious Rungius Medal from the Wildlife of American West Art...

Contact for exact dimensions. The Atlantic Magazine Cover Illustration. November 1956, Volume 198

Signed lower right Printer's and designer's marks in margins "Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom." Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...

Date: 1952 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 22.25" x 16.25" Signature: Signed Lower Left This classic Nappi painting was first published as the cover for Backwoods Hussy by Hallam Whitney (PBO, Original books...

Medium: Oil on Canvasboard Signature: Unsigned Dimensions: Sight Size 18.00" x 24.00;" Framed 28.50" x 35.50" Cover for Fate Magazine - August 1953 The original cover painting by H.W. McCauley used for the August 1953 cover of Fate (True Stories of the Strange and Unknown), illustrating "The Gods of Voodoo" by North Hildabrand. In this offering a dancing pin...

High drama and fear is exressed on the faces of 5 kids as they anticipate the outcome a scary event. Signed lower left From the Estate of Charles Martignette. Most likey for the Sa...

Children's illustration of Ponies and Puppies Signed lower left Children’s Books Published by The Merrill Company

Date: 1956 Medium: Oil and Pencil on Paperboard Dimensions: 18.00" x 15.00" Signature: Signed with the Artist's Initials 'N/R' Lower Right Pan American World Airways advertising campaign Exhibitions West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum...

Archivally Matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches Signed lower left

Mid Century Modern Impasto Oil Painting -- Venice at Sunset with St. Mark's Basilica Wonderful and evocative modern painting of Venice with gondolas and St. Marks Basilica by postw...

Richly-hued vintage French acrylic painting of three ceramic pitchers, in a style beautifully mimicking a mosaic, circa 1950. Original artwo...

Acquiring a mid-20th-century Fauvist painting by Wilhelm Henning is an opportunity to own a piece of art that captures the vibrant spirit and expressive color palette of the Fauvist ...

Mid Century Modern Oil on Canvas Painting - Migration of a Prehistoric Herd A striking Mid Century original oil painting of deer reminiscent of the paleolithic art found in the cav...

Oil on Canvas by François Desnoyer, not framed. It depictes the port at Sète, in Occitanie, France. François Desnoyer, né à Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) le 30 septembre 1894, et mort...

A beautiful, painterly portrait of a young black woman with colorful headscarf and sarong by Lucille H. Olpin (Ethel Lucille Harman Olpin), (American, 1909-1990). Signed "Olpin" lowe...

This abstract smaller work bursting with the effects of light which contrast with and relieve the deftly applied impasto, is dynamic for Busa. The painting was completed in 1955 duri...

Casein on paper Like many of his compatriots of the time, Shulman transitioned from representation to abstraction in the post-WWII period as he studied with Hans Hoffman. Yet, his wo...

5-3253a Oil on canvas od the streets of Paris set in a vintage wood frame Image size 9.5x8"

Very impressive mid 20th century modernist interior view. So well painted with great color and bold expressive strokes. Signed illegibly. Housed in a period modernist frame. Oil ...

MARCEL DYF (FRENCH 1899-1985) Fille se coiffant, 1957 This delicate yet strong young woman of modest means combs her hair semi nude sitting in a chair in her bedroom gazing at a fl...

'The Harlequin', oil on board, by Richard Mandin (1952). Harlequin's traditional diamond patterned costume, bicorn hat, and the wooden sword that denoted his buffoonery have appealed...

The Hill Dwellers' JOHN BOLAM, 1922-2009 Oil on board, 1959, signed and inscribed verso. John Bolam is seen by many as following in the path of the neo-Romantics, most notabl...

Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967) Les Oliviers, A landscape with olive trees signed "EODV Guillonnet" lower right Oil on wood panel 38 x 46 cm Framed : 44 x 52 cm Provena...

Nicely painted mid century abstract expressionist painting. Framed in a silver modernist molding. Signed lower right.

Work on cardboard Beige wooden frame 71.5 x 60.5 x 4 cm

Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist. Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance. Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called   "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form."   His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this  painting  Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.  
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist.  He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color.  The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black.  Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows:  blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...

BORIS CHEMETOV "AU PORT DE BORDEAUX" OIL ON CANVAN, SIGNED FRANCE, C.1950 26 X 32 INCHES FRAMED 33.5 X 39 INCHES ______________________________________________________ Boris C...

Hand signed and dated by the artist lower right. Includes a beautiful contemporary wooden gilded frame. In excellent conditions. References: - Catalogo della mostra di Pio Semeghini...

Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 Untitled, c. 1950 oil on masonite 8 x 10 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art...

RICHARD ANDRES American, 1927–2013 Untitled, c. 1950 oil on canvas signed lower left 10 x 7 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Clevelan...

Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting of San Francisco Bay Shorebirds at Surf's Edge 1950's abstract expressionist painting of shorebirds at water's edge by San Francisco arti...

Johann Berthelsen Danish/American, 1883-1972 “The Blue Bridge Central Park” with People hand in hand in the spring or summer dusk with the lights of downtown Manhattan in the backgro...

This elegant oil on mounted canvas by R. Boughton (England, 20th Century) features an English landscape composition. The artwork is signed in the bottom left corner. The impressionis...

This artwork titled "Freight Dock" is an original oil on canvas by noted American artist John Rockwell, 1902-1960 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist, and also signe...

George F. Welch (1926 - 2003) designed this lovely Mid-Century modernist enamel on copper artwork. The large square enameled plaque is wall-mounted and framed. The artwork boasts an ...

An abstract collage on wood by Kenneth Morrow Martin, American (1911-1983). Exhibited: 1st Knoxville Art Center National Exhibtion, 1961 White Landscape by Keith Morrow Martin, Amer...

Guinovart. Josep Guinovart i Bertran (Barcelona 1927-2007) was a painter, draftsman and engraver from Catalonia, Spain. After studying at the School of the Lonja and the Promotion ...

Georges Dayez 1907-1991 Georges Dayez was born on July 29, 1907. His father Jules was a commercial printer. In 1909, the Dayez family moved to Vaires-sur-Marne. Dayez’s father fough...

Paul Lucien Maze Oil on Board 6.5 x 23.5" (16.25 x 58.75cm) 12.5 x 29.5 (31.25 x 73.75cm) Provenance: Exhibited Brown and Derby , Cork Street 21 May 1887 – 17 September 1979 Paul L...