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Period: 1950s
The Blue Trees, Oil on Canvas Painting by Claude Richard Mazier
Located in Atlanta, GA
This pretty oil on canvas modernist composition, typical of the 1950s, features a house in a village in the countryside with imaginary blue trees, designed by Claude Richard Mazier (...
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Modern 1950s 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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Modern 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Board

Young musicians oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Musicians Artist: Bernat Sanjuán i Tarré (Barcelona, 1915 – Deià, Mallorca, 1979) Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 36.2 x 25.6 in Support: Canvas Framing: Unframed Period:...
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Cubist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Coit Tower, San Francisco - Mid Century Urban Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century expressionist urban landscape of Coit Tower and skyline of San Francisco, circa 1950s. Signed lower right illegibly (D. Y'Gasseu?). Co...
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Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Clown - Original Mixed by Antonio Vangelli - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Clown is an original contemporary artwork, colored oil painting on paper, realized by the Italian artist Antonio Vangelli. Original mixed media artwork. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower left: Vangelli. Excellent conditions. On the back of the artwork, reflected image of the Clown. Beautiful colorful work on paper depicting a Clown: figure of a typical circus games...
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Contemporary 1950s Paintings

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Mixed Media

"Miami Paradise" 1955 MONROE, Johnny
Located in Bristol, CT
Acrylic on board depicting two femme fatales lounging on lawn chairs by Johnny Monroe c1955 Art Sz: 11 3/4"H x 15 1/2"W Frame Sz: 15"H x 19"W w/ gilt bamboo frame
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1950s Paintings

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Acrylic, Board

Hail Victoria
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hail Victoria, by 1955, oil on Masonite, signed lower left, 20 x 16 inches, exhibited 26th Annual Exhibition of Paintings of Contemporary New England Artists, Jordan Marsh Company, B...
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American Realist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Board

Ballantine Beer Ad. Mid-Century American Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Only Ballantine Ale Brews "Brewer's Gold," ad illustration appeared in the major magazines of the day. A magic moment is caught at a peak point of drama. It's the instant of friends having fun. A cold beer from the fridge is offered and it's is acknowledged with a head nod. The woman in the foreground covers her giggling face reacting to a funny comment. The decisive moment is preserved. Sounds like a critique of an art photograph? No, it's an illustrator. This ingenious Infiniti "S" composition simultaneously represents the best of photography and painting. Cartier-Bresson could have captured the precise moment. While Nicolas Poussin could have rendered the complex figural composition. Add to it , a painting technique and color scheme with the quick drama of a post-impressionist. We have a great work of art by an overlooked American illustrator/artist/painter, Mike Ludlow...
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1950s Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Untitled Mid Century Abstract Oil Painting New York Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
John Opper (American, 1908 - 1994) Untitled, 1959 Oil on board Signed and dated lower right 14.75 in. h x 18 in. w. 20 in. h. x 24.5 in. w., as framed John Opper described the 1930s...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

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Oil

Brutalist Still Life in the Summer, Oil on Canvas Painting by E.J.E. Dulfer
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Summer in the Windowsill" by E.J.E. Dulfer (1958) This striking abstract still-life composition by renowned Dutch artist E.J.E. Dulfer (1909–1965), titled "Summer in the Windowsill"...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Acrylic

Mid 20th Century Antwerp Belgium, Port and Cathedral
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Belgium: Port and Cathedral view in Antwerp by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968) signed lower right watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframed Image: 9.75 x 13.75 inches, sheet ...
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Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Watercolor

Warm-Toned Abstract Figurative Portrait of Boxer Jack Johnson
Located in Houston, TX
Warm-toned abstract figurative painting by an unknown artist. The painting depicts Galveston, TX boxer John Arthur Johnson in profile view. Unsigned. Unframed but framing options are...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Original Abstract Expressionism -- Sierra Mountains Cabin Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Sierra Mountain Cabin Abstract Expressionist Landscape Original acrylic painting depicting a cabin in the Sierra Mountains by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985), circa 1950....
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Modern 1950s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

Mid 20th Century, Belgium, Bruges, The Market Square
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Belgium. Bruges, The Market Square by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968) signed front lower left, inscribed and dated to the back watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframed Image 9.75 x 13.75 inches, sheet 11.25 x 15 inches Colourful and busy painting by Leon. Rowe, dated 1950 to the back. It is signed front lower left and inscribed to the back. The artist painted this view seated facing the 13th century Bell Tower and the Cloth Hall. The statue in the foreground is that of Jan Breydel and Pieter de Coninck flying the Belgian flag...
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Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Watercolor

Mid 20th Century Luxembourg Place de la Gare
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Luxembourg: Place de la Gare (Railway Station) by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968) signed lower right watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframed Image: 9.75 x 13.75 inches, she...
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Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Watercolor

Mid Century Sycamore Canyon, Carmel Valley Landscape with Trees
Located in Soquel, CA
Substantial and period mid century oil painting of California sycamore trees donning full fall color by listed artist Nell Walker Warner (American,...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Studio
Located in Sheffield, MA
Remo Michael Farruggio American, 1905-1981 Studio Oil on canvas 24 by 35 in. W/frame 28 by 39 in. Signed lower right & titled on stretcher “Studio” Circa 1959 Remo Michael Farrugg...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Sunset in the City"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
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Modern 1950s Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Vintage French Still Life Table Scape "Fruits and Flowers"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3421 A fruit and flowers still life painting, oil on canvas displayed in a black-gilt trim wood frame.Signed lower left by Bounduelle
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1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Arabian Nights - Guard and Sitting King - Islamic Golden Age - Gustaf Tenggren
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Miami, FL
One Thousand and One Nights - It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights. What is notable about this work is how magnificently composed, designed, and rendered it is. Its l...
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Art Deco 1950s Paintings

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Gouache

Impressionist mid 20th century still life of flowers in a vase, with poppies
Located in Woodbury, CT
Impressionist mid-century still life of flowers in a vase, with poppies. This is an oil on canvas and is framed in a vintage English frame. The artist was also a restorer and maybe more famous as running a studio of forgers in London, as well as being a respected painter. His most famous pupil was Eric Hebborn...
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Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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...
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Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Watercolor

GEORGES DAYEZ Etretat (Sailboats Along the French Coast) Cubist 1956 oil canvas
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Georges Dayez , born on July 29 , 1907 In Paris where he died in 1991 , is a French painter , engraver and lithographer of the new Ecole de Paris whose works have been regularly exhibited with those of non-figurative painters. Georges Dayez is the eldest son of the editor Jules Dayez, a native of the North and a son of a peasant, who in 1905 had taken over a small-size engraving studio in Paris rue des Marais, printing in particular gravure reproductions of eighteenth- century images E century. His mother, Marie Brard, was born in Neuilly in a Norman family of Bayeux . After the birth of a second son, the family settled in Vaires-sur-Marne in 1909 where Georges Dayez attended the communal school from 1913 , took refuge for two months in Bayeux in 1914 , in Tinténiac ( Brittany ) In 1918 . In 1919 Georges Dayez obtained his certificate of studies and spent his holidays in Vicq , in the mining country of the north of Valenciennes , with his grandfather, the spectacle of the destruction caused by the war impressively him, then returns to the college of Meaux . In 1924 , after spending the first part of the baccalaureate, he stopped studying to start painting, and studied phototypy and intaglio and lithography in his father's studio. He attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière at Montparnasse and the Julian Academy in Saint - Germain - des - Prés , as well as the evening drawing courses of the City of Paris, which Adam also followed. In 1926 he was accepted as a "free pupil" in the studio of Lucien Simon at the Ecole des Beaux Arts . From 1927, he made his military service, assigned to Nanterre then to the Aeronautics Directorate of Paris, and painted in 1928 , on a permission, Le Pont du Pouliguen and Le Croisic...
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Cubist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Rough Seas"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed and dated 1958 lower right. Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984) He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in Chicago as a youth, he took classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, returning to New York when he was 20. From 1913 to 1916, he enjoyed a scholarship from the Art Students League, and worked with John C. Johansen (a portraitist whose expressive style resembled that of John Singer Sargent), and Anders Zorn. He accepted a teaching position at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1916, remaining there until 1921. This enabled him to travel to Europe to study Cézanne’s paintings and works of the Old Masters. He traveled to Paris, Prague, Dresden, Berlin, and Munich seeking the works of Titian, Cranach, Rembrandt, Veronese, and Holbein, which gave him new perspective. Vytlacil studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, settling there in 1921. Fellow students were Ernest Thurn and Worth Ryder, who introduced him to famous abstractionist Hans Hofmann. He worked with Hofmann from about 1922 to 1926, as a student and teaching assistant. During the summer of 1928, after returning to the United States, Vytlacil gave lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on modern European art. Soon thereafter, he became a member of the Art Students League faculty. After one year, he returned to Europe and successfully persuaded Hofmann to teach at the League as well. He spent about six years in Europe, studying the works of Matisse, Picasso, and Dufy. In 1935, he returned to New York and became a co-founder of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936. He later had teaching posts at Queens College in New York; the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California; Black Mountain College in North Carolina; and the Art Students League. His paintings exhibit a clear inclination toward modernism. His still lives and interiors from the 1920s indicate an understanding of the art of Cézanne. In the 1930s, his works displayed two very different kinds of art at the same time. His cityscapes and landscapes combine Cubist-inspired spatial concerns with an expressionistic approach to line and color. Vytlacil also used old wood, metal, cork, and string in constructions, influenced by his friend and former student, Rupert Turnbull. He eventually ceased creating constructions as he considered them too limiting. The spatial challenges of painting were still his preference. During the 1940s and 1950s, his works indicated a sense of spontaneity not felt in his earlier work. He married Elizabeth Foster in Florence, Italy, in 1927 and they lived and worked in Positano, Italy for extended periods of time. Later on, they divided their time between homes in Sparkill, New York and Chilmark, Massachusetts, where Vyt, as he was affectionately called, taught at the Martha's Vineyard Art...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Mixed Media, Board

"Plage de Trouville" 1953, 20th Century oil on canvas by Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA Spanish, 1911 - 1975 PLAGE DE TROUVILLE signed Grau Sala (lower left) signed again, located & dated "Grau Sala, Trouville, 1953" on the reverse oil on canvas 15 X 24 inches (38 X 61 cm.) framed: 24-1/2 X 33-3/4 inches (62.5 X 85.5 cm.) PROVENANCE Private French Collection Emilio Grau Sala came from a family of artists. He was born in Barcelona in 1911 and his father, a good cartoonist, had been one of the promoters of the "Salon des Humanistes" and made his exhibitions normally in the Parés Hall. His first works were exhibited at the Salon des Independents, in the years 1930-33. Grau Sala was essentially a Mediterranean painter, son of post-impressionism and enriched with French painting of the last fifty years. Grau Sala lived and absorbed all the avant-garde movements that broke through in Paris, but never adhered to any. Creating your personal style. His pictorial lyricism and naturalism superimposed the evotative and sensitive quality of the image to any other concern. In 1953 Grau Sala spends his first summer in Honfleur becoming one of the most active Honflerian painters. Honfleur forms a coast triangle next to Deauville and Trouville, and in that August of 53, Grau Sala pinto is an elegant beach, which at that time met French and European high society. His works can be found in the Museums of the Villa de Paris, L'Ile de France Museum, at the Château de Sceaux, Honfleur Museum, La Rochelle Museum, Barcelona Museum, Tossa de Mar...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"abstract composition" green Yellowstone Oil cm. 27 x 26 1950 ca Green , Yellow
Located in Torino, IT
Green, Yellow, abstract, Picasso, Atelier stamp lower right Dora Maar, original name Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Marković), (born November 22, 1907, Paris, France—died July 16, 1...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Mona Lisa
Located in Sheffield, MA
Pal Fried, Hungarian/American, 1893-1976 Mona Lisa Oil on canvas 30 by 24 in.W/frame 38 by 32 in. Signed lower left Pal was born in Budapest and studied at the Hungarian Academie ...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil

Abstract expressionist, white and yellow mid-century modern geometric painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) White & Yellow, c. 1953 oil on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 30 x 20 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil

Still Life - Mid 20th Century French Russian Naïf Fruit & Vegetables Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A superb mid 20th century oil on board still life depicting pears, apples and garlic by the important French/Russian naïf artist Rastislaw Racoff. The work is beautifully executed i...
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1950s Paintings

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Oil, Board

Leaf People Surreal Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3004 Fantasy oil painting on board, displayed in a dark-wood frame
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1950s Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century Naturaleza Muerta Con Mangoes (Still Life w. Mangoes) by Dosamantes
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Naturaleza Muerta Con Mangoes (Still Life w. Mangoes) by Francisco Dosamantes Substantial and brilliant modernist still-life painting mangoes by Francisco Dosamantes (Mexico, 1911-1986) Exhibition label on verso (circa 1957), "Salon De Plasticas Mexicana - Instituto Nacional De Bellas Artes - Francisco Dosamantes, Naturaleza Muerta Con Mangoes." Image 24"H x 31.5"W. "Francisco Dosamantes was born in Mexico City on October 4, 1911. His father was Daniel Dosamantes who was a builder, interior decorator and painter. Since its founding in 1949, the Hall of Plastic Mexican SPM, has accommodated the most representative work of the national art. Throughout its existence they have been part of hundreds of painters, sculptors, engravers, designers, ceramists and photographers of all tendencies and generations. Jut names: Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Gerardo Murillo "Dr. Atl" Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Dosamantes, Jorge González Camarena, Leopoldo Mendez...
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American Modern 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Caught! Young Girl uses Doctors Bag to Patch Up her Doll - Alexander Sharpe Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross is an artist of consummate skill and wit. This painting captures a young girl in a doctor's office without permission. A p...
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Realist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Red Coat - Mid-Century Figurative American Painting. Woman in New York City.
Located in Marco Island, FL
American life is captured in this Clyde Singer painting, Red Coat, where he depicts a woman walking down the street towards her destination in 1956. An accomplished American Scene pa...
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American Realist 1950s Paintings

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Board, Oil

Seen from a small port
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Gold and black wooden frame 41 x 54 x 4 cm This remarkable painting, a work signed by the artist Waly, depicts a seaside scene with a touch of peaceful melancholy. ...
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1950s Paintings

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Oil

A Scenic Snowy Winterscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This is for your personal cozy spot in the Aspen house. Fire in the fireplace below where it will hang. A fringed, warm white cashmere throw on your down-stuffed chaise lounge, as so...
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Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Signals
Located in Sheffield, MA
Remo Michael Farruggio American, 1905-1981 Signals Oil on canvas 24 by 35 in. W/frame 28 by 39 in. Signed lower right & titled on stretcher “Signals” Circa 1959 Remo Michael Farru...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

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Oil

North Street
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern landscape painting by American female artist Virginia Tillou.
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Modern 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

North Street
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For Suzy and Jacques by Alois Wittlin - Gouache on canvas 25.5x33.5 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Alois E. Wittlin (1903-1979) was a Swiss painter recognized for his depiction of landscapes and scenes inspired by everyday life. His works often featured vibrant rural settings, cap...
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Modern 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Gouache

Modern French Painting Signed Marine
By Moya Dyring
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful and evocative oil painting by the great French school modern artist Moya Dyring specializing in marinas. It depicts a harbor with boats probably from the French Riviera painted with great intensity but giving, at the same time, a sweet sense of serenity. Moya Claire Dyring was born in Coburg, Victoria in 1909. She produced drawings, oil paintings and pastels. She was one of the first women artists to embrace Modernism and exhibit cubist paintings in Melbourne. For several years she was a member of the modern art community known as the Heide Circle, named after the home of art collectors John and Sunday Reed, and now the Heide Museum of Modern Art. Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Sabrina Egidi official Expert in Italian furniture for the Chamber of Commerce of Rome and for the Rome Civil Courts. Dyring then travelled to the USA and France, where she lived most her life. Her work is held in the Heide Museum as well as the National Gallery of Australia. One of her earliest works in cubist in style, Melanctha, 1934, was acquired by Sunday Reed. In 1934 Dyring also painted Portrait of Sunday Reed which went into the Reed's collection, along with a cubist style Portrait of a Woman from the same year. While her early works were figurative or cubist, in France she turned to landscape as she travelled to various towns throughout France. In her later years, unable to travel freely, she painted children against the backdrop of Paris. As time passed, she was largely glossed over and not included in major exhibitions of artists, especially women artists, of the 30s, 40, and 50s. In 2002, at the University of Melbourne, Gaynor Patricia Cuthbert delved into her life and work for a doctoral thesis, helping to bring back attention to her work. Collection The Heide Museum of Modern Art holds many paintings and drawings, some acquired through the John and Sydney Reed collection. The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra includes one drawing. The Art Gallery of New South Wales holds multiple works. Third child of Carl Peter Wilhelm Dyring, medical practitioner, and his second wife Dagmar Alexandra Esther, née Cohn, both Victorian born. Moya was educated (1917-27) at Firbank Church of England Girls' Grammar School, Brighton. After visiting Paris in 1928, she studied (1929-32) at the National Gallery schools, Melbourne, and shared fellow student Sam Atyeo's interest in artistic innovation. Classical modernism engaged her attention in the early 1930s. She painted at the George Bell school and studied under Rah Fizelle in Sydney; Mary Alice Evatt and Cynthia Reed were her colleagues. For several months in 1937 she took charge of Heide, the home and garden of John and Sunday Reed, at Bulleen, Melbourne. The Reeds were pivotal both to her sympathy for modernism and her belief in congenial fellowship. She enjoyed something of the intense relationship with Sunday Reed that the latter would subsequently extend to Joy Hester. In June Dyring held an exhibition, opened by H. V. Evatt, at the Riddell Gallery, Melbourne. Less enthusiastic than the Reeds and the Evatts about her art, Basil Burdett wrote of her 'somewhat incoherent interpretation of modern ideas', although he did acknowledge that her work had 'audacity of colour and a certain monumental feeling for form . . . qualities rare enough in Australian painting'. In August Dyring embarked for Panama whence she travelled by bus to New York, breaking her journey to view major galleries. She had intended to paint in the United States of America, but disliked the work of contemporary American artists and sailed for France. In 1938 she was based in Paris, taking advantage of Atyeo's contacts within the avant-garde. She studied at the Académie Colarossi, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and with Andre Lhote, although by October she denounced him as a 'racketeer'. In 1939 Dyring and Atyeo settled on a farm at Vence, France; inspired by memories of Heide, they grew fruit and flowers. Sam accepted a commission to decorate a house in Dominica, West Indies, leaving Moya at Vence. Evacuated to Australia via South Africa, where she painted and searched for tribal art, she then journeyed to Dominica and married Atyeo. They were not happy, neither painted and Dyring was ill. Evatt offered Atyeo work and Dyring accompanied him to the U.S.A. She viewed art, painted occasionally and claimed to have exhibited in Washington in 1943. After World War II Evatt found Sam various postings, while Moya returned to Paris to pursue a full-time career in art. They were to be divorced in 1950. From about 1946 Dyring's art was more personal than innovative. She gained a considerable reputation among French regionalist and nationalist artists for her sympathetic appreciation of provincial scenes and life. Bernard Smith placed her in the French tradition of intimiste painters. In 1948 she leased and renovated an apartment on the Ile St Louis, which, as Chez Moya, became a centre for Australians who enjoyed her hospitality, cooking and practical assistance. She revisited Australia and exhibited in various cities in 1950, 1953, 1956, 1960 and 1963; the press carried her reports of Parisian cultural life. Dyring held a solo exhibition in London in December 1949 and was in close contact with expatriate Australians, among them Loudon Sainthill...
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1950s Paintings

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Wood

The 11 Gauge Shotgun - Saturday Evening Post illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post interior illustration Signed lower right
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American Realist 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Board

At the edge of the pond by Otto Clenin - Oil on wood
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on panel Beige wooden frame, pink patina 55 x 84 x 4 cm
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Modern 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Woodland River - Mid 20th Century Oil Landscape of Forest by Leonard Richmond
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Leonard Richmond was born in Somerset, and studied at Taunton and Chelsea Polytechnic. In WWI he was the Canadian Government war artist and in 1925 was commissioned to promote rail a...
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Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil

Vintage French Mid-Century - Blue Nude
Located in Houston, TX
Delightful French gouache painting of a nude female figure from the back and surrounded by calming shades of blue, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat ...
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1950s Paintings

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Gouache, Paper

Mid Century Tuolumne Meadows Yosemite Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century landscape of a Yosemite's beautiful Tuolomne Meadows stream by Elsie Leona Staben (Trowbridge) (American, 1898-1963).Presented in a wood frame. Signed "Elsie L. Staben" a...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Standing Figure - Mid-Century American Portrait Painting
Located in Marco Island, FL
Mid-century city life is captured in this Clyde Singer portrait, Standing Figure, where he depicts a woman posing in 1954. An accomplished American Scene painter, Singer successful...
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American Realist 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Board

Landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category

1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Óleo sobre tela - Escena bíblica
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra va firmada por el artista en la parte inferior El estado de la obra es aceptable, un poco sucia, pero podemos consider que en buen estado Se presenta sin enmarcar la obra ...
Category

Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Dusk on Schoelcher Lagoon Martinique
Located in London, GB
'Dusk on Schoelcher Lagoon Martinique', oil on canvas, by Robert Humblot (1959). The third in a series of artworks completed in 1959 when the artist vis...
Category

1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Tuba Next Door, Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, September 27, 1952
Category

1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid Century Tidal Pools & Lighthouse Landscape
By L. Clogston
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous period painting of the Cape Cod Lighthouse with dunes and beach in the foreground by L. Clogston (American, 20th century). Oil on artist's...
Category

American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Country Auction, The New Yorker Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Right March 28, 1953 Magazine Cover of The New Yorker
Category

1950s Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Coucher de Soleil - Post Impressionist Figurative Oil by Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas by Spanish post impressionist painter Emilio Grau Sala. The work depicts beachgoers in Deauville, France taking the last of the sun as it disappears beyond the horizon. The pale yellow light reflects on the sea, illuminating the water. Two horse riders gallop across the sand. The piece is painted in beautiful shades. Signature: Signed lower right and further signed and titled verso Dimensions: Framed: 27"x36" Unframed: 20"x29" Provenance: Private Collection - France Emilio Grau Sala studied at the fine arts school in Barcelona, where he became friends with Antoni Clavé. While still very young he began exhibiting at the Humourists Exhibition. In Paris he exhibited at the major annual Salons. He also exhibited at many international group exhibitions and in 1937 received an important award at the Carnegie Foundation International Exhibition in Pittsburgh. He showed collections of his work in many solo exhibitions starting in Barcelona in 1929 and 1930. His first solo exhibition in Paris was in 1937 and he went on to exhibit in Madrid, London, Buenos Aires and New York. After three trips to Paris he finally settled there in 1936. In Paris he was influenced by the paintings of Marcel Gromaire and especially Julius Pascin. He created theatrical sets and costumes for several plays including The Woman of Easy Virtue ( La Demoiselle de Petite Vertu) by Marcel Achard. He also illustrated many literary works including Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Bel-Ami by Maupassant, Colette's series of four Claudine novels, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time ( À la Recherche du Temps Perdu), and works by poets including Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal...
Category

Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Brown Abstraction - The Walls
Located in London, GB
LILI ORSZAG 1926 - 1978 (Hungarian) Title: Brown Abstraction - The Walls Technique: Original Oil on paper Size: 28 x 16 cm. / 11 x 6.2 in. Additional Information: This original...
Category

Abstract 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid Century Bay Area Figurative Original Oil Painting -- Motherhood
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Bay Area Figurative of Mother and Baby in Oil Paint on Laid Paper Original oil painting depicting a modern twist of a mother and baby by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985), ...
Category

Post-War 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board, Laid Paper, Stretcher Bars

Vintage Underwater Fanty Seascape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-2729a Vintage underwater seascape on canvas Displayed in a silvered wood frame Image size 15.5x 23
Category

1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil

"California Round Hills" Mid Century Plein Aire Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
"California Round Hills" Mid Century Plein Aire Landscape in Oil on Masonite Serene landscape by J. Andrew Bennett (British, 19th/20th Century ). The viewer stands at the end of a v...
Category

Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Antique Polish American Impressionist Flower Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Polish American impressionist flower still life oil painting by Edward Lis (1915 - 2011). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 15H x 17L.
Category

Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Fall Landscape, Indiana', AIC, Laguna Beach, Chicago Art Association
By Derk Smit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Derk Smit" (American, 1889-1985) and painted circa 1950. An Impressionist oil landscape showing riverside, autumnal trees with scarlet, rust and ochre foliage ...
Category

Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Roses with Blue Vase Still Life
By Virgi Cokelberghs
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful still life of roses by Virginie (Virgi) Cokelberghs (Belgian, 1893-1967). Presented in a giltwood frame. Signed "Virgi Cokelberghs" lower right. Image size, 23.5"H x 19.25"W. Studied with Constant Montald...
Category

Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Social Hour
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left Probable Redbook Magazine interior illustration, circa 1950
Category

1950s Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

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