1950s Paintings

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker (1929-2021). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Beautiful California mountain scene by Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" lower right. Circa 1950. Unframed. Image, 12"H x 16"W. Gleiforst was born in Crete, Nebraska but moved to Oregon where she studied at the University of Oregon. She then settled in Beverly Hills where she began to paint. Her teachers included Nicolai Fechin...

By Gustav Likan This piece depicts a couple on horseback followed by a man in a red military uniform. A dog runs by the group. This pieces is from the Eva Perón commissioned mural sk...

Beautiful view of the hill of the italian region of Marche, where the artist was born and lived. Autenthication on photograph by the Artist dated november 11th 1996. Very good condit...

Beautiful oil on canvas by the french artist Paul Guiramand. Provenience: Important private collection. Very good conditions.

Oil on paper. Signed and dated 'Walinska 57' (lower left). image size 20 x 13 1/2 in. framed size 28 1/3 x 22 1/2 inches Provenance Martha Jackson Gallery Anderson Gallery, Buffalo...

Luis Cordiviola: 1892-1967. Well listed painter from Argentina. He has had auction results over $10,000. This wonderful example of his work is an oil o...

Robert Gilberg (1911-1970) "Still Life in White" c.1950s Gouache on newspaper from Sacramento Bee 1957 22.75"x15.25" unframed Unsigned Born in Oakland, CA on April 25, 1911. Gilberg...

Irish mid-century landscape of Mulroy Bay, Co. Donegal. Well painted scene of the Irish landscape with water and mountains. The artist was active during the 1950s-1960s and these s...

A muted, mid-century oil on canvas view of a street scene in Brussels with vintage cars parked and a group of people conversing beside billboards with a view of a church in the distance. Signed lower left, 'P. van Mol...

Stamped verso with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1960. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art ...

Artist: Harry Lane Title: Art Shipping and Receiving Year: Circa 1950 Medium: Oil on Board, signed lower right Size: 30 in. x 24 in. (76.2 cm x 60.96 cm) ...

Artist: Rafaello Busoni, American (1900 - 1962) Title: Apres le Bain Year: circa 1950 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88...

This set is composed of Two Autographs Signed by Virgilio Guzzi, addressed to Silvio Perina, the director of the C.I.M, Roman warehouses, during the Fifties. Excellent condition, pe...

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...

The old dam. 1959, cardboard, watercolor, 68x54 cm The central focus of the painting is an old town, a historic district known for its antiquated architecture, cobbled streets, and...

Multi-colored figurative oil painting of a woman in bikini bathing in the California sun by listed California artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). The colorful background is...

Image dimensions: 20 x 28 cm. The Christmas is an original artwork realized by Esy Beluzzi in 1958. Original tempera on paper. Hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower right margin: Esy 58. On the lower right corner "Julie Laure" is written in capital letters in pencil. Mint conditions. Beautiful work representing an angel dressed with a pink long dress and two long wings in the center of a scene theatre. On the left side, a tree without leaves but full of stars. All the composition is enriched with golden stars and the frame is characterized by dark blue curtains...

'Reclining Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with Victor di Gesu es...

Flying is an original artwork in pencil and watercolor on paper realized by Maurice Rouzée. Good conditions. Sheet dimension:44.5 x 37 cm Included a white Passapartout: 69 x 49 cm...

Untitled Signed, l.r. Oil on paper 16 x 13 inches (40.6 x 33 cm), framed 10 x 7.5 inches (25.4 x 19.1 cm), image This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

Painter's family (Ed. Kalnins). Oil on cardboard, 50x79,5 cm

Surrealist painting from 1950 by artist Camilo of two relaxing harlequin performers by the seaside dressed in yellow and pink. Signed and dated by artist. Cleaned And Restored.

Along the fence. Plywood, oil, 14x14 cm

Wonderful landscape of Ragged Peak and Lower Young Lake in Yosemite National Park by Anna Ballarian (American, 1911-2010). Signed "Anna Ballarian" lower right. Unframed. Image size, ...

A colorful, 1950s oil on canvas painting of a bull fight by artist Francis Chapin in a brown frame. Estate stamped on reverse. Artwork size: 18" x 24". Framed size: 18 1/2" x 24...

Beautiful oil painting of eastern Sierras by unknown artist in the style of Edgar Payne and Hanson Putthuff by anonymous artist circa 1950. Image size: 20"...

This oil on canvas is signed and dated in the lower right and measures 32.5" x 37" including the frame. The scene depicts a young lady playing her guitar by the light of the fire. Th...

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...

Standing Nude with Sun (28) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: 1957 Oil on Board, signed Size: 21.5 in. x 26 in. (54.61 cm x 66.04 cm)

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A delicate watercolor view of the medieval rectory of Winchester, in the English county of Hampshire, showing figures and a horse-drawn cart in Broad Street. Signed lower right, "Frank Sherwin...

Artist: Jacquelinne White– American (1919-2008) Title: Sketch of Carla at the Age of 12 Year: 1957 Medium: Oil on canvas Sight size: 37.5 x 27.5 Framed size: 41 x 31 inches Signatur...

This piece is a unique, original gouache on paper by Erte, also known as Romain de Tirtoff. It was created in 1957 as a costume design for a cabaret show and is from the private coll...

Federico Castellon Boats in the harbor, ca. 1950 Oil on paper 25 1/5 × 17 3/10 in 64 × 44 cm (without frame) Frame included

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...

Signed lower left, 'Soekardji' for Raden Soekardji (Indonesian, 1880-1950), painted circa 1950 and bearing shipping label from RMS. Otranto. An elegan...

Vibrant landscape of a calm river with colorful reflections winding through a lush valley of grasses and trees, with blue and purple mountains in the background, by an unknown artist...

Lovely mid century winter landscape of a snow-covered pathway leading through the trees in Bronxville, New York by Hunter Field (American,...

Abstract Composition is a small yet significant artwork made by Paul Bony, a famous French artist active in the mid-20th century. The artwork is in excellent state of preservation. ...

Oil still-life of a bouquet of ocher, rose, cobalt, lavender, and ivory wildflowers, informally arranged in a goblet against a background of rust and periwinkle. Signed lower right...

Oil on canvas depicting an abstract subject by Tristan Fabris. He is a painter from italy where he was born in 1927. He moved early to France and there he attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon. His work is influenced by the cubism and surrealism. He worked with Le Corbusier and his activity was mostly making decors for theatres. He died 1989...

Somewhat like Gertrude Abercrombie but the work is better painted, conceived, and designed - Magazine Illustration. Most likely for: Good Housek...

Andres Segovia: 1929-1996. Well listed Spanish and Argentinian painter. He has had auction results as high as $35,000. This fabulous modern still life is an oil on board. It measures...

Bette Lou Voorhis "Mexican Pottery Decorator" Born 1930 Austin Artist Image Size: 36 x 24 Frame Size: 43 x 31 Medium: Oil Biography: Bette Lou Voorhis...

Wine Enologist Claude Wolf - Mid Century Portrait A stately mid-century portrait of Claude Wolf (1904-1973), a vintner Enologist by Abel George Warshawsky...

An elegant still-life of apricot-pink roses shown informally arranged in a plum-colored vase contrasted against a scumbled ivory and parchment background. Signed lower left 'Jon Bl...

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...

Stunning mid century textile abstract mixed media painting of apples by Anna Ballarian (American, 1911-2010). Signed " Anna Ballarian" lower ...

This superb British Post Impressionist figurative landscape oil painting is by war artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. Painted circa 1953 it depicts festivities outside Buckingham Palace, L...

A small, colorful Modernist landscape painting by Harold Haydon, depicting "View NW from Sun Deck, Aspen, Colo, Ajax Mt.", dated 1955. This painting com...

Fritz Aigner, The Holy Family, 1951 Signed, dated, and inscribed lower right. Inscription: "Sing, oh sing, you sorrow to God, the Almighty in death... Josef Maria f. Aigner 1951." Oi...

This superb large abstract oil painting is by Italian born but South African based artist Armando Baldinelli. It was painted circa 1958 after Baldinelli left Italy for South Africa a...

Olģerts Saldavs (1907.29.VII – 1960.1.IV) - Painter, art scholar. Studied in the studio of U. Skulme, later of K. Miesnieks and L. Liberts (1926). In 1936, he graduated from the V. ...

The texture of this artwork is both subtle and engaging. Standing far away this painting invites the viewer to step forward and see up close the eye-catching texture Ottesen created....

Signed lower right "Muriel Backman" for Muriel Durgin Backman (American, 1902-1996) and titled verso "The Cool Gray City". An elegant mid-century view of the San Francisco skyline a...

Artist: Paul von Ringelheim, Austrian/American (1933 - 2003) Title: Sanford Beresofsky's Bathroom Year: 1958 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated Size: 44 x...

Mid century figurative of romantic adventures by Duleich (American, 20th Century). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Duleich '59" lower left. Image size, 30.25"H x 24"W. Framed si...