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Period: 1950s
David Lan Bar - Composition - 1955
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Composition
1955
Oil on panel
Signed and Dated
61 x 50 cm
The painting is framed.
This beautiful painting is representative of David Lan Bar's 1950's compositions.
David...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Composition , circa 1960
Located in New York, NY
The Estate of the artist
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled
By Adine Stix
Located in Summit, NJ
Gorgeous watercolor by Adine Stix. This piece was painted in the 1950s and was acquired directly from Adine's daughter. It is beautifully framed and matted in a gold cube frame under...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,900
Woman Baking, Redbook Illustration, Mid - Century
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right, unframed - Interior Illustration for Redbook Magazine
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mother & Children - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Piece by Muriel Archer
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Born on June 25 1911 - she died just before her 100th birthday, fond of drawing and painting from an early age, she did her first drawing when she was four years old. She later studi...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Yellow Clown
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Lorjou has painting this subject "Harlequins" many times in watercolors, drawing , oil paintings and later on in the late 60's in acrylic, both on canvas, paper and some on m...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Composition - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
$2,507 Sale Price
20% Off
"Antenna Birds" New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal Mid-Century American Scene Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Antenna Birds" New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal Mid-Century American Scene Modern
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Antenna Birds
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1950s
12 1/2 X 9 1/4 in...
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Huguette Arthur-Bertrand Beautiful painting "Kablonn - Powanu"
By Huguette Arthur-Bertrand
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Huguette ARTHUR-BERTRAND
Title: Kablonn - Powanu
Technique: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 92 x 73 cm
Date: 1959
Signed
Huguette Arthur-Bertrand was the leading female membe...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Emile Albert Gruppe Gloucester Docks
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) Gloucester Docks, circa 1950
Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Original Frame: 26 X 30 Inches
Signed lower right: Emile A. Grup...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
$8,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Policeman in Village - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media
Pique Nique beside the Lake
Located in London, GB
GREGOIRE MICHONZE 1902-1982
KiChinev (Bessarabia) 1902-1982 Paris (Russian / French)
Title:Pique Nique beside the Lake, 1957
Technique: Original Si...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cosi Fan Tutte Fleurdelise (original gouache on paper)
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique, one of a kind original gouache on paper from Harper's Bazar series. Hand signed lower front by Erte; titled with studio catalog number on verso. Sheet size 15 x 10.5 inch...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$2,962 Sale Price
25% Off
Paysage d'Annay-sur-Serein by Michel Kikoïne - Landscape painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Paysage d'Annay-sur-Serein by Michel Kikoïne (1892-1968)
Oil on canvas
54 x ...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Composition - Gouache by Paul Bony - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
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.
...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$252 Sale Price
25% Off
Pont des Arts, Paris
By André Gisson
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born Anders Gittelson, painter André Gisson adopted the brush name Gisson to emphasize his connection with the French Impressionists. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1921, Gisson studi...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Street Scene Oil Painting - Houses at Sunset, Framed
Located in Bristol, GB
HOUSES AT SUNSET
Size: 44 x 62 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A stunning mid century modernist oil landscape painting depicting rows of houses at sunset.
The rooftops of the ho...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Yard Work, Stockton, NJ"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower right. Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame.
Alexander Farnham (b.1926)
Alexander Farnham studied with Anne Steele Marsh, Van Deering Perrine, and at the Art Students League with George Bridgman...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Memoirs Of Casanova, Paperback Cover
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover for The Memoirs of Casanova (Bantam books #FB-415, 1957): A New Edition of the French Translation by Lowell Blair
Memoirs of Casanova, Paperback Cover, 1957
Tom Lovell ha...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
“Children in the Park”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on masonite encaustic painting by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and dated top right, 1952. In good to very good condition. Provenance: Est...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$7,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Harvesting, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right and dated 1950.
Edward J. Burns’ Harvesting, Cedar Rapids, Iowa captures the essence of rural American labor with striking realism and heartfelt reverence. Painte...
Category
Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Fortune Teller by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
The Fortune Teller by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₄ inches)
Signed and d...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lunar Encounter with Child, Surrealist Portrait, Oil on Canvas, 1958, Framed
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Lunar Encounter with Child" by Philadelphia born modernist painter Leon Kelly, is a large, brightly colored surrealist portrait of two figures. The 40" x 30" oil on canvas was paint...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$25,000 Sale Price
61% Off
Departing
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.25" x 38.5"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Bell Tower Courtyard Figurative Landscape
By E. Lautenschlager
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Bell Tower Courtyard Figurative Landscape
Mid Century monochromatic figurative landscape oil painting in yellow tones, featuring a courty...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Still life with duck and bouquet on table top
Located in New York, NY
This painting was completed at his home in the South of France between 1953-1955. There is no in painting, relining or cracks in this painting and is on the original stretcher.
It is...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century Oil on Masonite Italian Signed A. Merello Still Life Painting, 1950
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Italian painting from the mid-20th century. Work oil on masonite depicting still life Sweet fruits of good pictorial quality. Nice sized and pleasantly furnished framework signed low...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Love Story Couple in Romantic Bliss Illustration - Mid Century
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
A handsome man and a beautiful woman are depicted in a rapturous pose. Their bodies are intertwined with each other and with the surrounding floral elements. This masterfully render...
Category
Romantic 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
$14,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Composition
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Abstract Composition
Oil on canvas 30x24, signed lower left.
Judith Sobel was born in Lwow Poland in 1924. After World War II, she attended the Academy of...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
20th Century Oil on Board Italian Signed Painting Landscape with Shepherd, 1950s
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Italian painting from the first half of the 20th century. Artwork oil on panel depicting landscape with shepherd and cows of good pictorial quality. Beautifully sized and pleasantly ...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Poster project with gouache and watercolor signed Cerutti for the brand Lustucru
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful poster project with gouache and watercolor signed Cerutti for the brand Lustucru.
Lustucru is a French brand specialized in pasta, created in 1911.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Many Rivers to Cross, Paperback Book Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover illustration for the book Many Rivers to Cross by Steve Frazee (Fawcett Gold Medal #935, October 1959) - (#S1371, December 1963)
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"On Wisconsin, " Oil on Panel Portrait by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"On Wisconsin" is an original oil painting on panel by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. This painting depicts two figures and other symbols to represen...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Asian Calligraphic Shapes Over Biomorphic Forms
By Paul Rand
Located in Miami, FL
Legendary Graphic designer Paul Rand was also a Fine Artist/Painter. In the present work, " Untitled: Asian Calligraphic Shapes Over Biomorphic Forms," Paul explores the relationship...
Category
Minimalist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Encaustic Abstract Untitled Painting 010 by Frederik Ottesen
Located in Hudson, NY
The bold texture of this artwork engages the viewer. The textures Ottesen created are not as apparent until seem from close up. A subtle stunner.
Framed this piece measures 29.25" ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Landscape Framed Oil Painting - Red Cottage
Located in Bristol, GB
RED COTTAGE
Size: 25.5 x 33.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A small and characterful mid century modernist landscape painting, executed in oil onto canvas.
This atmospheric an...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Weekly Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of American Weekly Magazine, June 20, 1954
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"Fish" original finger painting signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This is an excellent example of one of Sylvia Spicuzza's rare 'finger paintings': not only is it remarkably large, but it also shows her mastery of the...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Hurry Dad - Original Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A panicked little boy looks at his watch in alarm as his father tries to fix the broken television while the mother and daughter look on.
HÖRZU, May 16, 1959, cover illustration.
Panorama, November 14, 1959, cover illustration.
Familie Journal, February 9, 1960, cover illustration.
Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Composition Inspirée par le Credo de la Messe {...} by Serge Charchoune
Located in London, GB
Composition Inspirée par le Credo de la Messe en C Mineur de Bach by Serge Charchoune (1888-1975)
Oil on canvas
116 x 73 cm (45 5/8 x 28 3/4 inches)
Signed and dated lower right, Charchoune 1959
This work is accompanied by a certificate from Pierre Guénégan.
Literature: Pierre Guenegan, Charchoune Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 4, 1951-1960, Lanwell & Leeds Ltd., 2011, no.1958/012, p. 208 (illustrated)
Artist biography:
Russian-French artist and poet Serge Charchoune was born at Bougourouslan in Russia and studied painting at Moscow Academy of Art. In 1912 after deserting the army he arrived in Paris and immediately enrolled as a student of the Cubist painter Henri Le Fauconnier.
Upon the outbreak of the First World War Charchoune took refuge in Barcelona in Spain where he befriended exiled Parisian Cubists Marie Laurencin, Albert Gleizes and Francis Picabia.
Seizing the cultural moment, during the 1920s Charchoune briefly formed his own Parisian Dada group called Palata Poetov (the House of Poets), created a Russian-language Dada magazine...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern City Scene
Located in Sheffield, MA
David Redpath Michie
Scottish, 1928-2015
Modern City Scene
Oil on board
30 by 40 in, w/ frame 33 ¼ by 43 ¼ in
Signed lower right, dated 1955
Son of the painter Anne Redpath, David ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
PAUL MAAS Les Vacances 1958 Family at the Beach Large Expressionist Oil Painting
By Paul Maas
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Provenance:
Collection of the Artist
Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Warner, Washington, Connecticut
Collection of the Washington Art Association, Inc.
Private Collection, California...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Irises', LACMA, MAM Paris, California Post-Impressionist Still Life
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A lyrical watercolor of flowers informally arranged in two vases and contrasted against a lilac and purple background.
Signed lower left and lower right, 'Ament' for Janet Ament De ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bonnie B. Paint Book Cover
By Elizabeth Voss
Located in Miami, FL
Elizabeth Voss was a top mod-century illustrator at Merrill Company and was a
major figure in Children's Art and Children's Illustration
Published by Merrill Company Publishers, Co...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Resue the Children, Family in Horror Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This work is remarkable for its intense dramatic lighting effects and wide-angle composition. Very few artists conceived and executed with acutely dramatic light in the arc of art hi...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled Owl in the Grass
By Paul Rand
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated to lower right 'Paul Rand 4.6.52.
Paul Rand said. “People who don’t have a sense of humor really have serious problems.”
Besides being a seminal force in modern desi...
Category
Outsider Art 1950s Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic
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
Mid Century Expressway Proposal Over Norman Rockwell Town
Located in Miami, FL
Artist Richard Erdoes is as undervalued as he is overlooked.
Rarely does an artwork come on that market that combines sharp-witted originality with mind-boggling technical proficiency.
In “Mid-Century Expressway,” Erodes painstakingly draws a birds-eye view of a Norman Rockwell-like town buzzing with activity. He paints far away and close up in one image. Each block has its own charming Americana story unfolding. The closer the viewer gets to each scene, the more detail is revealed.
In black and white, the artist describes not only the architecture and infrastructure but also human activity - lot's of it.
Erodes’s congested town is humming. Overflowing trains, packed busses, zooming cars, stuffed trucks, frenzied pedestrians and even a marching band is depicted with great whit. But do not worry. Progress is coming and all will be well.
Superimposed onto this black and white clogged urban scene is a proposed new highway. It's painted in a punchy green and creates an unexpectedly distinct design.
The artwork was most likely done for Fortune Magazine or the like.
Notice he Esso Gasoline signs...
Category
Minimalist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pen
SALVADOR DE REGIL 1951 Surrealist Landscape w Figures, Hidden Faces & Nude Woman
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Oil on canvas board. Signed and dated lower left. Unframed.
Salvador de Regil’s 1951 surrealist oil painting transports viewers into a mesmerizing dreamscape where architecture and ...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Swamp Test' American Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 27.00" x 38.00"
"Dr. Walters glanced back. Howell was whispering to Louise as though the savagery arou...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Polo Match c1950s Acrylic on Canvas by Larry Golden
Located in Bristol, CT
Canvas Sz: 19 1/2"H x 15 1/4"W
Frame Sz: 22 1/2"H x 15 1/2"W
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Spectators Overflow, Collier's Magazine Illustration
By Henry Clarence Pitz
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Spectators Overflowed onto the Senate Floor as Webster (left) Answered South Carolina's Ailing John C. Calhoun (right center, in court), Collier's Weekly November 25, magazine story illustration, 1955
Medium: Pen, Ink Wash, and Sepia on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Henry Clarence Pitz was an outstanding performer in several fields, including illustrating for magazines and books, teaching and lecturing, writing on art...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
Farmer's Wife
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
Paperback Digest Cover, 1952
This illustration was published twice, first as the paperback cover of Farmer's Wife by Peggy Gaddis, Venus Boo...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Modern Drip Abstract Composition
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Drip Abstract Composition
Canvas 36x24 with frame 42x29.5
Artist signed illegibly lower right corner, Gallery Kabutaya Japan label on revers stretcher. Mid-Century Modern drip abstr...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$1,125 Sale Price
25% Off
"You love my island already” Story illustration for Woman’s Home Companion
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original magazine story illustration for “A Summer to Remember” by Marjorie Marks for Woman’s Home Companion, published January 1948, pages 20-21. The full caption reads: “‘You love ...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1951 Monhegan, Maine MUSHROOMS painting by Morris Shulman ex. Rehn Gallery
Located in Exton, PA
Wild period abstract expressionist painting by Morris Shulman. The painting is egg tempera on Masonite measuring 32" x 22". Signed M Shulman and dated '51 at the lower right. Titled...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$5,200 Sale Price
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Pierre Montheillet, Composition in green and yellow, monotype on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre MONTHEILLET (1923-2011)
Composition in green and yellow
Mixed media on paper - monotype
Signed and dedicated “pour mes amis Sallaz” lower right
Dimensions of the work: 28.5 x ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Monotype
Pont Neuf - Mid 20th Century French Naïf Paris Seine River Landscape Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful signed and dated 1953 French naïf oil on canvas depicting the River Seine at the Pont Neuf, by Louis Florquin.
Excellent quality and condition work by this rare artist w...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Triple Deity, 20th Century Egg Tempera
Located in London, GB
Francis Plummer
1930 - 2019
The Triple Deity
Egg Tempera on board, signed lower left
Image size: 24 x 20 inches
Gilt Framed
Plummer specialised in th...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
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