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Period: 1950s
"The Pot Stove, the Flowers and the Pitcher"
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 ...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ice Cream Picnic by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Ice Cream Picnic by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on board
101 x 76 cm (39 ¾ x 29 ⅞ inches)
Signed and dated lower left Orovida 1953
Provenance
Richard Pissarro, gifted by the ar...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Town Square in Ecouen - Russian Ukrainian
Located in London, GB
This is an original Oil painting by Joseph Pressmane.
The work is hand signed and dated by the artist at the lower left part.
It was painted in 1957-58 in France.
The painting is furthermore titled verso.
Condition: Very good condition. Unexamined out of the frame.
Note: This lot will be shipped from Israel.
Category
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
Caterwaul by Orovida Pissarro - Animal painting
Located in London, GB
Caterwaul by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
51 x 61 cm (20 ¹/₈ x 24 inches)
Provenance
Estate of the artist
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
G Hassell, 25th...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Squares - Color Field Painting - like Mondrian
Located in Miami, FL
Squares is a bridge between Mondrian and the Hard-edge abstraction movement. Clearly, this is a very early work because the artist has not yet found his mature style. The flat squares of uneven proportion, are in a formal but off-axis vertical /horizontal grid structure. Perhaps it's the artists take on a "drunk Mondrian" where the squares stumble to align themselves. Each square shape is different in shape and color and with visible brushstrokes and light impasto. Look carefully at the gray squares. They all have a slightly different hue. The squares are all unique individuals and not a repetition To Goodnough this was his departure from his influencer.
Squares show the influence of his teachers including Hans Hofman...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Back Fence with Bird. - Mid-Century - WPA Artist
Located in Miami, FL
The Mid-Century mindset
As expected, 65 years ago.. people looked at art/painting a little differently.
Back then, many artists were concerned with depicting simple and beautiful t...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Horses, Chicken, Ducks, Rooster and Pigs Children's Book - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Cover illustration for mid-century children's book publisher Merril Publishers. Signed lower right. Unframed. Retta Scott or Retta Worcester was (February 23, 1916 – August 26, 1990) was an pioneering Female Illustrator / American artist. She was the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Scott worked on storyboards to develop scenes of Bambi, his mother, and the film’s hunting dogs, on which she spent weeks to develop them into “vicious, snarling, really mean beasts.” Male artists in the company were stunned who initially assumed that only a man could create drawings with such intensity and technical skill. Her sketches caught the eye of Disney, so when the film went into production, she was assigned to animate scenes of hunting dogs chasing Faline. She worked under the film's supervising director, David D. Hand,and was tutored by Disney animator Eric Larson. This was a significant coup for the young woman, since at the 1930s-era Disney studio, women were considered only for routine tasks: "Ink and paint art was a laborious part of the animation process, and was solely the domain of women..." Her promotion to animator was in part thanks to the success of herself and other women such as Bianca Majolie, Sylvia Holland, and Mary Blair as storyboard artists. Even after receiving a promotion to animator, she and her animations continued being under appreciated in the industry. Though the most recognized Walt Disney female artist is Mary Blair, it is Retta Scott who opened up the doors for women in the animation industry. She became the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator. By the spring of 1941, Scott was also considered a "specialist in animal sketches."
Scott helped produce Fantasia and Dumbo, as well as an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows that was later cancelled. She also made an appearance in The Reluctant Dragon...
Category
Feminist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Petite Fille - Jewish Russian Art
Located in London, GB
This work is hand signed by the artist "Kikoine" in the lower right.
This work was painted in circa 1950-1955.
Literature: Cassou, Jean, Roditi Edouard, Mann, Mendel & Yankel, Jac...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Oil on Hardboard, Floral Composition by Ferdinand Springer
Located in Berlin, DE
Floral composition "Blossom", 1950-1959 by Ferdinand Springer ( 1907-1998 ), Germany. Oil on hardboard.
Signed lower left: Springer. Signed verso: ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
Quarrelling Gulls - Flock of Birds
Located in Miami, FL
This beautiful semi-abstract harbor scene of a flock of birds is rendered in Martin's signature style
Category
Abstract Geometric 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vermont Barns - Neutral Monochromatic Study in Grays
By John Koch
Located in Miami, FL
Understated town-scape in grays and muted blues. It's a painting that looks better as you get closer to it.
Koch brings the same serene intimacy to an outdoor scene as his interiors....
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1950’s CubisM abstract Flag Arrangements
Located in New York, NY
1950’s Cubist abstract arrangements of flags by Edward August Landon (1911 - 1984). Acrylic/oil on board, signed lower right Landon. Housed in the original frame. Overall with fra...
Category
Cubist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
After a Day on the Slopes, Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Following World War II, the United States Brewers Foundation (USBF) wanted beer to be seen in a more positive light, as an integral part of the American...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Well Meaning Kidnapper
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for "The Well-Meaning Kidnapper" by Logan Carrol, published in The Saturday Evening Post, February 3, 1951, page 24.
The full caption reads: "'Don't you know kidn...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Untitled Expressionist Style Figurative Abstract On Masonite
By Morris Gluckman
Located in Houston, TX
Early Morris Gluckman abstract painting of a black shadow figure holding a pink item.
Artist Biography: Morris Gluckman was born in 1894 in Kiev, Russia. He was an active artist in...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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
"Abstrakte Komposition I" by Hubert Berke, Abstract Composition, Dark Colors
Located in Köln, DE
Mixed media on laid paper by Hubert Brake.
"Abstrakte Komposition I", 1952
48,6 x 62 cm
signed and dated
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Laid Paper
"Tropical Scene in Gold and Purple" Eva Peron Mural Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan
This pieces is from the Eva Perón commissioned mural sketch collection from Likan's time as a commissioned artist in Argentina between 1950 and 1952.
8.25" x 10.5" A...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Dinner with Friends
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1950s
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Unsigned
Color study featured in Step By Step Graphics, 1950's.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charles Laughton, Time magazine cover Illustration, March 31, 1952
Located in Miami, FL
Archivally Matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches
Signed lower left
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
"Two Yellow Parakeets and the Surviving Plant" Oil Painting by Pat Berger
Located in Pasadena, CA
Something is mesmerizing about the paintings of Pat Berger - a captivating force that immediately draws us in. Her work is characterized by a unique composi...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Toits Rouges à Menton by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
Toits Rouges à Menton by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Oil on board
40 x 56.5 cm (15 ¾ x 21 ⅞ inches)
Signed and dated lower left, Manzana Pissarro 1953
The last years of his...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Portrait of a Young Girl Oil Painting 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Circle of Thomas Derrick
British 1885 - 1954
Oil on panel
Image size: 21 1/2 x 14 inches (55 x 36 cm)
Hand made frame
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pajama Party
By Victor Kalin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Gouache on Board
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Woman in Horror and Terror at Gunpoint
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right.
Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.'
Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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
"Das graue Zimmer" ( Gray Room ) Oil Painting 1955 by Walter Wellenstein
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on hardboard, 1955 by Walter Wellenstein ( Dortmund 1898-1970 Berlin ). Signed and dated lover right: Wellenstein 55. Framed.
Height: 31.1 in ( 79 cm ), Width: 40.94 in ( 104 cm ...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Walter Wellenstein Oil Painting "Bodenraum" ( Floor Space ) 1953
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on hard board, 1953 by Walter Wellenstein ( Dortmund 1898-1970 Berlin ), Signed and dated lower right: Wellenstein 53. Framed.
Height: 33.46 in ( 85 cm ), Width: 41.34 in ( 105 ...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
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
Horst Strempel Pastel "Mädchen am Fenster" ( A Girl at the Window ), 1958
By Horst Strempel
Located in Berlin, DE
Pastel on paper, 1958 by Horst Strempel, Germany. Signed lower left. Verso inscribed, titled and dated. Framed.
Measurements: 31.5 x 23.62 in ( 80 x 60 cm )
Category
Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
FAMILY AT THE BEACH
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Watercolor on paper, signed in the lower right corner, signed verso, in decorative frame, overall 21" x 25".
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Before the Cock Crow Twice, Thou Shalt Deny Me Thrice
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed lower right William C. Grauer
Exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art "37th May Show," 1955.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
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
Philip Evergood, Little Rock, Oil on Canvas, 1955 - "Civil Rights."
Located in Miami, FL
"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 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...
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flowers - Russian Art Judaica
By Mane Katz
Located in London, GB
This painting is hand signed in oil by the artist "Mane-Katz" in the lower right corner.
It was probably painted in the 1950's.
Provenance: Christie's, London, 3rd December 1999, lo...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jumanji, Robin Williams
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 30.00" x 20.00"
Movie poster design.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
New Year, New Car - Original Magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The illustration features a young boy driving a small red car with the license plate "1958" by an older man trying to fix up his older broken down car, whose license plate reads "1957"
This piece was illustrated on the cover of the December 27, 1955 issue of the Familie Journal and published again in the December 19, 1957 issue of Radio TV Gids.
Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Simone Lienard Still Life Oil Painting Mid Century Nature Mort
Located in Dallas, TX
A Spectacular and Striking Simone Lienard (Belgium, 1912-1988), circa 1950 oil on canvas painting of ducks on the kitchen table with wine, mushrooms, apples, pottery jugs and a wine ...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Encaustic Abstract Untitled Painting 001 by Frederik Ottesen
Located in Hudson, NY
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....
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic
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
Blondin Crossing Niagara
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This piece was published as an illustration in True Magazine titled "Blondin Crossing Niagara" in 1953. Born Jean-François Grave...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Ride the Red Earth, Book Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: 1958
Medium: Gouache on Tempera on Board
Dimensions: 17.00" x 15.50"
Signature: Signed and Inscribed Lower Right
This illustration was published as the dust jacket for the h...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache, Board
Le Sommeil
By Jean-Pierre Alaux
Located in Miami, FL
Early Surrealist work from 1957 the heyday of Surrealism - where a young blond girl caught in a dream like state hugs a mountain that has a profile of a man's face. Work is framed in...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Danish Country Estate
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 23 1/2"H x 30 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 31"H x 38"W x 1 1/4" D
Charming Danish country estate c1950s oil on canvas signed ?AS (LR)
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Part-Time Wife, paperback cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed lower right by Artist
This illustration was published as the paperback cover of Part-Time Wife by Gerald Foster (1953).
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Indian Ritual Walking on Fire, Firewalking Ceremony, Mythology and Religion
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Narrative artist Robert Riggs captures a highly-charged scene of an Indian firewalking ceremony. Firewalking is part of a religious ritual and is associated with the mystical powers...
Category
Academic 1950s Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Pigment
Portrait
By Joseph Pollet
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Description
A portrait of a stylized young man dressed in a blue coat with a ruffled white shirt in an artistic background suggest that it may be a portrait of a young actor or performer.
About the artist.
Joseph Pollet was an important member of the Woodstock Art Colony. He emigrated to NYC in 1911 from Albbruck, Germany (born in 1897) and at age 21 had a promising career as an advertising copywriter. While working, he studied painting and his landscapes were immediately successful in NYC galleries. He studied at the Art Student's League with John Sloan, Robert Henri, and Homer Boss...
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Parlor Organ
Located in Fort Washington, PA
signed lower left.
As you know, the pictures you have (Illustrated Gallery) were decommissioned from the New Britain Museum of American Art. Th...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
Minimalist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
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
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
Surrealist Landscape
Located in London, GB
JACOB EL HANANI b. 1947
1947 Casablanca (Israeli)
Title: Surrealist Landscape
Technique: Signed Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 80 x 59 cm. / 31.5 x 23.2 in.
Additional Information...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Lanvin Paris Arpege/ Crescendo/ Dividend/ My Sin Perfume Advert Sign"
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 8"H x 4 7/8"W
w/ easel-back
c1950s
Hand-made by Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Watercolor
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
Arthur Meltzer “Winter Farm Landscape” Watercolor
Located in Dallas, TX
Arthur Meltzer (1893 - 1989) "Winter Farm Landscape"
Image size: 12 x 21 inches
Framed: 32.5 x 23.5 inches
watercolor on paper landscape painting with F...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper
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