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Period: 1950s
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
Modern Italian Signed Portrait as Roma Football Player
Located in Roma, IT
Really impressive oil on canvas painting by the great modern Italian artist Umberto Carabella (Paliano, Frosinone 1912-1956).
This is an intense portrait of the great football player...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
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 pai...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Wood
Backwoods Hussy, Paperback Cover
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 22.25" x 16.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This classic Nappi painting was first published as the cover for Backwoods Hussy by Hallam Whitney (PBO, Original books...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
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Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm (28 ³/₄ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated upper right Orovida 1951
Provenance
Estate of the artist
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
G Hassell, 25th November 1988
With John Noott, 10th June 1992
Literature
K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 141 (illustrated)
Exhibition
London, Redfern Gallery, Recent Paintings: Orovida, 3rd-26th January 1952, no. 51
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Suit Fitting, Post Cereal Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Upper Left by Artist
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
SALVADOR DE REGIL 1954 Portrait of Marian Virginia Schuster - Surrealist Artist
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Marian Schuster was 19 years old in 1954 and attended City College San Francisco where she studied Art.
In the old school, Victorian, San Francisco, moneyed household that she was r...
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tragic Ground, Paperback Cover, 1958
By James Avati
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
This illustration was published as the paperback cover for Tragic Ground by Erskine Caldwell, Signet, 1958.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cover of 'Swords of Casanova'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Unsigned
Contact for exact dimensions.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Obelisk - Muslim Woman Hijab, Mid-Century Architectural Forms - Brazilian Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Brazilian/ American Artist William Schock paints a portrait of a Muslim woman in a Hijab gazing directly at the viewer. She is set against an obelisk and an arch in a well-balanced c...
Category
Color-Field 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Glamorous Redhead Iconic Mid-Century Illustration
By Al Parker
Located in Miami, FL
Glamorous Redhead is a poster-like iconic image that sums up an era in American visual history - The 1950s. Al Parker is a giant in the history of American Illustration. He possess...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
Portrait of Mythological Figure
Located in Miami, FL
Works on Paper, watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper
Robert L. B. Tobin Foundation San Antonio, Texas
initialed in cartouche bottom center
Category
Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Dipinto post impressionista figurativo toscano del XX secolo
By Mino Maccari
Located in Florence, IT
il dipinto (olio su tela 44.5 x 35 cm; with cornice in legno 64 x 54,5) è firmato Maccari in basso a sinistra e titolato "L'insidia" e datato 1956 a penna sul retro. La scena raffigu...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cute Cow Milks into Bottle. Mid Century Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
George Giusti is in the Art Directors Hall of Fame. George Giusti’s graphic designs and illustrations have graced the covers of Time, Fortune, Holiday. He collaborated with Herbert ...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Berlin's Mayer Reuter, Time Magazine Cover - Lucian Freud
Located in Miami, FL
The Board measures 13.5 x 12.5
Ernest Hamlin Baker is one of America's greatest artist that no one has ever heard of. Take a look at his full body of work. If you haven't noticed, Er...
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
Minimalist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
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
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
Minimalist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Children's Book Cover - Mid-Century Blond Girl - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Female Illustrator Barbara Briggs Bradley was an in-demand illustrator in the 1950s. Merrill Publishers of their famous children's books hired Barbara Briggs Bradley to d...
Category
Academic 1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil
Sexy French Cabaret Dancers - Folies Bergere Pulp Paperback Book Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Campy and sexy illustration of two French chorus girls for the mid-century Avon paperback Les Girls.
Story of the Folies Bergere Unsigned and unframed.
George Ziel...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Board
Jones Beach
Located in Bristol, CT
Original artwork depicting the Jones Beach tower surrounded by 18 frollicking unbathers commissioned by the United German American Societies of Nassau Co, ...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
It Looked Bigger in the Brochure - Original Magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The illustration features a car salesman trying to talk a man into buying a very small red car whose license plate reads "Pikkolo"
This piece was featured as the cover illustration of both HÖRZU and Panorama in 1959.
Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Happy California Prune Farmers - Female Illustrator - Mid Century
Located in Miami, FL
Commercial illustration depicting happy California framers for California Prunes. The work is rendered in a charming and highly stylized manner. Unfr...
Category
American Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Princess and Prince, Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina Fairy Tales
Located in Miami, FL
Italian illustrator Gianni Benvenuti paints a charming fantasy scene. It's of an extreme closeup of a tiny crowned and winged Prince and Princess They are standing upright in a dand...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Yesterday's Love, Love can Be True. The Heart can Betray
Located in Miami, FL
Classic illustration for a romanace novel from the 1950's in England. Recently these charming works have been the source of interest and even parody. Unsigned, unframed. Vale Studi...
Category
Academic 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Lanvin Paris Advert Watercolour Chic Model in a Floral Headdress by A.W. Montel
Located in Bristol, CT
Original fashion watercolour from the Lanvin Paris archives of noted illustrator Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002) this depicting a Vertes (esque) model in a floral headdress
1950...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Leaping Sailfish" Watercolor
Located in Bristol, CT
Vintage sailfish watercolor
c1950s
Provenance: A prominent Newport, RI estate
Art Sz: 14"H x 18"W
Frame Sz: 23"H x 27"W
w/ coral mat & antique bamboo frame
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
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
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
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
$6,000
The Dressing Table, 20th Century British Oil
Located in London, GB
Charles McCall
1907 - 1989
The Dressing Table
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1951
Image size: 30 x 25 inches
Gilt frame
Charles McCall was born in Edinb...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Indiscretions of a French Model, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1953
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Dimensions: 15.00" x 12.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This illustration was published as the cover for Indiscretions of a French Model by Ba...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
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
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
"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
When Couples Meet, Ballantine Beer advertisement, 1953
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Center Right: John Clymer
Ballantine Beer advertisement, 1953
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Marche des Fleurs Devant La Madeline
Located in Sheffield, MA
Charles Blondin
French, 1913-1991
Marche des Fleurs Devant La Madeline
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
11 by 14 in. W/frame 16 by 19 in.
A "School of Paris" artist during the mid...
Category
Post-War 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Schlitz Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Advertisement for Schlitz beer, 1950. Published ad included.
It’s part of their “I was curious” series that always features three panels. This one feat...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
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
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Head and the Heart, American Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Board
Dimensions: 10.25" x 12.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
The Head and the Heart, American Magazine story illustration, September 1951
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache, Board
The Village with Grey Horse - Russian Ecole de Paris French
Located in London, GB
This oil painting by the artist Gregoire Michonze signed and dated "Michonze 58" in the lower right corner.
There is a hand written label verso where the work is described as “Compo...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Study for "Getting up" – 1955, a preparatory drawing by Balthus (1908 -2001)
Located in PARIS, FR
In 1955, as he was residing at the Château de Chassy in the Morvan for two years, Balthus created a large painting entitled "Getting up". Balthus was inspired for this painting by t...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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
Boy Blowing his Trumpet at a Birthday Dinner
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Tempera on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Submitted as a Saturday Evening Post Cover
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
Blue Collar Gritty Truck Driver with Tiger - Color field meets Social Realism
Located in Miami, FL
Gritty working class truck driver with tiger painting on truck door, is rendered in a flat and quick style with rapid brushstrokes defining the trucker. The tiger is painted in a t...
Category
Color-Field 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grizzly Adams, Grizzly bear attacks Frontiersman
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait of a man and bear this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graf...
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
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
The Glass Fortress
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
Lawrence Williams and Nell O’Day, “The Glass Fortress,” American Magazine, August 1950, illustrated, n.p.
Daniel Zimmer, Tom Lovell: Illustrator, Decatu...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ambrose Park
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic pastel illustration by Clair Forster c1955 depicting 'Ambrose Park', a 'big shot' from the capital
Art Sz: 14"H x 18 3/4"W
Frame Sz: 19 1/2"H x...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Curaçao, Travel Advertisement
By C.G. Evers
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: circa 1957
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 25.50" x 17.75"
Signature: Signed Left
Original illustration for a poster for the Grace Line Travel c...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Novelist Graham Green. Time magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Work is nicely archival matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches but not framed. Signed lower left
Published : Oct. 29, 1951 Cover, Time Magazine
Category
Photorealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Lanvin Paris c1950s Gouache Opera Glasses by Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Located in Bristol, CT
Original gouache advert depicting four raised sets of arms clutching "Opera Glasses" by Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002) chief fashion illustrator for Lanvin of Paris c1950
Art S...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Is Geography Distracting You From the World Series?
By Charles Kerins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover for The Catholic Boy magazine, published September 1952. Captioned on the first page of the magazine: "Is geography distracting you from ...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
"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
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
$14,800 Sale Price
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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
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