1950s Paintings

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker. Framed. Oil on canvas.

Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Gershon Benjamin (1899 – 1985). An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and urban scene...

An abstract collage on wood by Kenneth Morrow Martin, American (1911-1983). Exhibited: 1st Knoxville Art Center National Exhibtion, 1961 White Landscape by Keith Morrow Martin...

Very impressive modernist still life by Miguel Guzman. Oil on canvas. Nicely framed. Great color and composition.

Artist: Henri Renard, French (1920 - ) Title: French Street Scene Year: circa 1950 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Image Size: 24 x 36 in. (60.96 x 91.44 cm) Frame Size: 31.5 x 44...

André Vignoles (French, 1920-2017) Pears and Peppers, 1957 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left 48 in. h. x 28 in. w., as framed 39 in. h. x 19 in. w., canvas André Vignoles wa...

Shulman, Morris (American, 1912-1978). UNTITLED. Casein on paper, circa 1951. Signed, lower left. 14 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches, framed to 23 x 30 inches. In excellent condition. Shulman st...

This charming naivist painting by Swedish artist Olof (Olle) Casimir Ågren (1874–1962) depicts a horse standing gracefully beside a tree. Executed with bold, textured brushstrokes an...

Title: Rincón de Horta (Corner of Horta) Artist: Antoni Llobet Aracil (Barcelona, 1910 – 1983) Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 46 × 55 cm (18.1 × 21.7 in) Support: Canvas on stretc...

Who says you can’t hang a painting bursting with flowers in an all-neutrals room? At no risk of disturbing the peace, here’s an artwork done of roses and anthurium in surprisingly re...

Beautiful, historic painting of the California desert in bloom by listed Santa Cruz artist Charles O. Fuson (American, 1898-1981). Signed "C.O. Fuson" lower left. Titled, signed on v...

Mid Century Southern California Santa Paula Mountains Landscape by Nell Walker Warner Gorgeous mid-century landscape oil painting of Southern California's...

"Artist and His Family" is a captivating 1950 oil on board painting by renowned American artist Donna Marecak (1922-1998). This intimate interior scene f...

Gorgeous mid-century Belgian landscape by Gustav Pynaert (Belgium, 1900-1968), c.1950. Signed lower right. Unframed. Image size: 16"H x 20"L. Gustave Pynaert was born in Menen in West Flanders...

Northern California Coastal Santa Cruz County Ocean Waves 1950 Plein Air Santa Cruz Sandstone Cliffs and crashing waves near Natural Bridges circa 1950 by an unknown California artis...

Vaudeville Theatre by Edouard Cortes was painted circa 1955-60 and signed lower left. It is oil on canvas measuring 18x22 in original unlined condition....

Work on canvas Molded frame in plaster and gilded wood 72 x 56 x 6 cm

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

Jean Salabet French, 20th Century La Place de L'Opera, Paris Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes. His work is comparable to those of...

Artist: Carl Thorp – American (1912-1989 ) Title: Untitled, California landscape Year: circa 1950 Medium: Oil on canvas Image size: 24.5 x 29.5 inches Framed size: 27.5 x 32.5 inches Signature: Signed lower right Condition: Very good This artwork is untitled. It looks like a scene in California. There is a sun-dappled, partially shaded foreground, a dark shaded row of trees mid-ground and a sunny hillside or mountainside as background, showing in the upper right of the composition. The painting is composed of oil on canvas. It is signed in the lower right corner by the artist. It is framed in a wooden gold frame. The painting is in very good condition. The frame is in good condition with a small 1/8" dent. Please see pictures. About the artist: Carl Thorp (1912–1989) was an American artist who became known for Impressionist landscapes of California, sometimes referred to as California Scene Painting, as well as New York City, Boston and New Orleans Cityscapes. He was born in Lubbock, Texas on November 14, 1912. Active in California between 1928 and 1957, Carl Thorp studied at the Academy of Fine Art in San Diego with Maurice Braun and Alfred Mitchell...

Work from the second school of Paris.

"Pastel Bust Of A Naked Young Woman Signed Fried Pal" Pál Fried (June 16, 1893 in Hungary - March 6, 1976 in New York) was a Hungarian artist known for his erotic paintings of dance...

Antique American signed abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.

Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed "Lee Tang".

Dynamic French abstract fusing various shapes and patterns with bright and bold hues, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival ...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Abstracted River Canyon Landscape in Oil on Canvas Dramatic landscape by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Three large cliffs tower over a river, creating a massive canyon. The landscape is represented in colors reminiscent of fauvism - greens, yellows, and magentas. Signed "Honora Berg" at the bottom edge. Acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Initialed and numbered "HB 103" on verso Unframed. This piece is on canvas that has been stretched over cardstock by the artist. Board size: 20.5"H x 25.75"W Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell — David Park's aunt — suggested a move to California in 1951 to study under Park. She exhibited at the 25th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961. Provenance, Estate of Honora Berg - David Carlson Gallery, Larry Miller...

Modernist Mid Century Forest by Anany Alexeevich Verbitsky Beautiful mid century forest landscape depicting a clearing in the dense evergreen trees by Verbitsky Anani Alexeevich (Russian, 1895-1974) Signed in the lower right corner "А. Вербицкий" (translated). "A Verbitski". No frame. Image size: 27.5"H x 22.5"W. EXHIBITIONS: PORTRAIT OF VASILI SCHUKIN, The brilliance of Russian painters“ from the collection of Vladimir Peshich, The Russian House in Belgrade, May 12 – September 14, 2022. Listed: Russian Federation Artists Trade Union...

Artwork sold with frame (77x97 cm) "Plainpalais Market" captures the lively atmosphere of Geneva's renowned market square. This piece exemplifies the hability of Tapias to convey th...

'On the Path', pastel and ink on art paper, by Suzanne Tourte (circa 1950s). Executed with a lively palette of colour, this is a surprisingly sophisticated modern work of art which belies its rather naive style. Flowered fields, green grassy patches, a curved path and blue skies all figure in this engaging landscape with two figures. Newly framed and glazed in anti-reflective glass, this work is in good overall condition. Signed: 'S X Tourte' in the lower right hand. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying the listing. Upon request, a video may be provided. About the Artist: Suzanne Tourte (1904-1979) was a French painter, engraver, medalist, fresco artist, lithographer and illustrator. She was also an excellent vocalist. She studied at the school of Beaux-Arts in Reims while continuing her musical studies at the Conservatoire de la Ville. She chose painting as a profession and returned to Paris to continue her studies. She was friends with artists Yves Brayer and Robert Humblot...

Eric Cederberg (1897-1984) Beach with pearls, ca. 1950 Oil on panel 9 1/10 × 14 3/5 in l 23 × 37 cm Frame included: 13 3/4 x 19 1/3 l 35 x 49 cm Signed lower left Exhibition history...

Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist. Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance. Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called   "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form."   His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this  painting  Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.  
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist.  He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color.  The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black.  Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows:  blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...

Antique American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canas. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, read...

Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, February 6, 1960 Caption: "The Cover: Artist John Clymer takes you to the summit of Washington state's Snoqualimie Pass, where they seem to have had a few snow flurries lately. Up there the moist westerly winds bump against sky-reaching peaks of the Cascade Range, with the result that the winds spill their contents before whistling dryly on down across the eastern slopes. Thus residents of places like Seattle living in a relatively balmy clime beside the Pacific's mild Japan current, can drive in an hour or two up to where skiing material is sometimes twenty feet thick if it's an inch. Indeed, when seasons overlap, a downlander might conceivably pick a rose and go skiing with it in his buttonhole. All of which, thanks to highway crews who blow off the blizzards, is a very felicitous geographic arrangement." John Ford Clymer's success as an artist can be traced to his boyhood in the Kittitas Valley located in the central regions of Washington state. It was there that he developed an enthusiasm for the world around him and an abiding respect for historical accuracy. Over the years John Clymer received numerous awards and honors including the revered Prix de West in 1976, from the national Academy of Western Art. Other great achievements included both gold and silver metals for his oils and charcoal drawings from the Cowboy Artists of America, "Western Artist of the Year" from the National Wildlife Art Collectors Society, and both John and Doris were honored at the Ellensburg National Art Show and Auction for their contributions to western heritage. John's highest honor came in 1988 when he was awarded the prestigious Rungius Medal from the Wildlife of American West Art...

French Still Life With Flowers Bouquet Oil on masonite, signed, original vintage frame. Edith Faucon was born on May 24 in 1919 in Carentan France. She owes her artistic training f...

Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), Untitled (African Idol), watercolor, c. 1950s. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '570' in ink. A fine, spontaneous wat...

Brussels: Belgium. De Brouckere Square and the Jules Anspach Obelisk by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968) signed lower left watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframed Sheet: 9.7...

PABLO PICASSO Spanish, 1881 - 1973 La famille du saltimbanque (B. 753; M. 249) signed in black ink "Picasso" (lower right) numbered in pencil "5/50" (lower left) lithograph on Arches...

From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedmann Opper Yellow Cubist FIgure c. 1940-1950's Gouache 15" x 18", silver wood frame 16"x19" Unsigned This striking gouache painting featur...

Original, highly textured oil on canvas painting by Jacques Gandon. Signed lower right and dated 1953. The painting has the visual appearance of a woven fabric abstract. Can be hung horizontally or vertically. Condition is very good, no issues. Original artist pine strip frame. Frame has wear consistent with its age. Overall framed measurements are 24.5 by 37 inches. Vintage Jonathan Adler...

3771 Oil on canvas of a still life table setting Set in a hand carved vintage frame Image size 11.5x15.5" Illegibly signed lower left

Vintage American modernist chicken oil painting. Oil on canvas.

View of a Port "59" French Modernist School Oil on canvas Illegibly signed. l.r., dated "59" 28 3/4 x 23 3/4 (30 x 25 frame) inches A positively brilliant, Modernist view of a French port...

Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting by Frank Barry. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 27 by 31 inches overall and 18 by 22 painting alone. Nicely framed in a wood...

Beni E. Kosh/Charles Elmer Harris (American, 1917-1993) Meditation on African Sculpture, 1957 Oil on found wood panel Signed and dated lower left 20 x 15 inches Charles Elmer Harris...

Edgar STOEBEL Paris : Old Windmill in Montmartre Original oil on canvas Signed On canvas 65 x 81 cm (c. 26 x 32 in) Presented in wood frame 77 x 94 cm (c. 31 x 37 in) Very good c...

Quaint mid-century landscape of a small California town, by unknown artist Antolin (American, 20th Century). Signed "Antolin" lower right. Painted on artist's board laid down on blac...

5198 Japanese India ink Bamboo painting Image size 12x15"

"White on White Blue" is a monochromatic, interior still life by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 20" x 16" oil on canvas painting is framed and signed "B ...

French mediterranean provencal painting. Oil on canvas by François Bernard, France, 1940-1950s. Boats in Martigues, Provence. With frame : 61x111 cm - 24x43.7 inches, without frame :...

This piece is from my priate collection created by Jean Remlinger who has a figurative style reminiscent of the works of Francis Bacon. It is probably an acrylic gouache , as a print...

Artist: Charles Cobelle, French (1902 - 1994) Title: View of Paris 19 Year: circa 1958 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed Size: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: 27.5 x ...

Powerful oil on board original painting of a portrait of a man’s head by the American National Academy artist John R. Grabach. Signed lower left, “John R.Grabach N.A.” Signed verso ...

Beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Francois Gall. " After the Bath" signed lower left. Condition is very good. In original gold gilt wash frame in fine conditi...

A large & detailed watercolor of a castle & village by André Nejavits-Mery, dated 1959 on Arches paper. Artwork size: 21 3/4" x 29 1/2". Framed size: 30 1/2" x 38". Provenance: ...

EMILIO GRAU SALA Spanish, 1911 - 1975 BOULEVARD OF PARIS signed Grau Sala (lower right) oil on canvas 25-1/2 X 32 inches (65 X 81 cm.) framed: 36-1/4 X 42-1/2 inches (92 X 108 cm.) PROVENANCE Sale: Sotheby´s Olympia London, 20 October 2006 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. In this work Grau Sala has a loose, subtle brushstroke, in which the color shapes the entire work. The bright and transparent whites that give life to young schoolgirls contrast with the brushstrokes of blacks from the nun who accompanies them. The explosion of greens is refreshing, it surrounds us and transports us to an idyllic place, even if it is a citizen boulevard, which becomes friendly and beautiful. 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...

Well painted 1950's mid-century modern English portrait of a nude woman laying on a bed. The artist was a portrait and figure painter active during the 1950s-1960s Oils on artists ...

Antique American abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.

Thelma Corbin Moody Blue Mountains c. 1960's Gouache on Arches Paper 19 1/4" x 24 3/4", Unframed Unsigned Lovely, mid century gouache painting, b...

Peter Kurbatov (1907 – 1985), was a talented painter, graphic artist and writer. He lived a truly eventful life full of creative exploration. Despite the fact that this landscape was...