1950s Paintings

PHILIP EVERGOOD (1901-1973) Seeking a Future, 1952 Oil on canvas 24 x 18 inches Signed and dated at lower left: Philip Evergood / 52 Heydenryk frame PROVENANCE Alfredo Valent...

This piece was created by Italian artist Mario Toppi in 1959. Toppi worked primarily in fresco, creating works that pay material homage to Italy's long artistic history, yet remain m...

Looking Into a Neighborhood , Dear Paul This is an intriguingly charming work by an overlooked and brilliant mid-century female artist - illustrator, and educator. Lorraine Fox. ...

Oil on artist board mounted on wood panel. Tschacbasov sunset sets the trees ablaze in this beautiful painting done in the late 1950's while two small figures in the lower right side...

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...

David Davidovich Burliuk (Ukrainian: Дави́д Дави́дович Бурлю́к; Russian: Дави́д Дави́дович Бурлю́к; July 21, 1882 – January 15, 1967) was a Russian Futurist, Neo-Primitivist, book illustrator, publicist, and author associated with Russian Futurism...

An original egg tempera painting by American female artist Catherine Koenig.

Signed lower left "Muriel Backman" for Muriel Durgin Backman and dated 1955. An elegant, Cubist-derived, mid-century view of the old Fisherman's Wha...

An unsigned mid century modern American abstract painting

A watercolor painting by Clarence Holbrook Carter from 1953. Carter's modernist style utilizes strong structural lines and architectural aesthetics to form almost surreal-like scenes. Signed on lower right corner, framed in elegant silver wooden frame. Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 1998) Title: On the Great Lakes...

Signed lower left "M. Backman" for Muriel Durgin Backman. Titled verso "Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg- Mendocino, Ca" and painted circa 1955. A moody, mid-c...

Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian was born April 14, 1911 in Kutahya, Turkey, of Armenian parents. At the age of three, he showed considerable talent in drawing and painting. Zorthian went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe. His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute. "The Picture Framer...

Oil on masonite painting by Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed top right and dated 1952. Condition is good. Presently unframed. Provenance: Estate of the artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Biograph...

Dark Green Wood, 1956 Philip Sutton RA (British, b. 1928) Oil on Canvas Signed and Titled Verso 34 x 34 inches 41 x 41 inches with frame Philip Sutton studied under William Coldstre...

Antique American modernist abstract landscape signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 18H.

Antique American modernist interior view oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.

CITY DREAM Size: 56.5 x 66cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A poignant and atmospheric mid-century cityscape composition, executed in oil onto canvas. In the foreground, a group o...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.

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

Signed lower right, 'Earl Thollander' (American, 1923-2001) and painted circa 1955; additionally signed, verso, on paper and titled, 'The Harmonica Pla...

Provenance: Leicester Galleries, London, 1956 Austin Desmond Fine Art, London

Original monotype on heavy archival paper by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Image size is 16 by 12. Sheet size is 21.25 by 15.5 inches A monotype is a one of a kin...

Andre BRASILIER Tribute to Cezanne : Italian Landscape , 1954 Original oil on canvas Handsigned bottom right On canvas 50 x 73 cm (c. 20 x 29 in) P...

Signed and dated Reynolds 55 lower left. Also signed, dated and titled in pencil verso. Reynolds’ intense study of nature led him to create sketchbooks filled with botanical studies, pressed leaves, grasses, seedpods and feathers – forms upon which he based abstract landscapes during the first, figurative stage of his career. Among the most significant sequence of paintings derived from these studies was ‘The Four Seasons’, showing landscape transformed across the cycle of the year. Legend in December (1955) relates to this series, showing a winter landscape in which the moon hangs low over the horizon. Bushes cast pallid shadows, and whitened seed heads appear like fireworks against the sky. On the roof of a chapel, haloed, is a cross mirrored...

DESCRIPTION 19 3/4 x 38 1/2 inches (sight size) 21 ½ x 41 inches (framed) Signed lower right Titled on stretcher verso PROVENANCE Private collection, New York This item is located...

Still Life is an original Oil on Canvas realized by Felice Carena in 1952. Hand signed and dated. Very good condition. Felice Carena Turin 1879 - Venice 1966 He studies with Giaco...

Oil on board, signed verso. Reynolds made numerous paintings on the theme of ‘moth barn’, in addition to a lithograph dating from 1956. Moth Barn Interior 3 (1952) is a diminutive va...

Armando Barrios India, 1955 Pastel on paper 41 x 26 cm 16.1 x 10.2 in. The work is illustrated page 70 No. 0256, in the General Catalog (1930 - 1999) La Pintura Como Razón de Ser, edited by Armando Barrios Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela, 2005. " Armando Barrios was born in Caracas on August 21, 1920. Son of Serapio Barrios and Carmen Rodríguez de Barrios, both of Spanish origin. Since his adolescence he developed a great love for the arts, so from the age of 12 he was already studying at the School of Fine Arts and Applied Arts in Caracas. His searches in the artistic field were initially directed towards the study of the Impressionist and Cubist schools...

Presenting an original oil on canvas by American artist Jan Stussy(1921-1990) Jan Stussy was a prolific artist and educator heading the art department at UCAL for more than thirty y...

Born in New York in 1924, Sam Amato became a key painter in the Southern California (Los Angeles) figurative school of painting of the 1960's and '70's, best known for his diverse su...

Man at the Cafe is an original Oil on Plywood realized by Ottone Rosai in 1956. Certificate on photograph by Prof. Luigi Cavallo. Includes a modern wooden frame. Very good conditions.

Signed lower right

Exhibited: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Prunella Clough 'Retrospective Exhibition', Sept-Oct 1960, no:74 Camden Art Centre, London, 2015

Antique American modernist carrousel oil painting by Robert Edwin Maxwell (Born 1929). Oil on board, circa 1955. Signed. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image, 24"L x 18"H.

Signed and dated 1956 lower left Also signed, titled, dated 1956 and inscribed verso Sand has been incorporated into the pigment

Gouache and mixed media

Abram Abraham Krol was born January 22, 1919, in Pabianice (Lodz), Poland. Abram Krol went to France in 1938 to study civil engineering at the University of Caen. In 1939 at the beginning of World War II he joined the Foreign Legion. After he was demobilized, he became a mechanic in a garage in Avignon. Although Jewish, he survived the war with a false identity. In 1943, Krol started studying to be an artist, taking courses in sculpture at the city’s School of Fine Art. He also began studying painting and self-described himself as a “Sunday painter.” Krol moved to Paris in 1944. The first exhibition of his work was in 1946 in the Katia Granoff Gallery in Paris. After the war, Krol took up engraving, studying that art form with an engraver he met in Paris. Krol reflected his Hasidic childhood often using Biblical themes in his art works. He said, During all my years of childhood I had read the Bible endlessly. I came back to the Bible because I was on solid ground there. It was part of the assertion of my own truth after a time of complacency. It seemed to me that in painting or engraving there were so many reefs to avoid, so many possibilities of setback, that I had to have all the odds in my favor do what I could—say what I had to say. Krol illustrated over 20 literary works from the late 1940s through the 1960s. He also engraved medals for the Paris mint and painted murals for schools in France. He designed tapestries and painted approximately 200 enamels. Museums and libraries which own Krol’s art works include the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris; the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the British Museum; Houghton Library, Harvard; Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Krol has had numerous one-man shows throughout Europe, Brazil, and in California. In 1960, Krol was invited to the Venice Biennale. He was awarded the Critics Prize in 1958. He also won the Feneon Prize among other honors. Krol died on October 9, 2001. The School of Paris, Ecole de Paris, was not a single art movement or institution, but refers to the importance of Paris as a center of Western art in the early decades of the 20th century. Between 1900 and 1940 the city drew artists from all over the world and became a centre for artistic activity. School of Paris was used to describe this loose community, particularly of non-French artists, centered in the cafes, salons and shared workspaces and galleries of Montparnasse. Before World War I, a group of expatriates in Paris created art in the styles of Post-Impressionism, Cubism and Fauvism. The group included artists like Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani and Piet Mondrian. Associated French artists included Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes. The term "School of Paris" was used in 1925 by André Warnod to refer to the many foreign-born artists who had migrated to Paris. The term soon gained currency, often as a derogatory label by critics who saw the foreign artists—many of whom were Jewish—as a threat to the purity of French art. Art critic Louis Vauxcelles, noted for coining the terms "Fauvism" and "Cubism", Waldemar George, himself a French Jew, in 1931 lamented that the School of Paris name "allows any artist to pretend he is French. it refers to French tradition but instead annihilates it. The artists working in Paris between World War I and World War II experimented with various styles including Cubism, Orphism, Surrealism and Dada. Foreign and French artists working in Paris included Jean Arp, Joan Miro, Constantin Brancusi, Raoul Dufy, Tsuguharu Foujita, artists from Belarus like Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, and Jacques Lipchitz, the Polish artist Marek Szwarc and others such as Russian-born prince Alexis Arapoff. A significant subset, the Jewish artists, came to be known as the Jewish School of Paris or the School of Montparnasse. The core members were almost all Jews, and the resentment expressed toward them by French critics in the 1930s was unquestionably fueled by anti-Semitism. Jewish members of the group included Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Chaim Soutine, Adolphe Féder...

Cecil Crosley Bell "Snow and Gray Sky with Rusty" c. 1950 Oil on Panel Signed Lower Right *Original Kraushaar Galleries, New York Label on Verso ** There is another landscape painti...

Cecil C. Bell "The Blind Peanut Vendor" 1958 Oil on Panel Signed; Titled & Dated Verso Panel Size: approx. 14 x 18 inches Framed Size: approx 21.25 x 25.25 inches Cecil Bell was b...

Presenting a just discovered mixed media painting by American artist Robert McIntosh, (1916-2010.) Squared, is an original mixed media oil on canvas board, signed, c.1958 with an i...

Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, Egyptian/French (1913 - 2010) Title: Vin et Pommes Year: circa 1952 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed u.r. Size: 18 x 15 in. (45.72 x 38.1 cm)

Presenting an original oil painting from the, “Post Impressionist” period, c.1957, by American artist Ron Blumberg, “The Trumpet” After his classical training in Paris, Blumberg sp...

Presenting original oil on panel by American artist Ron Blumberg (1908-2002.) "Street Singers", is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1957, painted when Blumberg was using exclusiv...

An original gouache, watercolor and graphite painting on paper by American artist David Foster Pratt. This work was begun by the artist in 1951 and completed in 1993, adding to ...

Presenting a monumental, rare oil painting by American artist Ron Blumberg(1908-2002.) American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Par...

Presenting a monumental, rare oil painting by American artist Ron Blumberg(1908-2002.) American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Par...

Presenting a monumental, rare oil painting by American artist Ron Blumberg (1908-2002.) American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Par...

Presenting an original cubist oil on canvas by Y.W.Lee. "Repose" is na original oil onc anvas, signed, c.1955, offered in good original condition, residing in a thin silver frame.