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Style: Surrealist
Period: 1950s
Latin American Modern Surreal Painting, 1950
Located in Washington, DC
Wonderful Surreal Latin American painting. Painting is oil on masonite board with original frame. Appears to be unsigned. Condition is excelle...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
20th Century Surrealist Painting By Philip Krevoruck Wpa Era
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
Philip Krevoruck 1919-1999 an accomplished WPA artist . Surrealist Oil on board painted during the 1950s .
Dimensions:
30inch X 25.5inch including frame . 24 X 19.5 without frame .
M...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
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Oil
Boats in the harbor, Original Painting by Federico Castellon, Spanish Surrealist
Located in PARIS, FR
This oil on paper piece by Federico Castellón exhibits the hallmarks of his artistic style, blending elements of surrealism with a striking, yet subtle, realism. The composition is r...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Laid Paper
Family Portrait, Large Surrealist Oil Painting Mother, Children, Neo Surrealism
Located in Surfside, FL
Hank Laventhol (1927–2001) was an American painter and master print maker. He worked in painting, graphics, sculpture and photography. Associated with ...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Monumental Museum Size Modernist Surreal Interior Scene Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist surreal interior scene watercolor painting. Framed. Signed. Amazing detail here!!
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Israeli Large Vibrant Surrealist Flowers Oil Painting
By Milia Laufer
Located in Surfside, FL
Milia Laufer, born Romania. From 1951 lived and worked in Safed. Together with her husband opened one of the earliest galleries in Israel, in Tiberias. Worked in watercolors and oils...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
German school surrealist erotic drawing, Circa 1950.
Located in Firenze, IT
Surrealist composition, signed work by the German female artist Anja Decker.
It belongs to the best and most prolific and experimental period of the artist, residing at that time in...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on sketchbook cover
Estate of Sam Esses
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than on...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Figures in Surrealist Landscape w Hidden Faces, Nude Woman, Architecture 1951
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Oil on canvas board. Signed and dated lower left. Unframed.
Born in Mexico, Salvador de Regil came to America in the 1930s. As his artistic expression developed, he became known fo...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1957 Feminist Surrealist Israeli Colorful Watercolor Painting Myriam Bat Yosef
Located in Surfside, FL
Myriam Bat-Yosef
Surrealist abstract painting in colorful abstract shapes and shades in the style of Joan Miro
Hand signed and dated Tel Aviv, 1957.
frame measures 10 X 5.5 sheet measures 2.5 X 7 inches
The envelope of the Peter Buch poster is just for provenance and is not included in this sale.
Myriam Bat-Yosef, whose real name is Marion Hellerman, born on January 31 , 1931 in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish family from Lithuania, she is an Israeli-Icelandic artist who paints on papers, paintings, fabrics, objects and human beings for performances. Myriam Bat-Yosef currently lives and works in Paris. In 1933, her family fleeing the Nazi Holocaust, Myriam Bat-Yosef emigrates to Palestine and settles in Jaffa. In 1936, she suffers a family tragedy, her father, militant Zionist, is called to fight, still recovering from an operation of appendicitis. The incision will become infected, antibiotics did not exist yet, and her father will die in the hospital after 9 months of suffering.
Myriam and her mother leave Palestine to live in Paris for three years. French is Myriam's first school language. In 1939, still fleeing Nazism, she returned to Palestine, leaving France by the last boat from Marseille. She moved to Tel Aviv with her mother, aunt and maternal grandmother.
In 1940, she began attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv and took her name as an artist, Bat-Yosef, which means Joseph's daughter in Hebrew, as a tribute to her father. In 1946, Myriam graduated as a kindergarten teacher but wanted to be an artist. Her mother enrolled her in an evening school to prepare a diploma of art teacher. At 19, she performs two years of military service in Israel.
In 1952, with a pension of $50 a month that her mother allocated, she went to study at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. To survive, she has several activities while studying. In 1955, she had her first solo exhibition, at the Israeli Club on Wagram Avenue in Paris. Many artists, such as Yaacov Agam, Yehuda Neiman Avigdor Arikha, Raffi Kaiser, Dani Karavan and sculptors Achiam and Shlomo Selinger attended the opening .
In 1956, she enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Florence. This is where she meets the painter Errô. They share an icy studio in winter. Myriam moves to Milan with friends. She organizes a joint exhibition with Erro, one room each, at the Montenapoleone gallery. Her works are admired by the sculptor Marino Marini and the painters Renato Birolli and Enrico Prampolini. Myriam and Erro exhibit in Rome, Milan, Florence and meet many personalities: Alain Jouffroy and his wife, the painter Manina, Roberto Matta and his wife Malitte, textile artist who was one of the founders of the Pompidou Center. Back in Paris, Myriam and Erro get married, which allows Myriam to avoid being called into the Israeli army during the Suez Canal War.
In 1957, Myriam and her husband went to Iceland. Myriam works in a chocolate factory. Having enough money, she starts producing art again. She exhibited in Reykjavik's first art gallery. She meets the artist Sigridur Bjornsdottir, married to the Swiss painter Dieter Roth .
In 1958, Myriam and her husband leave for Israel. They exhibit in Germany, then in Israel. Back in Paris, the couple became friends with artists of the surrealist movement, such as Victor Brauner, Hans Bellmer, the sculptor Philippe Hiquily, Liliane Lijn, future wife of Takis and photographer Nathalie Waag. Erro and Myriam have a daughter on March 15, 1960, named Tura, after the painter Cosmè Tura, but also close to the Icelandic Thora or the Hebrew Torah. Bat-Yosef’s complex trajectory throughout the 20th century is linked as much to the transnational history of what was for a time called the School of Paris as it is to a certain legacy of Surrealism. Her work features the same idea of resolving antinomies that also defined the spirit of surrealism, and is enhanced with her readings of the Kabbalah and her spiritual grounding in Taoism. However, while there are reasons for her approach to be associated with the process of the ready-made, it is important to consider the immediate intrication of these works with her practice of performance, during which the body itself is also painted – a feminist response to Yves Klein’s Anthropometries (1960) and an echo of the happenings which Jean-Jacques Lebel organised at the time in Paris.
In 1963, Erró told Myriam that if she wants to be a painter, she can not be his wife. Myriam chose to be a painter and the couple divorced in 1964. Since that time, Myriam Bat-Yosef has exhibited in many countries: Europe, United States, Japan, etc.
Although long in the shadows, the work of Myriam Bat-Yosef has been greeted by many artists and personalities: Anaïs Nin, Nancy Huston, André Pieyre of Mandiargues, José Pierre, René de Solier , Jacques Lacarrière, Alain Bosquet, Pierre Restany, Sarane Alexandrian and Surrealist André Breton who, after a visit to her studio, confided to having been intrigued by its phantasmagorical dimension. She was included in the book Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties by Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki. Extract "World Citizen, Artist of the Pop Era Sarah Wilson; Why do we know so little of Myriam Bat-Yosef, the most important female Israeli artist of the Pop era? Issues of identity and sexuality feature constantly in her work. She exhibited internationally from Reykjavik to Tokyo; she had two shows at Arturo Schwarz’s famous Dada/surrealist gallery in Milan; she participated in feminist art events in Los Angeles. Above all, in 1971, she conceived Total Art, a Pop Gesamtkunstwerk inside and outside the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Painter, performer, and installation artist, she was also a lover, wife, and mother. Of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, she was close to the family of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. An émigré in Paris she would repudiate a national passport, participating in Garry Davis’s short-lived “World Citizens” movement. She continues the lineage of women surrealist artists: Valentine Hugo, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, Leonora Carrington, Unica Zürn, Jane Graverol, Toyen, Alice Rahon...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Modern Surrealist Painting by Richard Ericson
Located in Larchmont, NY
Richard Joseph Ericson (American, 1922-2010)
Untitled, 1950
Oil on canvas
36 x 25 in.
Signed lower right: RJE '50
Richard Joseph Ericson (b. October 22, 1922-d. November 21, 2010), ...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Réalisme Fantastique, L'Etabli, The Work Bench, Mid Century Fantasy Surrealist
Located in Cotignac, FR
French, réalisme fantastique, Surrealist oil on board by Claude Verlinde. Signed and dated bottom left. Presented in plain wood frame with gilt filet.
...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Signed Surreal Southwest Modernist Desert Cactus Original Vintage Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist surreal landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Unframed. Image size, 28"L x 20"H.
Category
Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
Another female artist in need of rediscovery. Strautin was good friends with Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock and lived near them in Greenwich Village.
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venus Retrieved from the Hands of Death, Surrealist, Nudes, 1959, Oil on Canvas
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Venus Retrieved from the Hands of Death" by Philadelphia born modernist painter Leon Kelly, is a fantasy nude group scene of one female and two male figures. The 49" x 36" oil on ca...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tree of Life - Original Oil on Canvas, Signed
By Jun Dobashi
Located in Paris, FR
Jun DOBASHI
Tree of Life, 1953
Original oil on canvas
Handsigned, dated and situated (Paris) bottom right
On Canvas 60 x 73 cm (c. 24 x 29 in)
Very good condition, minor defects at...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
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...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vertumnus, Oil Painting by William Skilling, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Skilling, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Title: Vertumnus
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 42 in. x 36 in. (106...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Souvenir de la Montè Phallouse , '50s - oil paint, 120x80 cm.
By Tristan Fabris
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas depicting an abstract subject by Tristan Fabris.
He is a painter from italy where he was born in 1927. He moved early to France and there he attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon.
His work is influenced by the cubism and surrealism. He worked with Le Corbusier and his activity was mostly making decors for theatres.
He died 1989...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stoning of Saint Stephen (San Stefano)
Located in Kensington, MD
Tempura on wood panel mounted on wood stretcher
A difficult scene of the stoning of St. Stephen rendered by Aldo Pagliacci in a surreal manner. The bloodstained wall evokes the work of Cy Twombly, an abstract painting all its own, while the saint...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Tempera
Surrealist Vase
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern surreal oil painting on linen depicting a vase with one yellow flower and a mysterious almost figural black design. This midcentury work is unsigned and comes housed in a pe...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Americana "For a horrible instant Carter thought the jet was going to crash
By Peter Helck
Located in Miami, FL
Mid Century Americana "For a horrible instant Carter thought the jet was going to crash in the street." Saturday Evening Post
Work is framed
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, India Ink
"The Long Road", Surreal Desert Landscape Painting
By Martin Dreyer
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist style painting painted with casein paint. Titled and dated by the artist as well as signed. Painting was shown in many exhibits around Texas. Framed in a rustic wooden fra...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Casein
'Surreal Cityscape', National Academy of Design, San Francisco Museum of Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'ZEV' for Daniel Albert Harris (American, 1914-1986) and dated "1952-1953".
A dramatic, Mid-century cityscape showing numerous figures, both concealed and partially-revealed, dispersed in a neo-classical townscape beneath a vibrant sunset.
Born Daniel Harris, and adopting the name of Zev, Harris studied at the Masters Institute of the Roerich Museum in Hungary and at the National Academy of Design...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Surrealist Painting of Two Relaxing Harlequins
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist painting from 1950 by artist Camilo of two relaxing harlequin performers by the seaside dressed in yellow and pink. Signed and dated by artist. Cleaned And Restored.
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Alton Pickens
Located in Concord, MA
ALTON PICKENS (1917-1991)
Untitled, 1955
Oil on canvas
44 ¼ x 33 ½ inches
Signed and dated at lower left: PICKENS / 55
Partial label on the verso: ACA Galleries, New York, New Y...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
'Parade of the Bulls', Paris, Spanish Surrealist, Ex-collection La Jolla Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Ubeda' (Spanish, 1925-2007) and painted circa 1955.
Provenance: The Art Center in La Jolla, San Diego (label verso).
Agustin Úbeda Manchego-Levers Moreno-Rom...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Creatures of Prometheus, Surrealist Oil Painting by Barooshian 1957
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Martin Barooshian, American (1929 - )
Title: Creatures of Prometheus
Year: 1957
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled and dated
Size: 31 x 41 in. (78.74 x 104.14 cm)
Frame Si...
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Surrealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas