1960s Paintings

Charming mid century figurative landscape of Aptos Village Apple Shed and Market by listed California artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Aptos is just south of Santa Cruz,...

Artist: Charles Cobelle, French (1902 - 1994) Title: Before the Race Year: ca. 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed l.r. Size: 24 x 30 inches Frame: 32 x 38 inches

Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Ram Kumar (Indian, 1924-2018) Marking(s); notes: signed; 1961 Materials: oil on canvas Dimensions (H, W, D): 35"h, 27"w image; 45"h, 37"w canvas (work ...

Larry Zox Jean Jean, 1964 Signed, dated, and titled on the stretcher Liquitex on canvas 58 x 62 inches Provenance: Solomon & Co., New York Private Collection, NJ Estate of the above, 2023 Committed to abstraction throughout his career, Larry Zox played a central role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s. His work of the time, consisting of brilliantly colored geometric shapes in dynamic juxtapositions, demonstrated that hard-edge painting was neither cold nor formalistic. He reused certain motifs, but he did so less to explore their aspects than to “get at the specific character and quality of each painting in and for itself,” as James Monte stated in his essay for Zox’s solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1973. By the 1970s, Zox was using a freer, more emotive method, while maintaining the autonomy of color, which increasingly became more important to him than structure in his late years. Zox began to receive attention in the 1960s, when he was included in several groundbreaking exhibitions of Color Field and Minimalist art, including Shape and Structure (1965), organized by Henry Geldzahler for the Gallery of Modern Art, New York, and Systemic Painting (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Guggenheim Museum. In 1973, the Whitney’s solo exhibition of Zox’s work gave recognition to his significance in the art scene of the preceding decade. In the following year, Zox was represented in the inaugural exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum, which owns fourteen of his works. Zox was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Drake University. While studying at the Des Moines Art Center, he was mentored by George Grosz, who despite his own figurative approach encouraged Zox’s forays into abstraction. In 1958, Zox moved to New York, joining the downtown art scene. His studio on 20th Street became a gathering place for artists, jazz musicians, bikers, and boxers. He occasionally sparred with the visiting fighters. He later established a studio in East Hampton, where he painted and fished including using a helicopter to spot fish. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Zox’s works were collages consisting of painted pieces of paper stapled onto sheets of plywood. He then produced paintings that were illusions of collages, including both torn- and trued-edged forms, to which he added a wide range of intense hues that created ambiguous surfaces. Next, he omitted the collage aspect of his work and applied flat color areas to create more complete statements of pure color and shape. From 1962 to 1965, he produced his Rotation Series, at first creating plywood and Plexiglas reliefs, which turned squares into dynamic polygons. He used these shapes in his paintings as well, employing white as a foil between colors to produce negative spaces that suggest that the colored shapes had only been cut out and laid down instead of painted. The New York Times noted in 1964: “The artist is hip, cool, adventurous, not content to stay with the mere exercise of sensibility that one sees in smaller works.” In 1965, he began the Scissors Jack...

Striking mid century abstract expressionist painting by Leslie Luverne Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Oil on masonite painting titled "Lightnings Infinte Art of Living...

American modernist abstract cityscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 30H by 24L.

Hazel Janicki (American, 1918-1976) Nature Walk, 1960 Tempera on masonite Signed lower left, dated and titled verso 18 x 28.5 inches 23.5 x 34 inches, framed Hazel Middleton was bor...

Stéphanie Caroline Guerzoni (1887-1970) was an Austrian-born artist who spent much of her life contributing to the European art scene. Born in Vienna, she experienced the vibrant cul...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 11.5 x 15 inches Condition: Go...

American modernist abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed verso.

Mid Century Northern California Mountain Lake Landscape Serene landscape by Margot Wilson Lowe (American, 20th Century). The viewer looks out over a large mountain lake, reflecting ...

Gorgeous mid century San Francisco Bay seascape oil painting by California artist Hartzell Harrison Ray (American, 1896-1991). Signed "H. Ray" lower right and on verso. Texture added...

Antique American impressionist landscape painting. Nicely painted and in excellent condition. Housed in a valuable hand carved silver frame. Signed illegibly. Oil on board. Meas...

3895 Three farm girls oil wash on board in a gilt frame

Outstanding Oil on board a snow-covered Canadian landscape of the Haliburton Highlands near Ontario. Andrew B Phin is a painter, who is listed as a 20th-century Canadian painter of ...

Nicely painted American modernist interior portrait oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 28H by 22L.

When we mention Bernard Buffet, we instinctively think of his tortured portraits and dark representations of human emotions. However, his work presents a much richer and more complex dimension, such as this less conventional canvas, which, instead of focusing on characters, captures a Parisian scene in a landscape format. In this work, a view of the Seine and the sky, a fragment of the Eiffel Tower blending into a green that seems largely fantasized, a bridge and a total absence of human figures launch the viewer into a visual meditation of the secrets that reside at the heart of the City of Lights. The artist uses black not simply as a color but as a proper tool for sculpting. Shapes are drawn and delineated, contrasting with washed-out colors such as blue and green. Black symbolizes the mystery and inaccessibility of the emotions that the artist seeks to express. Unlike his other works, adding characters to tell a story, Buffet, with this piece, appears more interested in the elements and structural aspects of the composition itself. Buffet succeeds in establishing a link between the observer and the piece represented. The Eiffel Tower and the bridge become the keepers of secrets, frameworks that bear the weight of Paris's history. The river mirrors...

Mid-Century Cyclists - The Field Sprint Pierre Bosco (Italy/France, 1909-1993) Oil on canvas 15 x 12 inches, frame size “The savage art of Bosco bears its rudeness and its mystery....

French cubist artist, circa 1960’s oil painting on board, framed framed: 30 x 21 inches board: 27 x 18 inches provenance: private collection, Fra...

A superb large scale Modern British oil on canvas portrait of a smartly dressed young man wearing a striped shirt, suit jacket and tie. Excellent quality and unsusual work, which i...

Girl at the morning toilet is a contemporary artwork realzied in 1962 by Francisco Ribera Gomez (1907-1990) Mixed colored oil on hardboard. Ha...

Nicely painted large geometric abstract painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 48 by 36 inches.

Impressive early American modernist abstract geometric oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas.

Artist: Ugo Setti, Italian (1915 - ) Title: In Valdumentina Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 23.5 x 31.5 inches Frame Size: 32 x 40 inches

"Abstraction" Mid-20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Modernist James Daugherty (1887 – 1974) Abstraction 14 x 18 inches Estate stamp verso Oil on panel Provenance: ...

Antique American still life oil painting by Rudolph Colao (1927 - 2014). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 30 by 35 inches overall and 24 by 28 painting alone.

Stéphanie Caroline Guerzoni (1887-1970) was an Austrian-born artist who spent much of her life contributing to the European art scene. Born in Vienna, she experienced the vibrant cul...

"The Three Sisters" in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia by Australian Artist, Alan Robert Colquhoun Grieve (1910-1970). Art measures 21 x 17 inches Frame measures 28 x 24 inches (Original ornate period frame is commensurate with age) Vintage 1960's Born in Sydney in 1910, Alan Robert Colquhoun Grieve studied at the Julian Ashton School and the East Sydney Technical College and with Australian artist Herbert Edward Badham. Alan Grieve has notably exhibited at Royal Arts Society in Sydney and was Vice President of the Australian Arts Society. His work is held in private collections the world over, including The Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Fred & Elinor Wrobel Collection in Sydney and the Howard Hilton Collection. He has won numerous art prizes during the 20th Century. This painting was bought from Gordon Galleries in Double Bay, Sydney, New South Wales in circa 1962 by Major General Sir Douglas Kendrew KCMG, CB, CBE, DSO - Governor of Western Australia from 1963 to 1974. The Three Sisters are an unusual rock formation in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, on the north escarpment of the Jamison Valley. They are located close to the town of Katoomba and are one of the Blue Mountains' best known sites, towering above the Jamison Valley. The Legend: The Aboriginal dream-time legend has it that three sisters, 'Meehni', 'Wimlah' and 'Gunnedoo' lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe. These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law...

Impressive early American modernist abstract still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 28H by 26L.

Arresting and evocative oil abstract titled "Female Priests" by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unframed. Signed "Les Anderson" on...

Fruit On The Table Artist signed lower right, Motyka custom made gold leaf frame, canvas size 30x24 frame 38x32. Judith Sobel was born in Lwow Poland in 1924. After World War II, she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland. There she studied with the famous abstract constructionists, Wladyslaw Strzeminski and Stefan Wegner from whom she learned the principles of Modern Art as laid down by the European Cubists. Sobel’s work was selected for the First Exhibit of Modern Art Museum Krakow in 1948-49. Judith Sobel emigrated to the newly found Israel where she lived for five years, becoming very active in Israel’s emerging art world. Her work was collected and exhibited by the major art museums of Israel including the Museum of Modern Art at Haifa; her art was regularly shown in the Israeli galleries. In 1956, Sobel came to New York on a scholarship, and before that she lived in France for two years. The same year she received the First Prize at the Exhibition in the Saks...

Walk Around The City, signed in original French gilt wood frame. Maxime Boulard de Villeneuve (1884 - 1971) is a French artist born in Paris who was influenced in the early 1900s’ by Impressionism and Fauvism. Known for Post-Impressionist style landscape, city scapes oil paintings, watercolors and drawings influence by his nobles like Pierre Bonnard. In the 1970 represented by Wally Findlay Gallery...

Colorful and expressive abstracted seascape with thick impasto dynamically swirling together by California artist Richard Lofton (American, 1908-1966). Signed and dated "RICHARD LOFT...

'Man Smoking a Pipe', oil on carton (circa 1960s), by Raymond Debiève. The artist depicts a moustached man puffing on his pipe in his post-cubist style. The identity of the subject i...

Smoke Tree Southern California High Desert 1966 Detailed desert scene on linen by Southern California Plein Aire painter Dorothy L. Wolters (American, early 20th C) Image 16"H x 20"W Frame 19.5"H x 23.25"W x 1.25"D Dorothy was a well known artist during the 19060s-1980s painting central and Southern California landscape. She exhibited in a one woman Show Riverside California March Air Force Base 1965, Fontana Art Association 1967, Fontana International Art Festival 1968, Lompoc Art Association Juried Show 1971 & 1974 1st place. She painted in a characteristic style and studied with a number of other Southern California artists, such as Paul Grimm and Sam...

Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 15H x 23L.

Portrait of a Lady by Wladyslaw Szary, circa 1960’s See label reverse for bio details Oil painting on canvas with applied mixed media Canvas is 64cm x 44cm Original frame Good condi...

Artist: Thomas Strickland, American (1923 - 1999) Title: Flower Still Life Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed u.l. Size: 20 x 24 inches Frame: 31 x 27.5 inches

Ron Stonier (1933-2001) was a dedicated Vancouver artist who was celebrated for his exploration of abstract painting. He was influenced by his mentors Gordon Smith and Jack Shadbolt ...

Impressive Paris school modernist still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 36H by 29L and overall 36 by 43 inches.

Alfonso Hüppi Untitled, 1962 Mixed media on canvas (paint, wood) 18 1/2 × 20 1/2 in 47 × 52 cm (without frame) Frame included

Gorgeous mid-century painting of heavily textured Ranunculus flowers in a blue vase by Bonnie Yankauer (American, 20th Century), 1964. The palette and impasto brush strokes gives thi...

Modern Cubist inspired landscape painting by the iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. The work features a large crescent moon intertwined with an abstracted cactus set against ...

5192 Italian landscape scene with tall trees by rivers edge with woman watering her garden. Image size 23.5x 11.5"

Vintage American school surreal oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed verso. Framed. Measuring 24 by 30 overall and 22 by 28 painting alone.

Roger Lersy, French (1920 - 2004) Painting on paper (not sure if this is watercolor, acrylic or oil, the paper has a velvet finish and texture to it and there is some texture to the ...

Signed lower right, 'K. Miyoshi' for Kazuo Miyoshi (Japanese, 20th century) and painted circa 1960. Titled on old label, verso, 'Fantasia', additionally signed by the artist and with...

Highly textured landscape, with thick impasto illustrating a glorious scene of figures swimming in calm waters near large rocks and swaying trees, by Tyler Micoleau (American, 1911-2001). Signed and dated "Tyler Micoleau 1968" in the lower left corner. Presented in a gold colored wood frame. Image size: 12"H x 16"W Tyler Micoleau (American, 1911-2001) was born in Rhode Island but spent most of his life in Nevada County, California. He was a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and an instructor at Brown University. Micoleau moved to Nevada City...

Signed lower right, 'C G Nelson' for Carl Gustaf Simon Nelson (American, 1898-1988) and dated 1956. A substantial, Modernist oil showing a profusion of white and pink poppies contra...

George Dannatt (1915-2009) Painting 1960 1960 Gouache on paper Image: 25.4 x 28.9 cm Frame: 48.0 x 50.3 cm Provenance: The George and Ann Dannatt Estate, The George Dannatt Trust...

Gorgeous mid-century seascape of turquoise and lavender waves crashing on coastal rocks by California artist Lee Ervast (American, 1916 - 1975), c.1950s. Si...

Open window to the city in spring, light, roofs, City, Interior MAYA KOPITZEVA (Gagra, Georgia, 1924 - 2005) Maya kopitzeva’s works have been acquired by the Russian Ministry of ...

Vintage impressionist dock scene painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.

Nicely painted large atmospheric sunset seascape painting. Large and impressive in person. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Image size, 24"H x 48"L.

Possibly a rendering for the renovation of Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in Downtown Seattle. Original gouache on artist board. American, circa 1962, artist unknown.

This Modern painting by Abstract Expressionist Stanley Bate was made with oil on canvas circa 1960. In it, layers of red, yellow, white, and umber paint are expressively applied over...

Stunning signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1950 by French cubist painter Camile Hilaire. The piece beautifully depicts trees reflecting in the water of a river. The painting is pa...

Sakti Burman - Two Friends Watercolour on Paper 26 x 20 inches, 1978 ( Framed and delivered ) Born : 1935 Kolkata Education : 1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata ...

Vivid mid century modern maritime seascape by P. Mantos (20th Century), 1968. Expressive brushstrokes in a bold palette of blue and turquoise is acce...

Original oil on canvas painting by the well known artist Jonas Gerard. Signed by the artist lower right “Gerard”. Condition is excellent. Strong, vibrant colors. Circa 1965. Bridg...

La obra va firmada en la parte inferior (Sanvicens) La obra se presenta enmarcada con su marco original El estado de la obra es bueno Medidas de la obra: 72 cm. De altura x 91 cm....

Wonderful 20th century German landscape with harvesters working on the farmland, bringing in the harvest. Hohenberger was landscape painter from the middle to latter part of the 20...

Diana Kurz Big Orange Signed lower right Oil on canvas 44 x 38 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first ...

Outstanding Oil on board a snow-covered Canadian landscape of the Haliburton Highlands near Ontario. Andrew B Phin is a painter, who is listed as a 20th-century Canadian painter of ...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 11.5 x 15 inches Condition: Go...

Vintage abstract expressionist etherial oil painting by Piry Rame (1921 - 2001). Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Signed on verso. Image size, 21L x 16H. Housed in a period frame.

Jules Herve (French, 1887 - 1981) Game of Checkers, circa 1960 Oil on canvas 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches Signed lower right; signed on the reverse Jules Rene Herve, an impressionist of ou...

Oil on canvas sold with frame Total size with frame 48x71 cm Edouard ARTHUR is an artist born in 1917 and died in 2002. His works have been sold at public auction 12 times, mainly ...

Jacqueline Pavlowsky was born in 1921 in Vincennes to Russian and Polish Jewish parents who had emigrated to France. After the war, she pursued parallel studies in chemistry, while d...

By Forrest Moses (American, b. 1934) Carmel California, 1967 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 18" x 24" Framed Size: 22.5" x 28.5" About the Artist: Fo...

Wonderfully painted American impressionist street scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 12H by 16L.

Signed lower right, 'Karl Larsen' (Danish, 1897-1977) and dated 1968. A substantial and vibrant Post-Impressionist oil still-life by this well-listed Danish modernist, winner of the...

Paul Jenkins Phenomena With Two Black Threads, 1964 Acrylic on paper Hand signed lower right Inscribed and dated on the reverse Painting size 36.4 x 25.3 cm Frame size 44 x 33.4 x ...