1960s Paintings

From the estate of the artist William Littlefield Seymour Franks 1916-1981 American painter and designer, Seymour Franks, was born in New York City in 1916.He studied at the National Academy of Design. Franks, exhibited at: the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in1944, 1954; The Whitney Museum of American Art, from 1946-48, 1950, 1952; the Brooklyn Museum, 1949, 1951; Art Institute of Chicago in 1947; Peridot Gallery, 1948, 1950-55; University of Nebraska, 1951; and had a solo show at the University of Illinois in 1952. Established in 1948 on N.Y.’s thriving 9th ST., the Peridot Gallery was an early supporter of American avant-garde art. It staged both Louise Bourgeois & Philip Guston’s first one-person shows as well as the American premiere exhibition of Medardo Rosso...

I have 5 paintings I purchased recently for sale by this artist. They are all beautiful and colorful with gallery labels as pictured. They all come From the estate of Guy Joseph Émile Nairay…. Famous French Diplomat who owned many major artists in his collection. Sarthou is a famous French abstract painter whose colors are very vibrant. Here for sale: MAURICE ELIE SARTHOU...

American school abstract painting. Watercolor on paper, circa 1970. Signed. Image size, 5.5"L x 8.5"H.

Sea. 1968. Paper, gouache, 86x60 cm

An original mid-century modern abstract expressionist painting by American artist Toma Yovanovich. This work comes housed in an original artist made frame. The painting is signed ...

David Hare Cronus Dining, 1968 Graphite, acrylic, paper collage on board 44 x 34 inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most afraid of.” No one could accuse David Hare of possessing such fear. Blithely unconcerned with the critics’ judgments, Hare flitted through most of the major art developments of the mid-twentieth century in the United States. He changed mediums several times; just when his fame as a sculptor had reached its apogee about 1960, he switched over to painting. Yet he remained attached to surrealism long after it had fallen out of official favor. “I can’t change what I do in order to fit what would make me popular,” he said. “Not because of moral reasons, but just because I can’t do it; I’m not interested in it.” Hare was born in New York City in 1917; his family was both wealthy and familiar with the world of modern art. Meredith (1870-1932), his father, was a prominent corporate attorney. His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin (1878-1948) was an art collector, a financial backer of the 1913 Armory Show, and a friend of artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Walt Kuhn, and Marcel Duchamp. In the 1920s, the entire family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, in the hope that the change in altitude and climate would help to heal Meredith’s tuberculosis. In Colorado Springs, Elizabeth founded the Fountain Valley School where David attended high school after his father died in 1932. In the western United States, Hare developed a fascination for kachina dolls and other aspects of Native American culture that would become a recurring source of inspiration in his career. After high school, Hare briefly attended Bard College (1936-37) in Annandale-on-Hudson. At a loss as to what to do next, he parlayed his mother’s contacts into opening a commercial photography studio and began dabbling in color photography, still a rarity at the time [Kodachrome was introduced in 1935]. At age 22, Hare had his first solo exhibition at Walker Gallery in New York City; his 30 color photographs included one of President Franklin Roosevelt. As a photographer, Hare experimented with an automatist technique called “heatage” (or “melted negatives”) in which he heated the negative in order to distort the image. Hare described them as “antagonisms of matter.” The final products were usually abstractions tending towards surrealism and similar to processes used by Man Ray, Raoul Ubac, and Wolfgang Paalen. In 1940, Hare moved to Roxbury, CT, where he fraternized with neighboring artists such as Alexander Calder and Arshile Gorky, as well as Yves Tanguy who was married to Hare’s cousin Kay Sage, and the art dealer Julian Levy. The same year, Hare received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians. He traveled to Santa Fe and, for several months, he took portrait photographs of members of the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni tribes that were published in book form in 1941. World War II turned Hare’s life upside down. He became a conduit in the exchange of artistic and intellectual ideas between U.S. artists and the surrealist émigrés fleeing Europe. In 1942, Hare befriended Andre Breton, the principal theorist of surrealism. When Breton wanted to publish a magazine to promote the movement in the United States, he could not serve as an editor because he was a foreign national. Instead, Breton selected Hare to edit the journal, entitled VVV [shorth for “Victory, Victory, Victory”], which ran for four issues (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume) from June 1942 to February 1944. Each edition of VVV focused on “poetry, plastic arts, anthropology, sociology, (and) psychology,” and was extensively illustrated by surrealist artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp served as editorial advisors. At the suggestion of Jacqueline Lamba...

An original abstract expressionist painting created in 1962 by American artist James Koenig. This work will be featured in our exhibition "Draw Near" which will run from March 11...

Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne, Paris. Returned to Budapest to study art at the Fine Arts Academy, then continued his studies at the Academie Julienne, Paris, where he was influenced by the post impressionist artists including Picasso, Salvadore, Dali and Chagall. His motto was “history is the inevitable conveyance of great situations by great personalities.” He came to England due to the Hungarian uprising in 1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and commercial illustrations in 1961. Keywords: Oil, Abstract, Mid 20th Century, mixed media, The Death of the Minotaur, mythical, wood, techin, hand, 2 headed snake...

Very nicely painted American impressionist beach scene. A nice summer view with a figure walking along the shore. Signed lower right illegibly. Framed handsomely in a wide gold gi...

ABSTRACTION Mid-Century Abstract Non-Objective Color Field oil American Modern James Daugherty (1887 – 1974) "Unidentified Flying Object," 12 x 16 inc...

A one of a kind piece by world famous Israeli artist Mordechai Ardon. It is a framed oil on canvas painting. 65X54 cm (25 5/8 x 21 ¼ in). Signed and dated "Ardon 60" (upper right). S...

Yeffe Kimball (c. 1905 - 1978) Cepheus B, 1963 Signed, titled, and dated on the reverse Acrylic on canvas 34 x 40 inches Provenance: Private Collection, New York Estate of the above, 2022 Born in Mountain Park, Oklahoma, in 1914, Effie Y. Goodman subsequently spent her early years on her grandfather’s farm in Missouri. She attended college in Ada and the University of Oklahoma in Norman from 1931-1935. After college, she went to New York where she worked under distinguished artists such as George Bridgman and John Corbin at The Art Students League in New York in the early 1940s. She adopted the name Yeffe Kimball, adapting her first husband's surname of Campbell to form Kimball, and never returned to her small-town roots. She became a world traveler and student, studying intermittently with Fernand Léger in Paris from 1940-1941. In 1948, she married Harvey L. Stalin, an atomic scientist. Her art was influenced by Stalin’s work and she entered a new era, focusing on burning planets, atmospheric gases, and flashing comets. Her work was also inspired by American Indian spiritual...

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I have 5 paintings I purchased recently for sale by this artist. They are all beautiful and colorful with gallery labels as pictured. They all come From the estate of Guy Joseph Émile Nairay…. Famous French Diplomat who owned many major artists in his collection. Sarthou is a famous French abstract painter whose colors are very vibrant. Here for sale: MAURICE ELIE SARTHOU...

John Bolam was born in 1922 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. He originally studied painting at Hornsey School of Art and furniture design at High Wycombe School of Art. He subsequently ...

Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 63 x 72 x 5 cm

Studio Corner (Geometric Abstract Oil Painting in Yellow, White, Orange & Blue) by New York School Painter and WPA artist, Lionel Gilbert Mid century modern, abstracted still life pa...

Source: Succession T'ang Haywen (French State - Direction Nationale d'Interventions Domaniales) Bibliography: The painting by T'ang Haywen, 2024, Galerie Hervé Courtaigne, reproduc...

Africana Mid-Century Modern large and impressive mixed media, sand and oil on artist board. The painting is unsigned there is a small fragment of old paper label with number #21 titl...

Gouache, watercolor and crayon on paper. Signed in white gouache, lower right recto by Dobashi.

Jack Youngerman October 1, from Betty Parsons Gallery, 1964 India ink on paper, with original Betty Parsons Gallery label Pencil signed and dated '64 on the front; also signed, title...

Jack Youngerman Untitled Study #26, 1967 Gouache painting on paper (with original JL Hudson and PACE Gallery labels) Hand signed and dated '67 on the front; J.L. Hudson Gallery Label on Verso. Unique Abstract Expressionist work on paper Frame included Framed Measurements: Framed: 15 inches by 15 inches by 1.5 inch Artwork: 7.75 inches by 7.5 inches Provenance From the estate of Anne Markley Spivak J. L. Hudson Gallery Label affixed to verso (back). The J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, Michigan This 1967 unique, signed gouache painting by renowned abstract expressionist painter Jack Youngerman was acquired from the estate of Anne Markley Spivak. It is held in the original vintage metal frame with the original J.L. Hudson Gallery label, as well as the PACE gallery label on the verso The artwork has been newly loated and framed in a museum quality white wood frame; the original labels from the original back board have been affixed to the back to preserve provenance. Jack Youngerman Biography Jack Youngerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri on March 25, 1926. He moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 1929 and studied at the University of Missouri, Columbia from 1944 to 1946 under a wartime navy training program. He graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1947 and, that same year, he returned to Missouri to finish his Bachelor’s degree in Journalism before moving to Paris on a G.I. scholarship. In Paris, Youngerman enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, studying drawing with Jean Souverbie. He explored Paris, taking in the cathedrals, museums, and history in order to grasp a greater sense of art history. He also traveled to the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Italy, and Greece on fine art excursions. In 1948, Youngerman became friends with Ellsworth Kelly, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Cesar – fellow students at Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He married Delphine Seyrig in 1950, and later that year he had his first group exhibition at Galerie Maeght in Paris. He visited the studios of Constantín Brancusi and Jean Arp and became heavily influenced by the organic forms present in their work. He also met artist Alexander Calder through his father-in-law, Henri Seyrig, and experimental filmmaker and artist, Robert Breer...

This original 1960s oil painting titled Sybils Telling Cosmic Jokes on Mankind is a striking semi-abstract work by renowned 20th-century Denver modernist artist Edward Marecak (1919-...

This captivating abstract oil on canvas painting, titled Lights at Night, was created by 20th century artist Vincent Pershing O'Brien (1919-1999) in 1962. A striking example of Mid-C...

"Abstraction" Mid-Century Abstract Non-Objective Color Field oil painting modern James Daugherty (1887 – 1974) "Abstraction," 28 ½ x 20 inches. Estate...

John Little 1907 – active in New York - 1984 Whigmarleerie 1966 Oil on canvas 33 x 27 inches (84 x 69 cm) Framed dimensions: 35 x 29 inches (89 x 73.6 cm) Signed, titled and dated v...

Composition by ANDRÉ LANSKOY (1902-1976) Oil on canvas 81 x 54 cm (31 ⅞ x 21 ¼ inches) Signed lower right, LANSKOY This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued and signed by the artist, and by a certificate of authenticity dated 15th April 2015 from the Comité Lanskoy, confirming its inclusion in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by the Comité Lanskoy. Artist biography: André Lanskoy was born Andrei Michailovich Lanskoy in Moscow in 1902, the son of Count Lanskoy. The family moved to St. Petersburg in 1909 and in 1918 he moved to Kiev, where he made his first paintings. During the Russian Civil War Lanskoy fought in the Tsarist White Army but after an injury moved to Constantinople and in 1921 arrived in Paris where he stayed for the rest of his life. Recalling his arrival in the French capital, Lanskoy said: "Literally in the first night...

Frederick Conway (1900-1973) was a painter, educator, and lecturer. From 1929 to 1970, Conway was a member of the faculty of the Washington University Art School. When Max Beckmann was in residence at Washington University, he and Conway became close associates. Conway was one of the first to realize the importance and seriousness of Beckmann's teaching. In 1949, Beckmann painted Conway's portrait. Conway was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, and studied at the Saint Louis School of Fine Arts and in Paris at the Academie Julian, the Academy Moderne, and the Academy Grande Chaumiere. He painted murals for the WPA (Works Progress Administration...

Composition by Aika Brown (1937-1964) Mixed media on canvas 130 x 89cm (51 ¹/₈ x 35 inches) Signed and dated on the reverse, B. AIKA Paris 1961 Executed in 1961

A nice abstract oil painting by American artist Donald Hugo Stoltenberg (1927-2016). Stoltenberg was born in Milwaukee, WI, attended public grade school in Chicago, and High School i...

Edward Zutrau Kamakura, 5/19/1963 Signed, dated and titled on verso Oil on linen 38 1/2 x 51 inches Edward Zutrau is among the American artists who worked within the whirlwind of d...

"Expressionist Abstract #8" is a 50 x 28 inches oil on canvas work by Philadelphia artist Morris Lewis Blackman. The painting is signed in the artist's monogram "MLB" in the lower left and it is estate stamped on verso. Additional shipping options are available by contacting the seller via 1stDibs messaging system. Morris Blackman...

"Blue Heart Wife Love" San Francisco Figurative School -Joe Lysowski "Prankster" Portrait of his ex-wife while studying for his MFA in Fine art in Mexico by Joe Lysowski (American, 1938-2016) Signed on verso "J. S. Lysowski - Mexico - 6-65 Blue Heart - Wife Love" Image, 46"H x 36"W Frame, 47.25"H x 37.25"W x 1'D Joe Lysowski, former painter for the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Kauai Hindu Monastery for Denny’s in-production film, Atlantis Risen. A Marine, Surfer, Artist, Ken Kesey...

"The Wave" Abstracted Seascape in Oil on Canvas Bold and textured abstracted seascape by Robert Frame (American, 1924-1999). This piece has a high horizon, with a thin strip of sky ...

"Waterfall in the Forest" is an original acrylic painting on masonite by David Barnett, signed on the verso. The work breaks down the image of the title to its most basic colors and ...

Gorgeous large scale oil on paper by John von Wicht. Unframed, the piece measures 42.5 high by 33.25 wide. Signed lower right. There are two other pieces by von Wicht that would com...

A great strong-edge painting by Naohiko Inukai, No. 16 is part of a series the artist created in the mid 1960s. Many from this series were shown at Inuk...

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....

Signed lower right, 'Shafsky' and painted circa 1960. A kinetic, mid-century oil abstract comprising a structurally inter-related field of jade and saffron contrasted against second...

Georges Ferrato Abstract Oil on Canvas 1969 29 x 36 in, 73 x 91 cm Signed and dated lower left Georges Ferrato (born in 1949 in Aix-en-Provence) is perfect harmony: a universal sub...

Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on sackcloth. Signed and dated lower center; signed, dated, and titled verso. 57.75 x 45 in. 59.5 x 47 ...

This signed painting by acclaimed African-American artist David Hammons displays an early experimental use of painted material during the artist’s formative years at Otis Art Institu...

"My Cat Named Dog" is an original oil painting by Joseph Rozman. It depicts an abstract animal in an environment made of geometric shapes of solid color. Artwork Size: 32 3/8" x 27...

*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Phenomena High Born by Paul Jenkins (1923-2012) Acrylic on canvas 91.44 x 50.8 cm (36 x 20 inches) Signed lower left Jenkins Signed, dated and titled on the reverse Executed in 1964 which makes this a very early work and so more valuable Biography Born at Kansas City in Missouri (USA), the multi-media artist, poet and playwright Paul Jenkins studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Students League in New York City. After his discharge from military service at the end of February 1946, he briefly studied playwriting with dramatist George McCalmon at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Thereafter, Jenkins spent four years studying with Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi in New York City. His first solo exhibitions were held at Studio Paul Facchetti in Paris in 1954 and the Martha Graham Gallery in New York City in 1956. Over the past thirty years, numerous retrospectives have been curated across the globe and Jenkins’ work can found in national collections from Europe and the United States to Israel, Australia and Japan. The diversity of his work springs from Jenkins’ wealth of eclectic influences. Some of his earliest works included what he called "interior landscapes" influenced by ancient natural forms like the caves he visited in the Ozark Mountains in his native-Missouri. Frequent student visits to the Frick Collection in New York fostered a love of the great masters: Bellini, Holbein, Vermeer, Rembrandt, de la Tour, Turner and Goya. In compliment, lingering student visits to the renowned Eastern collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City evoked powerful sympathy for a monumental Chinese fresco...

Artist: Sally Kissinger Wilt (American, 1936-2004) Title: End of Street I Year: Circa 1963 Medium: oil on canvas Size: 48 x 53 inches unframed Signature: Signed “Wilt” reverse Condi...

Acrylic on canvas. Signed verso. 36.5 x 36 in. 42.75 x 42.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple tray frame with an heirloom white finish. Provenance Private Collection, C...

THE PAIR Size: 80 x 60.5 cm Oil on Canvas A large and very unique mid century modernist oil composition of two figures, painted onto canvas. The artist has flattened the surface, r...

ABSTRACTION Mid-Century Abstract Non-Objective Color Field oil American Modern James Daugherty (1887 – 1974) "Abstraction" 11 ¾ x 13 ¾ inches Oil on...

I have 5 paintings I purchased recently for sale by this artist. They are all beautiful and colorful with gallery labels as pictured. They all come From the estate of Guy Joseph Émile Nairay…. Famous French Diplomat who owned many major artists in his collection. Sarthou is a famous French abstract painter whose colors are very vibrant. Here for sale: MAURICE ELIE SARTHOU...

New York artist Nathaniel Hoffman was born in 1900 in Russia. He came to the United States as a young boy with his parents. They settled in Brooklyn. Hoffman went on to study at the ...

Title: Overlook Mountain, Woodstock Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 24 x 33 inches Date: c. 1960 Archive No.: 382 This striking oil painting from the 1960s exemplifies Arthur Pinajian’s...

This original 1960s oil on canvas by American artist Florence V. Mercolino Graziano exemplifies the dynamic energy of the Abstract Expressionist movement. The composition showcases b...

Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed verso. Some scratched out, illegible writing in paint and graphite verso, which may ha...

Modern Abstract Year: 1960-1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right Size: Abstract oil on canvas by Lee Reynolds was a popular artist in the 1960s known for oversized, color...

Excellent example of Loper Sr.'s work from this period. Exhibited at the Delaware art Museum show titled "Edward L. Loper from the Prism's Edge". Signed lower right. 43.75" x 30.75" ...

Here is one of Paul Guiragossian's 1960s oil paintings on canvas. The artwork's size, without the frame, is 31 x 23 inches. The overall composition represents a family, with the figu...

There are a lot of people in the art world today who dismiss illustrators are being commercial solely because the artists identified as being commercial artists and that the work was done on assignment. Sadly these art world people have limited imagination and a restricted sense of curiosity. This boxing illustration/painting was done for Sports Illustrated...

Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right and verso, titled verso. 39.25 x 31.75 in. 40.25 x 32.75 in. (f...

"One of Pinajian's early works, 'Overlook Mountain, Woodstock, 1974' is a vibrant depiction of the Woodstock mountains. The abstract composition was create...

A fine colorful abstract New Hampshire landscape by American artist Miriam Sawyer (20th c). This White Mountain landscape is an oil on cardboard, signed lower right, titled on a Manchester Banks 1962 New Hampshire Art Exhibit label on verso “Chocorua Pond,” and framed in a distressed painted barn...