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Period: 1970s
Flowers in Fog, Large Painting by F. Hasenflug
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Florence Hasenflug, American (1914 - 2010) Title: Abstracted Bouquet Year: circa 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. and verso Size: 37.75 x 54 in. (95.89 x 137.16 cm) Fr...
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American Realist 1970s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Lion - Acrylic on Canvas by Genny Puccini - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Lion is a contemporary artwork realized in 1973 by Genny Puccini. Mixed colored acrylic on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin and on the...
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Abstract 1970s Paintings

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Acrylic

Virgin - Acrylic on Canvas by Genny Puccini - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Virgin is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1973 by Genny Puccini. Mixed colored acrylic on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the lower margi...
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Abstract 1970s Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled - Mixed Colored Enamel by Renato Livi - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a contemporary artwork realized by Renato Livi in 1971. Mixed colored enamel on board.
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Abstract 1970s Paintings

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Enamel

Gray day seaport of Barcelona Spain oil on canvas painting seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Antonio Sala Herrero (1927-2012) - Gray Day Barcelona Port - Oil on canvas Oil measures 33x41 cm. Frame measures 52x60 cm.
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Post-Impressionist 1970s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Vesuvius, Naples - Mixed Media on Paper - 1970ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Vesuvius, Naples is an original painting realized in 1970ca. by Anonymous artist in the 1970s. Mixed media on paper In good conditions. The subject of this artwork is a colorful...
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Contemporary 1970s Paintings

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Mixed Media, Paint

Gemini - Acrylic on Canvas by Genny Puccini - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Gemini is a contemporary artwork realized in 1973 by Genny Puccini. Mixed colored acrylic on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin and on t...
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Abstract 1970s Paintings

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Acrylic

"One Thousand Words" - Surreal Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold figurative work by Richard Cronin (American, b. 1952). Two figures stand on a patio, turned away from each other. The figures and scene are rendere...
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Surrealist 1970s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sagittarius - Acrylic on Canvas by Genny Puccini - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Sagittarius is a contemporary artwork realized in 1973 by Genny Puccini. Mixed colored acrylic on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin and...
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Abstract 1970s Paintings

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Acrylic

Scorpion - Acrylic on Canvas by Genny Puccini - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Scorpion is a contemporary artwork realized in 1973 by Genny Puccini. Mixed colored acrylic on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin and on...
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Abstract 1970s Paintings

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Acrylic

'The Seine and the Pont Neuf', Paris, Académie des Beaux Arts, Kraków, Normandy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Walles' for Luc Cossier Walles (French, born 1946), titled lower right, 'Paris' and dated 1978. Luc Cossier, known as Walles, was born in Poland to French paren...
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Modern 1970s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Knee Socks Girl, Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Knee Sock Girl" is an oil on board portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon of a woman, seemingly lost in contemplation....
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Expressionist 1970s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Untitled
Located in Surfside, FL
Richard Hennessy, 1972. Born in Rochester, NY, in 1941, Hennessy began as a gifted concert pianist studying at the Eastman School of Music from 1954-1959. He went on to study art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, from 1963-66, after which he began his career as a fine artist. His early paintings were quickly admired and supported by Henry Geldzahler, curator of Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His first exhibition was in 1969 at Olivier Bernier Inc. NYC, followed in 1970 by a show at the Tibor De Nagy Gallery, also in NYC. Over the years he has shown in San Francisco, Indiana, Arizona, Florida, and at other prominent NYC galleries including Robert Miller, Hamilton, John Good and a retrospective at NYU’s Grey Gallery...
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Neo-Expressionist 1970s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Meeting of Elders (Drawing from the back)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Taju Mayakiri is the son of the Well know Nigeria Old Master and Postwar artist - Tijani Mayakiri ( 1937 - 1992), he invented a style of Painting that has the sketch at the back and...
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Contemporary 1970s Paintings

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Oil, Archival Paper, Color Pencil

1970's Enamel Metal Vasarely Silkscreen Screenprint Axo Kinetic Op Art Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Victor Vasarely (1908-1997) Axo This piece is hand signed and numbered circa 1972-1977 I have seen it described as enamel on steel and enamel on aluminium. it is a serigraph on meta...
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Op Art 1970s Paintings

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Metal, Enamel

Alec Wiles (1924-2021) - 1974 Oil, Burgundy Man
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming portrait depicts a stern looking man staring into the distance. His burgundy suit blends into the burgundy background, bringing out the col...
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1970s Paintings

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Oil

Still Life with Bowl of Strawberries
By Vito Tomasello
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Vito Tomasello (American, ?-1982). Still Life with Strawberries, 1979. Oil on masonite panel, 10 1/2 x 11 5/8 inches. Signed and dated low...
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Impressionist 1970s Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

The Goddess Kali Appears to a Hunter - Balinese Ubud Painting Mask Dance
Located in Soquel, CA
Incredibly detailed depiction of the goddess Kali appearing before a hunter by Konci (Balinese, 20th Century). Overflowing with details and imagery, this piece depicts the goddess Kali in the forest along with other godlike figures. A hunter is kneeling before them, wearing a quiver, and with hands folded in prayer. Kali is depicted in a traditional Balinese style, but with a multitude of faces engulfed in flames. The jungle background is full of swirling plants. Signed "Konci" in the lower right corner. Cloth wrapped around wood panel. Unframed. Image size: 35"H x 25.5"W This carved, wooden mask represents the mythical creature known in Bali as Banaspati Raja, meaning “King of the Forest,” also called the Barong Ket. Lion-like masks such as this one are the most common type, but Barong can take on the features of a number of different animals, including wild boar, dog, deer, and tiger, individually or in composite form. In Balinese society, all Barong masks...
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Tribal 1970s Paintings

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Acrylic, Cotton Canvas, Wood Panel

Polyptych - Acrylic Painting by James B. Paget - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Polyptych. 9-Panel Acrylic Paintings. Based on 'The Book of Genesis' by James B Paget. Created in 1975. 11 sample pictures of the paintings are attached. The first sample pictu...
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Contemporary 1970s Paintings

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Acrylic

Cactus Landscape (Comanche Native American surrealist painting)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Larry Hood (Native American, 1950-1995). Cactus Landscape, ca. 1975-80. Gouache on Arches rag paper, Sheet measures 23 x 30 inches. Image measures 22...
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Surrealist 1970s Paintings

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Gouache, Rag Paper

Dancers Resting - Mid-Late 20th Century Impressionist of Ballet by Frank Hill
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Frank Hill is a professional artist living and working in North Norfolk. He studied art at Waltham Forest School of Art and later at St Martins School of Art. Frank’s professional c...
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Post-Impressionist 1970s Paintings

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Mixed Media, Board, Oil, Charcoal

Genesis - Late 20th Century Mixed Media on Wood Abstract by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
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 de...
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Abstract 1970s Paintings

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Wood, Mixed Media, Oil

Modern Grey and Light Yellow Toned Geometric Linear Abstract Diamond Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract painting by Houston, TX artist Margaret Nobler. The work features a grey toned diamond shaped canvas with geometric light yellow accent...
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Modern 1970s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Vase of Flowers - Oil Paint by Giuseppe Bertolini - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Vase of Flowers is an original modern artwork realized by Giuseppe Bertolini in 1970. Mixed colored oil on canvas Hand signed and dated on the back and on the lowe...
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Contemporary 1970s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Rhodes: modern Italian watercolor of abstract Greek landscape & architecture
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a minimalist watercolor painting depicting abstracted architectural features (windows & doorway) in red and blue with the landscape and ocean of Rhodes, Greece visible. The watercolor itself measures 9.5"x6.5" and is floated in a double-mat 16.5" x 13" narrow, contemporary wood (maple) frame. Signed, titled, and dated on the back of the watercolor paper. Diego Esposito...
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Abstract 1970s Paintings

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Watercolor

Summer Holiday - Late 20th Century of Kids on the Beach by Muriel Archer
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Born on June 25 1911 - she died just before her 100th birthday, fond of drawing and painting from an early age, she did her first drawing when she was four years old. She later studi...
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Post-Impressionist 1970s Paintings

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Mixed Media, Paper

Abstract Oil Faces Eyes Glasses - Mid 20th Century Oil Pastel by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
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 de...
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Abstract 1970s Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Spirit with Horns - Abstracted Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstracted surreal figure of a spirit by Michael Eggleston (American, 20th Century). This piece is bold and lively, with bright colors and rich blacks. This horned spirit i...
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Surrealist 1970s Paintings

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Paper, India Ink

Le Coquelicots
Located in Greenwich, CT
A French impressionist piece depicting a waterfront view. Oil on Canvas.
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Impressionist 1970s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Colorful one of a pair Abstract Painting Reese Galleries Label “Archipelago”
Located in New York, NY
Here we have two gorgeous colorful paintings by Tsugio Hattori (1952-1958), selling them separately. Tsugio Hattori is an American/Japanese Abstract painter who exhibited many important shows, museums and galleries. Painting depicts a beautiful abstract done in the 1970’s with Reece Gallery label verso. Painting is signed in American and Japanese, titled Archipelago verso. The other one is just as beautiful and colorful as well as same size titled Rio Tranos. Please Check my listings...
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Paintings

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Acrylic

Defilé - Tempera by Danilo Bergamo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Defilè is an original mixed colored tempera on cardboard realized by Danilo Bergamo in 1970s.. Hand signed on the lower right margin...
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Contemporary 1970s Paintings

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Tempera

Abstract Composition - Oil Paint by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is an original contemporary artwork realized by Leo Guida in 1970s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Includes frame: 103 x 3 x 122 cm
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Abstract 1970s Paintings

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Oil

Abstract Composition - Oil Paint by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is a contemporary artwork realized by Leo Guida in 1970s. Mixed colored oil on canvas Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). S ensitive to current issues, artistic movement...
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Abstract 1970s Paintings

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Oil

Modernist Great Horned Owl
Located in Soquel, CA
A fun modernist rendering of a Great Horned Owl by San Francisco artist Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th century). Unsigned. From a collectio...
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Modern 1970s Paintings

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Felt Pen, Paper

Constellation, Dazzling unique signed geometric abstraction painting, 1970s art
Located in New York, NY
Allan D'Arcangelo Constellation, 1971 Acrylic on paper, mounted to canvas Hand sgned and dated 1971 lower front Frame included Measurements: Framed: 23.75 x 23.75 x 1.25 inches Artwo...
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Pop Art 1970s Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Laid Paper, Permanent Marker

Black and White - Oil Paint by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white is an original contemporary artwork realized by Leo Guida in 1970s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Includes frame: 100 x 3 x 123 cm Titled on the back.
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Abstract 1970s Paintings

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Oil

Paisaje de la Rioja Argentinian Modernist Concretist Cubist Oil Painting
By Julio Barragan
Located in Surfside, FL
Julio Barragán (1928–2011) was an Argentine painter of the Concretist and Cubist schools. Life and work Barragán was born in Buenos Aires. He beg...
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Cubist 1970s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Place Dauphine, Paris
By Angelo Mozziconacci
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil on Canvas or a Parisian Street Scene with charming shops and a park. signed lower right and verso. Ange Mozziconacci was born on June 22, 1939 in Ajaccio, capital city of the French island...
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Realist 1970s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Andre Elbaz (b.1934). Landscape, ca. 1980 . Oil on card panel, image measures 14 x 20 inches; 18.5 x 24.5 inches framed. Signed lower right. Excellent condition. André Elbaz (born April 26, 1934, El Jadida, Morocco) is a famous Moroccan painter and filmmaker. Elbaz studied art and theatre in Rabat and Paris from 1950 to 1961. He started painting only at the age of 21, until which age he had been interested mainly in theatre. A few years later, he managed to combine his two passions into a new approach in art-therapy, inventing together with his wife, a psychiatrist, the Pictodrame, which brought him world recognition. His first exhibition, which was very successful, took place in Casablanca in 1961 and earned him an appointment as Professor at the Beaux-Arts school in Casablanca. Years later, in 1976, he exhibited his paintings at the Tel-Aviv Museum. In parallel to his career as a painter, Elbaz is also known as a filmmaker. He produced several short films in France, Canada and the United States. One of them, La nuit n'est jamais complète (The night is never complete), won a prize at the "5th Biennale de Paris in 1967" .[citation needed] Among the themes chosen for the many films he produced, there was a short one about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, as well as a series of drawings entitled Seuls (Alone), with texts written by both Elie Wiesel...
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Abstract 1970s Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Man and Spirit Wolf (Comanche Native American surrealist painting)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Larry Hood (Native American, 1950-1995). Man and Spirit Wolf, ca. 1975-80. Gouache on Arches rag paper, Sheet measures 23 x 30 inches. Image measures 22 x 2...
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Surrealist 1970s Paintings

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Gouache, Rag Paper

"Woman and dog on the snow" Oil cm. 40 x 32 1977
Located in Torino, IT
Snow,White,dog,winter Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015) 1937: he was born in Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina. 1949-56: he began artistic studies in Dnep...
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Impressionist 1970s Paintings

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Oil

Phenomena Spectrum Guardian by Paul Jenkins, Abstract Expressionist artist
Located in London, GB
Phenomena Spectrum Guardian by Paul Jenkins (1923 - 2012) Acrylic on canvas 76 x 101.5 cm (29 ⁷/₈ x 40 inches) Signed lower middle Paul Jenkins Executed in 1970 Provenance: Gallerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland Private collection, Cologne, Germany Artist 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...
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Islands in the distance-Tuscany-" Oil cm. 50 x 40 1970
Located in Torino, IT
Turquoise, blue, red, sea, islands, Italy Shipment included in the price Fernando FARULLI (Florence, 1923 - 1997) 1948: Young Artists Salon, Paris 1952: International Art Biennale,...
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Italian School 1970s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nude
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
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1970s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Lexington, " Larry Zox, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Brown Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Larry Zox Lexington, 1973 Acrylic on canvas 61 x 49 inches Provenance: Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas Private Collection, Greenwood Village, Colorado Exhibited: New York, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Larry Zox: New Paintings, March 10 - 28, 1973. Houston, Texas, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Larry Zox, February - April, 1974. A painter who played an essential role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s, Larry Zox is best known for his intensely and brilliantly colored geometric abstractions, which question and violate symmetry. Zox stated in 1965: “Being contrary is the only way I can get at anything.” To Zox, this position was not necessarily arbitrary, but instead meant “responding to something in an examination of it [such as] using a mechanical format with X number of possibilities." What he sought was to “get at the specific character and quality of each painting in and for itself,” as James Monte stated in his introductory essay in the catalogue for Zox’s 1973–74 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Zox also at times used a freer, more intuitive method, while maintaining coloristic autonomy, which became increasingly important to him in his later career. 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 and Frank Stella for Tibor de Nagy, New York, and Systemic Painting (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Guggenheim Museum. In 1973–74, 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, he was represented in the inaugural exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum, which acquired fourteen of his works. Zox was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Drake University, and then studied under George Grosz at the Des Moines Art Center. 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 visiting fighters. He later established a studio in East Hampton, a former black smithy used previously by Jackson Pollock. Zox’s earliest works were collages consisting of pieces of painted 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 strong 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. He then replaced these torn and expressive edges with clean and impersonal lines that would define his work for the next decade. 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 series, in which he arranged opposing triangular shapes with inverted Vs of bare canvas at their centers that threaten to split their compositions apart. In several works from this series, Zox was inspired by ancient Chinese water vessels...
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Winter Landscape - Tempera and Watercolor by Sergio Barletta - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Winter landscape is an original artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in the 1970s. Watercolor and tempera. Includes frame: 38 x 3.5 x 48 cm Hand-signed on the lower margin Sergio Barletta (1934) is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator, who has also published some humorous and political satire books. From the age of 22 is active in Rome, where he worked as an illustrator and art director in some monthly magazines like “Costume”, Diners Club house organ, BP Review, IBM, and others. In 1965 started the joint-working with Marino Gallery in Rome, and in 1966 in Milan with Humour Graphic’s group, at Levi Gallery and others in the following years. In these years graphic work and illustration are mixed with painting and photography, also with satirical drawings...
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Abstract 1970s Paintings

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Tempera

Vintage Autumnal Sierra Mountains Landscape by Max Higgins
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful vintage oil painting of Sierra Mountains in Fall by Max Higgins (American, 20th Century), circa 1940s. Signed lower left. Condition: Professionally cleaned; minor craquelur...
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American Impressionist 1970s Paintings

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Linen, Oil

"Winter garden" Oil cm. 115 x 120 , 1975, Window, Winter
Located in Torino, IT
Winter, Window ,grey, white MAYA KOPITZEVA (Gagra, Georgia, 1924 - 2005) Maya kopitzeva’s works have been acquired by the Russian Ministry of Culture, by the Foundation for the R...
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Impressionist 1970s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Expressionist Figure in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful abstracted portrait by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). Bold colors and dripping paint create an expressive, dynamic composition. The figure is primarily ...
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Female figure woman oil on canvas painting portrait
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Palet (1911 - 1996) - Female figure - Oil on canvas Oil measures 46x38 cm. Frame measures 70x62 cm. Joan Palet was born in Barcelona on March 28, 1911 in a family of sculptors ...
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Impressionist 1970s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Trap Rock, " Sherron Francis, Female Abstract Expressionism, Blue Color Field
Located in New York, NY
SHERRON FRANCIS (AMERICAN, B. 1940) Trap Rock, 1972 Acrylic on canvas 22 3/4 x 16 inches Signed, titled and dated on the reverse A reappraisal is long overdue for the second-generation abstract expressionists. Artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Dan Christensen, and Sam Francis are already well-known names. However, Sherron Francis, a female artist from the Midwestern United States, exhibited alongside many of these stars, yet has not been the recipient of a major exhibition in nearly 40 years. Francis was born in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, Illinois in 1940. She studied fine art at the University of Oklahoma from 1958 to 1960 before transferring to the Kansas City Art Institute for better educational opportunities. At the time, Francis remained loyal to figurative art. Philip Pearlstein, a contemporary artist and visiting professor once remarked at the confidence of Francis’ draftsman abilities. In the early 1960s, art dealers and gallerists from New York would visit the Institute to recruit artists by offering scholarships, but they only offered these scholarships to men. Francis was forced to plead with deans to allow a scholarship for women so that she could continue her studies. She ultimately graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1963. In Missouri, Francis met Dan Christensen (Class of 1964), an artist friend, who would play a key role in her career throughout the next two decades. Francis then received her MFA from the University of Indiana, where she was housemates with Mernet Larsen, before assuming a teaching position at Eastern Michigan University. In 1968, with only $300 on hand, Francis moved to 16 Waverly Place in Soho. At the time, the neighborhood boasted some of the biggest names in abstract expressionism. She quickly became friends with Peter Reginato, Walter Darby Bannard, Michael Steiner, Peter Young, Larry Zox, and Larry Poons, who all lived and worked in the neighborhood. In fact, Francis introduced Larry Poons to his now wife, Paula, a friend and student of Sherron’s. Francis helped to found The Bowery Gallery in 1969 and received her first solo exhibition there in 1970 for her figurative works. After this exhibition, Francis decided to switch to abstraction. By 1971, Christensen, who was exhibiting with Andre Emmerich, introduced Francis to the legendary gallerist. There was no better gallery to be showcasing abstract expressionism and color field painting during this decade for an artist. For example, in 1972, Emmerich held solo exhibitions by art titans, such as Hans Hofmann, Al Held, Esteban Vicente, David Hockney, and Morris Louis. In 1973 alone, Emmerich gave one-person exhibitions to Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Hans Hofmann, Jack Bush and a new discovery: 32-year-old Sherron Francis. The January 27 - February 14 exhibition for Francis was a great success with Peter Schjeldahl commenting in the New York Times: “Francis has…sidestepped the danger of seeming hopelessly derivative of such artists as Mark Rothko, Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler —by, it seems to me, the use of a single canny formal device. All her canvases are tall, vertical rectangles. What this shape achieves is a physical presence that supports the paintings' fragile play of color and texture. Bearing roughly the proportions of the human body, but bigger in size, her pictures confront the viewer with a satisfying firmness, inviting delectation.” Francis’s career now took off with the stain paintings. In a 1974 article in Arts Magazine, Whee Kim writes, “She has asserted the credibility of her own answer to the problem of the outer edge of a canvas by limiting her investigations to a singular central image. In her variations on this theme, an intuitive sense of color and touch is given restricted free-play.” Schjeldahl added, “Her paintings, stained and brushed to a suavely grainy texture, each float an area of warm, soft color in a somewhat less‐intensely colored field. The areas are amorphous in shape and closely related, by hue, to the surrounding fields. Her colors run to luxurious brown‐golds, dreamy bluegreens and dusty pinks, though each canvas is alive with a variety of evanescent hues and tints. The goal of her art is to be at once as gorgeous and as delicate as possible: she intends to ravish.” In 1973, Francis exhibited at the Whitney Biennial and then received a second solo exhibition at Emmerich the following year. Corporate collections and private enthusiasts, including Helen Frankenthaler, rushed to purchase her paintings. More than sixty of her paintings sold in one year at Emmerich’s gallery. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Francis exhibited at other leading American galleries, including Janie C. Lee Gallery in Houston, Barbara Kornblatt Gallery in Baltimore, Douglas Drake in Kansas City, Rubiner Gallery in Detroit, and Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York. Francis always marched to the beat to her own drum. Although she admired the works of Jules Olitski, Jack Bush, and Kenneth Noland, Francis never felt that her work and lifestyle were influenced by others. When her friends summered in the...
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Manayunk, Schuylkill River, Factory, City Scene Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1970
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Provenance: Private Collection, San Diego, CA. Framed Giovanni Martino, National Academy of Design* member, was born on May 1, 1908 in Philadelphia PA where all seven brothers and one sister, Filomina, Frank, Antonio, Albert, Ernest, Giovanni, Edmond, and William became painters. They were under the tutelage of their eldest brother, Frank, who in the late 1920s, founded the first commercial art* studio, Martino Studios, at 27 South 18th Street. Besides studying with his two eldest brothers, Giovanni also studied with Albert Jean Adolph at La France Institute, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts*, The Graphic Sketch Club, and Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia. In his mid teens he accompanied his two eldest brothers to New Hope searching for subjects to paint. In the 1930s, he also started to paint in Manayunk, a hilly mill town along the Schuylkill River. At this time he signed his paintings M. Giovanni. These colorful impressionistic* works proceeded more thinly painted dramatically poetic street scenes of the mill town. These images developed into impasto* laden oils in the 1960's with some of the paintings worked with a palette knife*. In Manayunk, he was a common sight on the streets and sidewalks, painting on-the-spot with his wife, Eva Marinelli and his two daughters, Nina & Babette. In the 1980's and 90's he also painted in Conshohocken and Norristown with his youngest daughter, Babette. His paintings became more sharply executed like his earlier work but were more colorful. In the late '90's he worked in his studio to enlarge paintings. He is the recipient of over 100 awards and honors. He received the Benjamin Altman Prize in Landscape Painting in 1975 at the National Academy of Design, NYC where he was elected an Academician (NA) in 1944. He mentored not only his wife and two daughters but also taught at Lehigh University and the Graphic Sketch Club, Philadelphia. He died at his home in Blue Bell on February 1, 1997. (Babette Martino...
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American Modern 1970s Paintings

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Mixed Media, Paper, Oil, Tempera

Hawk (Comanche Native American surrealist painting)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Larry Hood (Native American, 1950-1995). Hawk, ca. 1975-80. Gouache on Arches rag paper, Sheet measures 23 x 30 inches. Image measures 22 x 29 inches. Sign...
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Surrealist 1970s Paintings

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Gouache, Rag Paper

"Past Physical" Symbolism and Figures form the Artists Subconscious 1970s
Located in Soquel, CA
A dark yet vibrant and expertly executed painting full of personal symbolism concepts to numerous to cover in a few sentences, by Ralph Thompson (aka Akili Nali) (American, B-circa 1...
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Symbolist 1970s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Glowing Wave Crashing at the Shore - Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed seascape by William Henry Blackman (American, b. 1930). A wave crashes at the shore, glowing from the sun shining through. Above the wave, a few gulls glide across the scene. The rocks in the foreground and the cliffs in the midground are finely textured, adding a lovely sense of realistic detail. Signed "Wm. Blackman" in the lower right corner. Artist's stamp on verso, along with other inventory markings. Artist's name written on edge of canvas. Presented in an ornate wood frame with a linen liner and fillet. Canvas size: 18"H x 24"W William Henry Blackman (American, b. 1930) was born in San Diego, CA in 1930. He spent most of his early years in West Los Angeles. Blackman began painting at age 12. In high school he majored in art so he could experiment with various mediums to find ways to interpret his ideas. In December of 1948 he joined the Navy and was stationed in Hawaii. He studied at Woodbury College where he learned advertising and graphic arts. In 1960 he bought a home with his wife Shirley in the San Fernando Valley and worked as an advertising manager. His position put him in contact with art directors and they would lunch together and then visit various art galleries in the area. He began oil painting again as a hobby. In 1964 he made an important contact through an associate at his agency. This person was a vice-president at Aaron Brothers Galleries and purchased paintings for them. They had showrooms in various major cities and sold original framed paintings to art galleries and furniture stores. He said they could possibly sell some of his seascapes so Bill began painting in his spare time. Gradually, they sold more than he could produce so Bill made the decision to leave the advertising business and devote his time to painting. Note: the original Aaron Brothers Art Galleries Certificate included with the painting. In 1965 the Blackman's moved to Thousand Oaks, California. He began his career as a fine artist and to this day resides in Thousand Oaks. He contracted with Aaron Brothers to be his exclusive agents and began specializing in seascapes. After a few years he added landscapes and some other subjects. Bluebonnet landscapes...
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American Impressionist 1970s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Nude
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Boris Akopian "Nude"
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1970s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Family Farm in France
Located in London, GB
'Family Farm in France', gouache on art paper, by Michel Debiève (circa 1970s). An extremely endearing depiction of a French family farm, the delight is...
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Modern 1970s Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Mountainscape Depicting Popocateptl
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mountainscape depicting Popocateptl
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1970s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

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