1980s Paintings

A charming and fresh portrait of the musician and composer standing in front of Mendips, the house where he was mostly raised by his mother's sister Mimi, with his aunt standing behind him holding her large ginger and white cat, Timmy, that he grew up with. Signed lower left, 'S. Bower'; additionally inscribed with dedication verso 'To Mrs. Smith - Best Wishes, S. Bower', titled 'John Lennon with his Aunt Mimi and Tim at Mendips' and dated October 1982. This listed English plein-air painter, attended Manchester College of Art from 1970 to 1974 and currently lives in Totnes, Devon. He describes himself as "a colorist who is inspired by flower gardens, especially English cottage gardens in early summer. I have spent successive summers painting in Monet’s garden at Giverny, Northern France." Exhibitions: Nothern Young Contemporaries, Liverpool – 1974 Marlborough Gallery, London (Buddy Holly...

This is done on a very interesting handmade paper (Japanese?) it is hand signed and numbered. In this print the artist Sam Messer uses bold contrasting colors in a gestural manner. Messer's work, so apparently spontaneous or impulsive in its emphasis on highly dramatic gestural brushstrokes and intense color, is, in fact, carefully considered. The treatment of the composition conveys dynamic movement through the sweep...

Pachter has often used the tent as a symbol of the country, of military history, and the journey implied by the use of the tent, and of course, the primary symbolism of the pyramid. ...

Coq de Bruyeré, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 55”, 1988. Minimalist Abstract Acrylic Painting Claude Vermette R.C.A. (1930 - 2006) is a Canadian ceramist a...

Artist: Peter Mack Title: Stripes One Year: circa 1980 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas with Clear Vinyl Overlay, signed l.r. Size: 48 x 48 in. (121.92 x 121.92 cm) Frame Size: 49 x 49 inches

Large scale, colorful abstract painting, with pink, orange and purple against a pale blue ground. Milly Ristvedt approaches color in her work with sincere consideration and expertise...

Wonderful verdant landscape of stream with bridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains by Quince Rudolph Galloway (American, 1912-2003). Signed "Quince Galloway" lower right. Titled and signed on verso "Quince Galloway". Presented in a giltwood frame. Image size, 18"H x 24"L. Quince Galloway was known for his realist, impressionist, landscape, portrait and still life works. Quince Rudolph Galloway was born on August 16, 1912 in Alma, Arkansas. He was known for his realist, and sometimes impressionist, landscape, portrait and still life works. Galloway attended college in Arkansas. He moved to Oakland, California in 1931 where he studied art at the Fox-Morgan School. Soon after his move to Oakland, he married fellow artist Janice Webster and settled in nearby San Leandro...

Vivien Abrams Collens is a mid-career abstract artist born in Cleveland, Ohio, whose current practice includes site specific installations, sculpture and painting. After graduatin...

Sandy Kinnee is known for paper making, printmaking and collage. This has the artists stamp verso. Sandy Kinnee lives and works in Colorado Springs, CO. Kinnee was born on March, 3...

We are proud to present the original paintings of American artist Robert Branham(1926-2012.) Robert Branham was born in 1926, in Louisville, Kentucky. He attended the Art Institut...

Wonderful vertical modernist floral still life watercolor by Bill Richardson (American, 1931-2019), circa 1980. Signed lower section. Presented in pain...

Magenta and Yellow Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper Abstract in bright colors on heavy grey paper by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th ...

Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), "Triangle in 5", Mixed Media on Tarlatan, 1983, signed, titled, and dated to verso. 36.75" H x 39" W. Provenance: From the Collection of the artis...

Audrey Flack The Nodes of Alvor Portugal, 1982 Watercolor on paper (bears original Louis Meisel Gallery label on the back) Pencil signed and titled by the...

Paris Marche' aux Puces - Oil on canvas Elio Ferrara, Italy, 1980s Elio Ferrara was born in Naples in 1945, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts and then worked as a set designer at ...

JOAN NELSON UNTITLED, 1984 egg tempera on masonite 24 x 18 in. 61 x 45.7 cm. signed and dated on verso landscape castle

Tortolla by Russ Elliott, American (1932) Date: 1988 Acrylic on canvas, signed lower right Size: 23.5 x 36 in. (59.69 x 91.44 cm) Frame Size: 28 x 40 inches Inscribed 'Mode for Blac...

East Village Art: From 1978 for 8 years Berlin worked frenetically,at street level, his finger on the pulse of this great city creating The Manhattan Collection. Living & moving in...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso.

Signed lower right, 'V.M. Di Carlo' for Vittorio Maria Di Carlo (Italian, 1939-2015) and painted circa 1980. Born in San Marco, Maria Vittorio Di Carlo...

This painting is an oil on canvas mounted to a wood panel. It is signed with his monogram signature JTA lower right. The work is unframed. Axton was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kan...

Work on canvas White wooden frame 52.5 x 67.5 x 4 cm

Charming autumnal country cabin at sunrise landscape by Loretta Haynes (American, 1930 - 2017), c.1980s. A small, rustic cabin sits atop a hill, overlo...

White, snow, skiing, winter, russia, dacha GLEB SAVINOV (Charkev, 1915 – St. Petersburg, 2000) Works by Gleb Savinov can be found in various private collections in Europe, Japan, ...

Kimono with Rope Texture - Collagraph Master Plate Master plate for collagraph printmaking featuring a kimono with rope texture in warm neutral peach tones, by California artist Pat...

Jose Vives-Atsara (1919-2004) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 34 x 39 Medium: Oil Applied by Palette Knife Dated 1981 "Houses on the Hills" , Catalonia, Spain Biog...

Study for Sculpture by Ernst Neizvestny, Russian (1926–2016) Ink and brush on paper, signed upper right Size: 17.5 x 12 in. (44.45 x 30.48 cm) Frame Size: 22.75 x 16.75 inches

Virginia Cuppaidge (Australian, b. 1943), "Cerella", Oil on Canvas, 1982, abstract composition, signed, titled, and dated to verso, gold-tone metal frame. Image: 44.5" H x 71.5" W; f...

Charles Fazzino (American, b. 1955), Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery, Mixed Media on Paper, 1981, ink, marker, and acrylic, depicting a mixed-use red apartment building, signed and dat...

This is an oil painting by surrealist artist Mark Kostabi. In it, the body of a dog is shown on the bottom with a long neck that extends up to the top of the painting, ending with a ...

A truly magnificent oil on canvas painting of a sunset off the coast of California in the late 1800's. Signed lower right and in it's original period gold gilt frame which is in excellent condition. Overall it is 33 x 47 inches. Minor stretcher bar wear. Biography Charles Theller Wilson Born in San Francisco, CA on Oct. 10, 1855. Wilson first studied painting with his mother, Agnes (California's earliest known woman artist) and later with Jules Tavernier...

Deep pastel colors enliven this painting of a polar bear in the ice by listed California artist Helen Ray Harris (d.2001). Signed lower left corner "H. Harris". Unframed. Image, 16"H x 20"W. Helen Ray Harris, 20th Century, was born in England. She received her initial art training in her native England and immigrated to the United States at age 19. Prior to her arrival in the U.S., and shortly afterwards, she worked repairing and restoring antique furniture...

Ben Wilson Ozymandias, 1989 Oil on masonite board Boldly signed by Ben Wilson on the back 36 × 48 inches Unframed Provenance: acquired from the Estate of Ben Wilson This work is titled "Ozymandias" after the famous sonnet written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). Shelley's poem is one of the most poignant meditations on the fleeting nature of human power and the inevitability of decline. The poem serves as a reminder that time erodes even the most imposing empires and leaders and that the pursuit of lasting fame and control is ultimately futile. Depending on how one views Ben Wilson's Abstract Expressionist painting of "Ozymandias" -- some of the imagery might reveal the head of an angry king and a sickle. Shelley's poem Ozymandias reads: I met a traveler from an antique land...

Menashe Kadishman, Sheep head, Symbolist painting, colored painting, Israeli art, Israeli art

Figurative black and white woodcut by Polish artist Franciszek Bunsch. FRANCISZEK BUNSCH (born in 1926) Franciszek Bunsch was born in Bielsko in 1926. He studied painting under the...

Sunil Das - Untitled - 13.5 x 10.5 inches (unframed size) Jottings, Pen & Ink on Paper Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian ...

Portrait of a Woman with Rosy Cheeks in Acrylic on Paper A stylized portrait by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). In this stylized portrait, the s...

Fiddler Jovan Obican French/Yugoslavian (1918–1986) Date: circa 1980 Oil on board Size: 16 x 20 in. (40.64 x 50.8 cm) Frame Size: 21 x 17 inches

Two Men with Lutes Jovan Obican French/Yugoslavian (1918–1986) Oil on board Size: 7 x 5.5 in. (17.78 x 13.97 cm) Frame Size: 8 x 6.75 inches

The Market is an artwork realized in the half of XX century by Leonzio De Mitri. Original oil painting on canvas The artwork is hand-signed on the lower right. Good conditions. ...

Stunning Photorealist painting of an eagle on a branch against a blue sky. Grey painted wooden frame. The work is signed by the artist Rena Fennessy who ...

Artist in Gouache on Interview Magazine Back Page 1989 Modernism Portrait of a man and commemorating The Fall of the Berlin Wall on Andy Worhol's Interview Magazine back page and pai...

James Rosati Untitled Geometric Abstraction, 1982 Two-sided Acrylic and Colored Pencil on Paper drawing Hand signed and dated on lower right front 14 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches This is a un...

Mixed Media collage Assemblage painting and or monoprint or monotype on BFK Rives French art paper. It depicts a wild profusion of bold colored flowers Education 1976 Stanley Hayter Atelier 17 Workshop, Paris, France 1975 Hugh Stoneman Workshop, London, England 1974-85 Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NYC 1972-74 Certificate of Completion in Fine Arts Graphics, The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY 1971-72 The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA 1970-71 Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT it was the League where Martha Bloom...

Ben WIlson Lightness, ca. 1980 Oil on masonite board 21 × 25 × 3/10 inches Stamped by artist's estate, Hand signed by the artist on the front AND stamped by the artist's estate on the back Unframed Hand signed by the artist on the front and stamped by the artist's estate on the back. Acquired from the Estate of Ben Wilson. This poignant painting is done by the second generation Abstract Expressionist artist Ben Wilson - one of the youngest artists to be given a show at prestigious ACA Gallery in 1940. Ben Wilson was born in Philadelphia in 1913 to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Kiev and settled in New York City. He was educated in Manhattan public schools and graduated from City College in 1935. To gain exposure to a wider range of styles, he also studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Educational Alliance. Admired by critics throughout his long career, Wilson was singled out as a “discovery” by the New York Times art critic Edward Alden Jewel even before his first one-man show at the Galerie Neuf in 1946. His paintings of the ’30s and ’40s were expressionistically rendered, often Biblical parables, filled with what he called “the grief of the intolerable” and reflecting an acute awareness of the agony of the time, from the Holocaust to the Spanish Civil War. A WPA artist who identified strongly with the plight of the Jews in Europe, he relentlessly explored themes of war, torment, and futility in his early decades of painting. When times changed and social pressures subsided, Wilson’s mood lifted. He spent 1952-54 in Paris working at the Academie Julien. During the ’50s his involvement with specific imagery persisted but became more psychological and mythic in orientation. Influenced by Cubism, he created a vocabulary of interlocking shapes and bold, sweeping gestures that served as a transition between his early figurative expressionism and his later abstract constructivist concerns. Towards the end of the decade Wilson reached a crossroads, moving towards abstraction and searching for what he called “a scaffolding under the externals.” By 1960, influenced by the Russian Constructivists, Mondrian, and Abstract Expressionism, Wilson turned to abstraction. Reexamining the basic elements of painting, he evolved his own personal vocabulary and structure, fusing the cerebral and the emotive. He became increasingly experimental, using house paint, sand, and other unorthodox materials in paintings that he worked from all directions, dripping, spraying, stenciling, and collaging. He employed elements of disjunction, repetitions of geometric motifs, linear networks, and complex overlays to create the transparent, multi-layer development of space that characterizes his later paintings. A consummate draftsman, Wilson filled notebook after notebook with drawings that he amplified in his paintings. Eschewing popular movements, Wilson was always one to pursue a personal aesthetic. Despite more than 30 one-man shows and 50 years of teaching, he increasingly withdrew from the gallery scene but continued to paint daily until his death at age 88 in 2001 in Blairstown, New Jersey, where he and his sculptor wife Evelyn...

Original Oil on canvas In excellent condition Frame measures 44x33x1 Painting itself 36x24

Ben Wilson Concert, ca. 1989 Oil on masonite board (Hand Signed by the artist; also bears the Estate Stamp) Boldly signed front and back, titled and dated on the back by Ben Wilson and also stamped on the back by the estate of Ben Wilson 42 × 48 inches Unframed This stunning painting is done by the second generation Abstract Expressionist artist Ben Wilson - one of the youngest artists to be given a show at prestigious ACA Gallery in 1940. This work "Concert" - depicting instruments, in a light, lyrically abstract painting. Exquisite colors and subtle imagery. In 2017, he was the subject of a retrospective at the George Segal Gallery at Montclair State University from September 6 to November 4 and it was accompanied by a catalogue. About Ben Wilson: Ben Wilson was born in Philadelphia in 1913 to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Kiev and settled in New York City. He was educated in Manhattan public schools and graduated from City College in 1935. To gain exposure to a wider range of styles, he also studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Educational Alliance. Admired by critics throughout his long career, Wilson was singled out as a “discovery” by the New York Times art critic Edward Alden Jewel even before his first one-man show at the Galerie Neuf in 1946. His paintings of the ’30s and ’40s were expressionistically rendered, often Biblical parables, filled with what he called “the grief of the intolerable” and reflecting an acute awareness of the agony of the time, from the Holocaust to the Spanish Civil War. A WPA artist who identified strongly with the plight of the Jews in Europe, he relentlessly explored themes of war, torment, and futility in his early decades of painting. When times changed and social pressures subsided, Wilson’s mood lifted. He spent 1952-54 in Paris working at the Academie Julien. During the ’50s his involvement with specific imagery persisted but became more psychological and mythic in orientation. Influenced by Cubism, he created a vocabulary of interlocking shapes and bold, sweeping gestures that served as a transition between his early figurative expressionism and his later abstract constructivist concerns. Towards the end of the decade Wilson reached a crossroads, moving towards abstraction and searching for what he called “a scaffolding under the externals.” By 1960, influenced by the Russian Constructivists, Mondrian, and Abstract Expressionism, Wilson turned to abstraction. Reexamining the basic elements of painting, he evolved his own personal vocabulary and structure, fusing the cerebral and the emotive. He became increasingly experimental, using house paint, sand, and other unorthodox materials in paintings that he worked from all directions, dripping, spraying, stenciling, and collaging. He employed elements of disjunction, repetitions of geometric motifs, linear networks, and complex overlays to create the transparent, multi-layer development of space that characterizes his later paintings. A consummate draftsman, Wilson filled notebook after notebook with drawings that he amplified in his paintings. Eschewing popular movements, Wilson was always one to pursue a personal aesthetic. Despite more than 30 one-man shows and 50 years of teaching, he increasingly withdrew from the gallery scene but continued to paint daily until his death at age 88 in 2001 in Blairstown, New Jersey, where he and his sculptor wife Evelyn Wilson...

Baby is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1983 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original Oil on Canvas. Total dimensions: 70 x 3 x 70 cm. Mi...

A charming painting of a sunny day at an old farmstead with cows by California artist Ralph Edward Joosten (American, 1928-2009). Signed "R. Joosten" lower left. Presented in a rusti...

Sunny winter landscape. 1985, cardboard, oil, 45x58 cm Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in diffe...

Impressive early American modernist drawing. Framed. Drawing on paper. Signed. Image size, 14H by 11L.

Artist: Bella Karawaewa Prado, Brazilian (1925 - ) Title: Still Life Medium: Oil on Board, Signed Size: 23 x 33 inches Frame: 26 x 37 inches

"Locked Out" - A Face and a Figure in Acrylic on Paper A bold figurative painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). A face and a figure have been superimposed upon each other, with no clear indication as to which in in the foreground. They are composed of red, brown, and black, with a stippled texture at the bottom. From a collection of Ricardo de Silva's work and memorabilia. DeSilva was born in Brazil and grew up in Los Angeles. He was a gallery owner, first in Santa Barbara in the 1960's and 70's, then in San Jose in the 1980's. He was dedicated to promoting the work of talented upcoming artists, including Kogyo and Hasui Kiyochika, Robert Frame, Jim Stuckenberg, Alice Robertson Carr, Deborah Eve Alastra...

Modesto ROLDAN The Precious Pearls Original Oil on Canvas Handsigned on the bottom left On canvas 24 x 30 cm (c. 9.5 x 12 inch) Presentend in golden wood frame 33 x 37 cm (c. 13 x 1...

A dynamic 20th Century oil scene showing a group of cheesemakers in Amsterdam stacking up wheels of yellow cheese onto sledges. There is wonderful industrial movement in the painting...

"Wyoming Gold", Large-Scale Abstract Geometric Modern Landscape Bold large scale abstracted landscape by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999). Estate stamp on verso. Can be oriented ve...

Portrait of a young woman Mara. 1986, oil on cardboard, 35x30 cm Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I) His first professional education was at National University at studies to R...

Signed lower left, and lower right, 'Patricia Cunningham' for Patricia Stanley Cunningham (American, 1907-1984) and painted circa 1965. A vibrant, Post-Impressionistic oil showing a view of Paris with two nuns wearing wimples and cornets, one carrying a basket of daffodils, standing beneath the shade of a tree and with a view beyond to the facade of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame lit by bright sunshine. The first woman to serve as president of the Carmel Art Association, Patricia Stanley Cunningham first studied at UC Berkeley and, subsequently, with Hans Hofmann in Munich and with André Lhote in Paris. While in Paris, in 1930, she wed the American artist, John Cunningham. Settling on the Monterey Peninsula after returning from Europe, Cunningham joined the Carmel Art Institute, of which she became president, the Southwest Artists...

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Light Lavender Iris Year: 1984 Medium: Oil on linen Size: 40 x 30 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the arti...

Hassan Ertugrul Kahraman (1952-) Nude Woman Profile Acrylic paint on panel Signed bottom left and signed again on the back Dated 1989 Size : 40 x 30 cm (c. 16 x 12 in) Excellent co...