20th Century Paintings
Period: 20th Century
Color: Beige
Portrait of African American Woman by Anthony Sisti Circa 1930's
Located in Rochester, NY
Portrait of an African American Woman by Tony Sisti (1901-1983). Sisti was a master draftsman. With just a few lines he captures the moment. Sisti was a professional boxer and an acc...
Category
Modern 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Paper
Cubist Nude Study Pastel Painting by John Begg
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely pastel painting on paper by John Alfred Begg (1903 - 1974) is a striking cubist nude study in blue, purple, and orange-rust colors with contrasting black lines. The artwork is signed in the bottom right corner.
Provenance: From the estate of the artist.
Newly reframed in an elegant deep-textured wood frame with orange, black, and gilded colors, original beige jute matte, and glass protection.
Measurements:
With frame: 17.13 in wide (43.5 cm) x 24.41 in high (62 cm).
Opening view: 6.50 in wide (16.5 cm) x 12.44 in (31.5 cm).
About:
John Alfred Begg was born in New Smyrna Beach...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Loading the Wagon
By Clara Peck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Initialed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Large Antique American Impressionist Winter Horse Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist winter landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Field Mouse Series
Located in New York, NY
Robert Natkin (1930-2010)
Abstract Expressionist Painter
'Field Mouse Series,' about 1970
Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 44 in.
Signed (at lower right): Natkin
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Children Reading
By Clara Peck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Initialed Lower Left
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Nu Debout, Oil on Canvas Painting by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié
Located in London, GB
Nu Debout by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié (B. 1935 - )
Oil on canvas
92 x 65 cm (36 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, Hugues Pissarro
Dated on the reverse, Monte-Carlo 1963 and ...
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Temporary Father
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boats on the Beach, Dorset, Pastel on Paper, Mentor of Winston Churchill
By Paul Lucien Maze
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Paul Lucien Maze, an Anglo-French painter, was renowned as one of the great artists of his generation. Known as “The last of the Post Impressionists", Maze utilized oils, watercolours and pastels, his subjects varied from French maritime...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Impressionist Antique American Oil Painting Philadelphia Female Artist 1918
Located in Buffalo, NY
A stunning impressionist oil painting by listed female artist Clara Elizabeth Sackett.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Two Boxing Drawings by Anthony Sisti Circa 1930's
Located in Rochester, NY
Three drawings of boxers by Tony Sisti. Sisti was a master draftsman. With just a few lines he captures the moment. Sisti was a professional boxer and an accomplished artist. He was able to see the subject from the view point of the boxer and the artist. The seated boxers...
Category
Modern 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Paper
Couple Embrace
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left by Artist
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Modernist Architectural Oil Painting - Joseph Sutter Southern California
Located in Baltimore, MD
Like it’s listed companion piece, this is a late Art Deco/Moderne architectural painting with vibrant colors and bold composition. This work is untitled but features a whimsical and futurist metropolis. The oil on canvas measures 24” wide by 30” high and with its original silvered frame 27 1/2” x 33 1/2” overall. Unlike its companion work, it is not signed or labeled. This painting dates to ca. 1940.
Joseph Albert Sutter was born in Switzerland in 1891 and arrived in Los Angeles in 1926. He became active in the 1930’s Federal Art Program...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Treboul, le clocher et le rue Vieille (Finistère)
Located in Basel, CH
BERNARD BUFFET
(PARIS, 1928 – TOURTOUR, 1999)
Treboul, le clocher et le rue Vieille (Finistère)
1975
Huile sur toile
89,5 x 130,2 cm.
Signé en haut à gauche et ...
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mountain landscape with chalets - Oil on paper 19x21 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on cardboard
Unsigned work
Category
Modern 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Forgotten Fence /// Realism Landscape Country Farm River Painting American Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Adolf Sehring (Russian/German-American, 1930-2015)
Title: "Forgotten Fence"
*Signed by Sehring lower right
Circa: 1970
Medium: Original Oil Paint...
Category
Realist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil, Board, Panel, Wood Panel
Rare Israeli Judaica Watercolor Painting Over Print Bezem
Located in Surfside, FL
Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor.
Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent under Nazi oppression, in constant fear for the safety of his parents, who perished in the Holocaust in the Polish Auschwitz concentration camp. Naftali emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1939, at the age of fourteen with a Youth Aliyah group.
From 1943 to 1946, he studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem with Israeli painter Mordecai Ardon...
Category
Modern 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
'Toreador', California, Post Impressionist Oil, Santa Monica College
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Goetz' for Jack Goetz (American, born 1919); additionally signed, verso, dated 1998, titled 'Toreador', with artist information.
A dramatic figural study of a proud, young toreador shown seated, wearing an embroidered vest and gazing directly towards the viewer.
Goetz has painted and exhibited with success for many years and continues to paint at the age of 104.
Speaking of himself, the artist says:
"I studied arts and languages at Santa Monica College, taking classes in oil and watercolor painting, sculpture, ceramics, art history and music. At the same time, I studied with master painter Sergei Bongart. Because he taught many people in the movie business, I had fun meeting and painting with people...
Category
Modern 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Village painting, Hagop Hagopian painting, Armenian Art, Armenian oil painting.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Hagop Hagopian's landscape artwork from 1986, executed in oil on canvas, exemplifies his typical composition. The painting is signed in the lower right ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
K. Bernath Outdoor Snow Scene Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Plainview, NY
A landscape snowy scene by K.Bernath. The day snowy scene depicts a house / cabin in the middle of the snowy woods with a blue sky. The painting is framed.
Dimensions
Framed: 17.75...
Category
Modern 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
London - View Across Blackfriars from the South Bank Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful c.1950 oil on board by Lord Paul Ayshford Methuen RA depicting a view across Blackfriars Bridge from the South Bank, with St. Pauls Cathedral in the distance.
Excellent ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a Young Man
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache
Estate of Samuel Esses
Beautifully framed
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more tha...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Edna Gass Still Life
By Edna Gass
Located in San Francisco, CA
Edna Gass: 1904-1993. Fabulous little impressionist still life by the Pennsylvania artist Edna Gass. She was considered a member of the new Hope school of artist. The painting is oil...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Spirit of Ecstasy', French Mid Century Pointillist Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid Century pointillist painting on canvas of the Spirit of Ecstasy. Artist unknown.
Colourful and full of energy, the large application of dots in this pointillist work both mesmer...
Category
Pointillist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Ring Three" Abstracted Caryatid Figurative
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous abstracted figurative of Caryatids titled "Ring Three" by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed, titled, and dated "Warner 1970" on verso. Displayed in rustic wood ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Steamships
Located in Lawrence, NY
We fell in love with this highly atmospheric, nearly abstract image of steamships, c. 1900, by American impressionist painter Frederic Usher Devoll. You c...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Angle and Nude - Lithograph by E. M. G. Van Offel - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Angle and Nude is a splendid lithography engraving realized by the Belgian artist Edmond Marie Gabriël Van Offel.
Signed on the plate on the lower left.
Th...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Girl with a Bird
Located in Austin, TX
By Jean Raffy Le Persan
21.25" x 14.5" Oil on Canvas
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Outsider Artist Surrealist Figurative Eye
Located in Buffalo, NY
Figurative eye by outsider artist Phillip Q.
Category
Realist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Flock of Ducks Flying Over a Lake
Located in Austin, TX
Marl Martens is a landscape artist from the Netherlands who paints landscapes often featuring waterfowl birds flying through the sky. This piece features ...
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Judaica Rabbi Expressionist Gouachel Painting
By Adolf Adler
Located in Surfside, FL
size includes frame
Adolf Adler 1917 - 1996
Adolf Adi Adler was born in Romania in 1917. Attended the Art College of Kluj Romania in 1950. (in Satu Mare, original home city of the Satmar Hasidic group). In 1963, Adler was chief among a group of well known artists who immigrated to Israel. He was awarded the Nordau prize in 1978. He works have been auctioned at Sloan's Auction House in Maryland and Karrenbauer Auction House in Germany and today are represented in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. In 1984, a retrospective of his work was held in Rishon Le Zion. He died in 1996.
Awards and Prizes
1993 Mordecai Ish-Shalom Prize, Artists House...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Henri Pailler - Snow in Triel sur Seine
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Henri PAILLER
(Poitiers 1876 - Triel-sur-Seine 1954)
Snow in Triel sur Seine
Oil on canvas
H. 54 cm; L. 73 cm
Signed lower left
Provenance: Private collection, Vienne
A native of Poitiers in Vienne, Henri Pailler shows serious drawing skills. Noticed by Edmond Petitjean, the young man was sent to Paris to complete his training at the Beaux-Arts under the aegis of the great Léon Bonnat. First of all accustomed to a style and a very academic palette, the young painter quickly branched off from this classical art which he hardly liked. From the beginning of the century he moved towards Impressionism which he deployed within the Crozant school thanks to his meeting with Armand Guillaumin who took him to paint on the motif in 1901. Residing in Poitiers until the At the dawn of the great conflict of 1914, Pailler sent to the Salon many landscapes of the Creuse where the liveliness of colors was more and more felt. It is precisely following the meeting with Dufy and Marquet that a fawn side appears in his compositions, but after a few years he instinctively returns to his love for impressionism by keeping a generous amount of hues on his palette. On his return from the war, Henri Pailler joined Roubaix where he was appointed workshop professor at the School of Industrial Arts. On his retirement he will settle on the banks of the Seine in Triel-sur-Seine, of which he will realize many views with the talent and the colors so appreciated by this painter considered to be one of the greats of Crozant. Throughout his career, Pailler will travel through France and regularly in Périgord, from which he will bring back many works by Bourdeilles mainly but also Brantôme.
From the 1920s, the painter will present views of Triel-sur-Seine in the Yvelines in various salons. This town, whose church with its distinctive silhouette will be the playground for Pailler's easel until his death. Our painting undoubtedly made in the 1920s is a striking winter image...
Category
French School 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Neoclassical Head in profile
By Byron Browne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Neoclassical Head in profile
Watercolor and graphite on paper, 1950
Signed and dated lower left in ink (see photo)
Provenance: Washington, D.C. priva...
Category
Modern 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Village festival with brush collector
By Alexandre Marcette
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Signed European Framed Village Signed Orientalist Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist abstract village painting. Oil on board. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 24L x 12H. Signed.
Category
Modern 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a French Woman Oil Painting Hungarian Master A. Biro French Beauty
By Akos Biro
Located in Surfside, FL
Canvas measures 25" X 19" inches without the frame.
Born in Nagykaroly, Hungary in 1911 (Transylvania, in 1919 it became Carei, Romania). His parents came from the gentry and trade...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on sketchbook cover
Estate of Sam Esses
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than on...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Signed R Kelly Listed American Modernist Interior Pink Couch Abstract Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H. Great color and a nice period modern wood frame. Ready to hang.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mediterranean Landcape, oil painting on canvas by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Mediterranean Landscape
Reference number FJ28
Framed with a natural oak floated frame.
23,5 x 34 cm frame included (18 x 26 cm without frame)
This work is painted with oil on a canvas. It is signed in the bottom right.
Françoise Juvin (1927-2010) is a French artist born in Nancy. She entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1941 where she met several artists such as Jacques Truphémus...
Category
French School 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Geisha Girl, Pan American World Airways Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1956
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Paperboard
Dimensions: 18.00" x 15.00"
Signature: Signed with the Artist's Initials 'N/R' Lower Right
Pan American World Airways advertising campaign
Exhibitions
West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum...
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil, Pencil
Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache Green Shades on White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this design studio based in Alcoy (Spain), which could pair well or make group sets if buyers so desired. Designed t...
Category
Modern 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Orange Edge
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed, titled, and dated verso.
40.25 x 34 in.
41.5 x 35.5 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a solid maple floater, with a matte white finish.
Provenance
The Betty Par...
Category
Color-Field 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American School Signed Nude Abstract Interior Scene Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school modernist interior nude painting. Watercolor and gouache and pastel on paper. Signed. Framed. Image size, 13L x 19H.
Category
Abstract 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life Watercolor of Irises, Mary Cassatt & Goldfish by Cathy Folk-Williams
Located in Plainview, NY
A still life watercolor painting with Irises, Mary Cassatt & Goldfish by Cathy Folk-Williams ( American, 1948). The original work features vivid colors and conflicting patterns, a si...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Seaside Landscape in Cannes, France, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Seaside Landscape in Cannes, France
Reference number FJ55
Framed with a natural oak floated frame.
24,5 x 29 cm frame included (19 x 23 cm without frame)
This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a board and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. It is signed in the bottom right.
Françoise Juvin (1927-2010) is a French artist born in Nancy. She entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1941 where she met several artists such as Jacques Truphémus...
Category
French School 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Roses in a Jug - 1920's French Impressionist Antique Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1920's French impressionist oil on board interior still life with yellow roses in a jug. Excellent quality work with lots of detail including a painting on the wall and m...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Mid Century Hungarian Gilt Oil Painting on Board Modern Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
From a collection by a long time Miami Beach art dealer on the old Lincoln Rd. This is a piece he brought back from hungary. from a collection of good Hungarian artists and Illustrat...
Category
Modern 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Jackie"
By Andy Warhol
Located in Helsingør, DK
Synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on heavy stock. This work is registered with The Andy Warhol Foundation as a painting.
Similar work on manila is depicted in The Andy Warhol Catalogue...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
"Untitled 139" abstract painting by Doris Vlasek Hails, mixed media on paper
Located in Glenview, IL
"Untitled" by American artist Doris Vlasek Hails is an abstract mixed media painting on paper, installed on museum board.
Doris Vlasek-Hails was born in Chicago in 1938, a year afte...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Daisy - bright, colourful, expressive, gestural abstract, acrylic on paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this expressive, colourful abstract by Milly Ristvedt a melange of complementary colours appear to dance across the paper. Ristvedt is a master colourist and this painting from the seventies shows her early skills at juxtaposing colour—generous brush strokes of pink, turquoise, green, blue, red, orange and burgundy. Art Critic Barry Lord (Art in America) declared that Ristvedt’s paintings ‘were more insistent than Bush, more consciously structured than Molinari.’
“(I have an) enduring belief in colour in painting as a language that can speak to mind, body, and soul.” Milly Ristvedt
Born in British Columbia, Ristvedt studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr University) and had her first solo exhibit at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto. In the late 1960s, Ristvedt shared a studio with famed Canadian painter Jack Bush, met art critic Clement Greenberg and was inspired by American painters Jules Olitiski and Frank Stella. Her work has been included in many publications. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2004 and honoured with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. She has won seven Canada Council awards and two Ontario Arts Council awards and had over 50 solo exhibitions and been part of countless group shows.
Ristvedt's work can be found in major public collections throughout North America.
Milly Ristvedt is represented exclusively by the Oeno Gallery.
Category
Abstract 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
harlequin and dove oil on canvas painting surrealism
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Bartolomé Liarte (1933) - Harlequin and dove - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 81x65 cm.
Frame measures 108x92 cm.
Bartolomé Liarte Aparicio is a Spanish postwar and contemporary artist....
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Rivière, Oil on Canvas by Yolande Ardissone, French River Scene, Harbor
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Yolande Ardissone (French, Born 1927)
Signed: Ardissone (Lower, Right)
" La Rivière "
Oil on Canvas
32" x 26"
Housed in a 3 1/4" Frame with a Linen Liner
Overall Size: 40" x 3...
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nonna Italian Portrait 1950
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Water color on paper of an Italian Grandmother
Image size 12x9"
Set in a 16x20" matt
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Woman in a Blue Chair, Mid Century Nude Figure Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century nude figure study of a woman in a blue chair by California artist Genevieve Rogers (American, 1904-1984). Unsigned, but acquired with a collection of her work. Presented ...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Oil
Nude Female Pencil Study Drawing by Marie Louise Simard
Located in Atlanta, GA
This black pencil on paper is a study of a nude standing female, designed by Marie Louise Simard (1886-1963). The hand-written signature is on the bottom left corner with the officia...
Category
Modern 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Pencil
'Woman Seated', Paris, Louvre, Académies Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1950.
A loose study of a woman seated in a dress, resting her chin on her hand and recli...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Abstract Composition - Original Tempera by Emile Marz - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original painting in tempera on cardboard realized by Emile Marze in the Late 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Mid Century Modern Abstract Oil Painting by Werner Drewes, Green Blue Red Yellow
Located in Denver, CO
Abstract oil on canvas painting by Werner Drewes painted in vibrant shades of green, blue, and red from 1944. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner of the canvas. Presented ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
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