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Period: Mid-20th Century
Mid Century French Pencil Study Portrait Chic Mother and her Children Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 8 (height) x 7 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Prov...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Romantic Elegantly Dressed Couple Mid Century French Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 13 (height) x 10 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Pr...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
$160 Sale Price
30% Off
1950’s Fashion Illustration Original Painting Of A Lady In A Stunning Pink Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pink Dress
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
ink/watercolour/pencil drawing on card, unframed
paper: 10 x 6.5 inches
double sided
very good condition
provenance: from the artists...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Antique American Modernist Period Male Nude Surrealist Masterpiece Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Amazing early American surrealist nude male portrait landscape. Painted by Charles W St Clair. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 24L x 30H. Super detailed and rare!
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"So it’s off to Grandma’s for Turkey Day—oh, boy!" Thanksgiving Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, November 26, 2955
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 33.50" x 26.25"
Signed: Lower Left
Stated on pg 3 of the Post magazine 'So it's off to Gran...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Signed Sunset In Columbia Modernist Street Scene Framed WPA Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 26 by 32 inches overall and 24 by 30 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
"Adventures in Literature" Figurative 1930's Illustration art
Located in Soquel, CA
A wonderful original figure painting for a 1930's illustration by Charles Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). A woman in a plaid green skirt and mustard yel...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original, highly textured oil on canvas painting by Jacques Gandon. Signed lower right and dated 1953. The painting has the visual appearance of a woven fabric abstract. Can be hung horizontally or vertically. Condition is very good, no issues. Original artist pine strip frame. Frame has wear consistent with its age. Overall framed measurements are 24.5 by 37 inches. Vintage Jonathan Adler...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,240 Sale Price
20% Off
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 8.25 x 7.25 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we h...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
VERY LARGE 1960'S ITALIAN SIGNED OIL - MOODY IMPRESSIONIST VENICE CANAL SCENE
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Italian School, mid 20th century - 1960's period. Signed lower corner indistinctly.
Title: Venice.
Medium: oil painting, on canvas.
Size: frame: 32.5 x 44 in...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Winter Landscape -- Meadows Valley Idaho
By Esther Florence Violet King Root
Located in Soquel, CA
Sun reflecting on the snowy mountains at Meadows Valley, Idaho in this mid century winter landscape by Violet Root (Esther Florence Violet...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Antique American School Signed Framed Abstract Expressionist Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 36L x 16H.
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Hillside Houses
Located in Bristol, GB
HILLSIDE HOUSES
Size: 66.5 x 82 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A mid-century modernist painting presents a vibrant yet soothing interpretation of houses by a hillside, depicted ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Silvery Days, Madison Square Park, New York City" Impressionist Street Scene
By Guy Wiggins
Located in New York, NY
Guy C. Wiggins
Silvery Days, Madison Square Park, 1962
Signed lower left; signed, titled "Silvery Days" and dated on the reverse
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Guy Carleton Wiggins is...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
LARGE OIL PAINTING by Jean Laurent NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY PIECE
By Jean Laurent
Located in Ferndown, GB
LARGE OIL PAINTING MARITIME SHIP MASTERPIECE 20th CENTURY GGF
OIL PAINTING LARGE JEAN LAURENT (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY
Very good condition for age , (see pictures)
FINE RARE ...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Cafe by the Beach in the Summer" Impressionist Oil Painting Canvas with Figures
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional impressionistic depiction of an afternoon at the Waterfront Cafe in Paris by Jules René Hervé. This piece takes place on a summer day with busy activities of figures l...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French, Mid-Century View of a Port dated "59"
Located in SANTA FE, NM
View of a Port "59"
French Modernist School
Oil on canvas
Illegibly signed. l.r., dated "59"
28 3/4 x 23 3/4 (30 x 25 frame) inches
A positively brilliant, Modernist view of a French port...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,140 Sale Price
20% Off
Figures on the Beach - Mid 20th Century French Impressionist Seaside Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1950's French impressionist oil on board depicting a busy coastal scene with figures on the beach and sailing boats on the sea.
The work is very well painted and atmosp...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Dutch-Style Village Scene Original Oil Painting on Canvas, Signed Framed Art
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This original vintage oil painting on canvas is a striking example of Dutch-style village genre painting. The composition captures a charming European village scene with red-roofed h...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Abstract Figurative -- Navajo Hunters
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic, mid century multi colored abstract by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999). Depicts a group of hunters and their horses participati...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
$1,420 Sale Price
20% Off
Greece by Edouard Arthur, Oil on canvas 38x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame
Total size with frame 48x71 cm
Edouard ARTHUR is an artist born in 1917 and died in 2002. His works have been sold at public auction 12 times, mainly ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Winter Stream Oil Paint Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Peaceful winter landscape of a calm stream winding through a snowy forest by Lorenz Griffith (American, 1889-1968). Signed "Lorenz Griffith" lower left. Titled "A Winter Stream - Virginia" and dated 1960 on verso. Presented in a giltwood frame. Image size: 23.25"H x 29"W.
Lorenz E. Griffith was born in Indiana; he was active/lived in North Carolina, Florida, Indiana and many places across the United States. Lorenz Griffith is known for luminist landscapes and portraits. He was painted in the style of the Florida Highwaymen...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Ink and Wash Cityscape with Palm Tree
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Ink and Wash Cityscape with Palm Tree
by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Ink and watercolour on unframed p...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Mid Century Portrait -- Freckled Red Head Boy
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century portrait of a red-haired boy with freckles by Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Rendered his signature style, this portrait is clean and vibrant. The subject is looki...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Autumn Reflections Oil Paint Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Peaceful landscape of a calm stream winding through an autumnal forest by Lorenz Griffith (American, 1889-1968). Signed "Lorenz Griffith" lower left. Titled "Autumn Reflections - Virginia" and dated 1958 on verso. Unframed. Image size: 24"H x 35.5"W.
Lorenz E. Griffith was born in Indiana; he was active/lived in North Carolina, Florida, Indiana and many places across the United States. Lorenz Griffith is known for luminist landscapes and portraits. He painted in the style of the Florida Highwaymen...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
1950's Scandinavian Oil Painting on Canvas Moody Atmospheric Beach Jetty
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Beach
Mid 20th century, Scandinavian School,
indistinctly signed
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 16 x 19 inches
canvas: 15 x 18 inches
provenance...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Lake in the Mountains', Arthur G. Nebra (1880-1955) oil on canvas c1930
Located in Frome, Somerset
Arthur G. Nebra (1880-1955) Swiss. 'Lake in the Mountains' circa 1930's.
oiil on canvas 54cm x 73cm including the original frame.
Romantic Realism iso...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
" Bluebonnets San Antonio Texas " Texas Ranch Scene Texas wildflowers
By Charles Harvi Altheide
Located in San Antonio, TX
Charles Harvi Altheide
(1874 - 1951)
San Antonio Artist Texas, Kansas, Missouri
Image Size: 11 x 15
Frame Size: 23.5 x 27.5
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dated 1941
"Bluebonnets San Antoni...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Arthur Dove 1940 "Sun" Painting
By Arthur Dove
Located in San Francisco, CA
Arthur Dove: 1880-1946. One of the most important early American Modernists and Abstract Expressionists. He has had auction results over $8,000,000 and that record was 2 weeks ago. A...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Antique American Impressionist Upstate New York Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Signed verso. Really nicely framed. Great color and thick impressionist impasto. Image size, 10L x 8H.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clocher roman
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition artist pencil signed lower right and is in very good condition . Jean Couty Epreuve de' artist an original ...
Category
Conceptual Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
$600 Sale Price
62% Off
California Poppies Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor illustration for a series of commercial seed packets. Printed by Stecher-Traung Lithograph Corporation, Rochester, NY, circa 1935. Some staining...
Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Picasso "Linoleum Cut" Framed
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
Pablo Picasso's linocuts, a printmaking technique using carved linoleum blocks, showcase his graphic genius and exploration of various themes. He used linocut to create posters and a...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Antique European Mother and Children Family Oil Painting 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3086 oil on canvas set in a vintage gilt wood frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paris, Quartier Le Marais - Mid 20th Century French Naïf Naive Street Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful mid 20th century French naïf oil on canvas depicting a street in The Marais district of Paris, by Maurice Bonnin.
The work is signed lower right and presented in a beai...
Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage French Impressionist Paris Oversized Figural Park Scene Landscape 1960
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3938 French Figural park landscape oil on canvas in a gilt wood frame
Image size 19.5x29.5"
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Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Impressionist Oil on Panel Landscape, Lourdes
Located in Cotignac, FR
Oil on panel view of Lourdes in France by Jacques Buecher. The painting is signed, titled and dated bottom left. There is an inscription to the back of the board top left.
A very ch...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
A Colorful, Panoramic Mid-Century Modern View of Nazaré, Portugal by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Colorful, Panoramic Mid-Century Modern View of the famed fishing village (and renowned surfing locale) of Nazaré, Portugal by Rudolph Pen. Painted in the 1960s, this vivid waterco...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor
1950's Mid Century French Modernism Abandoned Fiat Automobile Art Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Porcher, French, 1927,
La vieille 'Fiat abandonnée',
Oil on canvas modernist painting
Provenance: verso gallery label "Galerie Drouant-David St Honore Paris"
Hand signed and dated verso and along top to upper left
19 3/4 x 29, framed 22 x 31 1/2
It depicts an antique abandoned Italian Fiat car...
Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Cloud Study Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modern abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Unsigned. Image size, 48L x 36H. Unframed.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique French Impressionist Portrait Painting Gathering Flowers Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage impressionist oil painting by Pierre Eugène Duteurtre (1911 - 1989). Oil on canvas, circa 1970. Signed. Displayed in a period frame. ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Elegant Lady in French Interior, 1960's French Post Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Elegant Lady in Interior next to a Bowl of Fruit
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed and stamped verso
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 2...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Crystal Palace 1871
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
After, Camille Pissarro 1830-1903, was a French Impressionist artist. He left France to escape the Prussian invasion and the Civil uprising thereafter. Pissarro and his family moved ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Geraniums, a Cigar & Nude Figure Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Unique still life of a table with geraniums and a lit cigar, with a framed painting of a nude in a forest setting in the background by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Pre...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Serenity - Oil on Canvas by Felice Carena - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Serenity is an impressive, giant oil painting realized by the Italian painter Felice Carena in 1948.
Signed lower left.
Not framed, framing optio...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Cubist Framed Mid Century Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed. Signed.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Impressionist Pike's Peak Colorado Sunburst Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large and amazing Colorado landscape painting by Eleanor Dow Green . Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Image size, 30 by 36 inches.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lilies
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Jane Peterson (1876-1965)
Lilies
Oil on canvas, 1952-1953
Signed by the artist lower right: JANE PETERSON
(see photo)
Painting size: 29 x 23 inches
Frame size: 38 x 32-1/2...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$24,000
American WPA Oil painting High Desert Landscape Pacific Northwest Oregon
Located in Portland, OR
A very good Impressionist oil painting of the Oregon High Desert by the celebrated Pacific Northwest WPA artist Arthur Runquist (1891-1971), circa 1942.
Arthur Runquist was at the fo...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
English Newlyn school Impressionist Fishermen sorting fish in Mevagissey Harbour
Located in Woodbury, CT
Roland Fisher
“Fishermen in Mevagissey Harbour”, circa 1930
Oil on canvas Signed lower right
This compelling maritime scene by Roland Fisher captures a moment of industrious calm a...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Western Oil Painting Arizona Abanded Mining Camp 1930
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6021 Antique oil of an abandoned Arizona mining town
Framed Signed verso
Image size 17.5x23.5
Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century Oil - Woodland Lock
Located in Corsham, GB
This delightful summer scene depicts figures on a woodland river bank. A boat gently carries a man fishing down the calm river. In the distance there is a lock before houses and more...
Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,266 Sale Price
20% Off
OLD MASTER Signed L S Lowry " Shopping " Oil Painting 20th Century White Frame
By Laurence Stephen Lowry
Located in Ferndown, GB
OLD MASTER Signed L S Lowry " Shopping" Oil Painting 20th Century
NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF ART
Here we have a unique and rare piece of Art signed
Good Detail one of the best i have seen , as close as you are going to get,
please note this is more of a clean modern piece
but is exceptionally well done piece.
Good condition canvas for age , frame is in Good Condition
(see pictures)
Clean ready to hang (see pictures)
( 20th century )
Artist: Sold in the manner of L s Lowry for obvious reasons .
This painting needs more research but this can cost thousands.
Beautiful painting
Anyway unless you have £10 million spare for one of his paintings
this is one way to obtain a beautiful piece at a fraction of the price
Please be under no illusion you're are buying a real £8 million pound...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Highrise)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Highrise), 1954, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 20 x 20 inches, presented in its original frame
Karl Benjamin was a California-based artist who is best known...
Category
Hard-Edge Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Delicate Watercolour of a Bird Encircled by a Floral Wreath Antique Rococo
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Delicate Watercolor of a Bird Encircled by a Floral Wreath
watercolour on artist paper, stuck in black paper
painting: 13 x 10 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very g...
Category
Rococo Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$146 Sale Price
30% Off
Mid 20th Century French Oil Portrait Woman Impressionist Sketch on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Woman
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
oil painting on canvas unframed
measures: 20 inches high by 24 inches wide
condition: overall very good and so...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Seashell Still Life Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted American impressionist seashell still life painting by Chuck Fee Wong (1931 - 2008). Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 16H by 20L.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract Landscape', by Katherine Westphal, Oil on Board
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Katherine Westphal's oil on board painting titled 'Abstract Landscape' embodies the stylistic qualities of abstract painting. Using a diverse color palette of orange, red, yellow, bl...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,840 Sale Price
20% Off
"Cattleya Orchids" Jane Peterson, Modernist Bright Flowers, Female Impressionist
Located in New York, NY
Jane Peterson
Cattleya Orchids, circa 1940s
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
32 x 32 inches
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Artist’s estate sale, Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1960s
Priva...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 1960s Post Impressionist Oil Catalan Spanish Mountain Range Hilltop Village
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Catalan Mountain Range
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 27 x 33 inches
canvas: 25 x 23 inches
Colors: Green colors, beige, brow...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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