Mid-20th Century Paintings

Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...

Horse portrait is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-20th century by Hans Cortes. A mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin....

Title: Mid Century French Pastel Drawing of Coastal View of Cap Ferret Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper Size: 22.5 (height) x 19.25 (wid...

Antique American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.

Pausing for Thought Paris School, mid 20th century signed oil on canvas, unframed painting: 25 x 20 inches provenance: private collection, Paris condition: very good and sound condition

Dorothy Heller "Little Sun" 1962 Oil on Canvas 22 1/2" x 17 3/4", Framed 24 1/2"x 19 1/2" Signed in paint lower right and on reverse Abstract expressionist painting by "the finest w...

Antique American realist still life painting. Gouache on board. Signed Framed. Measuring 17 by 13 overall and 11 by 9 painting alone.

French Mid Century portrait of a galloping horse by Roger Villet. The painting is signed top right and there is another signature and date to the back of the canvas. A wonderfully e...

Antique American oil painting. Oil on canvas. Measuring 18 by 22 inches.

Antoine Blanchard French, 1910-1988 Flower Market, La Madeleine, Paris Oil on canvas 13 by 18 in. W/frame 19 by 24 in. Signed lower right Provenance: Catalda Fine Arts, Inc., New York Private Collection, New York Trinity House Paintings, London Private Collcetion, New York Alexander Avenard Collection Le Trianon...

Arresting and evocative oil abstract titled "Female Priests" by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unframed. Signed "Les Anderson" on...

Fredric Karoly (1898-1987). Etude, 1950. Oil on masonite panel measures 18 x 24 inches. Unframed. Signed, titled, dated on reverse. Good condition with minor paint loss at edges. Biography: An abstract painter, Karoly was born in Hungary and studied painting in Paris, architectural eingineering in Berlin, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1926. He began a successful career as a fashion and fabric designer. In 1948 he was working as a fashion director for Simplicity Patters, when he had a solo exhibition of of his oil paintings, wire montages, dry-pen drawings and abstract photography. Solo Exhibitions: Hugo Gallery (Alexandre Iolas) New York 1948; Gallery Mai. Paris 1949; New Gallery (Eugene Thaw) New York 1950; Museu de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1951; Miami Museum of Modern Art, Miami, Florida 1959; Loft Gallery, New York City, 1966.Group Exhibitions: Hugo Gallery, New York 1947; Salon des Realities Nouvelles, Paris 1949-1953; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Annual) 1951-1953, 1963; Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1951; International Independent Exhibition, Tokyo, 1951; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1959; The Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1960; Stuttman Gallery, New York, 1960; The Art Institute of Chicago (Annual), 1960; International Watercolor Exhibition, Brookyln Museum, 1961; Westchester Art Museum, White Plains, NY, 1963; Whitney Museum, Annual, NY 1963; Cleveland Art Festival, Park Synagogue, Cleveland, 1963; Whitney Museum, Sculpture Annual, NY, 1964.Works in Institutional Collections: Museu de Arte, San Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; New York University, New York; Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Finch College, NY; Barnard College, NY; Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL. Awards: National Council Arts Awards, 1968. Frederic Karoly died on December 15, 1987 at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Manhattan, where he had made his home for many years. Fredric Karoly was born in Budapest in 1893. According to Karoly’s own vitae, his exhibition history began in New York in 1947, when at the age of 54 he took part in a four-person group show at Hugo Gallery. His involvement with visual art however was apparently life long. In a brief introduction to his solo show at Galerie Mai in Paris in June of 1949, Jen Luc de Rudder, reports that Karoly began painting at the age of 12 in Budapest. After several years of studying, then working in London, Paris and Berlin, Karoly emigrated to the United States in 1925 or 1926 (he probably first came to the US on a work visa in 1925). In New York, Karoly worked in women’s fashion as a designer. In 1948 Karoly worked in a manner than was clearly influenced by the work of such European surrealists as Max Ernst, creating spiked automatic bi-chromatic paintings. His style progressed into a progressively more biomorphic vein, similar to explorations by Theodore Stamos, Daphnis, Milton Avery and Mark Rothko around the same period. He was supported with patronage during this period by Mrs. Mimi Baliff, who apparently supported the “Industrial Design Workshop” that she helped open to feature Karoly’s designs in 1948. By the early 1950’s (1951) Karoly started experimenting with the drip and splatter process as well. Drip paintings dominated his process until the late 50’s-early 60’s, when linear compositional elements began to reemerge. By the late 50’s multi-layered drip grid motifs asserted a masque of spatial organization over looser washed fields and splatters of paint that Karoly worked off of. This development was consistent with concurrent explorations into the grid by artist Agnes Martin and others. By the mid-50’s Karoly’s style began another transition into a more surface concerned “Color Field” style of painting. There are elements still reminding one of Abstract Expressionist concerns as such painters as Clifford Still. But the works that began to emerge from Karoly’s studio in 1958 presaged the Morris Lewis fan motifs and Friedl Dzubas’s epic and romantic color spewing expanses of canvas. In 1959 Karoly began experiments using washes of turpentine diluted oil paint directly onto raw linen, and all of these subsequently suffered the consequences of oil oxidation and acidity upon the surfaces. However, many of Karoly’s washes in color field happily occurred on lightly prepared primed canvas surfaces as well. By 1960 Karoly began reintroducing imagistic references to his visual content. There were also various references to Japanese and Zen influences. He experimented with a variety of processes that included mixed media and marbleized surfaces achieved by the intermixture of oil and water mediums. A calligraphic element also enter Karoly’s work in the early 60’s. Then in 1961 glued and assembled objects begin to show up in Karoly’s work in earnest. The influence of early POP artists, particularly Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg, become apparent. From 1961-63, a series of the assemblage works transition from canvas to the sculptural to pieces obviously intended for full scale installation. Many of these pieces were among the most fragile of his works primarily due to their reliance upon the of gluing of objects such as plastic or paper cups on flexible surfaces of stretched linen or canvas. In the mid-60’s Karoly apparently produced a number of photo-silk screened series of Picasso, De Kooning and other significant artists of his generation. These were executed in a style somewhere between Rauschenberg’s and Roy Lichtenstein’s, primarily because of their reliance upon half tones and Ben-Day dot effects. Then Karoly began a series of paintings conflating his drip and grid styles with super imposed and painted over string. In the late 60’s Karoly embarked upon a series of multi-paneled stretched linen constructions often with slits and fiber optic back-lit elements that were prescient of the work of Dan Flavin and others. It was this body of work that was shown at Hofstra University’s Emily Lowe Gallery, and it was these works that suffered perhaps the most irreparable damage from a steam/water infiltration in a space where they were being stored. The late professional start that Karoly had into the art world was balanced by his long life span and early immersion into the design issues of modernism as it emerged in turn of the century Europe and later evolved in America. He was clearly an artist who subscribed to the ethos of the new in abstraction and was obviously impressionable and in some instances prescient with regard to various trends in abstraction. Several noteworthy and influential collectors and institutions during his 40 years of professional engagement acquired his work. The Whitney Museum of American Art had and may still own a large Karoly canvas from 1960, but this is doubtful as the artist failed to list it on the vitae he filed with MoMA in 1965. His work was recognized and honored by the Whitney with its inclusion in four of their annual survey shows (1951,1953, 1963 and 1964). The artist’s surrealist influenced paintings from 1948-1950 were the focus of a solo exhibition held of his work by the Museo de Art in Sao Paulo and eight years later a ten year survey of his work was the focus of a solo show at the Miami Museum of Modern art. The Sao Paulo Museum in Brazil, and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina each acquired Karoly paintings for their collections in the 1950’s. One of Karoly’s surrealist pieces was apparently purchased by Christian Zervos, Picasso’s designated chronicler, who apparently also wrote a piece on Karoly in Cahiers D’Art in 1949. A 60’s piece of Karoly art that is in the New York University’s permanent collection is included in the MoMA Library’s catalog...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 12.75 x 9.75 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we ...

Louis Henri Salzmann was a Swiss painter active during the first half of the 20th century. Born in 1887 and passing away in 1955, Salzmann is known for his landscape paintings and st...

Rocky Seascape (55) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 16 in. x 20 in. (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm)

Up for sale is an original 1965 oil painting by Leroy Neiman (1921-2012) famous American Sport Artist Painting Depicts the famous Joe Namath playing the Jets Neiman was famous for...

Antique modernist abstract painting by Elsie Orfuss (Born 1913). Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Nicely framed. `

Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 16 x 20 Frame Size: 24.75 x 28.75 Medium: Oil "Long View" Texas Hill Country Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) I was always curious a...

Tuscan Sunset Italian School, circa 1970's indistinctly signed lower right oil painting on canvas, framed framed size: 31 x 26 inches condition: very good provenance: private collection, England Beautiful mid/second half century Italian oil painting capturing this beautiful view over the Tuscan hills as the evening light fades. The soft colors are stunning - with teal blues and greens as well as the reflection upon the still pool waters beneath the Roman fountain statue. Signed by the artist to the lower corner, it is a wonderful reminder of how incredible the landscape of Italy...

A Large, Sensational Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Chicago Night Club Showgirl. Painted in the 1950s, this is a large, vertical, abstracted portrayal of a standing Burlesque danc...

Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...

"Summer Meadows" French Impressionist artist circa 1930'soil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 25 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: good and sound cond...

'Composition on Blue Background', oil on board (circa 1960s), by Edgar Stoëbel (1909-2001). In his inimitable style, artist Stoëbel's abstract image with blue background is a lively and colourful modernist work. The image has a pop art quality to it and was created just as that movement was emerging. Pop art challenged traditional painting by embracing colourful images from advertising, popular culture, comic books and mundane objects from everyday life. This artwork has a powerful intensity of tone and colour which speaks to Stoëbel's very distinctive style but remains completely approachable and appealing. In fact, this is not pop art. This is part of the post-war concrete abstract movement, or Constructive Art...

Feeding The Birds by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 13 high by 15.75 inches wide condition: ...

Wonderful mid 20th century European modernist cityscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 20H by 26L.

Beautiful mid century impressionist landscape of Colorado River and hills by Wilfred A. Readio (American, 1895-1961), c.1940. Unsigned; purchased as part of collection of artist's wo...

Composition Cubiste aux Pecheurs by Marguerite Lacroux (French/ Swiss 1898-1972) signed oil on canvas, framed in original wooden studio frame framed: 32.5 x 40 painting: 31.75 x 39 ...

This charming woman nude pencil study is by Russian-French painter Alexandre Pavlovitch Chemetoff (or Chemetov,) also known as Chem (1891 - 1981). It is a striking representation in ...

Mid Century Still Life with Apples and Pitcher Original Oil on Artist's Board Vibrant still life by C. (Clarence) Leslie Oursler (American, 1913-1987). Classic American impressionis...

Landscape is a modern artwork realized by Kurt Schwitters in 1936. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Signed with monogram and dated on the lower right rec...

Signed lower right, 'Max Gunther' (German, 1934-1974); additionally signed verso, dated 1958 and titled 'Cité Décomposée'. Provenance: Estate of David Rockefeller...

The Harvest by Henri SCHLUCK (1920-2007, French) signed oil on canvas, framed in fine swept gilt frame framed: 15 x 13 inches canvas : 9.5 x 7.5 inches Provenance: private collection...

This original watercolor on paper by Cuban artist Wifredo Lam is in excellent condition and measures 12"h x 10"w. It is signed lower right and dated 1961. It bears a simple gold fr...

Impressive Paris school modernist still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 36H by 29L and overall 36 by 43 inches.

Robert Azensky is pleased to offer vivid mid century Original Oil painting of High Sierra Lake and Mountains A beautiful California landscape of the High Sierra mountains by Joseph ...

Saint Germain-des-Prés under the snow. Oil on canvas, 60x92 cm Constantin Kluge was a Russian-born French painter best known for his naturalistic scenes of Paris and French countrys...

Early 20th Century Oil Painting Grand Canal Palazzos and Gondolas , Venice Italy (2-Sided) Peaceful and substantial romantic scene of a gondola alo...

A wonderful image of an English country cottage set in a meadow with cattle grazing. Franklin White (1892-1975) A cottage in the countryside Signed with initials and dated (19)32 Oi...

Girl In The Armachair is an artwork realized in the 1950s by Anonymous artist. Original oil painting on canvas applied to cardboard. Includes wooden frame:60 x 7 x 50.5 cm Good co...

Nicely painted large atmospheric sunset seascape painting. Large and impressive in person. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Image size, 24"H x 48"L.

Work on canvas sold with frame Total size with frame 51x59 cm Hélène ZOLO-LEVY is a swiss artist born in 1904

His first name sounds like a concerto. Vivacious, its name is reminiscent of an aperitif or a cyclist. The addition of the two evokes the Italianate. Indomitable and unavoidable. Mor...

Fernand Toussaint 1873 – Brussels – 1956 Belgian Painter 'Still Life with Flowers in a Vase and Folding Fan' Signature: signed lower left 'Toussaint' Medium: oil on canvas Dimensio...

Painted with four hands. Josep Padró Gonzalez (1904-1982) and Pedro Serra Farnés (1890-1974). Oil measurements 47x62 cm. Frame measurements 70x85 cm.

Street scene in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana by New Orleans artist Melba Hildreth Dukes Gianelloni (American/Great Britain, 1914-2012). ...

5122 Antique landscape Cambridge England 1932

20th C French Impressionist landscape a Villa in the South of France or Rivera. Lucien Potronat was a French painter best known for his depictions of ...

Dancer  is a beautiful oil on panel realized by  Vrbová-Štefková in the mid-20th Century.  Signed and framed, 60 x 50 cm.  Good condition. 

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Summer Still Life with Flowers and Plants) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Condi...

Jean Salabet French, 20th Century Marche de Fleurs, La Madeleine Paris Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisia...

Artist André Strauss was known for painting outdoors, on the motif. It gives his paintings a wonderful freshness and immediacy - you feel as if you were right there, in the grounds o...

George Petrie (1790–1866) - Romantic Irish Landscape, Oil on Canvas This captivating oil on canvas by the renowned Irish artist George Petrie, often referred to as the "Father of Ir...

Sea Gulls in Flight French, circa 1970's indistinctly signed verso oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 18.5 x 21.5 inches Inscribed verso Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition...

Wonderful still life of Cyclamen and lace by Katherine Popera (American, 20th century). Presented in a giltwood frame. Katherine F. Popera is a Maryland painter of portraits and stil...

Portrait of a Young Girl by Anna de Banguy (French circa 1960's) signed oil painting on board, framed framed: 17.5 x 14 inches board: 14 x 10.5 inches provenance: private collection ...

Jaguar Motor Racing Sylvia Smith (British 20th century). signed and dated Jul. 65' oil on canvas, framed framed: 28.5 x 34.5 inches canvas: 24 x 30 inches provenance: private collec...

3893 French Impressionist oil on artist board set in a gilt wood frame Image size 14.25x14.25"

'Chinatown San Francisco at Twilight', ink and gouache, diptych on card stock, French School (circa 1950s). This artwork was discovered in Paris, France. The unnamed artist skilfully captured that magical moment at dusk when light is at its most beautiful. The scene is Chinatown, San Francisco in the 1950s. The Far East Café, depicted in this artwork was established in 1920. It is the oldest banquet-style Chinese restaurant in the city. Of course, Chinese cuisine in large cities in America has since moved on from the chop suey...