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Period: Mid-20th Century
20th Century Fish Bowl and Blue Fish French Interior Modernist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 12.5 x 9.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

1950's Modernist Painting Figures Along The French River Bank
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) signed original gouache on artist paper size: 15 x 21 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: the...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Mid 20th Century Post Impressionist Painting Gated Field Behind French Town
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 15 x 17 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound c...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

White Landscape, Abstract Expressiont Collage by Keith Morrow Martin 1959
Located in Long Island City, NY
An abstract collage on wood by Kenneth Morrow Martin, American (1911-1983). Exhibited: 1st Knoxville Art Center National Exhibtion, 1961 White Landscape by Keith Morrow Martin, Amer...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Varnish, Magazine Paper

Emile Albert Gruppe Fishing Boats Ex- Christies 30x36
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Gruppé (1896-1978) Fishing Boats A large and commanding marine sailboat fishing boat scene with blue waters and blue skies. Birds are flying up above and fish swimming below ...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Paint

Metallurgy, OP Art Painting by Jack Brusca
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jack Brusca, American (1939 - 1993) Title: Metallurgy Year: 1968 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, dated and titled verso Size: 20 x 20 in. (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
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Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

20th Century French Modernist Painting Colourful Abstract Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 15.75 x 19 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

1950s French Post Impressionist Painting Nude Model in Parisian Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Gouache

French 20th Century Modernist Painting Female Figures Gossiping Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 15 x 19.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and s...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Mid 20th Century French Painting Pink Poppies and Ferns In China Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 16.75 x 15 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

20th Century Modernist Painting Girls Gossiping In French Bistro
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 15.5 x 19 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and s...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

20th Century Modernist Painting Blue Roof Buildings In Bright Blue Sky Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original oil on artist paper size: 12 x 9.5 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: the artists...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

French 20th Century Modernist Painting Bright Blue and Purple Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bright Abstract by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 18 x 24 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condition
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

1950's Modernist Painting Lady Maid Holding Badminton Sporting Equipment
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Badminton by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original oil on artist paper size: 13 x 10 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: the artists atelier/ ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pond of the Tuileries Garden in Paris
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
HERVE Jules René (1887-1981) Pond of the Tuileries Garden in Paris Oil on canvas signed low right Old frame gilded with leaves Dim canvas : 46 X 55 cm Dim frame : 67 X 76 cm HERVE J...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

Black and White Figures In Restaurant French 20th Century Modernist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figures In Restraunt by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) gouache paper stuck on artist paper, unframed painting : 10 x 13 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Untitled
By Richard Pousette-Dart
Located in Miami, FL
Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist. Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance. Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called   "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form."   His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this  painting  Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.  
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist.  He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color.  The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black.  Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows:  blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...
Category

Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Acrylic

Colourful Interior Abstract French Still Life Modernist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 26 x 19.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condition
Category

Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

20th Century Modernist Painting Bare Tall Tree Over River Bank Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original oil on artist paper size: 25 x 19 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: the artists ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abstract composition
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category

Abstract Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a woman in hunting in front of a vineyard
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Jean-Marcel POUSSARD (1891-1972) Portrait of a woman in hunting attire in front of a vine H. 80 cm; L. 53 cm Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right - 1932 Painter of portraits a...
Category

French School Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

20th Century Modernist Painting Black and White Figures In The Park
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape signed by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original biro pen drawing on artist paper size: 20 x 25.5 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed prov...
Category

Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Ballpoint Pen

fishermen's beach Spanish seascape Spain oil on canvas painting mediterranean
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquín Asensio Mariné (1890-1961) - Beach - Oil on canvas Oil measures 65x81 cm. Frame measures 81x96 cm. Asensio Mariné (Barcelona, 1890-1961) was a painter who specialized in lan...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Rest of the fishermen in the Golf of Saint-Tropez
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category

Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

20th Century Modernist Painting White Houses Along The Sea Coast Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape signed by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original oil on artist paper size: 20 x 25.5 inches inscribed verso condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed ...
Category

Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

Meeting
Located in Genève, GE
Work on panel Gray wooden frame 65.6 x 72.7 x 2 cm
Category

Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

Male Wacky Artist Portrait Swirly Moustache French Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist Portrait by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 19.5 x 15.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

1950's French Modernist Oil Painting Red Church Towers In Tree Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original oil on artist paper size: 10.5 x 18 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: the artists...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

20th Century French Painting Figures In Waiting Room Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 19 x 15.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and s...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Ponies at Penlan, 1967.Swansea.Wales.Welsh Pony.Valleys.Equestrian.Hot Sun.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Hazel M. Barnett. British. Ponies at Penlan, Swansea, Wales.1967 Oil on Board. Signed. Image size 17.9 inches x 35.6 inches ( 45.5cm x 90.5cm ). Frame size 19.7 inches x 37.4 inches...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

French 20th Century Modernist Painting Bright Colour Interior Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Interior Abstract by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 24 x 19.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condition
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

French 20th Century Modernist Painting Tall White Plant In Vase Still Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
White Flower Still life by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 25 x 19.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

Geometric Shape Abstract French 20th Century Modernist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 19 x 16 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condition
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

French 20th Century Modernist Painting Leeks and Pepper Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vegetable Abstract by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 19.5 x 24 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condi...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

French 20th Century Modernist Painting Interior Objects Purple Colours
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Purple Interior by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 26 x 20 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condition
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

“Abstract #1”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil paint on heavy archival paper abstract by the American artist, Martin Rosenthal. Bold, vibrant colors. Signed lower right by the artist and dated 1967. Condition is ver...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil, Archival Paper

Untitled (Farm in Winter)
By Julius M. Delbos
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Untitled (Farm in Winter), 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 26 x 30 inches, presented in a...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Guinovart. 13 painting cardboard
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Guinovart. Josep Guinovart i Bertran (Barcelona 1927-2007) was a painter, draftsman and engraver from Catalonia, Spain. After studying at the School of the Lonja and the Promotion ...
Category

Abstract Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Femme se Coiffant
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Georges Dayez 1907-1991 Georges Dayez was born on July 29, 1907. His father Jules was a commercial printer. In 1909, the Dayez family moved to Vaires-sur-Marne. Dayez’s father fough...
Category

Cubist Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Southwest Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Southwest Landscape" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas board by noted Southwestern artist Ralph Goltry, 1884-1971. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

Milly with Minstrel. Children with their Pony in Dappled Summer Sunlight.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Harold Walton Freckleton. English ( b.1890 - d.1979 ). Milly with Minstrel. Oil on Canvas. Signed lower right. Image size 24.4 inches x 29.52 inches ( 62cm x 75cm ). Frame size 30.7 ...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

20th century French Abstract Expressionist Signed Oil Cloud Formations
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Sky Composition by Gerard Guegueniat (French 1970's) signed oil painting on board, unframed board: 16 x 20 inches provenance: private collection, France condit...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings

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Oil

1950's Modernist Painting Hands Threading The Needle
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Threading The Needle by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour on artist paper mounted in card frame size: 12 x 16 inches condition: very good and ready to be e...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

1950's Modernist Painting Black and White Courtyard Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original biro pen drawing on artist paper size: 19 x 25 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: t...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Ballpoint Pen

“Abstract #2”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil paint on heavy archival paper abstract by the American artist, Martin Rosenthal. Bold, vibrant colors. Signed lower left by the artist and dated 1965. Condition is ver...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil, Archival Paper

Natural Chilean Nitrate of Soda
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1938 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Dimensions: 27.00" x 25.00" Calendar Illustration
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Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Horseshoes, Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Size: 26.20" x 24.00" As noted in Vintage Illustration by Rick and Charlotte Martin, Hy Hintermeister was actually the pen name of...
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Mid-20th Century Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950's Modernist French Painting Olive Tree Oil Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape signed by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original oil on artist paper size: 19.5 x 12.5 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: the...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

Anemone Pool Abstraction
Located in Lawrence, NY
Casein on paper Like many of his compatriots of the time, Shulman transitioned from representation to abstraction in the post-WWII period as he studied with Hans Hoffman. Yet, his wo...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Casein

Untitled (Abstract Expressionist Painting)
By Jesse Redwin Bardin
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Jesse Redwin Bardin (1923-1997). Untitled, ca. 1960. Oil on canvas, 18 x 31 inches; 21.5 x 36.5 inches framed. Signed lower right. Provenance: Private collection, Philadelphia; F...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Garden landscape oil on canvas painting Spain Europe
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Garden - Oil on canvas Oil measurements 81x100 cm. Frameless. Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter, nephew of ...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

20th Century French Post Impressionist Signed Oil Fishermen in Blue Smocks
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fishermen in Blue Smocks French Post-Impressionist artist, signed 20th century oil on board, framed framed: 14.5 x 15 inches board: 11.5 x 11.5 inches provenance: private collection,...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

French 20th Century Modernist Painting Tall Red Plant In Vase Still Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Red Plant Still Life by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 20 x 26 inches stamped verso provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good a...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

Champion Fertilizer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: 26.00" x 26.00" Fertilizer advertisement, image of a man, girl, boy and dog. This illustration was also a...
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Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lovely 1950s Park Painting
Located in Larchmont, NY
Untitled, 1951 Oil on canvas 19 7/8 x 24 in. Framed: 28 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. Signed and dated lower left
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

20th Century French Cubist Modernist Interior Cafe Scene with Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Cafe Interior by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) gouache on artist paper, unframed painting : 20 x 26 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound cond...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Gouache

In a small town. 1969, paper, watercolor, 36x48 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In a small town. 1969, paper, watercolor, 36x48 cm Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers an...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Ivory and Ebony: two girls friends in a landscape. Art Deco
Located in Firenze, IT
Ivory and Ebony: two girls friends in a landscape. Art Deco Circa 1930 - 1940. Medium-large format painting from the Art Deco period.   The two girl friends.   Painting signed lower ...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paint, Canvas

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