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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 1930s
Period: 1940s
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Possibly illustrated for Glamour of Fashion Magazine
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1930s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

When the Wood Grows Dry "Good House Keeping Magazine", 1948
Located in Miami, FL
When the Wood Grows Dry "Good House Keeping Magazine" illustration How friendship and love were depicted in post-war America. There was a sense of innoc...
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1940s Academic Portrait Paintings

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Board, Gouache

'She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not', Girl in a Gingham Dress, 1940's, Folk Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A sensitively painted portrait of the artist's daughter, Nancy, aged two and a half, shown wearing a floral-striped, jade green gingham dress. Signed lower right, 'Martha Tracy Frey' (American, 1915-2010) and painted 1944; additionally inscribed verso 'Picture of Nancy Jane Frey from life-sized photograph when about 2 1/2. Painted by her mother in 1944.' This Kern County...
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1940s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Portrait of a Boy, Kong, Oil Painting circa 1930 by Charles Cabot Daniels
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Cabot Daniels, American (1899 - 1953) Title: Young Boy - Kong Year: circa 1930 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated Size: 20.5...
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1930s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Homage to Picasso
Located in Sheffield, MA
Morris Solotaroff Russian, 1891-1970 Homage to Picasso Oil on canvas 34 ¾ by 28 ½ in. W/frame 41¾ by 35 ½ in. Born in Russia on Oct. 1, 1891.  Sol...
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1930s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Marelen Dietrich
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jean Dominique Van Caulert, (1897-1979), although most often associated with his celebrity portraits and works for the theater, he was also a true symbolist in the tradition of the B...
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1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil

George Washington, Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Saturday Evening Post Cover, February 25, 1939
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1930s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

General Douglas MacArthur
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right In the Timken War Bond campaign, JC Leyendecker completed more than a dozen paintings that were rep...
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1940s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait of Lady - Oil on Canvas by Carlo Socrate - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Lady is an original oil on canvas artwork realized by Carlo Socrate (1889-1967) in 1930. A beautiful portrait of a woman by one of the major exponents of the association of painters that came to be known as Scuola Romana (Roman School). Very good conditions. Collect a masterpiece of the XX century. Carlo Socrate (Mezzana Bigli -Pavia 1889 – Rome 1967) He is the son of actors and lives in Argentina until the age of nine years. Once returned to Italy, he begins attending the Free School of the Nude and in 1914, he goes to Rome, where a year later he would study at Villa Strohl-Fern. In 1917, he worked for the company, Ballets Russes by Diaghilev; he also collaborated with the scenography for Las Meninas and prepared the scenes for Les femmes de bonne humeur (The Good Humored Ladies) by Léon Bakst. During this period, he meets Picasso, whom he follows to Paris, collaborating with him on scenes from Parade. During his stay in Paris, he meets Derain and other exponents of the cultural environment. With Picasso, he visited Barcelona and then Madrid where, together, they visited The Prado Museum. In 1918, at the Casina Valadier on the Pincian Hill (Rome), he exhibits his Still Life with a Dish of Apples and Onions, which arouses perplexity in the Roman environment for his personal rare “neoclassicism” but at the same time, attentive to European situation in those years. After Portatrice di Frutta (Fruit Carrier) (1924), which is one of his masterpieces, he exhibits i Cacciatori (The Hunters), a very challenging painting, at the “Novecento Italiano...
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1930s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Sophisticate
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to have recently discovered, “The Sophisticate”, by American artist Alexander Rosenfeld. Rosenfeld was classically trained in fine ...
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1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil

The Music Professor
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a magnificent early oil painting by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010.) The Professor, is an original oil on paper, laid on panel, estate stamped, painted in 1935, currently unframed with an image dimension of 20 x 16 inches, beautiful original condition, acquired directly from the personal collection of the artist. This is among the earliest work of Robert McIntosh, painted in a master level classical style. Please contact our West Hollywood gallery...
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1930s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Glamorous Performer in Art Deco Black Evening Dress, Golden Age of Hollywood
Located in Miami, FL
work is matted but not framed. Golden Age of Hollywood no illustrator chronicled the great stars, pin-ups and good girls better than Jaro Fabr...
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1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor, Crayon, Gouache

Harlequin with Nude - Original Tempera on Paper by Maurice Rouzée - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Harlequin with Nude is an original painting realized by Maurice Rouzée in the 1940s. Tempera on paper; good conditions, except for some small folds on the lower right corner and a sm...
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1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Tempera

Colette II - Jewish Art, Post War, Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
JOSEPH FLOCH 1894-1977 Vienna 1894 – 1977 New York (Austrian) Title: Collette II, 1944 Technique: Signed Oil Painting on Canvas Size: 120 x 89 cm. / 47.2 x 35 in. Additional Inf...
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1940s Portrait Paintings

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Oil

" D'apres Delacroix" Impressionist Portrait, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"D'apres Delacroix" Impressionist Portrait, Signed Oil Painting By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016) Signed and dated '47 by the artist on the lower left hand corner Oil pai...
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1940s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

The Nuturing
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jean Dominique Van Caulert, (1897-1979), although most often associated with his celebrity portraits and works for the theater, he was also a true symbolist in the tradition of the Belgian symbolist's. "The Nurturing", oil on canvas, dated 1947, is Van Caulert's depiction of the nurturing of post war Europe, as the shrouded woman offers an apple to an androgynous figure.
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1940s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Theresa Thompson"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
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1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Portrait of a Redhead in Profile
Located in Miami, FL
Beautifully rendered in Krolls signature academic style. Unframed - Signed lower right, unframed
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1930s Academic Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Wood

Manuel Avila Camacho, Time magazine cover, - Journalist Portraiture
Located in Miami, FL
Journalist Portraiture. Gouache on board Signed Lower Right matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches. Archivally Matted Not Framed 
 He illustrated more than 300 covers for Time magazine a...
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1940s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Gouache

Cosmopoilitan Magazine Cover, February 1942
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Cosmopoilitan Magazine Cover, February 1942
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1940s Portrait Paintings

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Pastel

This Week Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right This Week Herald Tribune, February 5, 1939 EXHIBITED: The Dana Room, Steinman College center, Franklin and Marshall College, ...
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1930s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Art Journalism - War Lessons, Illustration for Collier's, Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Marta Sawyers. Illustrator Journalist. She was sent to war-ravaged countries to “Paint the Story”. What's unique here? This represents the work an Artist Journalist/War Correspondent...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Pastel

Time magazine cover, April 6, 1946
Located in Miami, FL
This work is meticulously and brilliantly rendered to capture not only the likeness of the sitter but spirit as well. The image is pushed to the forefront of the composition and s...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor, Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil

"Portrait of a Young Lady"
By Alice Naylor
Located in San Antonio, TX
Alice Naylor Portrait of a young girl. (1892-1974) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 16 x 12 Frame Size: 24 x 21 Medium: Oil Portrait or Self Portrait? Biography Alice Naylor (1892-1974) A painter who preferred watercolor and acrylics, Alice Naylor studied at the University of New Mexico with Andrew Dasburg and the San Antonio Art Institute with Xavier Gonzales...
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1940s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Self Portrait - Oil on Masonite by Paulo Ghiglia - 1937
By Paulo Ghiglia
Located in Roma, IT
Signed on top left side P. Ghiglia 937. Good conditions.
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1930s Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"In The Shadow Of The Cross"
Located in San Antonio, TX
Hugo Pohl (1878 - 1960) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 13.75 x 18.25 Frame Size: 19 x 23.5 Medium: Oil 1930s "In The Shadow Of The Cross" Biography Hugo Pohl (1878 - 1960) Born in Detroit, Michigan, Hugo David Pohl became a painter of native people and landscape in New Mexico, Arizona, California and then Texas where he settled and became known for his paintings of missions. Between 1926 and 1927, he completed 29 Texas mission paintings...
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1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Boy with Molotov Cocktail, Russia Invades Germany
Located in Miami, FL
This work sells itself. Just look at it and an elaborate explanation is not required. There is virtually no one alive who can paint a picture like Crockwell. Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, Signed lower left Provenance: National Museum of American Illustration , Newport, Rhode Island Crockwell gives us a complex and inventive composition by showing two wonderful portaits in the foreground and beyond a broken wall...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

A Winning Personality
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right Film Fun magazine cover, July 1934
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1930s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

La Nobildonna - Il Guanto Rosso (Noblewoman - The Red Glove) - Oil on Canvas
Located in Roma, IT
Signed lower left: FANTUZZI. Archived in the General Catalogue of Eliano Fantuzzi, No. A-6, order number 15/76741. Very good conditions. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under ex...
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1940s Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"L' Espagnole", Portrait Oil Painting by Dietz Edzard, 1935
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on Canvas, 1935 by Dietz Edzard ( German/French 1893-1963 ) Height: 17.99 in ( 45,7 cm ), Width: 12.99 in ( 33 cm ) With the artist's signature stamp at lower left. Framed. Prope...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Milton Avery #6"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benjamin sustained an active career for over seven decades. D...
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1930s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Pastel

"Paula"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
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1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Board, Oil

"Rushelle in the Garden"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
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1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Young Lady, French Impressionist Portrait, Oil Painting, Signed Mid Century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Young Lady, Impressionist Portrait, Oil Painting, Signed By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016) Signed by the artist on right hand corner Oil painting on board, unframed Board...
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1940s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"Le Baiser d'apres Boucher", Impressionist Portrait, Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Le Baiser d'apres Boucher", Impressionist Portrait, Oil Painting, Signed By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016) Signed and dated '1947' by the artist on the lower left hand c...
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1940s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"Jewel"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
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1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Woman with a butterfly in her hat. Colliers Magazine Cover
Located in Miami, FL
A wonderful and charming cover concept as an attractive young women stares at a beautiful butterfly caught in the netting of her hat. Fabry executes the work with his stylised loos...
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1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

The Castle, Signed Watercolour painting by Norman Lindsey
By Norman Lindsay
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Castle By Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), Watercolour painting on canvas mounted on board and framed signed to lower right painting measures: 30.5cm x 23.5cm framed: 77.5cm x 70.5cm ...
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1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor

"Tommy"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Ben...
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1930s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Board, Oil

The Lady in Yellow, Impressionist Portrait, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Lady in Yellow, Impressionist Portrait, Signed Oil Painting By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016) Signed by the artist on the lower right ha...
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1940s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

'Study of a Young Woman', California Woman artist, Art Institute of Chicago
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A sensitively drawn pastel study of a young woman with red hair shown wearing a blue dress and gazing to the viewers right. Signed lower left, 'Sarah H. Hobson' and painted circa 19...
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1930s Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

"Lee J. Cobb #3"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
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1930s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Uncle Sam
Located in Missouri, MO
This is an original oil on velvet painting created c. 1942. Syd Cockell was an accomplished American illustrator during World War II.
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1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Yosuke Matsoke, Time magazine cover illustration , July 7, 1941
Located in Miami, FL
Ernest Hamlin Baker is one of America's greatest artist that no one has ever heard of. Take a look at his full body of work. If you haven't noticed, Ernest Hamlin Baker is an excepti...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Gouache

DANZA DE LA SULTANA
Located in Aventura, FL
Original oil painting on canvas. Hand signed on front; hand signed and titled on verso by the artist. Frame size approx 28.75 x 37 in. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificat...
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1940s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Bouquet Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a woman holding a bouquet of flowers by Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" lower right. Unframed. From the Estate of Helen Gleiforst. Helen...
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1940s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Portrait of Wilda Leiner
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful portrait of a woman named Wilda Leiner, a pianist (1908-1994) by longtime Santa Cruz, CA resident Cor de Gavere. Signed "Cor de Gavere" lower right. Provenance listed on ...
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1930s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"The Christian" Possibly a Martyr?
Located in San Antonio, TX
Hugo Pohl (1878 - 1960) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 9 x 5.5 Frame Size: 14 x 10 Medium: Oil Circa 1930s "The Christian" Biography Hugo Pohl (1878 - 1960) Born in Detroit, Michigan, Hugo David Pohl became a painter of native people and landscape in New Mexico, Arizona, California and then Texas where he settled and became known for his paintings of missions. Between 1926 and 1927, he completed 29 Texas mission paintings...
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1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Bert Lahr - Circus Performer - Modernism
Located in Miami, FL
A recent Kuhn Circus Performer sold for $312,000 at Bonhams, NY Bert Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is depict...
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1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Female Fencer, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Alfred J. Cammarata
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 40.00" x 30.00", Framed 47.00" x 37.00" Cover of the Saturday Evening Post, April 1, 1933.
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1930s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Harriet Toby, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
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1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Oil

"Bright Eyes, " an Oil on a Canvas Board signed by Pauline Palmer
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bright Eyes" is an original oil paint on canvas mounted on board by Pauline Palmer. It depicts a young child in blue with wide eyes smiling in front of a ...
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1930s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

"Self Portrait, " Oil on Masonite signed by Francesco Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Self Portrait" is an original oil painting on masonite board by Francesco Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. It depicts the artist holding a pipe in front of a...
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1940s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Art Nouveau, Fleurs
By Karel VonBelle
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil on canvas by Belgian artist Karel VonBelle. "Fleurs", is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated 1935, beautifully framed.
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1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Practicing the Speech, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1939 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 33.00" x 27.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of Liberty Magazine, January 14, 1939
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1930s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Man of Industry
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian was born April 14, 1911 in Kutahya, Turkey, of Armenian parents. At the age of three, he showed considerable talent in drawing and painting. Zorthian ...
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1930s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"Sasha"
Located in Southampton, NY
Portrait of the artist's daughter Sasha at 8 years old by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Oil on masonite on a wooden stretcher backing. Signed lower right and dated 1938. Sasha later was to become the second wife of the the writer, Saul Bellow. Condition is good with some wear to top left of painting. In original, unrestored condition. Unframed. Nahum Tschacbasov lived in New York City for most of his adult life, arriving in the United States as a young boy in 1907. His numerous one man shows included ACA gallery, Perls Gallery and John Heller...
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1930s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Blond Hair Boy - Original signed oil on canvas - 1934
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) Blond Hair Boy Original Oil on Canvas Signed Bottom right 37 x 25 cm (c. 15 x 12 in) at view Presented in his original golden wood frame (defects to th...
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1930s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

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