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Period: 1950s
Framed Polish Rabbi, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Untitled - Polish Rabbi
Year: 1952
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Image Size: 16 x 12 inches
Frame Size: 26 x 20 inches
Category
Post-War 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Portrait of a Young Girl
Located in Soquel, CA
A gentle mid-century portrait of a young girl by Pascal "Pablo" Cucaro (American, 1915-2004). Sealed in a layer of clear resin. Signed in a black textured medium, lower left: "cucaro...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Resin, Carbon Pencil
Rabbi and Student, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski 1957
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Rabbi and Student
Year: 1957
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 16 x 11 inches
Frame Size: 25 x 20 inches
Category
Post-War 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Sonia, Oil Painting by Jan De Ruth c1950
By Jan De Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991)
Title: Portrait of Sonia Berg
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 24 in. x 20 in. (60.96 cm x 50.8 cm)
Frame Size: 33 x...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rabbi and Torah, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Rabbi and Torah
Year: circa 1957
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Image Size: 16 x 12 inches
Frame Size: 26 x 20 inches
Category
Post-War 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Luther And His Printer
Located in Minneapolis, MN
A crisply painted oil on canvas illustration painting by the well listed artist and illustrator Paul Remmey, commissioned as cover art for the 1955 Reformation Bulletin, a yearly pub...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
En tenue de spectacle
By Percival Pernett
Located in Geneva, CH
Original wood with moulds frame, sizes 91x51 cm
Category
Cubist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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Lunar Encounter with Child, Surrealist Portrait, Oil on Canvas, 1958, Framed
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Lunar Encounter with Child" by Philadelphia born modernist painter Leon Kelly, is a large, brightly colored surrealist portrait of two figures. The 40" x 30" oil on canvas was paint...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition 1955 - Original Oil on Canvas by Felice Casorati - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful and large-sized work by Casorati, hand signed and published in one of the most important monographs about the Artist.
Felice Casorati was an important Italian painter, scu...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"My Name is Freddie" - Portrait of Black Woman with Headscarf
By Lucille H. Olpin
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful, painterly portrait of a young black woman with colorful headscarf and sarong by Lucille H. Olpin (Ethel Lucille Harman Olpin), (American, 1909-1990). Signed "Olpin" lowe...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Portrait of a Ballerina - Hand Painted Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming hand painted photograph, portrait of a young ballerina as Tinker Bell by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Circa 1957. Signed "Studio d'Art Los Altos" lower right....
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Photographic Paper
The Artist in His Studio
Located in London, GB
'The Artist in His Studio', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1950s). Self-portrait while painting, the artist created this work while he was just a young man. The comp...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Thinking Woman - Original Oil on Panel by Leo Guida - 1951
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Thinking Woman is an original mixed colored artwork realized in 1951 by Leo Guida.
Colored oil painting on panel.
Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin.
The painting re...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Father and children in front of TV - Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
John Falter arranges figures and faces in a way that rival the old masters in their compositional perfection. And he makes it look easy. The expressions are captured so the emotion...
Category
Academic 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots,
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots by Lorraine Fox can be a joyful addition to your home. A beautiful redheaded young girl looks back at us from a window framed with flower pots...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Young Man, Oil Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stanley Mitruk, American (1922 - 2006)
Title: Portrait of a Young Man
Year: 1952
Medium: Oil Painting, signed and dated verso
Size: 40 x 23 inches
Category
American Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Parisian Socialite Woman Oil on Canvas Painting by Maurice Ehlinger
By Maurice Ambroise Ehlinger
Located in Atlanta, GA
Adorable 1950s modern portrait, oil on canvas painting by Maurice Ambroise Ehlinger (1896 - 1981). The model is Miss France Noel a socialite from the Paris bourgeoisie. The painting ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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 cam...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Pencil
Self Portrait in Studio - Mid Century Irish Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A very interesting circa 1950 impressionist oil on board self portrait by Irish artist William Mason depicting himself in his studio with easels. From a private collection of William...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lady in Red Portrait - British Post Impressionist 50s oil painting female artist
Located in London, GB
A super circa 1955 British portrait oil painting in tones of red. A very evocative period portrait of a woman painted by British listed female artist Constance Anne Parker. A highly...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
New Hat, Portrait of Woman, Oil on Cardboard, African American Art, Signed
Located in Doylestown, PA
"New Hat" is a figurative, interior portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon from 195. The 20" x 16" oil on board portrait features a young African...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Vicente Cristellys, Oil on canvas "Gina Lolobrigida", Late 1950s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Vicente CRISTELLYS (1898-1970), School of Paris, late 1950s. "Lolo", portrait of Gina Lolobrigida in Notre-Dame de Paris (film).
Arriving in Paris during the 1920s, ...
Category
Neo-Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage New York City Street Scene WPA Woman Walking Portrait Oil Painting
By Grace Elizabeth Mallon
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist cityscape oil painting with a young woman walking. Oil on board, circa 1956. Signed. Image size, 12L x 16H. Housed in a wood frame.
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Mid Century modern oil portrait of a nude woman a bed
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted 1950's mid-century modern English portrait of a nude woman laying on a bed.
The artist was a portrait and figure painter active during the 1950s-1960s
Oils on artists ...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
1950's Mid Century modern oil portrait of a Black nude woman seated on a chair
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted 1950's mid-century modern English portrait of a black nude woman seated on a chair.
The artist was a portrait and figure painter active during the 1950s-1960s
Oils on ...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Love Story. Mid Century Desaturated Color
By Jon Whitcomb
Located in Miami, FL
Most likely for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Collier's Weekly, Good Housekeeping or Macall's
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Early 20th century French impressionist portrait of a girl, le premier Bouquet
Located in Woodbury, CT
Suzanne Eisendieck was born in Danzig, Germany, on November 14, 1906. She exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1929. After studying at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, she particip...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Piegan Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Nancy Mclaughlin Powell – American (1932-1985)
Title: Young Piegan Woman
Year: 1958
Medium: Pastel on paper
Sight size: 15.5 x 11.5 inches within the mat
Framed size: 24 x 2...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
'Janet Seated', Paris, Louvre, Academie Chaumiere, California Fauve, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Di Gesu", for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988); further signed and titled verso, and bearing original exhibition label.
A substantial figural oil showing V...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Seated Girl", Oil on Canvas, Portrait
Located in Detroit, MI
"Seated Girl" is an oil on canvas portrait of an artist who was cut down in his prime and largely forgotten until recently. Marvin Cherney's paintings are solemn but unsophisticated ...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Collar Gritty Truck Driver with Tiger - Color field meets Social Realism
Located in Miami, FL
Gritty working class truck driver with tiger painting on truck door, is rendered in a flat and quick style with rapid brushstrokes defining the trucker. The tiger is painted in a t...
Category
Color-Field 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Elisabeth Dujarric de la Rivière (1930-2005) Self-portrait with apple
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Elisabeth DUJARRIC de LA RIVIÈRE
(Jouy-en-Josas 1930 - Excideuil 2005)
Self-portrait with apple
Oil on canvas
H. 100 cm ; L. 73 cm
Signed on the back
Provenance: Private collection,...
Category
Cubist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Elisabeth Dujarric de la Rivière (1930-2005) Self-portrait with palette
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Elisabeth DUJARRIC de LA RIVIÈRE
(Jouy-en-Josas 1930 - Excideuil 2005)
Self-portrait with apple
Oil on canvas
H. 100 cm ; L. 73 cm
Signed on the back
Provenance: Private collection,...
Category
Cubist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Framed Clarinet Player, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Untitled - Polish Rabbi 8F
Year: 1955
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Image Size: 12 x 15 inches
Frame Size: 20.5 x 24 inches
Category
Post-War 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait on Horse in Landscape - British 50's art equine rider oil painting
By Lionel Ellis
Located in London, GB
This lovely portrait oil painting is by noted British artist Lionel Ellis. Painted in 1955 the painting is a self portrait of the artist on a beautiful chestnut horse in the foregrou...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Grabbing At Straws
Located in Minneapolis, MN
This is a recently rediscovered, rare, surviving pin-up calendar painting by the important illustrator Vaughan Bass. It was published by The Louis F. Dow Calendar Company of St. Paul...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lady in Blue - British 50's Impressionist oil painting portrait female artist
Located in London, GB
An original oil on canvas by female artist Pauline Glass who was educated on the continent at the Academy Julien and who exhibited throughout her career. This stunning oil is a bold...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady in Purple - British 50's Impressionist oil painting portrait female artist
Located in London, GB
A vibrant portrait oil painting by female artist Pauline Glass who was educated on the continent at the Academy Julien and who exhibited throughout her career. This stunning oil is a...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fertility Goddesses Abstract, Female Nude, Orange, Yellow, Purple, Pink, Green
Located in Denver, CO
Fertility Goddesses, abstract painting, vintage 1950, figurative with three nude female figures by Denver modernist artist, Edward Marecak (1919-1993). Oil paint on board in vivid co...
Category
Abstract 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The man with the pipe
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Dark beige wooden frame
102 x 90,5 x 3 cm
Category
Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Portrait of the artist
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century self-portrait by California artist Myrtle Cureton (American, 1909-2000). Signed "Myrtle Cureton" lower left. Artist's Santa Cruz Art League credentials attached on verso....
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
School of Paris, Barbara, Oil on Canvas, 1950s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas dating from the 50s whose subject strangely resembles Barbara, the French singer. If it is really her, I am unable to confirm that she played the guitar, or that it is ...
Category
Neo-Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a little girl with a ball of thread. Oil on cardboard, 46x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait of a little girl with a ball of thread. Oil on cardboard, 46x40 cm
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Stockholm Restaurant and Café
Located in London, GB
'Stockholm Restaurant and Café', gouache on art paper, by Rudolf Carlborg (1951). Although dated 1951, the scene depicted is closer to the turn of the 20th century. The clothing worn...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Impressionist Portrait of a Renaissance Prince oil Painting 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3968 Oil on canvas set in an antique wood frame
Image size 19.5x15.5"
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sailors in the Port of Nice
Located in London, GB
'Sailors in the Port of Nice', mixed media - gouache, pastel and oil on paper, by Alfred Salvignol (circa 1950s). The Port of Nice is one of the key hubs of Nice and, in fact, of the...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil, Gouache
Le Sommeil
By Jean-Pierre Alaux
Located in Miami, FL
Early Surrealist work where a young blond girl caught in a dream like state hugs a mountain that has a profile of a man's face. Work is framed in a simple work frame from the period ...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Untitled - Portrait Of A Woman With Hut - XX Century Figurative Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Anna Kaminska, Untitled - Portrait Of A Woman With Hut - XX Century Figurative Painting ca 1950
Category
Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1959 Vintage Portrait Figurative Framed Gouache Painting - The Mender
Located in Bristol, GB
THE MENDER
Size: 37 x 26 cm (including frame)
Gouache on Paper
A beautiful mid century modern gouache portrait, painted in 1959 and framed behind glass.
This small but very well e...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Wash Day - India - British 50's art Post Impressionist portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This very vibrant Post Impressionist oil painting is by noted British artist Edward D'Arcy Lister. Painted circa 1950 this figurative painting is of two Indian women washing clothes ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Tennis Player
Located in London, GB
'The Tennis Player', oil on canvas, by Georges Joubin (circa 1950s). Delightfully vague regarding the gender of the tennis player depicted in the artwork, most viewers arrive at the ...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Caught! Young Girl uses Doctors Bag to Patch Up her Doll - Alexander Sharpe Ross
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross is an artist of consummate skill and wit. This painting captures a young girl in a doctor's office without permission. A peak moment of drama is depicted as th...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Portrait of a Woman," Leon Kroll, Mid-Century American Realism
By Leon Kroll
Located in Larchmont, NY
Leon Kroll (1884 - 1974)
Portrait of a Woman, circa 1950
Oil on canvas
20 3/4 x 17 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, New York
Private Collection, North Caroli...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Man
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by Emmanuel Mane-Katz circa 1950. An expressionist style portrait of a man with a forlorn expression in dark gray and red tones.
Artist: Emmanuel Mane-Katz, Ukrain...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This sunbathed painting will light up your room with warmth. Sundblom's painting technique has the freedom and quick energy in his paint application. His subjects are bathed in the ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Blonde Girl - Scottish 50's art portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This stylish Scottish portrait oil painting of a blonde haired girl is by Scottish artist John Miles Bourne Benson. Painted circa 1950 by Benson in a lovely palette with bold brushwo...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady Reclining Portrait - British 50's Impressionist oil painting female artist
By Caroline Hutchinson
Located in London, GB
This large oil on canvas portrait was painted by Caroline Hutchinson circa 1955. It depicts a lady reclining on a sofa and is painted in an Impressionist palette and manner. A beauti...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Woman in Red Hat - American 50s art Post Impressionist oil painting
By David L Swasey
Located in London, GB
This captivating Post Impressionist portrait is by American artist David L Swasey circa 1953. The painting depicts a seated woman, turning to look at the artist with stunning blue ey...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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