Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings

Antique American modernist nude interior scene. Oil on canvas. Unframed. No signature found.

Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) oil on unstretched canvas, unframed painting: 24 x 19 inches provenance: the artists estate, France condition: the painting is on unstretched canvas...

Frans Smeers (1873-1960) Portrait of an artist, signed lower right (partially hidden by the frame) 42.5 x 36 cm Framed : 50 x 43.5 cm This work is typi...

PORTRAIT IN AN INTERIOR Size: 57 x 49.5 cm (including frame) Oil on board A beautifully executed and subtle mid century modernist portrait, executed in oil onto board. This semi-ab...

Semi-abstract oil on canvas painting by Edward Marecak (1919-1993). Composition featuring a brightly colored portrait of a woman holding flowers. Presented in an original frame measu...

The French Cafe signed oil on canvas stuck on board, framed framed: 13 x 9.5 inches canvas: 9.5 x 6.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound co...

A delightful portrait of Scout Master Mr Lyddieth. The portrait was presented to him after 30 years of service to the Boy Scouts. Extensive provenance has been kept with the painting, this includes an exhibition label from the Bath Society of Artists, 1955. Exhibition booklet from 1955 and a typed letter...

"A Quiet Smoke" by Fritz Muller (German, 1913 - 1972) signed oil painting on board, framed framed: 16 x 14 inches board: 14 x 11.5 inches provenance: private collection, England cond...

Signed with initials to the lower left. Inscribed and signed to the reverse. On canvas on stretchers.

A lovely, richly colorful portrait painted with Impressionistic daubs by Polish artist Casimir Caziel (AKA Zielenkiewic). His style evolved over time to be more graphic and Cubistic,...

LOT:20230613S03 Oil and ink on ceramic Unique circa 1950 Provenance: Galerie Taménaga COA issued by Estate Georges Rouault will accompany this work

LOT:20230613S02 Unique circa 1938 Provenance: Galerie Taménaga COA issued by Estate Georges Rouault will accompany this work

LOT:20230613S01 Oil on paper mounted on canvas Signed by the artist in the lower left Unique Provenance: Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Chicago; Saidenberg Gallery, New York; Perls Gall...

"Jane" by Frances Mabel Hollams (British 1877-1963), signed titled to the upper corner oil painting on wood panel: 14 x 17.75 inches framed 15.5 x 19 in...

Madonna with Child is an original modern artwork realized by Artist of 20th century in 1969 Mixed colored oil on Chipboard. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin. Good conditi...

This delightful oil study depicts a flower feller clutching a bouquet in the crook of one arm. Her hat is adorned in yellow carnations and she wears ...

Work on canvas

Modern abstract figurative portrait painting by Houston, TX artist David Adickes. The work features a grouping of six standing and sitting figures wearing colorful clothes posing nex...

A fine and expressive portrait of a young woman seated on a wooden chair. Unsigned. On canvas on stretchers.

An oil on paper I acquired around 7 or so years ago when I was buying from a dealer in the Ukraine. This portrait came with a group of other paintings but without a signature - from ...

Artist/ School: Pierre PIGET (1907-1990), French. Signed lower left, dates to the 1960's period. Title: Portrait of a young blonde lady Medium: oil ...

A compelling Early 20th Century American modernist portrait painting. Depicting a black man lost in the music of his piano draped in an almost surrealist blue cloudy sky. A very inti...

CELSO LAGAR Spanish, 1891 - 1966 THE CLOWN signed and dated "Lagar 52" (lower right) gouache on cardboard 10-5/8 x 8 inches (27 x 20.5 cm.) PROVENANCE Private French Collector Cel...

Armando Barrios India, 1955 Pastel on paper 41 x 26 cm 16.1 x 10.2 in. The work is illustrated page 70 No. 0256, in the General Catalog (1930 - 1999) La Pintura Como Razón de Ser, edited by Armando Barrios Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela, 2005. " Armando Barrios was born in Caracas on August 21, 1920. Son of Serapio Barrios and Carmen Rodríguez de Barrios, both of Spanish origin. Since his adolescence he developed a great love for the arts, so from the age of 12 he was already studying at the School of Fine Arts and Applied Arts in Caracas. His searches in the artistic field were initially directed towards the study of the Impressionist and Cubist schools...

Impressionist portrait painting of a woman. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. The painting is framed in a dark wooden frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 24 in x...

Pastel green toned realistic portrait of a Tao woman by Pasadena, CA artist, Charles Kern Fiedler. Signed by the artist at the bottom. Framed and matted in a black and gold wooden frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 19.75 x W 15.88 Artist Biography: Charles Kern Fiedler was born in Ohio in 1885. Fiedler studied at the Cleveland School of Art and University of Pennsylvania. After settling in Pasadena in 1919, he studied with Jean Mannheim. During WWII he taught art for two years at Occidental College. His studio in Pasadena was formerly that of Benjamin Brown. and it's likely that Fiedler was exposed to some of the early landscape oils of Benjamin Brown which show similarities to Fiedlers own early works. Fiedler was also influenced by the more traditional early Plein Air eucalyptus landscape...

Judaic oil painting by Krakow, Poland born artist Mark Siegband. Signed and framed, An elderly Hasidic rabbi holding a Torah. He is one of many great Jewish Polish artists that included Leopold...

Born in 1932, Stevan Kissel is a listed, award winning painter born in New York City, New York, who eventually relocated to Loa Angeles, California, where he was active in the Los An...

Peter Robert Keil painting on stretched thick canvas. Lovely colorful portrait.

Born in Latvia, Kalman Aron(1924 - 2018), survived four years in camps during the Holocaust surviving in many ways due to his natural artists talent. As liberations came with the end of the war, he was able to study art at the Fine Art Academy of Vienna. Kalman Aron spent his life paintings portraits, landscapes, cityscapes as well as imagery from his impression of the war. He was widely commissioned and collected. The Chess Players...

A painting by Diego Rivera. "Portrait of Enriqueta G. Dávila" is a modern portrait, oil on canvas in a palette of whites, browns, purples, and reds by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Th...

Artist/ School: Frank Graves (British 1913-2001), signed and dated 1946. Title: Portrait of the artists wife. Medium: oil painting on board, unframed. ...

Outstanding mid-20th-century portrait of a Jazz Musician. Harold Wilfred Yates, was born at West Ham, London on 26 June 1916, son of Wilfred David Yates (7 August 1890-1 April 1958), an amateur artist who worked as a cartoonist for the trade press, and his wife Elizabeth née Biggs (7 March 1890-3 September 1959), who married at West Ham in 1915. Harold studied for 18 months at Portsmouth School of Art 1930-1931 after which he joined a commercial studio as a figure painter but became disillusioned with the disciplines and began to paint abstract works in his spare time. He exhibited with the Artists International Association and the London Gallery...

"Landscape" by Carlos Carnero (Uruguay/ French 1922-1980) `Charcoal on paper, unframed paper: 10.5 x 8.25 inches provenance: the artists estate, Paris Fine original French drawing by the important and fascinating painter, Carlos Carnero (1922-1980). The painting has excellent provenance, having come from the artists estate sale in Paris. The artists close connection to one of the 20th centuries most important artists, Fernand Leger is of important significance, with his own work being widely collected and appreciated. The artist: Carlos Carnero (1922-1980), a native of Montevideo, emigrates to Paris and joins Fernand Léger's studio workshop at the end of the 1940s. Located on the Boulevard de Clichy, the workshop-school has some seventy-five students. At the end of his life, Léger elaborates a protest against Cubism advocates the return to the human figure. The head of the workshop, Nadia Khodasievich, brilliant painter, first pupil of Malevich, then of Leger in the mid-1920s, became the assistant thenthe mistress of this one and the wife in 1952. In the workshop, Carlos Carnero, soon nicknamed "Carlos" is noted for his talent and involvement. In addition to art education, the couple Léger entrusts the task of the secretariat of the workshop: movements of the stocks, inventory paintings, material organization of exhibitions. After the death of Léger in 1955, Carlos becomes very close to Nadia, rigorous in the construction of the posterity of the master. With his new companion Georges Bauquier, they found, on their own funds, the museum Fernand Léger de Biot - Carnero gives his assistance. Carnero's style is very close to that of his master, filled with joy and colorful dynamism. At the beginning of the 50's, he tried the cubisante figuration of the portraits of Picasso then adopts the abstract balances between lines, shapes and colors of Léger. Some dates: Classical studies in Montevideo (Uruguay). 1941 to 1946 School of Fine Arts, architecture section (Montevideo). 1947 Travel grant (Italy, Spain, France). 1948 Painting workshop at André Lhote workshop. 1949 Entered the Académie Fernand Léger, first student, then 1949 to 1955 Assistant-collaborator of Fernand Léger. 1955 to 1970 Collaborator of Nadia Khodasievitch and Georges Bauquier. Exhibitions: 1950 Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, Atelier Fernand Léger, Exposition collective, juillet 1950. 1951 Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Atelier Fernand Léger, exposition annuelle, décembre 1951. 1953 Salon des Artistes indépendants, Paris. 1953-1954 Galerie Gentilhommière, Paris, Groupe 53. 1957-1958 Première Biennale de la “Jeune Peinture”, musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, mai-juin 1957, Francfort, Montréal, 1958. 1959 “École de Paris” à Vienne, Linz, Gratz. Galerie de France, “Cinq peintres – Un sculpteur”. 1960 Galerie Création à Roubaix. Exposition personnelle. 1961 Galerie Pierre Weiller à Paris. Exposition personnelle. Salon des Réalités nouvelles. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles. Exposition personnelle, mai 1961. 1962 Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, “Antagonismes 2 - L’objet”, juillet-octobre 1962. Galerie Pierre Weiller, Paris, “Poèmes Peints”, mars-avril 1962. Exposition personnelle. Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris : “L’art latino-américain à Paris”. 1962-1963 Exposition de peinture contemporaine, Communauté européenne, Prix Marzotto. Italie, Allemagne, Belgique, France. Exposition des Artistes latino-américains, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. “Expressions Nouvelles”, Antibes. 1962 à 1965 Salon “Comparaisons”. L’Oeil de Boeuf, Galerie 7...

Oil painting on Board realized by Balla as portrait of his second daughter Elica. A beautiful, top quality portrait among the most beautiful of his figurative painting. It include...

Breton Fisherman by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) signed lower right edge watercolour painting, with gouache and some graphite on artist's paper, unframed measurement of frameable image...

French Post Impressionist Portrait of Madame, an elegant portrait made before the 2nd World War showing a Parisian burgeoise lady by that time . Big dimension.

Oil on panel Signed and dated, l.l. This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.

Jean-Baptiste VALADIE Sisters with Green Eyes, 1962 Original oil on canvas Signed right bottom Size of the canvas 61 x 38 cm (c. 24 x 15 inch) Presented in a golden wood frame 78 x ...

Claude WEISBUCH Empire soldier, c. 1960 Original oil on canvas Handsigned bottom right (Signed again on the back) On canvas 73 x 60 cm (c. 29 x 24 inch) With frame 89 x 76 cm (c. 36...

Title: Portrait with Cigarette Materials : Oil on Canvas Date : 1960's Dimensions : 46 1/2 x 32 in. COA provided In the late 1960's, Daniel Brennan had a day job loading boxcars for Railway Express. During nights, he would go to a coffee house (Lawrence Gallery and Coffee House, at 43rd and Main St., KCMO), to sit and draw before heading home to paint. The gallery owners, Anne and Sidney Lawrence...

Title : Woman in a White Blosue Materials : Oil on Canvas Date : 1960s Dimensions : 29 1/2 x 23 in. In the late 1960's, Daniel Brennan had a day job lo...

Al Parker was one of America's greatest and most inventive illustrators. He did work for magazines such as: Chatelaine, Collier's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion. ...

Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the day before settling in Los Angeles in the 1930’s. The artist continued his art education and began exhibiting throughout galleries in Southern California. As with many artists, his earliest style was more academic realistic imagery, transitioning due to his intense fascination with the cubist avant garde movement, into cubist imagery which became the trademark style of painting for the remainder of his life. This is the first presentation of the paintings of Maurice Green since his death in 1993. “The Serenade”, is original mixed media watercolor on artist board, signed, e very early work c.1945, this is a painting which clearly defines his talent as a fine cubist artist.

Oil on canvas Signed and dated, l.r. This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at University of California, Berkeley. After moving to New York City in the early 1950s, he became friends with Fairfield Porter and Frank O’Hara...

Noted German Expressionist artist Fritz Schwaderer(1901-1974), , was classically schooled in fine art in Germany in the early-mid 1920as. ...

Presenting an exceptional ealry oil painting by American artist Ron Blumberg (1908-2002). The Broken Mirror, is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated...

RICHARD KIRK "WHITE MANTILLA" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED AMERICAN, C.1960 36 X 23 INCHES Original Frame Richard Kirk Born 1932 Kirk was born in West Virginia in 1932. He ...

Beautiful domestic portrait of two women in blue with linear style by Oris Robertson in 1967. Placed in a thin, black frame. Signed and dated in the top left corner. Artist Biograp...

Presenting a rare, early original oil painting, "Camilla", by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010) McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, inclu...

We are proud to present a just discovered, extremely rare modernist still life, Trio", by American artist Robert McIntosh (1916 - 2010.) Robert McIntosh won first prize at the Los...

Presenting a rare, early original oil painting, "Stan Spohn", by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010) McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, ...

A rare, early original self portrait by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010) McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, including first prize award...

Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe. His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute. The Corner Barber Shop...

Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to ...

American artist Ron Blumberg. Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member of the Art Students League. Painted just after the artist returned from New York, c.1945, "The Red Shirt...

Noted German Expressionist artist Fritz Schwaderer, was classically schooled in fine art in Germany in the early-mid 1920’s. Schwaderera...

A rare, early original self portrait by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010) Robert McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, including first priz...