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Period: Mid-20th Century
Pathfinder - Abstract Map - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Novelist Graham Green. Time magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Work is nicely archival matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches but not framed. Signed lower left
Published : Oct. 29, 1951 Cover, Time Magazine
Category
Photorealist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Portrait of Mythological Figure
Located in Miami, FL
Works on Paper, watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper
Robert L. B. Tobin Foundation San Antonio, Texas
initialed in cartouche bottom center
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Love Story Couple in Romantic Bliss Illustration - Mid Century
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
A handsome man and a beautiful woman are depicted in a rapturous pose. Their bodies are intertwined with each other and with the surrounding floral elements. This masterfully render...
Category
Romantic Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
$14,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Below Deck
By Tom Lovell
Located in Miami, FL
Charles Martignette
Heritage Auctions, This is a Wonderfully rendered work with high level of detail and color saturation. Norman Rockwellesqu...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled, Boy Eating Watermelon
Located in Miami, FL
The work looks much better in person with snappy bright colors that form a complex abstract composition of interconnected shapes.
Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, The Work is Signed lower left - Provenance: Forum Gallery, New York - Label on verso
Swann Gallery...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-Century Children's Party Scene . Red and Orange, Native American
Located in Miami, FL
Broad areas of bold, flat red, magenta, and pink characterize this mid-century painting by Barbara Warren Ebersole ( Barbara Tate Ebersole ). It depicts a block party festooned with balloons and a street organ grinder with a smartly dressed performing monkey. The overall look of a lot mid-century art inspires many of today's most celebrated contemporary artists. Signed and dated upper left. Oil on Masonite. Barbara Warren Ebersole was a painter and an author. She may have been of Native American...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
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...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Sexy French Cabaret Dancers - Folies Bergere Pulp Paperback Book Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Campy and sexy illustration of two French chorus girls for the mid-century Avon paperback Les Girls.
Story of the Folies Bergere Unsigned and unframed.
George Ziel...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Board
"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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Portrait of a Young Girl Oil Painting 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Circle of Thomas Derrick
British 1885 - 1954
Oil on panel
Image size: 21 1/2 x 14 inches (55 x 36 cm)
Hand made frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Lion Mangled Me - A Man Eating Lion
Located in Miami, FL
Using brilliant compositional devices and late afternoon light, Frank McCarthy captures a man at the precise moment before death.
The scene is staged wi...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Casein, Board
$20,000 Sale Price
20% Off
In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right
Printer's and designer's marks in margins
"Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom."
Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Children's Book Cover - Mid-Century Blond Girl - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Female Illustrator Barbara Briggs Bradley was an in-demand illustrator in the 1950s. Merrill Publishers of their famous children's books hired Barbara Briggs Bradley to d...
Category
Academic Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil
Cosmopolitan Magazine Cover, February 1942
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Cosmopoilitan Magazine Cover, February 1942
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Boy and Dog
By Charles Ryan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
O MARA'S MUNICIPAL TAVERN - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
O MARA'S MUNICIPAL TAVERN - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Supreme technical skill allows the artist to realistically capture an...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Yesterday's Love, Love can Be True. The Heart can Betray
Located in Miami, FL
Classic illustration for a romanace novel from the 1950's in England. Recently these charming works have been the source of interest and even parody. Unsigned, unframed. Vale Studi...
Category
Academic Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Liberty Magazine Cover, October 1, 1932
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Portrait of a young girl with short blonde hair wearing a collared shirt and a red tie.
Liberty Magazine Cover Illustration, October 1, 1932
Signed Lower Right
Charle...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tennis Champion, Don Budge
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Signature: Unsigned
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Tennis Champion Don Budge, Number One ranked player in the world, 1937-42, injury from ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Formal Portrait of a Chinese Man in Traditional Dress
Located in Miami, FL
Dressed in traditional clothing, a handsome Chinese man is depicted as he sits resolutely with one hand on his leg and the other holding a baton. Female Artist Joyce Ballantyne...
Category
Academic Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine
By Harry Lemon Parkhurst
Located in Miami, FL
Harry Lemon Parkhurst
American, 1876–1962 was a pulp illustrator for crime and detective stories.
The works depicts an art thief caught at a pe...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tales of the Arabian Nights with Flying Carpet - Random House Gustaf Tenggren
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Miami, FL
Gustaf Tenggren- Attributed This masterfully designed and graphic interpretation of the Arabian Nights saga features a monumental figural profile while small figures float above on a magic carpet. Gustaf Tenggren (American 1896-1970) Attributed - We are not certain if Tenggren did this work. There is stylistic evidence to support Tenggren. It's the brilliance factor of how he assembles all the elements of the work and composes it into a cogent and readable form. This says Tenggen. As a former New York advertising agency art director, I have seen artists work in different styles. Usually this is not the case but great artist can do it. Their styles can change but the brilliance remains.
Untitled
Untitled
1957
Gouache on illustration board - Unframed
Not signed
9 x 7.25 live - 10.5 x 9.5 board
Original book illustration...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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 Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Valentines Day, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight Size 29.00" x 21.00", Framed 34.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Valentines Day, Saturday Evening Post cover, February 16, 1935
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Girl Red Dress lost in Thought, Mid Century Woman's Magazine Illustration
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox (1922–1976) was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for was Wo...
Category
Feminist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots - Woman Illustrator
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 ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman Receiving Box of Chocolates at the Post Office, Liberty Magazine
By Richard Fayerweather Babcock
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 29.00" x 23.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Magazine cover: Liberty Magazine (Canada), February 24, 1940;
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Glamorous Performer in Art Deco Black Evening Dress, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Female Nude
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Paul-Élie Gernez (1888-1948)
Oil on wood panel signed low right and back with date 1939
Old original frame
Size canvas : 54 X 81 cm
Size frame : 76 X 103 cm
Paul-Élie Gernez (born 27 January 1888 in Onnaing, France, and died 6...
Category
Academic Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Edgar Allan Poe
By Henry Kurt Stoessel
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1933
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Dimensions: 18.50" x 25.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Shows Poe seated at a desk in the offices of The Evening Mirror (early publishe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Mixed Media
Gambler's Girl
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This illustration was published as the paperback cover for Gambler's Girl by Kermit Welles, Original Novels 704, 1951.
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lady in Green
By David McCall Johnston
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Paper
Dimensions: 12.50" x 10.13"
"Lady in Green" Cover Illustration.
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
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, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cover of Newsweek, Kruschev, Russia March 16th 1959
By Robert Engle
Located in Miami, FL
Cover of Newsweek, Kruschev, March 16th 1959
Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.),
Gouache on board
12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Signed Lower left
Powerful study of Russian ...
Category
Photorealist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
St. Michael
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
A Winning Personality
By Enoch Bolles
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right
Film Fun magazine cover, July 1934
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Calypso's Cowboy, Romance Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 15.50" x 17.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Practicing the Speech, Liberty Magazine Cover
By John Howitt
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
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ringo Starr, Shea Stadium
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Ken Heyman Born in New York City in 1930, Ken Heyman first became interested in photography in high school. Later, during his student days at Columbia College-which were interrupted by a two-year stint in the army-his skill as a photographer grew, but still regarded photography as no more than a hobby. Then two events in college helped to direct him toward his career in photography. First, he sent off selections of his work to two national photography annuals and was pleased, indeed surprised, when both indicated they were eager to print his pictures-and did.
But perhaps more important was his becoming a student of the distinguished anthropologist Margaret Mead...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Santa Claus Amoco Advertisement
By Harry Fredman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1960
Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Board
Dimensions: 11.25" x 24.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
"I switched too..." Amoco
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache, Board
"The AAF takes care of its own" WW II Poster Illustration
By Jack Wittrup
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 43.00" x 34.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Original World War II poster illustration. Includes the poste...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Listening in the Moonlight
By Norman Hall
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: 28.00" x 22.00"
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Girl, 1954 Oil Painting by Ernest Crichlow
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ernest Crichlow, American (1914 - 2005)
Title: Portrait of a Girl
Year: 1954
Medium: Oil on Board, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 19.5 in. x 15.5 in. (49.53 cm x 39.37 cm)
Frame...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Mrs. Stokdijk-Chasler, oil on canvas
Located in DEVENTER, NL
John Archibald Alexander Berrie (1887-1962)
Potrait of Mrs. Stokdijk-Chasler
Signed lower right John A. A. Berrie (underneath the frame)
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 76 cm.
Cond...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Clown", 20th Century Gouache on Cardboard by Spanish Artist Celso Lagar
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
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...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
Armando Barrios, India, 1955, Pastel on paper, 41 x 26 cm, 16.1 x 10.2 in.
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The Chess Players
By Kalman Aron
Located in West Hollywood, CA
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Mixed Media
Price Upon Request
Contrast of Lights - Portrait of Elica Balla - Oil on Panel by G. Balla - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
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 includes an original contemporary wooden frame designed and colored by Balla himself (he used to often produce himself the frames for his works).
Signed on top left "BALLA" in capital letters.
Giacomo Balla
(Turin, 1871 - Rome, 1958)
Giacomo Balla was born in Turin in 1871. Since he was a young boy, when he begins to attend the Albertina Academy, he dedicates his studies to the violin and painting. His first artistic accomplishment dates back to 1894, a self-portrait.
In 1895 Balla moves to Rome with his mother and then in 1900 he moves to Paris for several months. His early years as a painter indicate an interest in the divisionist paintings of Pellizza da Volpedo...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Clown
By Byron Browne
Located in New York, NY
Oil on panel
Signed and dated, l.l.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Price Upon Request
Portrait with Cigarette
Located in Kansas City, MO
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...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Price Upon Request
Woman in a White Blouse
Located in Kansas City, MO
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...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Price Upon Request
Serenade
Located in West Hollywood, CA
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.
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
Frank O'Hara and Stevie Rivers
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Price Upon Request
The Crystal Ball
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Noted German Expressionist artist Fritz Schwaderer(1901-1974), , was classically schooled in fine art in Germany in the early-mid 1920as.
...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
The Broken Mirror
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an exceptional ealry oil painting by American artist Ron Blumberg (1908-2002).
The Broken Mirror, is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
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