1950s Still-life Paintings

Wonderful antique American modernist Sunflower still life painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.

Lluís Mercader (Barcelona, ​​1898 - 1959) was a Spanish painter. Trained in Paris and Munich, he exhibited individually at the Dalmau Galleries in Barcelona (1925) and collectively ...

Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 64 x 55 x 5.5 cm

A simply beautiful oil on canvas circa 1950 by French post-impressionist painter Jacques Martin-Ferrieres. The work is of a field filled with bright flowers in all shades of red, lil...

Chuzo Tamotzu Tama, Mimi, Chan, circa 1950 Signed lower left Oil on canvasboard 40 1/2 x 28 inches Tamotzu was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in 1888. He was educated in poli...

"The Toreador" Pierre Ambrogiani (France, 1905-1985) Oil on canvas Circa 1950's  28 1/4 x 20 3/4 (31 1/4 x 23 3/4 frame) inches If the artists Diego Velázquez (Spain, 1599-1660) and...

A MOMENT LEFT BEHIND Oil on canvas Size: 43 x 39 cm (including frame) A modernist style interior still life composition that captures a quiet moment, executed in oil onto canvas and...

Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Signed.

André Hambourg (French, 1909-1999) Les fruits d'automne, 1957 Oil on canvas Canvas Dimensions: 9 x 13-3/4 inches (22.9 x 34.9 cm) Framed Dimensions: 14.75 X 20 X 2.5 Inches Signed lo...

Autumn Gift - Seasonal Harvest Still Life with Flowers by Albin Kern. This still life by Austrian-American painter Albin Kern (b. 1884, d. 1975) depicts a seasonal spread of gourds...

'Still Life with Grapes', oil on canvas, French School, signed 'Kerlog' (circa 1950s). A naively charming still life with vibrant colours and ha...

Jane Peterson (1876-1965) Lilies Oil on canvas, 1952-1953 Signed by the artist lower right: JANE PETERSON (see photo) Painting size: 29 x 23 inches Frame size: 38 x 32-1/2...

Signed lower right in Kanji 'Sanzo' for Wada Sanzō 和田三造 (Japanese, 1883-1967) and dated 'Year 34' of the Showa Era, 1959 in the Gregorian calendar. Artist, teacher and costume designer, Sanzo Wada worked during a turbulent time in avant-garde Japanese art and cinema. A multi-talented artist who gained early fame as a Western-style oil painter, his career spanned the late Meiji-era through the mid-twentieth century. In addition to numerous prizes and medals for his painting, he received the 1955 Academy Award for costume design for his work in the movie Gates of Hell. He also received awards for his pioneering work on color theory, which he researched and published in the 1920s and is still in use today. Sanzo Wada graduated from the Western-style painting division of Tokyo School of Fine Arts. Studied in Europe 1907-1915; traveled to India and Burma. He was appointed a member of the Imperial Arts Academy in 1927 and taught at Tokyo School of Fine Arts from 1927. According to Shinagawa Kiyoomi, editor-in-chief of the book of paintings in print "Dia Nihon Gyorui Gashuu" by Ohno Bakufu...

Oil on Paper Mounted on Cardboard by Gustave Lino (1893-1961), France, 1950s. Bunch of Roses. Format: 12P. Signed: "Lino" (see photo). Dimensions: With frame: 73.5 x 58.6 cm (28.9 x...

Small size watercolor image of shells. Painting is mainly blue, yellow and brown tones. Painting is framed in a painted wooden gold frame with a yellow matte. Dimensions without Fram...

Vintage American school signed modernist cubist still life oil painting and collage. Oil and mixed media on board. Signed. Framed. I...

Very impressive mid 20th century cubist abstract. Oil on canvas. Framed.

This outstanding post-cubist and multicolor geometric composition, gouache, and watercolor painting was designed by French artist André Morin (20th Century). Geometric art is the use...

Oil still-life of a bouquet of ocher, rose, cobalt, lavender, and ivory wildflowers, informally arranged in a goblet against a background of rust and periwinkle. Signed lower right...

Signed lower center, 'Widman' for Harry Widman, Jr (American, 1929-2014) and painted circa 1956. Exhibited: Artists of Oregon, Painting and Sculpture Sho...

This vibrant still life oil painting is by Scottish artist Doris Zinkeisen. Painted circa 1950 the composition is a glass, lemon and two fondant fancies. They stand on a pink and whi...

STILL LIFE WITH CHALICE Size: 46 x 34.5cm (including frame) Oil on board A striking mid-century modernist still life composition, executed in oil onto board and dated 1956. Central...

"Still Life of Flowers in a Blue Vase"  Pierre Ambrogiani (France, 1905-1985) Oil on panel Circa 1960 15 3/4 x 20 (20 1/4 x 24 1/2 frame) inches If the artists Diego Velázquez (Spai...

Mid-Century Floral Still Life with Yellow and White Irises Gorgeous mid-century floral still life of a bouquet of Irises painted in 1959, by Pacific Grove and Santa Cruz, Californi...

Wonderful post impressionistic still life of autumn yellow chrysanthemums with boughs of bronze maple leaves in a vase. Painted in style of Albert Andre (French, 1869 - 1954). Circa ...

Still life is an artwork realized by Claude Decamps, mid-20th Century. Oil on cardboard.  20 x 25 cm.  Hadsigned in red in lower margin. Good conditions!

Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Gershon Benjamin (1899 – 1985). An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and urban scene...

Mid Century Impressionist Still Life in Tissue Paper on Cardboard Impressionist still life by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Pieces of tissue paper have been cut out and thought...

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...

Louis Toffoli (1907-1999) Still Life : Bottle and Fruits, 1952 Original oil painting on canvas Signed bottom right On canvas 50 x 61 cm (c. 20 x 24 inch) Presented in a golden wood ...

Wonderful mid century impressionist still life depicting a basket of mushrooms and berries in jug, the wild harvest of a forager, in European old world style by and eastern European artist...

Lafuente - Flowers - Oil on canvas Spanish school signed "Lafuente". Oil measures 61x50 cm. Frameless.

Firmado en la parte inferior En la parte trasera va nuevamente firmado y fechado del año 1959 Se presenta enmarcada la obra Medidas obra: 81 x 100 cm. Medidas marco: 89 x 109 cm. BIOGRAFIA DE JOSEP NAVARRO VIVES Pintor español de Barcelona perteneciente a la generación de los 50. Estudió en la Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Barcelona a mediados de la década de los años 40. Más tarde completará su formación académica en París y Londres, hecho que le proporcionó el contacto con los movimientos de vanguardia de posguerra. Trabajó dentro del informalismo matérico, exploró en el campo de la abstracción geométrica y el cinetismo formando parte del Grupo de Trabajo MENTE. Años más tarde volvió al mundo de la figuración. Durante los últimos, la creación de Josep Navarro continúa gravitando entre la abstracción y la figuración. Nace en Francia, en Castelsarrasin (1931), una localidad situada en el Tarn-et-Garonne, muy cerca de Moissac y Montauban donde pasa los primeros años de su infancia hasta que se traslada, con parte de su familia, a Barcelona donde al poco tiempo estallará la Guerra Civil Española. En Barcelona se matriculó a los 14 años en la Escuela de Artes y Oficios. Pronto entra como aprendiz en una casa de imágenes religiosas, conocida como Casa Reixac, donde aprende el oficio de restauración, la técnica de la policromía, y sobre todo el arte de dorar. En ese entorno conocerá a Lluis M. Saumells Panadés y Ramón Sabi. En 1952 ingresa en la Academia de Bellas Artes de Sant Jordi de Barcelona. Durante el segundo curso, conoce al pintor Joan Serra, con quien descubrirá el Ampurdán y la Costa Brava. Gana el primer premio en la Exposición de pinturas universitarias y obtiene una beca que le ayuda a seguir estudiando, y participar en exposiciones colectivas en Barcelona y Madrid. Su estancia en Madrid le permitirá visitar con frecuencia el Museo del Prado, estudiando a los grandes maestros como Velázquez, Zurbarán, El Greco, Tiziano, etc. En 1957, obtiene una beca para completar su formación en París, asistiendo a los cursos de l’École des Beaux Arts y de l’Accadémie de la Grande Chaumière. En la capital francesa entra en contacto con un panorama artístico e intelectual distinto, que le abre las puertas a nuevas ideas. Durante su estancia en París recibe el encargo de la restauración de algunas de las salas del Elysée, trabajo muy reconocido por lo que es felicitado personalmente por el Presidente Monsieur Cothy. Más tarde realizará otra importante restauración: la de la oficina del Ministro de la Marina y finalmente el palco presidencial del Palais Garnier. Terminada su estancia en París, obtiene una nueva beca para ir a Londres donde se matricula en el Sant Martin’s School of Art (Londres). En Londres empieza a participar en algunas exposiciones colectivas e individuales y además obtiene el primer premio en la competición de carteles publicitarios del Ferrocarril Británico. En estos años de viajes entre París y Londres, Josep Navarro comienza a investigar dentro del informalismo matérico, corriente artística dominante en la Europa de mediados de siglo. En 1963, Josep Navarro regresa a Barcelona y entra en contacto con la Escuela de Barcelona, con Tàpies al frente. En esta época, Josep Navarro inicia su etapa informalista. Esta exploración matérica en la obra de Josep Navarro marcará la década de 1959 a 1969. El trabajo con texturas y materia va consolidando un lenguaje propio que desembocará en la inclusión de algunos elementos figurativos que marcarán el inicio del período marcado por la serie “Puertas”. La serie “Puertas”, es un trabajo basado en las puertas de Barcelona. En esta serie Josep Navarro establece una recuperación de la forma basada en la materia. Utiliza pigmentos naturales, mezclándolos entre sí para lograr el efecto del hierro, y de la madera. Estas puertas serán el elemento de transición entre su etapa informalista y su evolución hacia la abstracción geométrica. En 1970 se incorpora a los campos de trabajo del grupo MENTE (Muestra Española de Nuevas Tendencias Estéticas) impulsado principalmente por Daniel Giralt-Miracle y Joan Mas...

Floral still life of pink roses in a red vase with two figures, set against a dark background. Oil on canvas measures 15 3/4 x 11 7/8; frame dimensions measure 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 2 3/...

Gestural impasto painting of flowers in a vase. 23.5" x 17.5" sight size , 22" x 28" framed hand signed lower right. Born in 1899, Belle Golinko is a listed Jewish mid-century New ...

André Vignoles (French, 1920-2017) Pears and Peppers, 1957 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left 48 in. h. x 28 in. w., as framed 39 in. h. x 19 in. w., canvas André Vignoles wa...

Signed oil on board riverscape circa 1950 by French Post Impressionist painter Georges Charles Robin. The work depicts a view of the Dordogne river on a sunny day. The green trees an...

TitelNature morte à la théière (FOND VERT) TechnikOil on canvas Jahr1957 Grösse37cm × 105cm (14.6" × 41.3") SignaturSigned lower right "G Braque" Provenance Christie's London, 5.Fe...

This is not your grandmother’s typical still life painting. But if she was young and hip for her time, maybe it is. Painted on stretched canvas and dated (19)56, it is only signed ...

"Garden Roses" in a Vase Still Life by Masayoshi Himeno Beautiful still life oil painting on canvas of a vase of multicolored Garden Roses sitting upon a table with a background in hues of green and red by Masayoshi (Masara) Himeno (Japanese/American, 19th-20th century). A green vase is the focal point as it sits upon a table with red, pink and yellow roses in full bloom. The artist uses a oil wet brush technique similar to a watercolor artist. Masayoshi a possible San Francisco Bay area artist who emigrated to America form Japan. Signed "M. Himeno" lower right. Presented in a giltwood frame. Image: 19" W x 23"H. Frame: 26"W x 30"H. Signed on verso, artists label, Japanese Kanji...

Rustically quaint acrylic painting of a freshly hunted bird of prey and table elements by French artist, circa 1950. Signed lower left. Original one-of-a-kind vintage work of art on...

Hand signed and dated by the artist lower right. Includes a beautiful contemporary wooden gilded frame. In excellent conditions. References: - Catalogo della mostra di Pio Semeghini...

Antique American modernist oil painting by William Edward Starkweather (1879 - 1969). Oil on board. Framed. Signed lower right.

Wonderful mid-century modern oil painting of wheat and fruit by Wanda Faust (American, 20th century), c.1950. Signed lower left corner "Faust." Displayed i...

Signed lower right, "Karl Larsen" (Danish, 1897-1977) and painted circa 1955. Beginning in 1917, Karl Larsen participated in numerous exhibitions in France and Denmark including the...

Signed lower left, 'Ib Eisner' (Danish, 1925-2003) and dated, lower right, 1953. Displayed in a period, carved gilt-wood frame. Framed dimensions: 19 x 21.5 x 1.5 inches. A lyrical...

Presenting an outstanding original oil painting by American artist Thomas Prentiss b.1920. Three Pears, is painted in the hyper realistic trompe l'oeil style, viewing this painting ...

French expressionist artist, 1955 signed oil painting on canvas, framed dated 55' framed: 22 x 29 inches canvas: 15 x 22 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: ove...

A large and elegant still life with grapes and pears on a table which also features a pristine white bowl and a candle stick. Painted with simplicity, clarity of structure, and restrained emotion, this is a superb modernist work by Jean Chauffrey (1911-) dating from circa 1950. At the time, Chauffrey had a contract with mythical Paris art dealers...

The work is executed at the heyday of abstract expressionsim in the mid-50s. Colors are saturated and bright. Goldfield (of Goldfield Gallery). Written on the stretcher. Goldfield G...

Delicate mid century still-life of white and pink roses in crystal vase with a soft, lime green background by listed California artist Helen Mae Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997)...

Wonderful earth-toned mid century kitchen still life by Frances Thayer Robbins (American, 1906-1967). Signed "Frances Robbins" and dated 1958 lower...

Brilliantly-colored collage with various texts and butterfly prints. Oil on canvas measures 20 x 24, presented in a modern frame with white linen liner; frame measures 26 5/8 x 30 5/...

A mid-century modern oil painting by listed female artist Helen L. Roberts. This painting depicts an interior scene with a vase of beautiful flowers and decorative pitcher. Housed ...

Antique American modernist signed abstract still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.

Bouquet of Flowers Bouquet Still Life Oil on masonite, signed. Edith Faucon was born on May 24 in 1919 in Carentan France. She owes her artistic training first to Jules Adler, and th...

This stylish abstract cubist oil on board painting with a monogram signature "M.J." is from a German artist (20th Century). The colorful painting features a stylized abstract composi...

Nicely painted American school modernist still life painting. Nice color and modernist composition. Excellent ready to hang condition. Oil on canvas. Image size, 18"H x 24"L.