1950s Still-life Paintings

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

Signed still life oil on canvas by French expressionist and fauvist painter Charles Camoin. The work depicts a plate of fruit and a bottle of wine all set upon a wooden table. Signa...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

This stunning post-cubist and colorist still life oil on board painting is by A. Rigollot (France, 20th Century). Colorist painting is characterized by intense color use, which becom...

Infuse your art collection with a remarkable piece of mid-century modernism: the oil on canvas abstract still life entitled "Tavolo E Oggetti," signed Giancarlo Isola, Italy, circa 1...

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...

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...

"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...

An original oil on board painting by American modernist John W. Hatch. This incredible cubist painting was created in the 1950's. Estate stamped on the reverse. The painting com...

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...

"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...

Signed, verso, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped with the artist's estate seal. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los A...

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...

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...

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...

Beautiful mid century still life of a copper teapot and fruit by listed California artist Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997), circa 1950's. The artist...

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 ...

3771 Oil on canvas of a still life table setting Set in a hand carved vintage frame Image size 11.5x15.5" Illegibly signed lower left

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

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...

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...

Incredible early American modernist still life oil painting. Housed in a great antique giltwood frame. Oil on board.

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

6007 Antique Poppies Still Life,an antique oil painting on artist board displayed in a hand painted newer wood frame, signed lower right by Alb.Mayer 1...

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)...

Fernand Léger, Nature morte aux pots, 1951 – Original Gouache on Paper This vibrant gouache on paper by Fernand Léger (1881–1955) captures the artist’s signature modernist vocabular...

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/...

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...

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...

3294 Pineapple Still Life, vintage acrylic on board displayed in a wood frame,signed by Savino. Image size 9.5 H x 7.5 W

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/...

Signed lower right, 'A. Minewski' for Alexander Minewski (American, 1917-1979) and painted circa 1950. Born in Detroit, Alexander Minewski left home at the age of 14 to work in the circus. He subsequently worked as a sign painter and a logger. Minewski first studied at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit (1936-1939) and received scholarships that allowed him to attend the Art Students League in New York City (1939-1942). There, he studied under artists including Jean Charlot, Ernest Fiene, George Grosz and Vaclav Vytlacil. During World War II, Minewski joined the army and fought as a combat engineer. Wounded in Burma while fighting with Merrill's Marauders, he spent two years there recovering from his wounds. Following his time in Burma, Minewski studied for two years on the G.I. Bill in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere (1950-1952) and, independently, with Hans Hofmann in New York City (1952-1953). Hofmann was influential on his style and his work shifted away from a moody realism towards a fuller expressionism. In 1954, Minewski began spending his summers at the artist’s colony in Monhegan Island, Maine. While there, he was able to work and collaborate with other artists and friends such as Ted Davis...

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 ...

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...

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!

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...

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 ...

A Vibrant, Colorful 1950s Mid-Century Modern Still Life Painting by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. Depicting a radiant still life of fresh flowers, plates of fruit and a wine bo...

Antique American abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and en...

This painting is hand signed in oil by the artist "Mane-Katz" in the lower right corner. It was probably painted in the 1950's. Provenance: Christie's, London, 3rd December 1999, lo...

Signed lower left, 'Clifford Holmes' (American, 1876-1963) and created circa 1955. Titled, verso, 'Mixed Bouquet' and inscribed with artist's Hayward, California address. The descendant of a pioneer California family, Clifford Holmes first studied at the University of Redlands and, subsequently, at San Francisco State. He later traveled and studied in Europe. Holmes painted in a wide variety of media including oil, watercolor and pastel and his favored subjects included portraits, landscapes and still-lives. Over the course of a long career, he exhibited widely and with success including at the Society of Western Artists, the American Artist's Professional League, the De Young...

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...

Gorgeous vibrant still life of roses, sweet peas, and calla lilies by Helen Mae Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" lower left. Displayed in a giltwood frame. I...

An interesting and colourful classic 1950s English Interior. Jack Griffin was an English painter of interiors, landscapes and riverside scenes. He mostly painted in England, but was ...