Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings

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 French School, mid 20th century indistinctly signed oil on board, framed in original mid 20th century Montparnasse frame framed: 29 x 33.5 inches board: 21 x 26 in...

Signed lower left, 'V. Isbrand' for Victor Isbrand (Danish, 1897-1989) and painted circa 1935. Precocious as a child, Victor Isbrand painted professionally from a young age and was...

Mary Ribelli ( French, mid 20th century) signed oil painting on board, framed inscribed verso framed: 23.5 x 20 inches board: 17 x 15 inches provenance: private collection, France c...

Classic mid century still-life of a green drape with vase, by W. Gray (American, 20th Century). Dated and signed by the artist lower right, "57 W. Gray." ...

The Artists Atelier by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 37 x 32 inches canvas: 29 x 24 inches Colors: Green colors, beige, blue and gr...

Harold Clayton British, (1896 - 1979) Still Life of Flowers, Oil on canvas, signed Measuring 24" x 26" including the frame. Provenance: MacConnal-Mason, London, UK (label reve...

Fernand Blondin (1887-1967) was a Swiss painter and teacher, celebrated for his depictions of idyllic rural life, interiors, female nudes, portraits, still-lifes, religious subjects ...

Jean - Luc Mauger (1952) French School, 20th century signed oil on board, framed framed: 18.5 x 14.5 inches board: 15 x 12 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: v...

Sylvia Rutkoff (1919-2011) 26-1 "The Schoolgirl" c.1950s Oil paint, sand on Masonite 36x48 wood period frame Unsigned Collection acquired from family estate Sylvia Weinreb Rutkoff (...

Salade des Fruits by Jean Pierre Stagnaro (French c. 1961) cubist still life composition, very thickly painted. signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 25 x 37.5 inches canvas: 23.5 x 36 inches inscribed verso provenance: private collection, France; exhibition label...

Garden Table signed by Y. Blanchon, French 1950's Impressionist oil on board, unframed painting: 13 x 16 inches provenance: from a large private collection of this artists work in N...

Farm Landscape, Signed Oil Painting By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016) Signed by the artist on the lower left hand corner, Oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 31...

Still Life of Pink and White Flowers French School, mid 20th century signed by the artist, "Paul Barre" oil on canvas, framed framed: 33 x 28.5 painting: 26 x 21 inches provenance: p...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Garden Still Life with Flowers, Plants and Pumpkins) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 in...

Still Life of Flowers French School, signed with initials and dated 1959 signed oil painting on board framed in Montparnasse style frame framed: 41.5 x 35 inches board: 35.5 x 21 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition Montparnasse picture frames...

Flower Bunch by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back old exhibition label verso signed oil painting on board, unframed measures: 12 high by ...

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 Henri Salzmann was a Swiss painter active during the first half of the 20th century. Born in 1887 and passing away in 1955, Salzmann is known for his landscape paintings and st...

Fernand Blondin (1887-1967) was a Swiss painter and teacher, celebrated for his depictions of idyllic rural life, interiors, female nudes, portraits, still-lifes, religious subjects ...

'Still Life with White Pitcher and Fruit', oil on board, by Anna Costa (circa 1960s). In addition to her many landscapes, Costa painted many still lifes, mostly bouquets of flowers a...

Fruit, Flowers & Artists Palette by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed, titled verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 32 x 23 inches Very good condition Provenance: f...

Tuscan Sunset Italian School, circa 1970's indistinctly signed lower right oil painting on canvas, framed framed size: 31 x 26 inches condition: very good provenance: private collection, England Beautiful mid/second half century Italian oil painting capturing this beautiful view over the Tuscan hills as the evening light fades. The soft colors are stunning - with teal blues and greens as well as the reflection upon the still pool waters beneath the Roman fountain statue. Signed by the artist to the lower corner, it is a wonderful reminder of how incredible the landscape of Italy...

Beautiful impressionist oil painting of blue Japanese irises in a white pitcher in style of Vincent Van Gogh, by an unknown artist. Signed illegibly. Presented in a giltwood frame. F...

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 ...

Signed lower right, 'Haefner' for Janice Haefner (American, 1919-2002) and painted circa 1960; additionally signed, verso, and with artist address. This life-time member of the Pacific Art League lived in Los Altos...

Impressive early American modernist large flower still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 35H by 23L.

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 ...

Frank Chabry (1916-1979) was a 20th-century artist whose career spanned several transformative decades in the art world. His work likely reflects the arti...

This mesmerizing post-cubist and colorist abstract oil on board painting was designed by A. Rigollot (France, 20th Century). Colorist paintings are characterized by intense color use...

Landscape with red house is a modern artwork realized by Giovanni Omiccioli in the mid-20th century. Mixed colored oil painting Includes frame Hand signed on the lower margin

Ornate Flowers in Glass Vase Pair of original French paintings, circa 1950's period 2 x oil paintings on unframed board, with added collage/ mixed media each of the boards measures: ...

City Rooftops French School, circa 1950's oil on canvas 13 x 16 inches provenance: private collection, Paris The painting is in good and presentable cond...

Artist: Jules ROBLIN (1888-1974) French School, circa 1950's, signed to the lower corner. Title: Still Life of Flowers. Beautiful pastel shades of muted colours. Medium: oil painti...

"Still Life" by Louise-Jeanne COTTARD-FOSSEY (1902-1983) signed lower right oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 18.5 x 15 inches Stunning Post-Impressionist oil by the well list...

Wildflower Still Life signed by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) dated 1971 original watercolor on artist paper size: 20 x 17 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoy...

Gorgeous mid century floral still life in soft spring palette with roses and apple blossoms by J. Herron (American, 20th Century), circa 1960. Signed lower right. Unframed. Image siz...

Large scale mid-century floral still-life of black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia) by listed El Paso, Texas artist Lois Coleman Denton (American, 1897-1980). Signed "Lois Denton...

Ornate Flowers in Glass Vase Pair of original French paintings, circa 1950's period 2 x oil paintings on unframed board, with added collage/ mixed media each of the boards measures: ...

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

an exquisite Floral still life of “Camelia and white orchids” By E. B. Lintott signed l.l. period frame Note : London-born Edward Barnard Lintott (1875-1951) throughout his artist...

An oil on board painting by Gustave Weigand (1870 - 1957), signed lower right. Painting measures 16 x 12 inches. Wiegand was born in Bremen, Germany in 1870. Wiegand studied at the R...

Blossoms in Blue signed by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018) pastel painting on artist paper painting: 13 x 10 inches dated 1946 condition: This painting is in excellent...

Oil on canvas by Charles PICART LE DOUX (1881-1959), France, 1934. Bouquet of Wild Flowers. Artwork typical of the manner of Charles Picart Le Doux. However, the robust and contrasti...

The Flowers: Guzmania. Circa 1963. Signed Giandante X, a painter born in Milan in 1899 and died in 1984. Milano. Measurements without the frame: 50 x 35 cm. On the back is a pho...

Mid-Century Modernist Multi-Color Bouquet, Yellow Vase of Flowers Still Life Vivid and fun mid century modern still-life of a yellow vase of...

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...

The Artists Studio by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed on front and back oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 22 x 18 inches Colors: Red colors, brown, blue, white and o...

Painting measures 16" x 20" and framed 24 ¼" x 28 ¼". Signed "Aaron Bohrod" lower center. About this artist: Aaron Bohrod was known for the range of styles from social realism to la...

Signed lower right, 'V. Isbrand' for Victor Isbrand (Danish, 1897-1989), titled, verso, on old label, 'Opstilling' (Still Life) and dated 1949. Exhibited: Landmandsbankens Kunstforen...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 11.5 x 15 inches Condition: Go...

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 ...

"Coney Island" Brooklyn NYC Amusement Park Mid-century American Scene WPA Modern Ludwig Bemelmans (1898 – 1962), “Coney Island" 35 x 27 inches Oil on board Signed lower right Origi...

Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24H x 30L

Still Life of Flowers by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed on front and back inscribed verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 21.5 x 18 inches Colors: Red colors, blu...

A beautiful mid 20th century English post-impressionist oil on canvas still life depicting a large bunch of flowers in a vase, with a cat and book on a table. Artist: English School...

Signed lower left 'Moessel' for Julius Moessel (American, 1872-1960) and dated 1943; additionally titled verso, 'In the Artist's Garden'. A substantial, mid-century horticultural oi...

Floral Still Life of Anemones indistinctly signed oil on board, unframed board: 15.75 x 15.75 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and sound condition This vi...