Modern Paintings

Post War Bay Area Figurative - Original Watercolor Painting Three Horses on a Rolling Hill Vibrant watercolor of three redwoods in style of Chiura Obata artist Ömer Şahingil (Turkis...

Nude Figure Lying Down by Jacqueline Boisselot, French late 20th century 19.75 x 25.5 inches oil on artist paper, unframed condition: very good and ready to enjoy provenance: from a...

A Fabulous, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Still Life Painting of a Colorful Bouquet of Spring Flowers by Notable Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Completed in the vibrant,...

A striking 1930s Modern portrayal of El Greco's Renaissance masterpiece, "Mater Dolorosa" by Notable California Woman Artist, Leonine E. Wallace. Artwork size: 13 x 10 inches. O...

Antique American school modernist still life painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a gold giltwood molding. Excellent c...

Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century Title: Interior scene French Modernist interior still life scene. Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 28.5 x 21.2...

Oil on canvas realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Hand signed lower right. Includes a wooden frame 37.5x27 cm. Very good condition. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, ...

A striking large-scale abstract oil painting by American modernist Wilma Fiori, created in 1994. This horizontal composition exemplifies Fiori’s mature sty...

Oil on canvas 88.9 x 130.1 cm.; 35 x 51 1/4 inches Signed, lower right

QUIET FARMSTEAD Size: 53 x 63.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A calm and serene mid-century landscape that captures a rural farmstead in its most distilled and poetic form, exe...

'Sicilian Farmhouse', oil on canvas, by Yves Brayer (circa 1950s). A dedicated lover of Mediterranean countries and their varied landscapes, this charming and diminutive work by the ...

"Industrial Cityscape, Chicago" WPA Modernism Mid-Century Cityscape 20th Century Aaron Bohrod (American 1907 – 1992) Industrial Cityscape 20 x 16 inches Oil on board Signed lower ri...

Elegant Ladies on the Beach Spanish Seaside Figurative Oil Painting Artist: Domenech (Spanish School, 20th century) Technique: Oil on canvas Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions...

August Frederick Biehle (American, 1885-1979) Abstract Floral Still Life Watercolor and pencil on paper Signed lower right 24 x 19 inches 29.5 x 24.5 inches, framed A versatile pain...

Sharon Paster is a distinguished San Francisco Bay-area artist Sharon Paster creates her paintings using oil sticks and brushes, a technique that allows her to both draw and paint at...

Original oil on canvas by Jordi Rosich Rojas representing Cala Aiguafreda in Begur, Costa Brava. A luminous Mediterranean coastal landscape with turquoise water, rocky shoreline and ...

Artist: Peter Max Title: Better World Size: 48 x 24 Inches (Framed: 57.25 x 33.25 Inches) Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Edition: Original Year: 2010 Notes: Max Studio Catalog Nu...

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting Stanley Bate features a deep, but colorful palette. Smaller organic shapes and layers of thick blue, black, red, and yellow paint combine ...

Antenna, 1980, acrylic on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 32 x 48 inches, “Alfred P. Maurice, 2725 A South Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616, ‘Antenna’” inscribed verso, exhibit...

Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...

Oil on linen mounted on wood signed and dated on reverse. Part of a series of 12 painted in 2024 Stephen Basso's highly origional pastels and oil paintings are romantic yet thought p...

Still Life is an artwork realized by an unknown artist in the late 19th Century. Oil on Canvas Mounted on Board. Original wooden frame. 18 x 13 cm. Good conditions

The Old City by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on card stuck on artist paper, unframed painting: 10.75 x 8.23 inches provenance: private collection, Cotswolds condition:...

André Brasilier French I b. 1929 Automne d'or Signed “André Brasilier” (lower right) Oil on canvas In Automne d'or, celebrated French artist André Brasilier exquisitely conveys th...

This Modern abstract painting Stanley Bate is highly textured and features a warm, vibrant palette. Thick layers of red, orange, and blue paint appear to have been scraped back to c...

A beautiful mid 20th century French modernist oil on canvas board depciting a head study of a boy. Excellent quality work in very good original condition. Indistinctly signed lower ...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021) Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studies ...

Dimensions: 24"x24" with frame 32"x32" Signed Lower Left A vibrant and expressive still life by Jane Peterson, "Flowers in a Yellow Vase" exemplifies the artist’s mastery of color, ...

A beautiful large scale mid 20th century Modern British oil on canvas self portrait of the artist as a "Big Boss in New York". Inscribed twice with title on the reverse. Excellent ...

A 1954 Surrealist depiction of a Summer symphony by notable Chicago Modern artist Harold Haydon. Executed in the artist's innovative, abstract "Binocular Vision" technique for which...

Genre Figure Contemporary Elegant Lady with Flowers Oil on canvas Excellent condition Framed in gold leaf frame

Summer Light Over the French River Valley Impressionist Landscape Painting French School, mid 20th century signed lower right oil on board, unframed Board: 10.75 x 14 inches Provenan...

Mid-century abstract expressionist gouache on paper of a forest landscape. Signed Ricard and presented in a black frame under glass. 81cm x 61cm x 1 cm. This artwork is a vibrant an...

We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...

A bold and poetic abstraction by Alberto de Blobs, this painting brings together expansive fields of deep black and luminous blue, punctuated by delicate gestural lines that cross th...

Yellow & Red Flowers French Impressionist artist, circa 1950's signed oil on board, unframed board: 12.5 x 9 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: a few minor scuf...

Title French Modernist Cannes Still Life Flowers Vase Blue Interior Oil Painting Key Details Artist: French Modernist, signed verso Title: Cannes Medi...

De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965). North on West Street , 1939. Watercolor on Arches wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil by artist lower margin. Sheet measures 15 x 22 inches. Framed measurement: 27 x 34 inched. Incredibly vibrant and saturated color with no fading or toning of sheet. Provenance: Babcock Galleries, NYC De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965) was a Romanian-American "abstract realist" painter who crossed paths with many major American artistic and intellectual figures of the first half of the 20th century. Elaine de Kooning said that he was "[w]idely recognized as one of the most gifted and erudite watercolorists in the country". The New York Times critic Howard Devree stated in 1938 that "Margules uses color in a breath-taking manner. A keen observer, he eliminates scrupulously without distortion of his material." Devree later called Margules "one of our most daring experimentalists in the medium" Margules was also a well-known participant in the bohemian culture of New York City's Greenwich Village, where he was widely known as the "Baron" of Greenwich Village.[1] The New York Times described him as "one of Greenwich Village's best-known personalities" and "one of the best known and most buoyant characters about Greenwich Village. Early Life De Hirsh Margules was born in 1899 in the Romanian city of Iași (also known as Iasse, Jassy, or Jasse). When Margules was 10 weeks old, his family immigrated to New York City. Both of his parents were active in the Yiddish theater, His father was Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, a "renowned Jewish actor-impresario and founder of the Yiddish stage." Margules' mother, Rosa, thirty-nine years younger than his father, was an actress in the Yiddish theater and later in vaudeville. Although Margules appeared as a child actor with the Adler Family[11] and Bertha Kalich, his sister, Annette Margules, somewhat dubiously continued in family theater and vaudeville tradition, creating the blackface role of the lightly-clad Tondelayo (a part later played on film Hedy Lamarr) in Earl Carroll's 1924 Broadway exoticist hit, White Cargo. Annette herself faced stereotyping as an exotic flower: writing about her publicist Charles Bouchert stated that "Romania produces a stormy, temperamental type of woman---a type admirably fitted to portray emotion." His brother Samuel became a noted magician who appeared under the name "Rami-Sami." Samuel later became a lawyer, representing magician Horace Goldin, among others. A family portrait including a young De Hirsh, a portrait of Rosa and Annette together, and individual photos of Rosa and Edward can be found on the Museum of the City of New York website. At around age 9 or 10, Margules took art classes with the Boys Club on East Tenth Street, and his first taste of exhibition was at a student art show presented by the club. By age 11, he had won a city-wide prize (a box camera) at a children's art show presented by the department store Wanamakers. As a young teenager, Margules was already displaying a characteristic kindness and loyalty. Upon hearing that two friends (one of them was author Alexander King), were in trouble for breaking a school microscope, the nearly broke Margules gave them five dollars to repair the microscope . Margules had to approach a wealthy man that Margules had once saved on the subway from a heart attack. Margules didn't reveal the source of the five dollars to King until twenty-five years later. In his late teens, Margules studied for a couple of months in Pittsburgh with Edwin Randby, a follower of Western painter Frederic Remington. Thereafter he pursued a two-year course of studies in architecture, design and decoration at the New York Evening School of Art and Design, while working as a clerk during the day at Stern's Department Store. He was encouraged in these artistic pursuits by his neighbor, the painter Benno Greenstein (who later went by the name of Benjamin Benno). Artistic career In 1922, Margules began work as a police reporter for the City News Association of New York .Margules then considered himself something of an expert on art, and the painter Myron Lechay is said to have responded to some unsolicited analysis of his work with the remark "Since you seem to know so much about it, why don't you paint yourself?" This led to study with Lechay and a flurry of painting. Margules' first show was in 1922 at Jane Heap's Little Review Gallery. Thereafter Margules began to participate in shows with a group including Stuart Davis, Jan Matulka, Buckminster Fuller (exhibiting depictions of his "Dymaxion house") in a gallery run by art-lover and restaurateur Romany Marie on the floor above her cafe. Jane Heap, left, with Mina Loy and Ezra Pound During the 1920s, Margules traveled outside of the country a number of times. In 1922, with the intent of reaching Bali, he took a job as a "'wiper on a tramp steamer where [he] played nursemaid to the engine." He reached Rotterdam before he turned back. He would return to Rotterdam shortly thereafter. In 1927, Margules took a lengthy leave of absence from his day job as a police reporter in order to travel to Paris, where he "set up a studio in Montmartre's Place du Tertre, on the top floor of an almost deserted hotel, a shabby establishment, lacking both heat and running water." He studied at the Louvre and traveled to paint landscapes in provincial France and North Africa. Margules also joined the "Noctambulist" movement and experimented with painting and showing his artwork in low light.Jonathan Cott wrote that: the painter De Hirsch Margulies sat on the quays of the Seine and painted pictures in the dark. In fact, the first exhibition of these paintings, which could be seen only in a darkened room, took place in [ Walter Lowenfels'] Paris apartment. Elaine de Kooning remarked that studying the works of the Noctambulists confirmed Margules' "direction toward the use of primary colors for perverse effects of heavy shadow." It was also in Paris that Margules initially conceived his idea of "Time Painting", where a painting is divided into sectors, each representing a different time of day, with color choices meant to evoke that time of day. In Paris, his social circle included Lowenfels, photographer Berenice Abbott, publisher Jane Heap, composer George Anthiel, sculptor Thelma Wood, painter André Favory, writer Norman Douglas, writer and editor George Davis, composer and writer Max Ewing, and writer Michael Fraenkel. Upon his return to New York in 1929, Margules attended an exhibition of John Marin's paintings. While at the exhibition, he "launched into an eloquent explanation of Marin to two nearby women", and was overheard by an impressed Alfred Stieglitz. The famous photographer and art promoter invited Margules to dine with his wife, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and his assistant, painter Emil Zoler. Stieglitz thereafter became a friend and mentor to Margules, becoming for him "what Socrates was to his friends." Alfred Stieglitz Stieglitz introduced Margules to John Marin, who quickly became the most important painterly influence upon Margules. Elaine de Kooning later noted that Margules was "indebted to Marin and through Marin to Cézanne for his initial conceptual approach - for his constructions of scenes with no negative elements, for skies that loom with the impact of mountains." Margules himself said that Marin was his "father and ... academy." The admiration was by no means unreciprocated: Marin said that Margules was "an art lover with abounding faith and sincerity, with much intelligence and quick seeing." Stieglitz also introduced Margules to many other artistic and intellectual figures in New York. With the encouragement of Alfred Stieglitz, Margules in 1936 opened a two-room gallery at 43 West 8th Street called "Another Place." Over the following two years there were fourteen solo exhibitions by Margules and others, and the gallery was well-respected by the press. It was in this gallery that the painter James Lechay, Myron's brother, exhibited his first painting. In 1936, Margules first saw recognition by major art museums when both the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston purchased his works. In 1942, Margules gave up working as a police reporter, and apparently dedicated himself thereafter solely to an artistic vocation. "The Baron of Greenwich Village"[edit] Margules made his mark not only as an artist, but also as an outsized personality known throughout Greenwich Village and beyond. To local residents, Margules was known as the "Baron", after Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a prominent German Jewish philanthropist. Margules was easily recognizable by the beret he routinely wore over his long hair. Writer Charles Norman said that he "dressed with a flair for sloppiness." He was said to "know everybody" in Greenwich Village, to the extent that when the novelist and poet Maxwell Bodenheim was murdered, Margules was the first one the police sought to identify the body. Margules' letters show him interacting with art world figures such as Sacha Kolin, John Marin and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as with prominent figures outside the art world such as polymath Buckminster Fuller and writer Henry Miller. Most of his friends and acquaintances found Margules a generous and voluble man, given to broadly emotionally expressive gestures and acts of kindness and loyalty. In 1929, he exhibited an example of this loyalty and fellow-feeling when he appeared in court to fight what the wrongful commitment of his friend, writer and sculptor Alfred Dreyfuss, who appeared to have been a victim of an illicit attempt to block an inheritance. The Greenwich Village chronicler Charles Norman described the bone-crushing hugs that Margules would routinely bestow on his friends and acquaintances, and speaks of the "persuasive theatricality" that Margules seemed to have inherited from his actor parents. Norman also wrote about Margules' routine acts of kindness, taking in homeless artists, constantly feeding his friends and providing the salvatory loan where needed. Norman also notes that Margules was blessed with a loud and good voice, and was apt to sing an operatic air without provocation. The writer and television personality Alexander King said I think the outstanding characteristics of my friend's personality are affirmation, emphasis, and overemphasis. He chooses to express himself predominantly in superlatives and the gestures which accompany his utterances are sometimes dangerous to life and limb. Of the bystanders, I mean. King also spoke with affectionate amusement about Margules' pride in his cooking, speaking of how "if he should ever invite you to dinner, he may serve you a hamburger with onions, in his kitchen-living room, with such an air of gastronomic protocol, such mysterious hints and ogliing innuendoes, as if César Ritz and Brillat-Savarin had sneaked out, only a moment before, with his secret recipe in their pockets." Margules was such a memorable New York personality that comic book writer Alvin Schwartz imagined him at the Sixth Avenue Cafeteria in a risible yet poignant debate with Clark Kent about whether Superman had the ability to stop Hitler. Margules' entrenchment in the Greenwich Village milieu can be seen in a photograph from Fred McDarrah's "Beat Generation Album" of a January 13, 1961 writers' and poets' meeting to discuss "The Funeral of the Beat Generation", in Robert Cordier [fr]'s railroad flat at 85 Christopher Street. Among the people in the same photograph are Shel Silverstein...

Early work was impressionistic and hard abstract. Carola later developed a more mature way of working in a colourful exploration of the subject. Colour was her main interest and she...

Ted Hinrichs Vehement Acrylic on Canvas Year: 2021 Size: 48x40in Framed: 50x42x2.5in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 24802-1716 *Framed in black Wood ...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Woman with FUCHSIA, 1935 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 31.75 x 27 inches 37 x 32.25 inches, framed Untitled Still Life ver...

Hand signed lower right and bears old Hungarian Gallery label verso. Description of the painting An Orientalist genre scene set in a North African or Middle Eastern desert town at d...

A highly abstracted figure emerges in fluid, elegant brush strokes, reminiscent of the works of Francis Bacon, in this striking abstract painting by Bay...

Expressive Nude Female with Black Hair and Blue Ground Modern French Oil Painting by Jacqueline Boisselot (French, late 20th century) oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 10.75 x 9 inches...

A Brooding 1930s WPA Era, Modern Social Realist Industrial Scene by Famed Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Depicting a gritty nocturne view of industrial rooftops and...

A beautiful, large modernist cubist influence oil on canvas still life with potted plant by French artist Jef Friboulet. Striking and excellent quality work, presented in a box frame...

A most attractive and striking image of daffodils placed against a darker background Howard J Morgan (1949-2020) Daffodils in a china jug Signed and S...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...

The Dreamers Path 36.0 × 30.0 × 1.5, 4.0 lbs Acrylic paint Hand signed by the artist Artist's Commentary: "Lovely, colorful, and floral abstract painting created using acrylic pain...

A dynamic ca. 1940s American Machine Age Modern industrial scene, depicting a suspended gantry crane and factory workers. Possibly completed as an illustration study for a print adv...

Woodland Tapestry, 1970s Vintage Forest Landscape by Mildred Nordman Beautiful vintage forest scene titled "Woodland Tapestry" by Mildred Nordman (Ame...

Tom Coates (1941-2023) An English countryside landscape Oil on canvas Signed with initials lower left Canvas Size - 12 x 16 in Framed Size - 18 x 22 in Tom Coates (1941–2023) was a ...

Set of Two Paired Studies 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on light brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed overal...

Shops on Key Lime Lane - Illustration on Canvas in Acrylic and Ink Delightful street scene by Ann Irvine (American, b. 1943). A series of storefronts are shown in white silhouette w...

Dated, signed Signature unknown Work on wood Gray wooden frame with golden patina 82 x 997 x 6 cm

Nature Morte French School, late 20th century signed verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 13 x 16 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sou...

Adolf Arthur Dehn Haitian Scene #7, ca. 1951 Watercolor gouache, hand signed; framed with AAA Gallery label verso Signed on the front bearing the original label on the verso of Dehn'...

Choosing to acquire a Swedish mid-20th-century modern Impressionist landscape by Helge Cardell is an opportunity to bring a harmonious blend of artistic innovation and natural beauty...

Set of Two Paired Studies 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on light brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed overal...

Set of Two Paired Studies 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on light brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed overal...