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Period: 1940s
Antique American School Signed Cubist Abstract Expressionist Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract mixed media painting. Oil gouache and crayon on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 24 by 29 inches overall and 15 by 20 painting alone.
Category

Cubist 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Matisse, Série L, var. 11 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Colombe sur lit de paille, Ceramic Plate by Pablo Picasso 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 - 1973) Title: Colombe sur lit de paille, (Dove on a Straw Bed) [Ramie 79 variant] Year: 1949 Medium: White earthenware clay, white enamel brushe...
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Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Ceramic

When Abdullah got the Net Ashore - French Art - Symbolism, Fauvism Art
Located in London, GB
MARC CHAGALL 1887-1985 [Shagal, Mark, Zakharovich, Moses] Vitebsk, Belarus 1887-1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes Title: When Abdullah got the Net Ashore…, from: Four Tales...
Category

Fauvist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Kollwitz, Working-Class Woman with Sleeping Child (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Kathe Kollwitz, Ten Lithographs. Published by Henry C. Kleemann and...
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Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Minotaur
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Minotaur Lithograph from 1946. Dimensions of work: 32,8 x 48 cm Publisher: Pantheon. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipment.
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Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Seurat, Le nœud noir, Seurat (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper Year: 1948 Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From th...
Category

Post-Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Stopping to water the driven horses Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous European figurative of a simpler time. Horses being watered in the plains by Janos Viski (Hungarian/American 1891-1965), circa 1940. Signed lower ...
Category

Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

"The Covered Wagon" On the Oregon Trail Prairie Schooner Horseman and Cattle
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Covered Wagon" On the Oregon Trail Prairie Schooner and Cattle Facsimile in oil or silk screen Oil print by Gilbert Ross Tonge (American, 1883 - 1970...
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American Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board, Screen

"Untitled" Hans Hofmann, circa 1943 Navy Blue Olive Green Early Abstract Work
Located in New York, NY
Hans Hofmann Untitled, circa 1943 Signed lower right Oil and watercolor on paper 22 1/4 x 30 3/4 inches The only artist of the New York school to participate directly in European m...
Category

Abstract Expressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Oil, Watercolor

Street Corner, L'Ile Saint Louis, Paris — Mid-Century Photogravure
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rémy Duval, 'Street Corner, L'ile Saint Louis, Paris', photogravure, 1946. A fine, richly-inked impression in warm black ink, on cream wove B.F.K. Rives pap...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Photogravure

Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P6.47), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Comprised of various flow...
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Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Watercolor

Lively seaside by Ellis Holy-Björset - Watercolor
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper Original silver wooden frame with glass window 52 x 66,5 x 1,5 cm
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Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Watercolor

Surreal Full Moon Hawaii Cliff House Nocturnal Hawaiian 1940s Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Surreal Full Moon Hawaii Cliff House Nocturnal Hawaiian 1940s Landscape Symbolic and surreal mid century nocturnal landscape of a lone house on a s...
Category

Surrealist 1940s Art

Materials

Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Disrobing Her with His Own Hand..., from Four Tales from the Arabian Nights
Located in OPOLE, PL
This work will be exhibited at Art on Paper NYC, September 4–7, 2025. –- Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Disrobing Her with His Own Hand..., from Four Tales from the Arabian Nights Lit...
Category

Symbolist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Studies for Three Figures - Italian art, Composition, Futurism, Watercolour
Located in London, GB
MARIO SIRONI 1885-1961 Sassari 1885-1961 Milan (Italian) Title: Studies for Three Figures Studio per le Tre Figure, 1948 Technique: Hand Signed Pen and Watercolour Drawing on Pape...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Watercolor, Pen

"Hombre contemplando la luna" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and aquatint. Printed in 1947 on Velin de Hollande paper and published in New York by the Quadrangle Press as the frontispiece of the deluxe edition of Rober...
Category

Surrealist 1940s Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

A Careless World ...A Needless Sinking original 1942 vintage World War 2 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage World War 2 poster: A Careless Word … A Needless Sinking. A Careless Word ... A Needless Sinking. Linen backed origin...
Category

American Realist 1940s Art

Materials

Offset

Matisse, Série L, var. 17 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

WPA Impressionist Figurative Landscape Oil Painting Panel "Ocho Rios" Jamaica
Located in Portland, OR
A important American Impressionist painting by Isabella Howland (1895-1974), "Ocho Rios", Jamaica, 1940. Howland was active in both Boston & New York, this impressionistic painting d...
Category

American Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Oil

Citizen Kane Iconic Scene
By Alexander Kahle
Located in Austin, TX
Iconic scene from the influential film "Citizen Kane"..Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film produced by, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. He also co-wrote the screenplay...
Category

Contemporary 1940s Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

Matisse, Série L, var. 4 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Orson Welles Filming Citizen Kane
By Alexander Kahle
Located in Austin, TX
This rare image was taken behind the scenes of the cast working on a scene in the 1941 film "Citizen Kane". Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles, its producer...
Category

Contemporary 1940s Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

(after) Aristide Maillol - lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). Printed in France in 1943 for the rare art revue "Hommage" and published in a limited edition of 1000 on Montgolfier Annonay laid paper. Size:...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

L' Enterrement de Pierrot, Plate X From Jazz
Located in New York, NY
Matisse’s Jazz is one of his most renowned and beloved seris. Pochoir in colors on Arches paper with the center fold (as issued) from the Edition of 250, published by Tériade, Pari...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Stencil

The House of Naiads - Woodcut Print by G. Verna - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimension 36.5 x 18 cm. Hand Signed. Edition of 100 pieces.
Category

Contemporary 1940s Art

Materials

Woodcut

Matisse, Série N, var. 1 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Oil Painting - “Homeward”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Henry Gasser (1909 - 1981) This is a beautiful work by New Jersey artist Henry Gasser titled: “Homeward.” It is Oil on Paner created in the 1940's. Signed “H. Gasser” lower right....
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Paint

Blizzard in Woods
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blizzard in Woods Graphite on paper, c. 1945-1963 Unsigned Provenance: Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York Annotated with notes for completing the drawing. Deutsch Gallery has handled Bur...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Graphite

Bullfighting Poster with Antonio Benvenida- Barcelona 24 May 1942
Located in London, GB
Juan Reus (1912-2003) Original Vintage Bullfighting Poster May 1942 107cm x 53cm Juan Reus was born in 1912 in Valencia, where he became a well-known paint...
Category

Other Art Style 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

A Quiet River - Oil on Canvas by A. Whipple
Located in Soquel, CA
A Quiet River - Oil on Canvas Oil painting depicting a river flowing through a grove of trees. Vibrant green trees surround the river, hues of deep greens make up the trees to the l...
Category

American Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1941 Watercolor of Chicago's Old Town, Titled "Wells & Eugenie" by Albert Rudin
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderful 1941 watercolor of Chicago's Old Town neighborhood that features an old car, titled "Wells & Eugenie" by Albert Rudin. Image size: 11 1/2" x 15 1/2". Framed size: 18"...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Matisse, Série C, var. 3 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Unloading the Freight" Antique American Impressionist Exhibited Dock Scene
Located in Buffalo, NY
Important and exhibited American impressionist dock scene by Junius Allen (1898 - 1962). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Image size, measuring 25 by 30 inches.
Category

Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

MODERNIST ABSTRACT Mid-Century New Hope Non-Objective oil American Modern WPA
Located in New York, NY
MODERNIST ABSTRACT Mid-Century New Hope Non-Objective oil American Modern WPA Louis Stone (1902-1984) "Abstract," 16 X 12 inches. Oil on canvas, signed lower right. An abstract pai...
Category

Abstract 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Picasso Ceramic, Trois sardines (A.R. 34)
Located in Madrid, ES
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Trois sardines (A.R. 34) stamped, marked and numbered 'Madoura Plein Feu / Edition Picasso / I 113 / 28/200' (underneath) whit...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Ceramic

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, TLautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper Year: 1946 Paper Size: 17 x 13 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, TLautrec, 1946. ...
Category

Post-Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Reclining Nude — Mid-Century Modernism, Renowned African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Blackburn, Untitled (Reclining Nude), brush and ink, c. 1948, unsigned. A fine, spontaneous work, on cream wove paper. Slight toning to the sheet edges; otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 18 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches (476 x 597 mm). Provenance: Adrienne E. Wheeler Collection, acquired from the artist. ABOUT THE ARTIST Robert Blackburn (1920 - 2003) participated in the rich mix of art programs and creative groups available in Harlem as he grew up, including Charles Alston's Harlem Arts Workshop, the Harlem YMCA, and later the Harlem Artist's Guild. In 1937 he joined the WPA at the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest New York center for instruction in the arts. There he was exposed to Harlem's most prominent artists, Aaron Douglas, William Henry Johnson...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Ink

WESTERN PEAKS
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HAROLD LUKENS DOOLITTLE (1873 - 1974) WESTERN PEAKS c. 1945 Aquatint signed and titled in pencil. 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 sheet 9 5/8 x 12 3/4. Good condition save for just a hint of darkening within the window and small bits if tape on the sheet edge verso. Doolittle was a renaissance man. His day job was as an engineer for the Edison Electric Co. But he produced an outstanding body of prints for 5 decades as well as photographs. His very rare arts and crafts furniture is highly sought after. He was a long time member and officer in the California Print...
Category

Realist 1940s Art

Materials

Aquatint

'The Orange Point' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'The Orange Point', color serigraph, edition 54, c. 1940. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed/54' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper; the full sheet wi...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Screen

Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century: Wartime Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: A Wartime Study of Figures Relaxing in Springtime by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) Unsigned watercolour, graphite and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed Sheet: 12.25 x 9...
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Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite

Matisse, Série N Gc'S, var. 5 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Raoul Dufy (after) - Autoportrait - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Raoul Dufy Lithograph after a watercolor, published in the book "Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy." Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1965. Printed signature Dimensions: ...
Category

Fauvist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Swiss Mountain by Karl Speglitz - Watercolor 13x17 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper Dimension with pass 31.7 x 24 cm
Category

Expressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Watercolor

Antique American Framed Impressionist Beach Scene Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist beach scene oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.
Category

Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Cubist Still Life Cat Portrait Framed & Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Important cubist still life oil painting by Douglas Warner Gorsline (1913 - 1985). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category

Cubist 1940s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ombrellino (Umbrella) - Mosaic - 1947 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Original Mosaic on cement panel. Ref.: Domus 1948, p. IX and p. 29. An awesome and beautiful example on Campigli's Art of creating imaginative characters following his creativity,...
Category

Contemporary 1940s Art

Materials

Mosaic

Mid Century Colorado River Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century impressionist landscape of Colorado River and hills by Wilfred A. Readio (American, 1895-1961), c.1940. Unsigned; purchased as part of collection of artist's wo...
Category

Tonalist 1940s Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Reclining Nude - Industrial Scene Verso - Scottish 1940's portrait oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This interesting British 1940's oil painting is attributed to Harry Jefferson Barnes. Barnes trained at the Slade School of Art and later went on to become Director of the Glasgow Sc...
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Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Oil

Bondage - Linocut on Paper by Jean Barbe / Mino Maccari - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
Bondage is a beautiful black and white linocut on paper, realized in 1945 by the Italian artist, Mino Maccari. Hand-signed as "Jean Barbe" and numbered in pencil on lower margin. Ed...
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1940s Art

Materials

Linocut

Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dessinateur,...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

two drawings colored inks nude
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Pedro Pruna Ocerans (1904-1977) - Two drawings - Ink drawing Two framed drawings, all of them signed and dated. Frame measures 23x28 cm. Pere Pruna Ocerans (Barcelona, ​​1904-1977) ...
Category

Post-Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Ink

Matisse, Série G, var. 4 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Antique Impressionist Capri Italy Terrace Landscape 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3552 Oil on artist board Set in a custom gilt wood frame Signed Costanza
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Oil

La Fosse Commune, Etching by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 - 1973) - La Fosse Commune, Year: 1947, Medium: Etching on Arches, Image Size: 10 x 8.75 inches, Size: 11 x 17.75 in. (27.94 x 45.09 cm), Reference: Blo...
Category

Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Etching

lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). This impression in violet ink was printed in France in 1944 for the rare "Correspondances" portfolio, published by Teriade in a limited editio...
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1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

WPA 1940s Framed Figurative Village Landscape with Figures, Houses & Mountains
Located in Denver, CO
This evocative watercolor painting, titled The Way War First Comes (1940), was created by noted American artist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968) during the Depression era. The pie...
Category

American Modern 1940s Art

Materials

Watercolor

At the Winery - Hungarian Art
Located in London, GB
This original painting is hand signed by the artist "Scheiber H" in the lower left corner, and dated "1940" below the signature. Exhibited: Hugo Scheiber - Bela Kadar, Galerie Le Mi...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Tempera, Gouache

Wings For Victory, original vintage Second World War poster
Located in London, GB
Wings for Victory -- The Sky's the Limit for Wartime Saving Original vintage Second World War poster Lithograph 50 x 37 cm Dated to 1943 This 'Wings for Victory' poster was a prop...
Category

Realist 1940s Art

Materials

Lithograph

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