1950s Art

1950s Paintings

1950s Prints and Multiples

1950s Photography

1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

1950s Sculptures
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Period: 1950s
Self Portrait on Horse in Landscape - British 50's art equine rider oil painting
By Lionel Ellis
Located in London, GB
This lovely portrait oil painting is by noted British artist Lionel Ellis. Painted in 1955 the painting is a self portrait of the artist on a beautiful chestnut horse in the foregrou...
Category
Realist 1950s Art
Materials
Oil
Picasso Madoura Ceramic Pitcher 'Têtes' Ramié 368
Located in Delray Beach, FL
This Picasso ceramic pitcher "Têtes, Ramié 368" is one in an edition of 500 and is made of white earthenware clay, decoration in oxidized paraffin and glaze bath. The piece is marked...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Fire (3) by Yayoi Kusama - Abstract contemporary work on paper
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in London, GB
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Fire (3) by Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Gouache and pastel on paper
27.7 x 20.3 cm (10 ⁷/₈ x 8 inches)
Signed, ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
Pont Marie, Paris - Post Impressionist River Landscape Painting by Francois Gall
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Oil on original canvas circa 1950 by French post impressionist painter Francois Gall. A wonderful and beautifully brushed piece depicting a view of the bridge Pont Marie in Paris, Fr...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Exhibition of Georges Braque at the Galerie Maeght in 1956 Original Poster
Located in PARIS, FR
Very nice Exhibition poster of Georges Braque at the Galerie Maeght.
Edition in 1000 copies in 1956 by Mourlot in Paris.
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Linen, Paper, Lithograph
Andreas Feininger Monumental B&W Photograph, 1951
Located in Washington, DC
Large and fantastic B & W photograph by American photographer Andreas Feininger (1906-1999). Photograph is of a gorilla rib cage. Printed in 1951, it measures 8ft. 10 in. x 10ft. Pho...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Linen, Photographic Paper
Sexy Woman in a Swamp Storm - Pulp Magazine, Hispanic Artist, Mid Century
Located in Miami, FL
Rafael Maria de Soto y Hernandez was born February 18, 1904 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. It's high drama in the swamp. Woman in the Swamp is a masterfully executed example of Pulp Ar...
Category
Academic 1950s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Original Radio Radiola vintage French poster with parrot
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Radio Radiola vintage French antique poster. Archival linen-backed and in very good condition. Bright and vibrant. Artist: Rene Ravo. Mid-century design.
The ima...
Category
American Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Palm Beach Idyll, Estate Edition. Vintage 1950s Florida
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A couple sunbathing by the sea at Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Idyll, 1955
Printed later
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentar...
Category
American Realist 1950s Art
Materials
Lambda
Mid Century French Impressionist still live of flowers in a vase
Located in Woodbury, CT
Very well painted French Mid century still live of flowers .
Pierre Pilot was a French painter who was active from the 1930's through the 1960's.
His use of color and striking comp...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
Rush Hour NYC Subway Commute
Located in Minneapolis, MN
From an east coast estate auction, Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to have acquired a previously unseen collection of American Impressionist oil paintings dating to the 1940s an...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moored Sailing Boats - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil by William Henry Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Innes (1905 - 1999) first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New England Arts Club and th...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Lamp - Original Lithograph by Bernard Buffet - 1954
Located in Roma, IT
Lamp is an original artwork realized by Bernard Buffet in 1954.
Color lithograph on wove paper.
Hand Signed "Bernard Buffet" on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left. ...
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
1959 Pablo Picasso 'Bullring II' Modernism France Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 11.5 x 14.5 inches ( 29.21 x 36.83 cm )
Image Size: 11.5 x 14.5 inches ( 29.21 x 36.83 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Additi...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
THREE PILLOWS
Located in Portland, ME
Toledo, Francisco.(Mexican, 1940-2019). THREE PILLOWS Woodcut, 1956. Signed and dated in pencil. 18 3/8 x 27 1/2 inches, framed to 27 x 35 1/8 inches. In excellent condition.
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Adorable Jewel Flowers
Located in Minneapolis, MN
This is a beautiful, c. 1950, unpublished pastel illustration by the Father of American Pin-Up, Rolf Armstrong. This well-rendered sketch features the artist's muse and lifelong frie...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Pastel, Illustration Board
PARIS (FRANCE) City Map original vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original antique French vintage poster. VIEW OF THE CENTER OF PARIS TAKEN FROM THE AIR. Editions Blondel la Rougery. Professional acid-free linen backed; fine condition, ready to...
Category
Land 1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Les Deux Amoureux, Musee de Lyon, Lithograph, 1955
Located in New York, NY
"Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life"
- Fernand Leger
This gorgeous lithographic poster advertising the opening of an exhibition...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Central Park Study 1940-60s Ink Drawing
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1940-60s ink on paper drawing of tress in the park is by Bronx New York artist Saul Lishinsky (1922-2012). Lishinsky studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, and attended the ...
Category
American Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Belted Navy Blue Dress Gouache & Ink Fashion Illustration
By Gibson Bayh
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1950s ink and gouache fashion illustration of a woman in a long navy blue dress with a belted waist and matching cropped jacket is by fashion designer Frederick Gibson Bayh (191...
Category
American Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Original Vintage Poster Travel To Ireland The Easy Way Fly Aer Lingus Route Map
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster - Travel To Ireland The Easy Way Fly Aer Lingus Irish Air Lines - featuring a great design showing a map on a suitcase with the route marked from Dublin to Sh...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Paper
Letter of Thanks by Giorgio Morandi to Sadun Piero - 1953
Located in Roma, IT
Short letter of thanks by the painter Giorgio Morandi to his friend and colleague Piero Sadun.
1 page, with original envelope.
Very good conditions.
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
“Pitcher and Fruit”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful oil on board still life painting of a pitcher, glass and fruit by the well known French artist, Prosper Rotge. Signed Top right. Circa 1955. Painted in the impressionis...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Board, Oil
Maternité (Maternity), 1954
By Marc Chagall
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1954, this color lithograph is After Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887- Saint-Paul, 1985). Printed on Arches wove paper by Charles Sorlier under the direction of Chagall. This w...
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso. Collection Bergengren, Lund - Original Catalogue by P. Picasso - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Original Title: Picasso. Collection Bergengren, Lund. Arrangeret af Kunstforeningen i København på Frederiksberg Rådhus.
Catalogue of Pablo Picasso's collection exhibited at the Mal...
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Paper
'Abstract, Turquoise and Rose', Paris Modernist, Guggenheim, Benezit, Italy
By Åge Vogel-Jørgensen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left "A.V.J" for Aage Vogel-Jorgensen (Danish, 1888-1964); dated, verso, 1954 and titled 'Nr. 3'. Displayed in a period, silver-gilt frame. Framed dimensions: 26"H x 24....
Category
Abstract 1950s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Chic Fashion Model circa 1950s Pen & Ink Fashion Sketch
Located in Bristol, CT
Pen & ink circa 1950s fashion sketch in a gilt bamboo frame
Art Sz: 8"H x 4.5"W
Frame Sz: 7.75"H x 11.75"W
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Ink, Pen
Untitled (Revue Verve)
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original lithograph on wove paper after a drawing by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) titled "Untitled (Revue Verve)", 1954. Issued unsigned. Edition size unknown. Comes f...
Category
Cubist 1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Riviera - Cote d'Azur Frankreich original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage travel poster to the French Riveria, the Cote D'Azur. Linen-backed lithograph created by the artist Roger Bezombes, for the French National Railways. A small Fr...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The Bible - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours
Year: 1956
Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet)
Published by: Édit...
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Les Lithographies de l'Atelier Mourlot by Henri Matisse
Located in New York, NY
Matisse once said, "The paper cutout allows me to draw in the color. Instead of drawing the outline and putting the color inside it, I draw straight into the color." The hues he used...
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Framed Polish Rabbi, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Untitled - Polish Rabbi
Year: 1952
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Image Size: 16 x 12 inches
Frame Size: 26 x 20 inches
Category
Post-War 1950s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ceramic Owl Vase (A.R. 135) from the Madoura Pottery by Pablo Picasso
Located in London, GB
Mid-Century earthenware vase with painted owl decoration, by Pablo Picasso, Vallauris, France (1952). This is a vintage, limited edition earthenware creation, in a run of 500 (Editio...
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Ceramic
"Odalisque and musician" cm. 19 x 15 1950
Located in Torino, IT
Odalisque,Musician,Guitar, interior, Harem, orient,Yellow,Orange
Giulio DA MILANO (Nizza, 1895 - Torino, 1990)
Giulio Da Milano was a Giacomo Grosso's disciple and he was very clo...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pencil
Russian/Canadian Modernist Signed Fauvist Pointillist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1957. Signed "Olga" verso. Displayed in a modern frame. Image size, 36"L x 26"H.
Category
Pointillist 1950s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid 20th Century Modernist; 'Meadow Landscape with Wildlife' Expressionist oil
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine Modernist/Expressionist oil by listed Swedish artist Sune Blomqvist (1919-1989)
'Meadow Landscape with Wildlife' circa 1950-60.
oil on canvas 33cmx41cm
gallery frame 40cmx48cm...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Oil
Original Vintage Poster Trooping The Colour Horse Guards London British Railways
Located in London, GB
Original vintage British Railways poster featuring Trooping The Colour painted by the late Christopher Clark RI in 1932 - The historic ceremony by the Brigade of Guards on the Horse ...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Paper
Rabbi and Student, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski 1957
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Rabbi and Student
Year: 1957
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 16 x 11 inches
Frame Size: 25 x 20 inches
Category
Post-War 1950s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Che Guevara
Located in Nümbrecht, DE
Osvaldo Salas, widely recognized as one of the world’s great press photographers, was born in Havana, Cuba in 1914. At the age of fourteen, he left Havana with his parents and immigr...
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mid-Century Portrait of a Young Girl
Located in Soquel, CA
A gentle mid-century portrait of a young girl by Pascal "Pablo" Cucaro (American, 1915-2004). Sealed in a layer of clear resin. Signed in a black textured medium, lower left: "cucaro...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Resin, Carbon Pencil
YELLOW VASE
Located in Portland, ME
Larkin, Eugene (American, 1921-2010). YELLOW VASE. Woodcut in colors, 1957, signed, titled, dated and numbered 80/210 in pencil. 9 3/4 x 20 inches. In very good condition.
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Woodcut
"Motif aus Improvisation 25: The Garden of Love" - Original woodcut
Located in Paris, FR
Vassily KANDINSKY
Woodcut print
Second edition for 'XXe Siecle' the first edition was done in 1938
Printed signature (monogram) in the plate
On vellum 31 x 24 cm (c. 12.5 x 10 inc...
Category
Abstract 1950s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing an abstract expressionist painting by American female artist Harrier Holden Nash.
Harriet was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and lived with her husband in ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modernist Abstract Signed Morrow Biomorphic Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Signed on verso. Displayed in a period frame. Image, 18"L x 20"H.
Category
Abstract 1950s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Inspired Village of Montmartre - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Maurice Utrillo
Inspired Village of Montmartre
Pochoir with printed signature
Edition of 490
Dimensions: 39 x 30 cm
Information : This print was created for the portfolio &q...
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Stencil
Vanity Fair Sheer Gown Icon, Circa 1955
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Vanity Fair Sheer Gown Icon, Circa 1955 -- One of Mark Shaw’s favorite photographs, this Vanity Fair slip was photographed by Mark Shaw for an award winning ad campaign. THE 24” x 36...
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Giclée
Mid Century Ocean Sunset Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully vibrant "Ocean Sunset" landscape by Cecil F. Chamberlin (American, 1899-1963). Blue wood frame. Signed "C.F Chamberlin" lower right. Image size, 36"L x 24"H; overall, 44...
Category
Realist 1950s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tournesols et Melon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil lower right; Numbered lower left
Edition: 125 signed and numbered printed in colors, 25 signed and numbered printed in black
Published by Galerie Beyeler, Bale...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bedroom Vanity Scene, Mid Century Lithograph
By Jerry Opper
Located in San Francisco, CA
This circa late 1940s to early 1950s stone lithograph on paper interior scene of a nude with her hair being brushed is by California artist Jerry Opper (1924-2014). Opper studied at ...
Category
American Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Three Men Hunting
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This illustration was used in magazine advertisements.
Frank C. Bensing was born in Chicago, Illinois, and received his art training there at the Art Institute. Among his te...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Ink Painting - Les Mules dans le Champ
By Jean-Baptiste Granger
Located in Houston, TX
Bold black and white ink painting of a group of mules peacefully gathered by French artist Jean Baptiste Grancher, circa 1950. Signed lower right.
Original artwork on paper display...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Steeple and Pond Mid Century Landscape
By Lynn Winans
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century landscape featuring an English Cathedral with steeple and pond by Lynn Clark Winans (American, 1897-1982). Signed "Lynn Winans" lower left. Artist logo on verso. Image si...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Unraveled
Located in San Diego, CA
A retired cardiologist, Jacobs’ artwork highlights how learned skills in medicine fueled his dynamic abstract technique. Strongly influenced by abstract expressionists from the 1950’...
Category
Abstract 1950s Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled - Original China Ink on Brown Paper - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Dimensions with frame: 32.3x45 cm. Wooden frame included.
Signed and dated lower left: CAMACHO 59 G.
Dedication, date 1960 and signature on rear.
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Schlitz Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Advertisement for Schlitz beer, 1950. Published ad included.
It’s part of their “I was curious” series that always features three panels. This one features a scrapbook that, despi...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Toro and Horse
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Toro and Horse
Lithograph, 1957
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.
Titled in pencil lower left.
Edition: 25 (24/25)
Printer: Ravel, Paris
Reference: Freeman L57.11
'Toro an...
Category
Cubist 1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Marilyn Monroe Signed Photograph
Located in Toronto, CA
Signed black and white photo of Marilyn Monroe herself in a black top wearing white shorts and black heels. Press Print, Size 10"x8". London Features International LTD, photographer ...
Category
American Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
WPA Still Life with NYC Street Scene Aaron Berkman Circa 1950-60.
By Aaron Berkman
Located in Hallowell, ME
Signed lower left. Oil on canvas in what might be the original frame. Wonderful still life at a table with NYC street scene shown below. RFeally bright colors.
The following is w...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Oil