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Period: 1950s
Marc Chagall, The Accordionist, from Chagall, 1957
Marc Chagall, The Accordionist, from Chagall, 1957

Marc Chagall, The Accordionist, from Chagall, 1957

By Marc Chagall

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled L’Accordeoniste (The Accordionist), from the album Chagall, originates from the 1957 edition published by Maeght Editeur...

Category

Expressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Mid Century Original Oil Plein Air Landscape of Western Nevada
Mid Century Original Oil Plein Air Landscape of Western Nevada

Mid Century Original Oil Plein Air Landscape of Western Nevada

Located in Soquel, CA

Original Antique Western Nevada Desert Oil Landscape by Phoebe K. Higgins A mid-century desert oil landscape of Western Nevada by Phoebe K. Higgins (American, 1895 - c 1960), circa ...

Category

American Realist 1950s Art

Materials

Linen, Oil, Board

Oiseau Posé
Oiseau Posé

Oiseau Posé

By Pablo Picasso

Located in PARIS, FR

• An authenticated work Stamped on the base “Madoura plein feu,” this unique painted and partially glazed ceramic is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Claude Rui...

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Ceramic

Original earliest Rome via TWA vintage travel poster
Original earliest Rome via TWA vintage travel poster

Original earliest Rome via TWA vintage travel poster

By David Klein

Located in Spokane, WA

Original linen-backed vintage travel poster: ROME via TWA. TWA Trans World Airlines. Lockheed Constellation flying over the statue of Poseidon (Neptune) Statue, Piazza Navona, ...

Category

American Realist 1950s Art

Materials

Offset

Sunset, Big Sur
Sunset, Big Sur

Sunset, Big Sur

By Wynn Bullock

Located in Pacific Grove, CA

This silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount with title, date and numbering in pencil on the back of the mount. Likely printed c. 1970.

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

1959 Provence SNCF Original French Travel Poster by Jal
1959 Provence SNCF Original French Travel Poster by Jal

1959 Provence SNCF Original French Travel Poster by Jal

Located in PARIS, FR

Published in 1959 for the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français (SNCF), this original travel poster by the French artist Jal is a vibrant celebration of Provence, one of Fran...

Category

1950s Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Paeseggio Urbano, New York City (1955) - Large size Black & White Fine Art Print
Paeseggio Urbano, New York City (1955) - Large size Black & White Fine Art Print

Paeseggio Urbano, New York City (1955) - Large size Black & White Fine Art Print

By Fabrizio La Torre

Located in Brussels, BE

Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition This photo was made in 1956, the negative was digitized during the artist's lifetime and the technical parameters (fram...

Category

Photorealist 1950s Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Woman Circus Rider" original lithograph

"Woman Circus Rider" original lithograph

By Marc Chagall

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: Mourlot 153. Printed by Mourlot Frères in an edition of 2000 for the Dix Ans d'Edition issue of Derrière le Miroir in 1956, publishe...

Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Black And White Abstract - Oil And Gouache On Paper
Black And White Abstract - Oil And Gouache On Paper

Black And White Abstract - Oil And Gouache On Paper

By Felix Ruvolo

Located in Soquel, CA

Black And White Abstract - Oil And Gouache On Paper Black and white abstract painting by Felix Ruvolo (American, 1912-1992). Grey takes over the center of the paper with strokes of ...

Category

Abstract 1950s Art

Materials

Paper, Oil, Watercolor, Gouache

Persephone Oil on Canvas, American Modern, Signed, 1952, 20x16 in
Persephone Oil on Canvas, American Modern, Signed, 1952, 20x16 in

Persephone Oil on Canvas, American Modern, Signed, 1952, 20x16 in

By Virginia Dehn

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Persephone Oil on canvas, 1952 Signed lower left (see photo) Titled reverse "Persephone" Signed "V. 52" Exhibited: Columbus Gallery of the Arts label "71/30 Bt. 2", see label Condition: two very small flakes of missing paint Canvas size: 20 1/8 x 16" Frame size: 20 7/8 x 16 3/4" Provenance: Estate of the artist Dehn Heirs An important painting by the artist. Virginia Dehn From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Virginia Dehn (1922-2005) Virginia Dehn was an American painter and printmaker whose lyrical abstractions drew inspiration from nature, archaeology, ancient civilizations, and the spiritual dimensions of landscape. Born Virginia Engleman in Nevada, Missouri, on October 26, 1922, she studied at Stephens College, the Traphagen School of Design, and the Art Students League in New York. In the 1940s she met the distinguished lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn, whom she married in 1947. Although initially known in connection with her husband's artistic circle, she developed an independent career that spanned more than five decades. Her mature work transformed natural forms, gardens, pottery, geological formations, and symbols from ancient cultures into richly textured, semi-abstract compositions characterized by luminous color and contemplative imagery. Her major series included Gardens and Galaxies, Ancient Landscapes, Earth Memory, The Egyptian Series, The Oriental Series, and The Gold Series. Dehn exhibited widely throughout the United States and was represented during her career by galleries including the Susan Teller Gallery in New York, Harmon-Meek Gallery in Naples, Florida, Cline LewAllen Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Thomas French Fine Art in Ohio. Her work was featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and earned recognition for its synthesis of modern abstraction with enduring themes drawn from history and the natural world. Works by Virginia Dehn are held in a number of public collections, including the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield (Massachusetts), the University of California, Berkeley, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the New York State Library. These institutional holdings reflect the broad geographic reach of her career and the continuing appreciation of her contribution to twentieth-century American art. Virginia Dehn died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 28, 2005. Today her paintings, drawings, and prints are represented in museum collections and private collections throughout the United States, and her work remains associated with a distinctive vision that united abstraction, memory, and the enduring forms of the natural world. Virginia and Adolf Dehn The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work. The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India. Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies. Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...

Category

American Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Acrylic

“Modern Figures”
“Modern Figures”

“Modern Figures”

By Neville Manns

Located in Southampton, NY

Elaborate and highly detailed mixed media painting of abstract figures in a matrix of shapes. Signed and dated 1955 lower right. Consists of watercolor, gouache with touches of crayon on paper. Condition is good. Matted but not framed. Neville Manns...

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache

Composition on a yellow background
Composition on a yellow background

Composition on a yellow background

By Fernand Léger

Located in Paris, FR

Lithograph, 1954 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 59/75 Publisher : Galerie Louise Leiris (Paris) Printer : Mourlot (Paris) Catalog : Saphire 138 50.00 cm. x 65.00 cm....

Category

Abstract 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

lithograph

lithograph

By (after) Georges Braque

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: lithograph (after the watercolor sketch). Printed in 1955 at the Mourlot Freres atelier, this composition is from George Braque's Intimate Sketchbooks (Carnets Intimes). Braq...

Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

(after) Marino Marini - "Composition" pochoir

(after) Marino Marini - "Composition" pochoir

By Marino Marini

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: pochoir (after the lithograph). Printed by the atelier of Daniel Jacomet, and published in Paris in 1955 by Heinz Berggruen. The image measures 5 x 3 1/2 inches (130 x 90 mm)...

Category

Surrealist 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Jean Cocteau

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1957 at the Mourlot Freres atelier. Size: 8 3/4 x 6 inches (225 x 150 mm). Jean Cocteau executed this original lithograph to depict a...

Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Normandy Countryside - Original Lithograph
Normandy Countryside - Original Lithograph

Normandy Countryside - Original Lithograph

By Raoul Dufy

Located in Paris, IDF

Raoul DUFY Normandy Countryside , 1953 Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor On Arches vellum 28 x 38 cm (c. 11 x 15 inch) Excellent condition

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Foggy Night, Land's End, San Francisco, CA

Foggy Night, Land's End, San Francisco, CA

By Fred Lyon

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Lyon has been called "San Francisco's Brassaï," and has also been compared to Cartier-Bresson, Atget, and Andre Kertesz, but with a San Francisco twist. The lifelong San Francisco Native happily admits his debt to those icons.

 Now at eighty-eight years old, his nonstop career reaches back to the early 1940s and embracing news, fashion, architecture, advertising, and food. In the golden years of magazines, his picture credits were everywhere from LIFE to VOGUE. He is now combining his extensive picture files for galleries, publishers, and print collectors. c) The Estate of Fred Lyon Courtesy. Peter Fetterman Gallery

Category

1950s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Port of Honfleur, Oil on Canvas, Expressionist, Framed, 1958
The Port of Honfleur, Oil on Canvas, Expressionist, Framed, 1958

The Port of Honfleur, Oil on Canvas, Expressionist, Framed, 1958

Located in London, GB

'The Port of Honfleur, France', oil on canvas, by Julien Varlet (1958). A vibrant and evocative harbour scene from the historic port city of Honfleur in Normandy, France. Colourful, ...

Category

Expressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

After Henri Matisse, Fauvist Composition, 1943, Color Cliche
After Henri Matisse, Fauvist Composition, 1943, Color Cliche

After Henri Matisse, Fauvist Composition, 1943, Color Cliche

By Henri Matisse

Located in Barcelona, ES

Step into the timeless brilliance of Henri Matisse with this extraordinary color cliché, expertly edited by Editions du Chêne in Paris, France, in 1943. Adorned by a stunning solid...

Category

Post-Impressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Paper

War Night (abstract expressionist painting)
War Night (abstract expressionist painting)

War Night (abstract expressionist painting)

By John Hultberg

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Stunning surrealist painting by Bay Area Figurative artist, John Hultberg (1922-2005). War Night, 1956. Gouache on illustration board measures an impressive 30 x 40 inches; 34 x 44...

Category

Abstract Expressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Gouache

Sitting woman - Acrylic , 65x92 cm. framed
Sitting woman - Acrylic , 65x92 cm. framed

Sitting woman - Acrylic , 65x92 cm. framed

By Georges Connan

Located in Nice, FR

Wonderful acrylic on wood panel by Georges Connan. Comes with frame Georges Connan born in 1912 and dead in 1987.

Category

Cubist 1950s Art

Materials

Acrylic

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Louis Bosa

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1954 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1954 Spr...

Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

original lithograph

original lithograph

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1951 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1951 Spr...

Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

'The Incredible Shrinking Man' 1957 Original Vintage Lobby Card Unframed
'The Incredible Shrinking Man' 1957 Original Vintage Lobby Card Unframed

'The Incredible Shrinking Man' 1957 Original Vintage Lobby Card Unframed

Located in London, GB

The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Unframed Original Vintage Cinema Lobby Card Extra Large 10x14" inches / 25x36 cm paper size Unframed (framing options available - please enquire) ...

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

C Print

Pichet aux Arums, (A.R.189)
Pichet aux Arums, (A.R.189)

Pichet aux Arums, (A.R.189)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in PARIS, FR

• Picasso began working with ceramics in 1946 at the Madoura workshop in Vallauris, marking the beginning of an important and highly productive chapter in his career. What initially ...

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Ceramic