1950s Art

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1950 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 9.65 x 12.4 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Léger, Fernand, and Lawrence Saphire. Ferna...

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1955 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, and published by the Artists Equity Association of New York in an edition of 2000...

Substantial California oil painting of a Navajo horseman in the New Mexico mountains. Stylistically similar to Constantine Cherkas Navajo Rider painti...

Minuit - From the 12 plate Portfolio, 1959 Published by Denise Rene, Paris Lithograph in colors on heavy paper 20 x 26 inches Signed, dated and numbered in ink, edition of 150 copies...

Lucien Coutaud, French (1904 - 1977) - Le Cheval de Briques, Medium: Etching on BFK Rives, signed and dedicated in pencil, Image Size: 5.5 x 8.75 inches, Size: 9.75 x 13 in. (24.77...

This black-and-white photograph, taken in 1952 in Paris along the Seine River, captures a tranquil and picturesque moment. In the foreground, a man wearing a light-colored straw hat ...

Exposition Vallauris, printed by Mourlot for Art in Posters by Sauret (1959), is a reproduction after the original poster #75. The print shows some natural aging, with browning along...

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Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1957 at the Mourlot Freres atelier. Size: 9 x 6 inches (225 x 150 mm). Jean Cocteau executed this original lithograph to depict a sce...

Soldiers is an original artwork realized by the Spanish artist José Luis Rey Vila in the 1950s. Tempera and watercolor on paper. Hand-signed in pen...

Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and F...

Visually gripping black and white vintage original photograph of Marilyn Monroe, posed in dramatic shadow surrounded by a fur stole. -- One-of-a-kind original vintage press print f...

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1957 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1957 Spr...

Vibrant and detailed depiction of three bird of paradise flowers by unknown artist "Albright" (20th Century). Three flowers are shown with seve...

Nude is an original drawing in pen on ivory paper realized by Fausto Ghia. Hand-signed on the lower left with dedication. The state of preservation is very good. Included a Passep...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Notre-Dame Lithograph from 1957. The edition no. 211/275. With Arches watermark. Dimensions of work: 44.5 x 33.5 cm. Publisher: Fernand Mourlot Édite...

Charming hand painted photograph, portrait of a young ballerina as Tinker Bell by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Circa 1957. Signed "Studio d'Art Los Altos...

Frasconi,Antonio. NIGHT WORK. Color woodcut, 1952. Edition size not stated. Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed P/P (printer's proof) in pencil. 29 x 42 inches (sheet). The print is...

Cubist Abstract V Miriam Bromberg Oil on Canvas Size: 18 x 46 in. (45.72 x 116.84 cm)

Medium: original etching. This Villon etching was published in Paris in 1956 by Manuel Bruker in an edition of 150-- this impression is from the deluxe edition of 15 on japon impéria...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Guerre et la Paix Lithograph from 1954. Dimensions of work: 53 x 35.5 cm. Publisher: Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris. Each copy of this Lithograph was...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Le Grand Verre Lithograph from 1957. The edition 211/275. With Arches watermark. Dimensions of work: 44.5 x 33.5 cm. Publisher: Fernand Mourlot Édite...

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1950 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1950 Spr...

Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper Year: 1954 Paper Size: 13.5 x 9.5 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, Femmes de Lau...

Palm Beach The pool at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, USA, 1955. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in ...

Medium: lithograph. This lithograph (after the Vlaminck painting) was printed in Paris in 1958 by the Mourlot atelier and published in an edition of 2000. The image size is 9 x 6 1/2...

Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IX, N° 35-36...

Medium: lithograph (after the colored pencil drawing). Printed in Paris in 1952 by Mourlot Freres in an edition of 1500. The total sheet (including margins) measures 12 1/8 x 9 1/4 i...

Medium: lithograph (after the poster). Printed in Paris in 1950 by Mourlot Freres, this lithograph faithfully reproduces the original Toulouse-Lautrec poster in a smaller-size format...

Untitled Color lithograph, 1959 Unsigned (as issued) From: Derriere Le Miroir, No. 113, 1959 Publisher: Editions Pierre a Feu Editor: A. Maeght Small edition as it appeared in the ma...

Medium: lithograph (after the original Bonnard lithograph). Printed in 1952 on Renage paper at the Mourlot atelier in faithful recreation of the original. According to the publisher,...

Medium: pochoir (after the gouache). Printed in Paris in 1957 by Jacomet and issued in an edition of 1000 by the Galerie Berggruen for a rare catalogue. Image size: 5 x 3 3/4 inches ...

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1955 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, and published by the Artists Equity Association of New York in an edition of 2000...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published and printed by Bernard Klein, éditeur, Paris, February 26, 1954. Notes: ...

Audrey Hepburn applying make-up during the filming of the made for TV movie "Mayerling". Audrey Hepburn was a British actress. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked ...

A fantastic Mid-Century painting of a car driving through a mountain pass by artist & Photographer A. George Miller. Artwork size: 15" x 22". Framed size: 21" x 28". Handsomely...

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) The Bible, David and Bethsabée in Love Original lithography (Mourlot Workshop) On paper 37 x 26.5 cm (c. 14.5 x 10.2 in) A second illustration on the back...

Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). Printed in Paris in 1951 at the atelier Dreux-Barry in an edition of 1000. Sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (310 x 235 mm). Image size: 8 3/8...

Very nicely painted American modernist harbor oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 16H by 20L.

Scenography is an original drawing in pencil on creamy paper, realized by Russian scenographer Eugène Berman in 1950s. Monogrammed at the bottom: E.B. In good conditions. The artw...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin Rives BFK paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Yvette Guilbert vue par Toulouse-...

A woman reclining in a hammock hung between palm trees on the beach at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 1956. Gorgeous print measuring ...

Oil on canvas by Edouard Goerg (1893-1969), France, 1958. Life is always the same. Acquired in 2017 from the personal collection of Edouard Goerg. Measurements : with frame : 62.5x53.4 cm - 24.6x21 inches, without frame : 55x46 cm - 21.7x18.1 inches, format 10F. Signed "E.Goerg" (see photo). Preserved by the painter, then by his family since his death in 1969, this painting appeared in 2017. Entitled "Always life begins again", it is a crepuscular work. Testamentary one could say, so much the statement which is made there is definitive. The fact that he kept it until his death tends to consolidate this vision. Far from the empty looks and death faces of the rebellious era of sarcastic expressionism, the terrifying and compassionate testimony of the Spanish war, and the post-WWII flower women, we are dealing here with a a form of reasonable abdication, but honest. This idea that although everything changes, nothing changes. Changed times, actors, ideas, the same comedy occupies the society. Having given up the idea of ​​changing the latter, Goerg accepts the fact that the only alternative is to stay there or get lost. But stay afloat with his values, completely independent, whatever the cost is. This work is similar to La Vie Recommence of 1935, reproduced on page 54 of Gaston Diehl's book devoted to the painter (Éditions de Clermont, 1947). On the latter, the artist depicts his vision of life, from birth to death, made of hope, fear, cruelty, resignation and fatality. 23 years later, Toujours La Vie Recommence shows us the road traveled by the painter. It is no longer a matter of denunciation, but ultimately of acceptance of reality and the difficulty of staying there yourself. The admirer of Hieronymus Bosch gives us an inspired composition. The hand of God, the only expression of physical beauty in this work, comes down from heaven to give life. Symbolically, it holds an egg that dispenses the element from which the human protagonists find their birth, and in which they move and tangle more than they impose. Beautiful allegory of society. Four characters, two women and two men evolve in this societal marigot. The man in the foreground, ruddy face, evolves with ease. His body is supple, flexible, adaptable. The woman on the left observes him with admiration. Obviously, this man is in his place and causes rapture. The right man with massive shoulders and wrapped, shows a physical maladjustment to the activity he is doing. He struggles to stay afloat, his face expresses effort, even exhaustion. But he assumes. He does with what he has, with what he is. The other woman shows him the greatest indifference. What is not the case of the demonic archangel (recurrent in the works of Bosch) with the stunted body, who leads the dance and holds this character, we understand the painter, under his control as to have fun. As this character cannot change bodies, Goerg cannot change values. He does it with. Had he not said to the critic Roger Brielle: "Independents, sensitive and just men, that's what we must strive to stay in this world in disarray". Goerg will have come to narrative expressionism to give us a balance sheet allegory of his deep self and his condition. Édouard Goerg is one of the major artists of his generation. Coming from a Champagne family, he was born in Sidney, Australia, in 1893, during a professional stay of his father. After passing through London, he arrives in Paris at the age of seven. At twenty, between 1913 and 1914, he studieds painting at the Académie Ranson with Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier. He travels to Italy and India. Mobilized in 1914, he is sent to Artois, then to Argonne. From 1920, he exhibits at the Salon des Independants, then at the Salon d'Automne where he joins with Laboureur. At Berthe Weil, in 1924, he participates in the exhibitions of the Gromaire group, a prelude to a series of exhibitions in Paris (Berthe Weill, Bernheim Jeune), as in Brussels (Le Centaure). Goerg illustrates books including Table of the beyond by F.Boutet. In 1928, he meets Paul Guillaume who exhibits his works in Boston and the Art Institute of Chicago. He continues to show his works, satires of the bourgeois manners, at Bernheim Jeune, then at Lucie Krogh. In 1934, he travels to Belgium and Holland where he paints surrealist paintings that will be exhibited at Jeanne Castel. In 1935-1936, he meets Aragon, who opened the doors of the houses of the cultures created by the Association of Writers and Revolutionary Artists. The Spanish war and the Second World War mark it deeply. He must protect his daughter and his Jewish women...

BRUCE OF L.A. - classic 1950s gelatin silver photograph of physique model SAM STALL by celebrated 20th Century photographer BRUCE BELLAS also known as Bruce of Los Angeles. This is an original photograph, circa 1954, from the beefcake "posing strap" era when nude photography was illegal. 'Bruce Los Angeles...

Rare and finely painted French modernist abstract painting by Jacques Doucet (1924 - 1994) . Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Artist Bio: Jacques Doucet's work is inextricably bo...

Medium: lithograph (after the original lithograph poster). During the late 1940's and throughout the 1950's, Miro created a series of posters at the atelier of Mourlot Freres. The li...

Pablo Picasso - Lithograph Title: The Ballet Dancer Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm 1954 Reference: Bloch 767 Frontispiece for the book "Le Ballet" (Paris: Editions Hachet, 1954) by Boris Ko...

Christmas Traffic 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Red and white automobile lights on Park Avenue, New York at Christmas time. The rear and headlights at nighttime give the appeara...

Vintage realist barn landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, ready to ha...

Medium: lithograph (after the original lithograph poster). During the late 1940's and throughout the 1950's, Picasso created a series of posters at the atelier of Mourlot Freres. The...

'Olive Groves, Mallorca' by Jose Ventosa Domenech. San Jorge School, Barcelona, Catalonia, Majorca ---- Signed lower left, 'Ventosa' for Jose Ventosa Domenech (Spanish, 1897-1982) a...

This work presents an exquisite harmony of colors and textures that immediately captures attention. At the center, a creamy-white ceramic vase with a smooth finish contains an opulen...

Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 14 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, La Comédie Humaine, Suite d...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Dans L'Atelier de Picasso Lithograph from 1957. The edition 211/275. With Arches watermark. Dimensions of work: 65 x 44 cm Publisher: Fernand Mourlot...

Medium: lithograph (after the original lithograph poster). During the late 1940's and throughout the 1950's, Picasso created a series of posters at the atelier of Mourlot Freres. The...

Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). Printed in Paris in 1951 at the atelier Dreux-Barry in an edition of 1000. Sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (310 x 235 mm). Signed in the pla...

This 1958 original exhibition poster, printed by the renowned Mourlot Studios, was created for the exhibition "Sculptures en Pierre" by Henri Laurens at the prestigious Galerie Louis...

Medium: offset lithograph with pochoir coloring. Printed in 1958 and published in Milan by Silvana Editoriale d'Arte in an edition of 200. Image size: 4 1/2 x 11 inches (115 x 282 mm...

Vibrant mid century modern abstracted figurative in orange, red and black by Bay Area artist Paul Sheppard. Dated 1959 and signed "Sheppard." Presented i...