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Period: 1950s
Antique American Modernist Pear Still Life Framed Original Fine Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American modernist still life oil painting. Housed in a great antique giltwood frame. Oil on board.
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Impressionist 1950s Art

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Canvas, Oil

Original Nice-Themal spa Berthemont - Les -Bains antique French vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original French travel poster: Nice - Thermal health spa original vintage poster created by artist Emmanuel Bellini. Original linen backed, large French travel size: Nice - Therm...
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Impressionist 1950s Art

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Lithograph

L'écuyère
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1952 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated EA Artist proof In this lithograph, the French artist offers us a version of this theme that he approached on many ...
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Abstract 1950s Art

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Lithograph

Matisse, Fleurs de neige (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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...
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Modern 1950s Art

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Lithograph

Andy Warhol Bodley Gallery announcement 1957 (1950s Andy Warhol)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andy Warhol Bodley Gallery 1957: A rare, 1950s gallery announcement offset illustrated by Andy Warhol on the occasion of: Andy Warhol Golden Pictures: December 2 - December 24, 1957: The Bodley Gallery 223 East 60th St., New York, NY. A scarce, historical Andy Warhol Pre-Pop illustration; highly collectible. Medium: Double-sided offset lithograph in colors, on wove paper, with full margins, before folding. Dimensions: 12 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (32.4 x 49.5 cm) Good overall vintage condition. Minor signs of aging & handling. Well-preserved. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. Warhol Foundation annotations in pencil on one side. Provenance: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York. Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York. Private Collection, New York. Literature: Kornbluth: Pre-Pop Warhol, no. 66, pp. 164-165. Further background: Warhol’s career began as a commercial illustrator on New York’s Madison Avenue in 1949, during the massive post-war economic boom. His arrival additionally coincided with an extensive change in the motivations and strategies behind advertising, utilizing applied psychology to influence American consumers to purchase products. This stint as an ad man would further his Pop interest in cultural commercialization and start his artistic career; thus began the first chapter of Warhol’s oeuvre. Several of Andy Warhol's earliest exhibitions in New York were at the Bodley during the 1950s, starting with two in 1956. _ Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop Art king, Andy Warhol created some of the 20th century’s most iconic images. Warhol was widely influenced by popular & consumer culture, with this being evident in some of his most famous works: 32 Campbell's soup cans, Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe & Mick Jagger, for example. Rejecting the standard painting and sculpting modes of his era, Warhol embraced silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. The artist mentored Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and continues to influence contemporary art around the world: His most bold successors include Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons. Warhol has been the subject of exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou, among other institutions. Related Categories 1950s Andy Warhol. Vintage Andy Warhol. Mid century modern. Pop Art. Andy Warhol advertising...
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Pop Art 1950s Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Untitled (Autumnal Landscape in Ochre, Red, Green)
Located in New York, NY
Unidentified/Unknown Artist "Untitled (Autumnal Landscape in Ochre, Red, Green) , Abstract Landscape Oil on Canvas signed, 26.25 x 32.50, Mid 20th Century, 1957 Colors: Ochre, White...
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Abstract 1950s Art

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Oil

Can Can Dancers - British Art Deco drawing Burlesque women dancers VG provenance
By Frank G. Howes
Located in London, GB
A large, detailed Art Deco pencil charcoal impressionist depiction of Can Can dancers which was executed circa 1956 by Frank G Howes. Excellent provenance. Signed lower right. Prov...
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Art Deco 1950s Art

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Charcoal, Pencil

Kandinsky, La Tache Noire, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 60-61, 1953. Publishe...
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Modern 1950s Art

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Lithograph

Cocteau, Composition, Sous le Manteau de Feu (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the album, Les Cavaliers d'Ombre; Sous le Manteau de Feu, 1956. Pub...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Magritte, Composition, Poèmes 1923-1958, Dix dessins de René Magritte (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Paper Size: 11 x 8.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Poèmes 1923-1958. Dix dessins d...
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Surrealist 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Jayne Mansfield Casino - Oversize Limited Print
Located in London, GB
Jayne Mansfield Casino 1955 by Frank Worth This action shot features bombshell star Jayne Mansfield playing roulette in Las Vegas circa 1955 Captured by celebrity photographer Fr...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Designer's Interior Rendering" c1950s Watercolour
Located in Bristol, CT
Elegant interior watercolour depicting a stylish sitting room w/ celedon colour palette. Signed '9 TC 7' Art Sz: 11 1/4"H x 17"W Frame Sz: 16 1/4"H x 22 1/4"W w/ birdseye maple...
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1950s Art

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Watercolor

Marilyn Monroe Riding Elephant Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Awesome black and white capture of film actress Marilyn Monroe smiling while riding an elephant. -- One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault archives. Ow...
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Contemporary 1950s Art

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Black and White

Elvis At The Piano (1956)
Located in London, GB
Elvis Adoration (1956) (Photo By Phillip Harrington) May 27, 1956 Elvis Presley spends some time on the piano while waiting for a show to start at the University of Dayton Fieldho...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Signac, Antibes, Signac Dessins (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin de Lana paper Year: 1950 Paper Size: 9.75 x 12.5 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the album, Signac Dessins, 1950. Publi...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Art

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Lithograph

Torre di Tiberio, Tower of Tiberius, Capri, Italy Landscape, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Torre di Tiberio, 1951 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left 21 x 18 inches 28.5 x 26.5 inches, framed Clarence Holbrook Carter ac...
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American Modern 1950s Art

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Oil

(after) Maurice Brianchon - "Voyage du Vin" pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the watercolor). Printed on Arches paper in 1956 at the atelier Daniel Jacomet for the Vins, fleurs et flammes portfolio, and issued in a limited edition of 38...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

Beach Dunes, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Beach Dunes (P2.58), Year: 1959, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Image Size: 10.5 x 14.5 inches, Size: 11 x 15 in. (27.94 x 38.1 cm), De...
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Impressionist 1950s Art

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Watercolor

Original "The Chateaux of the Loire, Go by Train" vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: The Chateaux of the Loire, Go By Train, artist J. Jacquelin, size: 24" x 39", year: 1956. Original vintage European travel poster...
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American Impressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original Thessaloniki Greece vintage travel poster Church of St. George Mosaic
Located in Spokane, WA
Original travel poster: THESSALONIKI GREECE. Church of St. George (Mosaic, 5th Century). Linen backed in excellent condition; ready to frame. Signed with monogram lower left c...
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Byzantine 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Monsieur Bougle en casquette" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
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...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

Hong Kong Harbor by Gleb Derujinsky, Fashion Photography
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Selected from the Derujinsky: Around The World Portfolio, shot in Hong Kong for Harper's Bazaar Artist: Gleb Derujinsky Title: Hong Kong Harbor Yea...
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Other Art Style 1950s Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Huge Antique American School Abstract Expressionist Original NYC Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framing is available.
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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Abstract 1950s Art

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Canvas, Oil

Holiday Hair Check, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda. She is wear...
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American Realist 1950s Art

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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Macbeth, Frontispice, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on Vélin de Rives paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Shakespeare, Macbeth, Eaux-fortes de Gromaire, 1958. Published by Tériade,...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Etching

Monumental Abstract Modernist Oil Panel Oregon Centennial Exposition Mural 1959
By Louis Bunce
Located in Portland, OR
Monumental modernist oil on panel painting by Louis Demott Bunce (1907-1983), from an installation for the Oregon Centennial Exposition, 1959. A rare & important and monumental abstract painting by the celebrated Oregon artist Louis Bunce, the artist was commissioned to paint a mural for the 1959 Oregon Centennial & Trade Fair in Portland, the installation was titled " Gay Garden Way ", it was painted for the exterior of the Horticultural building. The mural having abstract plant abstractions, according to Bunce in his own words it was "the rounded shapes of flowers and the sun", the mural created a major furor from the conservative art public. The painting signed and dated by the artist lower left, the work was sold in the late 1980s through the celebrated Laura Russo Gallery, this painting is featured in Roger Hull's book; "Louis Bunce, Dialogue with Modernism". The painting is in good condition and ready to grace your wall. Louis Bunce attended high school and the Museum Art School before leaving for the Art Students League in New York. He established a New York connection that began when he first attended classes there in 1927 and continued over the years with frequent visits. He became friends with many promising artists, including Jackson Pollock and David Smith. In 1939 he worked for the WPA Easel Project in New York and by the time he returned to Portland he was an established artist on the East Coast. He worked at the WPA art center in Salem as an Instructor and Assistant Director. His work included murals, two of which are in the Post Offices in Grants Pass and St. Johns. Their subjects, mining and orchard farming, are activities of each region. "I have always been visually drawn to the landscape, at first the desert and mountain regions of Wyoming; then the lush and gentle color of the Pacific Northwest and the urban landscape of New York." From 1942-1945 he worked as an illustrator, a tool designer, and in assembly for the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation. After WWII, Bunce joined the faculty of the Museum Art School in Portland, where he had been a student in 1925-1926. He taught there until his retirement in 1972. He excelled at producing screen-prints and introduced this technique to Oregon. While maintaining a national reputation throughout the 1950s and 1960s, some of New York's most prestigious galleries represented him. Theater buffs will remember his murals and portraits for Portland Civic Theater's 1938 production of Pride and Prejudice. In a career that made him one of the most recognized names in Oregon's art history, Bunce had many styles: cubism, expressionism, surrealism and abstractionism. His 1958 mural in the Portland International Airport presents this abstract style: "whirling propellers and shadows of the concourse as seen from above." It was controversial at the time as being too abstract for a public art project. Louis and wife Eda opened a full-time art gallery in Portland in 1949, called the Kharouba. Located first at 1016 SE Morrison, then at SW 11th and Alder, the gallery represented many of the leading artists of the day: Josephine Cameron, William Givler, Clifford Gleason, Jack Hammack, Charles Heaney, Frederick Heidel, George Johanson, Jack McLarty, Rick Norwood, C.S. Price, Arthur Runquist, Jolan Torok, Charles Voorhies...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Oil

The St. Regis, New York, Estate Edition, Event Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s event photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view of diners at the St. Regis, New York. This is an estate stamped and hand numbe...
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Realist 1950s Art

Materials

Lambda

Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape Morris Shulman Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape abstract painting. Oil on board, circa 1952. Signed. Image size, 21.5"L x 7.5"H. Housed in a period modern frame.
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Abstract 1950s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Marc Chagall - The Bible - Original Lithograph
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...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

San Francisco Bay Area Seascape with Ships in Oil on Cardboard
Located in Soquel, CA
San Francisco Bay Area Seascape with Ships in Oil on Cardboard Seascape with large ships by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). The ocean is shown in...
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American Impressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Cardboard, Oil

Antique American School Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Mid Century Oil
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Matisse, Mademoiselle D.A., Portraits par Henri Matisse (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Collotype, héliogravure, recto and verso, on grand vélin Renage filigrané paper, as issued Year: 1954 Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 9.05 x 5.91 inches Inscription...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original MOULIN ROUGE French Cabaret movie poster, Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Spokane, WA
MOULIN ROUGE, original 1952 vintage movie poster; size: 47" x 63"; acid free archival linen backed and ready to frame full lithograph. Excellent condition. The poster is archival...
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Art Nouveau 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

original lithograph
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...
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1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Exposition Hispano-Americaine" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
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...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

"Houses in Beauce" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1958 at the Mourlot atelier, and published by Andre Sauret in an edition of 2000. Size: 9 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (242 x 310 mm). Signed ...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

Rocks and Sun - Original lithograph - Mourlot, 1952
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexander Calder Rocks and Sun, 1952 Original Lithograph (3 color stones) Printed in Mourlot workshop On vellum 31 x 24 cm (c. 12,2 x 9,5 in) Edited by San Lazzaro in 1952 Very goo...
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American Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

My Name in Black and White Letters By Deidra
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5123a Black and white letters oil on paper by Deidra Framed Image Size 17.5x11.5"
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1950s Art

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Oil

Antoine Blanchard Boulevard De Capucines, Place De La Madeleine
Located in Dallas, TX
Antoine Blanchard (1910 - 1988) Boulevard Des Capucines, Place De La Madeleine. A wonderful and vibrant scene from the Grand Boulevards of Paris under the rain in fall. You can hear ...
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1950s Art

Materials

Paint

Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline au chevalet (A.R. 333)
Located in Madrid, ES
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Jacqueline au chevalet (A.R. 333) stamped, marked and numbered 'Madoura Plein Feu / Empreinte Originale de Picasso / F 219 / 199/200' (underneath) white ear...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Ceramic

Pablo Picasso 'Hibou noir perche' (A. R. 398) Perched Black Owl Madoura Plate
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Hibou noir perche (A. R. 398) Terre de faïence dish, painted, 1957, numbered 33/100 and incised 'N 104', with the Edition Picasso and Madoura stamps.
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Modern 1950s Art

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Ceramic

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1956 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...
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1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

'Woman in Aqua', De Young, Oakland Museum, LACMA, CWS, AWS, San Francisco
By Jade Fon Woo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jade Fon' for Jade Fon Woo (American, 1911-1983) and painted circa 1955. A charming and character-filled study of a young woman, shown brimming with life and h...
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Impressionist 1950s Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Le malade" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
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...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

Jayne Mansfield: Modern Pinup
Located in Austin, TX
This beautiful modern pinup features the lovely Jayne Mansfield posed on barstools with modern art on the walls. Jayne Mansfield was an American film, theater, and television actre...
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Contemporary 1950s Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

A female dancer frozen mid-performance
Located in Cologne, DE
This evocative black-and-white photograph from 1952, taken by German photographer Klaus Redenbacher, captures a moment of poised intensity and expressive motion in a studio setting. ...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Black and White

Pillar of Zen #124, unique signed gouache painting Andre Zarre Gallery, 1959
Located in New York, NY
Charmion von Wiegand Pillar of Zen #124, 1959 Gouache on paper painting Hand signed, titled and dated on the front Unique Provenance: Andre Zarre Gallery, with label verso (Estate of renowned gallerist Andre Zarre, ne Andre Sowulewski) Measurements: Framed 26.5 inches vertical by 25.5 horizontal by 2 inches Artwork: 21 inches vertical by 22 inches horizontal Mid century modern, geometric, spiritual abstraction, mystical The Estate of the celebrated artist Charmion Von Wiegand has been represented exclusively by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery since 1998. From March 3 to August 13, 2023, Charmion Von Wiegand was the subject of an acclaimed retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Basel, and she has received major attention in the price, including a June, 2023 ArtNews feature entitled, "Who Was Charmion von Wiegand and Why Is She Important?". Her work was also featured in a solo presentation by Rosenfeld Gallery at the New York Art Show held at the Park Avenue Armory, which also received critical acclaim. Artists Biography - courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: Known for her vibrant, geometric paintings that originate a deeply personal language of spiritual enlightenment expressed through a constructivist mode of abstraction, Charmion von Wiegand (1896–1983) was born in Chicago but spent much of her childhood traveling. The daughter of a journalist for Hearst, von Wiegand eventually settled in New York in 1915 to attend Barnard College and Columbia University, where she took classes at the School of Journalism while nurturing a growing interest in art history. In 1925, von Wiegand realized that she wanted to be an artist and set up a studio in Greenwich Village, teaching herself how to paint while pursuing a career as a journalist. In 1929, she secured a position in Moscow as a foreign correspondent for Hearst, the only woman at the desk at the time. In 1932, von Wiegand returned to New York and married Russian émigré Joseph Freeman, who co-founded and edited the leftist journal New Masses. Von Wiegand began writing art criticism for New Masses as well as for other publications, including New Theatre, ARTnews, and Arts Magazine. When the Abstract American Artists (AAA) held their inaugural exhibition, von Wiegand reviewed it. An early champion of abstract art, von Wiegand became close friends with AAA founder Carl Holty. In 1941, Holty introduced von Wiegand to Piet Mondrian, who would have a profound impact on her art. Fascinated by Mondrian’s artistic philosophy, von Wiegand played a key role in the introduction of his work to American audiences, translating many of the Dutch artist’s writings into English and assisting in the composition of his influential article “Toward the True Vision of Reality” (1941). Through her friendship with Mondrian, von Wiegand re-kindled her interest in Theosophy (a religion established in the late 19th century that combines aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, occultism, and esotericism) and embarked on an extended study of neoplasticism. In her artwork, she incorporated Mondrian’s iconic grid but rejected the constraints of pure neoplasticism and embraced a wide range of influences including surrealism and German expressionism. In 1942, von Wiegand became a member of the AAA, exhibiting regularly with the group and eventually serving as its president from 1951 to 1953. In the late 1940s, sculptor and fellow AAA member Ibram Lassaw gave her a translation of The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life, which inspired von Wiegand to immerse herself in a study of Buddhist art. She began incorporating Buddhist motifs such as stupas and mandalas into her paintings, and her spiritual practice steadily intensified throughout the 1950s. In 1953, her husband gifted her a copy of the Taoist I Ching Book of Changes, a guide for divining meaning from randomly derived numbers arranged in a hexagram—a form the artist readily incorporated into her painting. Von Wiegand’s study of Theosophy also intensified over these years, bolstered by her increased access to the religion’s primary sources composed by the religion’s founders and their successors at the New York Theosophical Society’s library. Von Wiegand’s search for the sacred and transcendent ultimately led her to Tibetan Buddhism and, in 1967, von Wiegand met Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, a Gelugpa monk who had recently arrived in New York, who would mentor her spiritual study in the tradition of Mahayana Buddhism until her death. Her travels in the 1960s and 1970s took her to Tibet and India, where she had an audience with the Dalai Lama, who was living in exile in Dharamsala. Many works from these decades incorporate symbols and schematics drawn from Theosophical prismatic color charts, Chinese astrology and tantric yoga. In 1978, she was the subject of a PBS documentary titled The Circle of Charmion von Wiegand, which was scored by Philip Glass. In 1980, von Wiegand was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1982, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach (FL) organized her first retrospective exhibition. She died the following year in New York, bequeathing her estate to Khyongla Rato and the Tibet Center of New York. In 1998, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery became the sole representative of her estate and has presented her work in four solo and multiple group exhibitions. Recent notable exhibitions that have included her work are The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 2009) and Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America (Newark Museum, NJ, 2010). In March 2023, the Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland) opened the first comprehensive museum retrospective of von Wiegand’s work in Europe. Von Wiegand’s work is represented in numerous museum collections including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy (Andover, MA); Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY); Arithmeum, University of Bonn (Germany); Birmingham Museum of Art (Alabama); Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin; Brooklyn Museum (NY); Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA); The Cleveland Museum of Art (OH); Indianapolis Museum of Art (IN); Fondazione Marguerite Arp (Locarno, Switzerland); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Massachusetts); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY); The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); Newark Museum of Art (New Jersey); Seattle Art Museum (WA); Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN); Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY); Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); and Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT). More about gallerist Andre Zarre A tribute in the New Criterion: Dispatch August 11, 2020 Andre Zarre, 1942–2020 by Dana Gordon On the late New York gallery pioneer. Art should never be aggressively explained; art should be felt. —Andre Zarre, 1977 Often, in the starlit New York cultural mecca, a longtime important figure fades away through the penumbra and dies without notice. Such was the fate of Andre Zarre, the contemporary art dealer, who passed away a few weeks ago. Andy, as he wanted friends to call him, opened his eponymous gallery in 1974 just off Madison Avenue on Sixty-ninth Street. He soon moved it to the omphalos of the art world in that era, 41 East Fifty-seventh Street, the Fuller Building. Over the years he moved to SoHo and then to Chelsea, as fashion and real estate prices pushed the art souk hither and thither. To understand his importance, all you need do is take a look at a list of artists who had solo shows at the Andre Zarre Gallery. This includes such names, from an early generation, as Sonia Delaunay, Nassos Daphnis, Sari Dienes, and Perle Fine. Among a subsequent generation are Pat Lipsky, Jay Milder, Thornton Willis, and Kes Zapkus.1 And this list does not include the many knowns and unknowns who were in his lively group shows. Zarre had a real “eye” and was a champion of abstract art from the moment he founded his gallery—even among the gathering storms of conceptual and political art, which he eschewed. He showed a good deal of figurative art as well. His galleries were always spacious and unpretentious, oriented simply to show the art. In the words of Dee Shapiro, who showed with the Zarre gallery many times, “He had a photographic memory and knew a lot about art and was always interested in the artist’s life.” Reliable biographical information on Zarre is scarce, but he said of his background that he was born in Poland in 1942 and that his parents were a diplomat and a socialite. He left home for the United States at the age of fifteen. During his decades as an art dealer in New York, Zarre did not appear to accumulate wealth, though he acquired a collection and lived on Park Avenue. “He was not personally aggressive in that way. People had to come to him,” Dee Shapiro said. He was honest in his financial dealings with artists, which not all art dealers are. For a long time while running the gallery he had a second job as a supervisor in an airline office and he kept little to no additional staff in the gallery. He supported a brother who remained in Poland. Among artists, Zarre was known to be quite ornery. After my show at his gallery in 1997, I refused to enter it for seventeen years. Then I ran into him in Chelsea and he offered me another show, an opportunity I gladly accepted, but he remained just as disagreeable. He showed the work of many women, probably more than any other gallery, save those devoted to showing only women. Collectors, curators, and writers found him mostly friendly. As Peter Reginato put it, Zarre was a “strange guy but I liked him. I think he was a dealer who was more interested in the art than in making money, but somehow he lasted forty-plus years.” Zarre is not known to have kept extensive or extant records of his gallery’s long history, though these may emerge in time. Scouring the Internet, one may compile a partial list of more than eighty artists who had solo shows at the Andre Zarre Gallery:Nancy Azara, Ellen Banks, Mary Barnes, Tony Bechara, Juan Bernal, Stephanie Bernheim, Randy Bloom, Elena Borstein, Michael Boyd, Fritz Bultman, Ed Buonagurio, Yoan Capote, Sonia Delaunay, Nassos Daphnis, Cathy Diamond, Sari Dienes, Joseph Dolinsky, Beata Drozd, Ronnie Elliot, William Fares, Perle Fine, Lynne Frehm, Ben Georgia, Mikel Glass, Dana Gordon, Juanita Guccione, Fred Gutzeit, Don Hazlitt, Amy Hill, Clinton Hill, Monroe Hodder, Budd Hopkins, Arlan Huang, Richard Hunt, Rhia Hurt, Buffie Johnson, Alexander Kaletski, Robert Kaupelis...
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Abstract 1950s Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

"G. Braque" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the original lithograph poster for the Maeght Gallery). During the late 1940's and throughout the 1950's, Georges Braque created a series of posters at the ...
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1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

“Solar Sunset”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on masonite painting by the Russian/ American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower right. Circa 1950. Unframed. Condition: Good. Provenance: Estate of the artist. Nahum Tschacbasov’s paintings are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Jewish Museum, the Philadelphia Museum, the Pennsylvania Museum of Fine Art, as well as numerous college and private collections. His work was shown at ACA Gallery in New York, as well as Perl’s Gallery and John Heller...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: M 235. Printed in 1956 at the Mourlot atelier and published in Paris by Maeght for the Jacques Prévert catalogue. Size: 9 x 7 3/4 in...
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1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Pablo Picasso 'Profil de taureau' (A. R. 317) Profile of a Bull Madoura Plaque
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Profil de taureau (A. R. 317) Terre de faïence plaque, painted and partially glazed, 1956, from the edition of 450, with the Empreinte Originale de Picass...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware

Still of Flowers in a Blue Vase Pierre Ambrogiani (France, 1905-1985)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Still Life of Flowers in a Blue Vase"  Pierre Ambrogiani (France, 1905-1985) Oil on panel Circa 1960 15 3/4 x 20 (20 1/4 x 24 1/2 frame) inches If the artists Diego Velázquez (Spai...
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Expressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Eiffel Tower, Black and White, Paris, 1950s, 17, 6 x 12, 8 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
This photograph, taken in 1952, captures a tranquil scene in Paris, France, with the iconic Eiffel Tower dominating the background. The photo was taken from the Champ de Mars, showin...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Elizabeth Taylor on the Set of "Giant"
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning black and white image features actress Elizabeth Taylor posed outdoors while behind the scenes of the film "Giant"1955. Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor known as DBE wa...
Category

Contemporary 1950s Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine Lithograph from 1954. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and s...
Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Pablo Picasso, L'Atelier du vieux peintre
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original lithograph in five colors by Pablo Picasso, created in 1954. Each of the 5 colors of this lithograph was executed with litho crayon on transparent transfer...
Category

Post-Impressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. Printed in 1950 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue number 33) and published in Paris by Maeght. Size: 15 x 21 3/4 inches (377 x 553 mm). There is a...
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1950s Art

Materials

Woodcut

"Oeurve Grave" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the original lithograph poster). During the late 1940's and throughout the 1950's, Marc Chagall created a series of posters at the atelier of Mourlot Freres...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Audrey Hepburn Applying Makeup Glamour Shot
Located in Austin, TX
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 ...
Category

Contemporary 1950s Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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