1950s Art

KIYOSHI SAITO (Japanese 1907 - 1997) DAITIKUJI KYOTO, 1957 Color woodcut, signed, titled, dated and no. 42/100 in pencil. Edition 100. Image 15 x 20 5/8 inches. Full margins with de...

Henry Moore (1898-1986) Mother and Child: Petal Skirt conceived in 1955; cast in 1955 bronze; edition 4 of 6 plus 1 artist’s proof by the Fiorini foundry, London 19 x 9 x 15.5 cm (in...

Madman (Fou) from Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art, Album I, 1953 - Édition Art d'Aujourd'hui, Boulogne Screenprint in colors, 25.2" H x 19.2” W (64 x 49 cm), signed and dated ...

'Girl in Red' by Carlo Maria Mariani, 1959. Guggenheim, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Rome, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice Biennale ----- Signed upper right, 'C. Mariani' for Carlo Maria Mariani (Italian, 1931-2021) and dated 1959. Framed dimensions: 22.5 x 1.5 x 17.5 inches A native of Rome, Carlo Mariani first studied there at the Academy of Fine Arts where he was influenced by the prevailing styles of Hyper-Realism and Conceptualism. In 1994, he moved to New York City where he began to paint figural landscapes in a traditional, neo-classical style. The 1990s brought Mariani wide recognition and numerous honors, as he represented Italy three times at the Venice Biennale. Additionally, in 1998, he received the prestigious Antonio Feltrinelli Award for lifetime achievement in painting. Mariani continues to be best known for his refined and painterly, Renaissance technique. He was a central figure in Rome’s avant-garde in the 1970s and is widely regarded as an influential forerunner of 1980's Postmodernism. He achieved an international reputation, beginning in the early 1980s, for his arcane and, often, controversial paintings...

Pristine decorative white porcelain 'Apart' coffee demitasse set from Hutschenreuther Selb, with 6 cups, 6 saucers, coffee pot, creamer/milk jug, sugar bowl (15 piece set). Germain porcelain maker Hutschenreuther (est.1814) commissioned sculptor Hans Achtziger...

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1952 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1952 Spr...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker. Framed. Oil on canvas.

"Pastel Bust Of A Naked Young Woman Signed Fried Pal" Pál Fried (June 16, 1893 in Hungary - March 6, 1976 in New York) was a Hungarian artist known for his erotic paintings of dance...

Black and white capture of actress Marilyn Monroe singing in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", circa 1953. -- One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault archives....

Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist. Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance. Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called   "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form."   His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this  painting  Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.  
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist.  He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color.  The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black.  Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows:  blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) MAINS AU POISSON (A.R. 214) stamped and numbered 'Madoura Plein Feu / Empreinte Originale de Picasso / I. 117 / 173/250' (underneath) terracotta plate with ...

"Audrey Hepburn" by Bert Hardy May 1950: Belgian-born US actress Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) in Kew Gardens. She is on a break from rehearsals in the London revue 'Sauce'. Original...

Audrey’s most beloved movie is arguably Funny Face, in which she plays a bookish girl swept up in the world of fashion, taken under the wing of a magazine editor looking for a model ...

The 1956 lithography by Jean-Gabriel Domergue Sylvie la manucure, part of the renowned La Parisienne portfolio, stands as an elegant representation of post-war French art and a celeb...

Marina Piccola 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...

Watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1958. Hand signed and dated lower right. Very good condition.

A party at Romanoff's in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, 1959. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Modern es...

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...

MEDIUM: ​Original Production Cel on Hand Painted Background IMAGE SIZE: 12.5" x 10.5" PRODUCTION: Wild and Woolly Hare, 1959 FRAMING: Framing included in Pricing SKU: CCV1593 ABOUT THE IMAGE: The setting is 1889, somewhere in the Old West. The town of Canasta Flats lives in fear of Yosemite Sam...

"French Economy" by Bert Hardy 14th June 1952: A young French girl holding a large loaf of bread while reading a sign about a possible decrease in bakery prices in the home town of ...

'On the Path', pastel and ink on art paper, by Suzanne Tourte (circa 1950s). Executed with a lively palette of colour, this is a surprisingly sophisticated modern work of art which belies its rather naive style. Flowered fields, green grassy patches, a curved path and blue skies all figure in this engaging landscape with two figures. Newly framed and glazed in anti-reflective glass, this work is in good overall condition. Signed: 'S X Tourte' in the lower right hand. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying the listing. Upon request, a video may be provided. About the Artist: Suzanne Tourte (1904-1979) was a French painter, engraver, medalist, fresco artist, lithographer and illustrator. She was also an excellent vocalist. She studied at the school of Beaux-Arts in Reims while continuing her musical studies at the Conservatoire de la Ville. She chose painting as a profession and returned to Paris to continue her studies. She was friends with artists Yves Brayer and Robert Humblot...

Art Sz: 10 3/4"H x 12 3/4"W

Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, February 6, 1960 Caption: "The Cover: Artist John Clymer takes you to the summit of Washington state's Snoqualimie Pass, where they seem to have had a few snow flurries lately. Up there the moist westerly winds bump against sky-reaching peaks of the Cascade Range, with the result that the winds spill their contents before whistling dryly on down across the eastern slopes. Thus residents of places like Seattle living in a relatively balmy clime beside the Pacific's mild Japan current, can drive in an hour or two up to where skiing material is sometimes twenty feet thick if it's an inch. Indeed, when seasons overlap, a downlander might conceivably pick a rose and go skiing with it in his buttonhole. All of which, thanks to highway crews who blow off the blizzards, is a very felicitous geographic arrangement." John Ford Clymer's success as an artist can be traced to his boyhood in the Kittitas Valley located in the central regions of Washington state. It was there that he developed an enthusiasm for the world around him and an abiding respect for historical accuracy. Over the years John Clymer received numerous awards and honors including the revered Prix de West in 1976, from the national Academy of Western Art. Other great achievements included both gold and silver metals for his oils and charcoal drawings from the Cowboy Artists of America, "Western Artist of the Year" from the National Wildlife Art Collectors Society, and both John and Doris were honored at the Ellensburg National Art Show and Auction for their contributions to western heritage. John's highest honor came in 1988 when he was awarded the prestigious Rungius Medal from the Wildlife of American West Art...

Lithograph on vélin Johannot paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Paris Capitale, 1955; published by Joseph Foret, Editeur d'Art, Paris...

A vintage 1956 photograph featuring the King, Elvis Presley puckering his lips as he kisses the lens in this fantastic shot. This rare photo is a second-generation example made after...

Artwork sold with frame (77x97 cm) "Plainpalais Market" captures the lively atmosphere of Geneva's renowned market square. This piece exemplifies the hability of Tapias to convey th...

Medium: multi-stone color lithograph (after the original Bonnard lithograph). Printed in 1952 on Renage paper at the Mourlot atelier in faithful recreation of the original. According...

Jean COCTEAU ( 1889 - 1963 ) " Bouc aux cornes Blanches " signed and dated Jean Cocteau . 1960 . marked edition originale de Jean Cocteau / Atelier Madeline -Jolly ( underneath )...

3771 Oil on canvas of a still life table setting Set in a hand carved vintage frame Image size 11.5x15.5" Illegibly signed lower left

Mid Century Southern California Santa Paula Mountains Landscape by Nell Walker Warner Gorgeous mid-century landscape oil painting of Southern California's...

Peter Kurbatov (1907 – 1985), was a talented painter, graphic artist and writer. He lived a truly eventful life full of creative exploration. Despite the fact that this landscape was...

Homme couche et femme accroupie Lithograph on Arches paper, 1956 Signature stamp lower right )see photo) Annotated in pencil lower left: "epreuve d'artiste" (see p[hoto) Edition: 50...

Signed by Picasso in pencil lower left. Numbered 32/50 in pencil lower right. Catalogue raisonne references: Bloch 739; Mourlot 239; Reuße 625. Framed print. Framed dimensions ...

"Monroe At Premiere" by M. Garrett 1954: EXCLUSIVE Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) arriving at the premiere of the film 'There's No Business like Sho...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Beach Landscape (P2.66), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Image Size: 10.5 x 14 inches, Size: 11 x 15 in. (27.94 x 38.1 cm), ...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin papier a la cuve du moulin richard de bas specialement filigrané pour cette édition paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued....

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Cavalier et cheval (A.R. 137) stamped, marked and numbered 'Edition Picasso / Madoura Plein Feu / Edition Picasso / 274/30...

Northern California Coastal Santa Cruz County Ocean Waves 1950 Plein Air Santa Cruz Sandstone Cliffs and crashing waves near Natural Bridges circa 1950 by an unknown California artis...

Artist: Joan Miro Title: Joan Miro (Plate 2) Portfolio: Joan Miro Medium: Lithograph Date: 1956 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 17" x 24" Sheet Size: 9" x 15" Signature: Unsigned Ref...

Lithograph in colours based on the cut-out of the same title, 1952 From 'Verve' Magazine Volume IX, Nos 35 & 36: 'Dernières Oeuvres de Matisse 1950-54' Pr...

George Platt Lynes Photograph #6 of dancer Francisco Moncion 1949. George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1949 gelatin silver photograph of dancer Francisco Moncion. Stamped on verso - GEORGE PLATT LYNES. Photo is 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, glossy finish in excellent condition. This photograph is #6 from a collection of 12 different poses in this series taken in Platt Lynes's NYC studio in 1949 (as per the NY Public Library archives). The cloud backdrop is recognizable in other Platt Lynes photographs. Moncion was a personal friend of Platt Lynes and this photograph is from Moncion's personal photographic collection. George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime. Platt Lynes photographs are in the collections of every major art museum and university archive including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Yale Art Museum, and the Smithsonian. Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel in Orpheus, Death in La Valse, Prince Ivan in Firebird, and the Boy in Afternoon of a Faun. He was also a choreographer and a talented painter who exhibited alongside Miro, Picasso and Carrado Cagli. Moncion was a popular model for many famed mid-century (late 1930s, 1940s - 1950s) figure photographers including Platt Lynes, Carl van Vechten, Maurice Seymour...

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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...

5198 Japanese India ink Bamboo painting Image size 12x15"

(after) Pablo PICASSO The Artist and his Model Lithograph, 1954 On Arches vellum With the blind stamp of the editor (Ed. Verve) Size 27 x 37 cm (c. 10.65 x 14.6 inch) Lithograph cr...

Very impressive modernist still life by Miguel Guzman. Oil on canvas. Nicely framed. Great color and composition.

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

The ever-stunning Elizabeth Taylor descending a staircase for her role in "Elephant Walk", circa 1954. Elephant Walk is a 1954 American drama film produced by Paramount Pictures, di...

Jules Cavaillès' 1957 SNCF poster is a visual masterpiece that beckons travelers to embark on a colorful and artistic journey to Paris and explore the beauty of France by train. This...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker (1929 - 2021). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Paul Jouve - Eagle - Original Engraving Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950. Copy on velin creme de Rives Artwork by Paul Jouve. Original copper engraving heightened with pochoir. Paul...

Circa 1955 in Hollywood, California: American actor and Hollywood icon Frank Sinatra poses with his 1955 'T-bird' Ford Thunderbird convertible sports car for a 1950's Ford Thunderbir...

Jean Cocteau ( 1889 - 1963 ) " Hermes " rare and famous terracotta plate partially glazed .embossed background . signed Jean Cocteau 1958 . original serie conceived in 1958 an...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Renage filigrané paper. Year: 1952 Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches; image size: 9.05 x 10.24 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued No...

Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Filigrané a sa marque paper Year: 1950 Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches; image size: 8.66 x 7.08 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbere...

Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...

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...

Large, attractive color linocut by Pablo Picasso from a limited edition of 50. Signed by Picasso and numbered in pencil. Printed by Arnéra, Vallaur...

Tennis In The Bahamas 1957 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957. Behind the ...

Original “The Joe Louis Story” vintage movie poster (United Artists, 1953). One Sheet (27" X 41"). Sports. Archival linen backed. Starring: Coley Wallace, Hilda Simms, Paul Stewart, James Edwards, John Marley, Dots Johnson, Evelyn Ellis, Carl 'Rocky' Latimer, John Marriott, Ike Jones, P. Jay Sidney, Royal Beal, Ruby Goldstein, Max Baer...