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Style: Expressionist
Period: 1950s
"Mexican Interior Scene Scene with Figures and Fish" Expressionistic Style
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the Mid Century by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wond...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Oil, Masonite
'Summer Flowers', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Post-Impressionist California Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Engel' for Irma Engel Grabhorn (American, 1908-2003) and painted circa 1955.
Born in Badenweiler, Irma Leisinger first studied in Paris with Andre Lhote from 192...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait, Woodcut by Leonard Baskin 1956
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Leonard Baskin
Title: Self Portrait - "L.B. AE T. S"
Year: 1956
Medium: Woodcut, Signed and Numbered in pencil
Edition: 150
Size: 35.5 x 24 inches
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Woodcut
San Antonio Oriente, Honduras C.A., Oil Painting by Jose Antonio Velasquez
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jose Antonio Velasquez, Honduran (1906 - 1983)
Title: San Antonio Oriente, Honduras C.A.
Year: 1951
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and d...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Oil
Maine, Watercolor Landscape by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015)
Title: Maine (P6. 59)
Year: 1953
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm)
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Watercolor
'Ponies Dancing' California Post-Impressionist, San Francisco Art Association
By Clement Samuel Wilenchick
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Wilenchick' for Clement Samuel Wilenchick (American, 1900-1957) and painted circa 1955.
A dynamic, post-impressionist oil showing horses frolicking together agai...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Acrylic, Board
The Witch
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
"Fir Tree, " Original Color Silkscreen signed by Ruth Grotenrath
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Fir Tree" (Artist's #1516) is an original color silkscreen by Ruth Grotenrath. The artist signed the piece with her initials lower left. This artwork depicts a white fir tree branch in white on red.
4 1/4" x 5 3/8" art
12" x 13" frame
"The paintings of Ruth...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Screen
Vision
By Doris Caesar
Located in Greenwich, CT
Expressionist figurative sculpture by Doris Caesar
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
"Bee Keeper, " Black Conte Crayon Drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bee Keeper" is an original black conte crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist signed this piece lower right. This drawing depicts abstrac...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Conté
Hampton Bays, Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015)
Title: Hampton Bays (P6.24)
Year: 1958
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Girl Wearing a Crown, Double-sided Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - )
Title: Portrait of a Girl wearing a Crown (P6.35)
Year: 1957
Medium: Double-Sided Watercolor on Paper
Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm)
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Man
By Emmanuel Mane-Katz
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by Emmanuel Mane-Katz circa 1950. An expressionist style portrait of a man with a forlorn expression in dark gray and red tones.
A...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
The Vampire
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
'Flamenco Dancer', Wisconsin, Paris, Académie Julian, Art Institute of Chicago
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Grill' for André Joseph Grill (American, 1916-1985) and painted circa 1955.
A light-hearted and animated study of a young flamenco dancer painted when the artist was in his forties.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Andre Grill...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Oil
"Conquistador" Portrait Lithograph by Richard Proctor
Located in Pasadena, CA
Richard Proctor (1936-2022) was a prolific and versatile artist who produced various works, including written and pictorial experiments. He received a Bachelor of Science in Art Ed...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Yellow Clown
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Lorjou has painting this subject "Harlequins" many times in watercolors, drawing , oil paintings and later on in the late 60's in acrylic, both on canvas, paper and some on m...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Oil
Girl & Plants Enamel Glazed Ceramic Plaque Israeli Artist Awret Naive Folk Art
By Irene Awret
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a rare ceramic plaque painted with enamel glaze by famed Israeli German artist Irene Awret (these are generally hand signed Awret Safed on the verso. I just have not opened the frame to check) the actual glazed ceramic is 10.25 X 14.75 inches.
It depicts a girl or woman with potted plants, birds, pomegranates and other fruits and flowers in a naif, folk art style.
Irène Awret was born to a Jewish family in Berlin called Spicker, the youngest of three children. Her mother died in 1927, when Irène was six years old. In 1937 she was forced to stop high school, due to the Nazi race laws. Because she could not continue her regular studies, her father sent her to study drawing, painting and art restoration with a Jewish painter. Among his students were a large number of German Jews who knew they would have to leave Germany within a short time and would require a profession to enable them to support themselves.
When the situation grew worse, following the Kristallnacht (the first major attack on German and Austrian Jews in November 1938), her uncle decided to move to Belgium. In 1939 the situation became even worse - her father was fired from his job and the family were forced to leave their home. As a result, Awret's father tried to send her and her sister to Belgium, with the help of smugglers. The first smuggler proved to be a double agent and they were sent back from Aachen to Berlin. Two weeks later they made a second, successful, attempt to sneak across the border.
Awret worked for a Dutch Jewish family as a maid. As she had her room and board there, she was able to save enough money to study art part-time at Brussels' Académie Royal des Beaux-Arts. A few months later Awret's father joined her and her financial situation became easier. She left her job and studied full-time, helping support herself with restoration work when it was available and by painting portraits to order.
Later, Awret found a hiding place on a farm in Waterloo with a Jewish family who were connected with the underground. In January 1943 she had to return to Brussels, living with a false identity card which stated she was a married woman with two children. Awret succeeded in renting an attic without informing the police where she was - she told her landlady that she had been forced to flee her husband because he beat her. While there, she supported herself by restoring wooden sculptures.
A Jewish informer gave her up to the Gestapo, accompanying the two Gestapo men who arrested her. Awret was able to take a bag containing food and drawing materials. She was detained in the Gestapo cellars in Brussels where she drew. Because there was nothing there to draw, she sketched her own hand (view this work). Awret was interrogated in order to reveal the hiding place of her father who was still in Brussels. The National Socialist regime was determined to persecute him, even though he had fought for Germany in World War I and been permanently disabled. They stepped up their torture and brought Awret before Hartmann, the head of the Gestapo in Brussels. When Hartmann saw her block of drawings, he asked her where she had studied art and halted the interrogation.
Awret was placed in a narrow cell and then transferred to Malines camp, which the Belgian's called Mechelen. Malines was a transit camp to Auschwitz, regularly sending 2000 people at a time. Although she arrived just before Transport No. 20, Irène Awret avoided being included. Instead she was put to work in the leather workshop, decorating broaches. While she was there, Hartmann visited the camp and spotted her: "I could have discovered where your father is hiding," he told her. When her artistic talents became known, she was transferred to the Mahlerstube (artist's workshop) where she worked producing graphics for the Germans until the end of the war. When Carol (Karel) Deutsch (whose works are now on view at Yad Vashem) was sent from Mechelen to his death with his wife, he left young Irene his paintbox. Irene also recalls seeing the great painter Felix Nussbaum and his wife being pushed into a boxcar bound for the gas, and tells of the aftermath of the famous 20th Train incident, when a young Jewish doctor armed only with a pistol and helped by two unarmed friends with a lantern ambushed one of Mechelen's Auschwitz-bound trains carrying 1,618 Jews, most of whom had fled Eastern Europe for Belgium.
Awret's job enabled her to paint and draw - mainly in pencil, but also in watercolors and oils. In the artists' workshop she met a Jewish refugee from Poland - Azriel Awret - who would later become her husband. Among the other artists in the workshop were Herbert von Ledermann-Vütemberg, a sculptor from an aristocratic family with Jewish roots, Léon Landau, and Smilowitz, who perished in the camps in the East. Irène and Azriel tried to bribe a German officer to prevent Smilowitz's deportation. Not only were they unsuccessful, but they were almost put onto the same train. Jacques Ochs was another artist with whom they became friends in the camp. Ochs, a French-born Protestant who lived in Belgium, was interned as a political prisoner. He remained in Belgium after liberation.
After the war the Awrets immigrated to Israel and made their home in Safed. They continued to work, and were instrumental in founding Safed's artists' quarter.
The Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (Ghetto Fighters' House Museum) art collection holds works donated by Awret. These date from her time in Malines camp and from her stay in Brussels after the war, when she was in the company of orphans who had hidden while their parents were sent to Auschwitz. Her highly expressive works have made their way to exhibitions at theTel Aviv Museum, the Haifa Museum of Modern Art and the Modern Art Gallery in Washington, D.C., as well as into the private collections of such individuals as Dr. Jonas Salk...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Enamel
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Oil Painting -Portrait in an Interior, Framed
Located in Bristol, GB
PORTRAIT IN AN INTERIOR
Size: 57 x 49.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A beautifully executed and subtle mid century modernist portrait, executed in oil onto board.
This semi-ab...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Still life with duck and bouquet on table top
Located in New York, NY
This painting was completed at his home in the South of France between 1953-1955. There is no in painting, relining or cracks in the paiting and original stretcher.
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Oil
Girl & Rooster Enamel Glazed Ceramic Plaque Israeli Artist Awret Naive Folk Art
By Irene Awret
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a rare ceramic plaque painted with enamel glaze by famed Israeli German artist Irene Awret is signed Awret Safed on the verso. the actual glazed ceramic is 10X15 inches.
Irène Awret was born to a Jewish family in Berlin called Spicker, the youngest of three children. Her mother died in 1927, when Irène was six years old. In 1937 she was forced to stop high school, due to the Nazi race laws. Because she could not continue her regular studies, her father sent her to study drawing, painting and art restoration with a Jewish painter. Among his students were a large number of German Jews who knew they would have to leave Germany within a short time and would require a profession to enable them to support themselves.
When the situation grew worse, following the Kristallnacht (the first major attack on German and Austrian Jews in November 1938), her uncle decided to move to Belgium. In 1939 the situation became even worse - her father was fired from his job and the family were forced to leave their home. As a result, Awret's father tried to send her and her sister to Belgium, with the help of smugglers. The first smuggler proved to be a double agent and they were sent back from Aachen to Berlin. Two weeks later they made a second, successful, attempt to sneak across the border.
Awret worked for a Dutch Jewish family as a maid. As she had her room and board there, she was able to save enough money to study art part-time at Brussels' Académie Royal des Beaux-Arts. A few months later Awret's father joined her and her financial situation became easier. She left her job and studied full-time, helping support herself with restoration work when it was available and by painting portraits to order.
Later, Awret found a hiding place on a farm in Waterloo with a Jewish family who were connected with the underground. In January 1943 she had to return to Brussels, living with a false identity card which stated she was a married woman with two children. Awret succeeded in renting an attic without informing the police where she was - she told her landlady that she had been forced to flee her husband because he beat her. While there, she supported herself by restoring wooden sculptures.
A Jewish informer gave her up to the Gestapo, accompanying the two Gestapo men who arrested her. Awret was able to take a bag containing food and drawing materials. She was detained in the Gestapo cellars in Brussels where she drew. Because there was nothing there to draw, she sketched her own hand (view this work). Awret was interrogated in order to reveal the hiding place of her father who was still in Brussels. The National Socialist regime was determined to persecute him, even though he had fought for Germany in World War I and been permanently disabled. They stepped up their torture and brought Awret before Hartmann, the head of the Gestapo in Brussels. When Hartmann saw her block of drawings, he asked her where she had studied art and halted the interrogation.
Awret was placed in a narrow cell and then transferred to Malines camp, which the Belgian's called Mechelen. Malines was a transit camp to Auschwitz, regularly sending 2000 people at a time. Although she arrived just before Transport No. 20, Irène Awret avoided being included. Instead she was put to work in the leather workshop, decorating broaches. While she was there, Hartmann visited the camp and spotted her: "I could have discovered where your father is hiding," he told her. When her artistic talents became known, she was transferred to the Mahlerstube (artist's workshop) where she worked producing graphics for the Germans until the end of the war. When Carol (Karel) Deutsch (whose works are now on view at Yad Vashem) was sent from Mechelen to his death with his wife, he left young Irene his paintbox. Irene also recalls seeing the great painter Felix Nussbaum and his wife being pushed into a boxcar bound for the gas, and tells of the aftermath of the famous 20th Train incident, when a young Jewish doctor armed only with a pistol and helped by two unarmed friends with a lantern ambushed one of Mechelen's Auschwitz-bound trains carrying 1,618 Jews, most of whom had fled Eastern Europe for Belgium.
Awret's job enabled her to paint and draw - mainly in pencil, but also in watercolors and oils. In the artists' workshop she met a Jewish refugee from Poland - Azriel Awret...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Enamel
The Artist In His Atelier, Mid Century, Ecole De Nice
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid Century work on card by Sylvain Vigny. Depicting an artist (self portrait?) in his studio with his subject and muses, like Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Reminiscent of the drawings of Picasso and Matisse who were his contemporaries and neighbours on the Cote D'Azur at this period. The painting is signed and dated bottom left. In period chrome edged frame, currently under glass.
If Sylvain Vigny had stayed in Paris in 1934 instead of moving to Nice on the Côte d’Azur, his highly imaginative and original work might be better known. Comparisons with better-known modernist artists including Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Rouault and Raoul Dufy set him in an appropriate and favourable context.
A self-taught artist, he grew up in Vienna and emigrated to France in the 1920s, living in Paris from 1929 to 1934. After he had moved to Nice early in 1934, he exhibited in galleries along the Mediterranean coast and in Switzerland, with major exhibitions in New York in 1938 and at the Galerie Bernheim Jeune in Paris in 1948.
Sylvain Vigny was part of an important artistic community in Nice, which included Jean Moulin who owned the Galerie d’Art Roman, the artist Jean Cassarini, writers Pierre and Jacques Prévert, filmmaker Nikos Papatakis, and jazz musician Django Reinhardt...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard
"The Card Players" Interior Scene, Card Players, African-American, Intense Color
Located in Detroit, MI
"The Card Players" is an extraordinarily rare and early painting of Alvin Demar Loving, a major artist in the lexicon of 20th century African-American artists. This piece has just re...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Steinhardt Woodcut Marian Anderson Signed African American, Israeli Bezalel Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Portrait in black and white, woodblock print. Pencil signed by both Jacob Steinhardt 1887-1968 and Marian Anderson. Very rare thus. (Commissioned by ...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Crystal Ball
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Noted German Expressionist artist Fritz Schwaderer(1901-1974), , was classically schooled in fine art in Germany in the early-mid 1920as.
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Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Oil
Midnight in Paris
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Just discovered, a rare, original oil painting, "Midnight in Paris", by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
McIntosh was extremely prolif...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Oil
The Orchestra
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe.
His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute.
"The Orchestra...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Watercolor
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