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Period: 1950s
Le Styx
Le Styx

Le Styx

By Joan Miró

Located in Paris, FR

Etching and aquatint, 1958 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 27/75 Publisher : Maeght Editeur, Paris Printer : Crommelynck et Dutrou, Paris Catalog : [Dupin 159, p. 130...

Category

Abstract 1950s Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Rome Landscapes - Phototype by Gino Croari - 1950s
Rome Landscapes - Phototype by Gino Croari - 1950s

Rome Landscapes - Phototype by Gino Croari - 1950s

Located in Roma, IT

Rome Landscapes is a "Suite of phototype reproductions of Drawings" realized by Gino Croari on paper in the 1950s. Including 12 prints with cover. Titled on the lower of each piece....

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Paper

American Modernist Black Woman Artist New Orleans Family Portrait Oil Painting
American Modernist Black Woman Artist New Orleans Family Portrait Oil Painting

American Modernist Black Woman Artist New Orleans Family Portrait Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist southern school painting. A family portrait on a New Orleans porch. Beautiful detail in the wrought iron. Brilliant color palette here. Signed verso. ...

Category

Abstract 1950s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled (Cavaliere)
Untitled (Cavaliere)

Untitled (Cavaliere)

By Marino Marini

Located in Astoria, NY

Marino Marini (Italian, 1901-1980), "Untitled (Cavaliere)", Mixed Media on Paper, 1955, chalk pastel and wash, signed "Marino" lower right and dated lower left, carved giltwood frame...

Category

Cubist 1950s Art

Materials

Pastel, Mixed Media

Rome - Via Appia 1954
Rome - Via Appia 1954

Rome - Via Appia 1954

By Erich Andres

Located in Cologne, DE

Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950. Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

English Farmhouse - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil by William Henry Innes
English Farmhouse - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil by William Henry Innes

English Farmhouse - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil by William Henry Innes

By William Henry Innes

Located in Watford, Hertfordshire

William Henry Innes (1905-1999) Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...

Category

Post-Impressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Oil Pastel, Board

Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece
Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece

Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece

By Slim Aarons

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Legendary photographer Slim Aarons relaxes in a self portrait shot in Athens, near the Acropolis. Slim Aarons said, "I love a solo holiday. It tends to refresh the part of oneself that is most depleted by modern life — patience. "Let me dispel a few myths. You will be lonely. No: you won’t. My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependency on someone to distract your attention. "I’ve had solo pints of Guinness in the pubs of County Kerry and County Cork. I’ve walked across the sage- and juniper-scented maquis of Corsica on a spring day, where you can still find the world of Napoleon’s childhood. More than once I went to the Isle of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides...

Category

Realist 1950s Art

Materials

Lambda

Eifeltower, Paris, 1955
Eifeltower, Paris, 1955

Eifeltower, Paris, 1955

By Erich Andres

Located in Cologne, DE

Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1955. Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Paris - Montmartre - Pigalle - Moulin Rouge
Paris - Montmartre - Pigalle - Moulin Rouge

Paris - Montmartre - Pigalle - Moulin Rouge

By Erich Andres

Located in Cologne, DE

Vintage Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950. Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first...

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Abstract Composition in Pink and Black in Acrylic on Cardboard
Abstract Composition in Pink and Black in Acrylic on Cardboard

Abstract Composition in Pink and Black in Acrylic on Cardboard

By Honora Berg

Located in Soquel, CA

Abstract Composition in Pink and Black in Acrylic on Cardboard Dynamic abstract in black and pink by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). This piece is composed of multiple layers, with bright, bold colors at the bottom, building to black on top. Pink, magenta, yellow, and orange shine through a net of black. Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Estate stamp on verso "Estate of Honora Berg - Miller Fine Art" Numbered "246" on verso Unframed. Art size: 21.25"H x 14"W Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell — David Park's aunt — suggested a move to California in 1951 to study under Park. She exhibited at the 25th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961. Provenance, Estate of Honora Berg - David Carlson Gallery, Larry Miller...

Category

Abstract Expressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Cardboard, Acrylic

“Abstract Figure in Blue”
“Abstract Figure in Blue”

“Abstract Figure in Blue”

By Irene Rice Pereira

Located in Southampton, NY

'Untitled' (Abstract Figure in Blue). 1954. Gouache on archival paper. Signed, inscribed, and dated lower right. Condition is very good. Under glass. Dimensions: Sight size: 23.25 in...

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

Portrait of  Woman - Original Drawing by Véronique Veron - 1950s
Portrait of  Woman - Original Drawing by Véronique Veron - 1950s

Portrait of Woman - Original Drawing by Véronique Veron - 1950s

Located in Roma, IT

Portrait of Woman is an original artwork realized by Véronique Veron in about 1950. Pencil Drawing. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right margin. Passpartout cm 65x50. Good Conditions. Véronique Veron (1927) was born in Budapest on May 10, 1927. As a painter, she belongs to the Ecole Lyonnaise. She attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Member of the Salon d'Automne and the Independents and the drawing and watercolor painting fair, she participated in the young Mediterranean painting...

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Pencil

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Joseph Kaplan

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1953 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

Category

1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Chagall, Sans titre, Le Dur Désir de Durer (after)
Chagall, Sans titre, Le Dur Désir de Durer (after)

Chagall, Sans titre, Le Dur Désir de Durer (after)

By Marc Chagall

Located in Southampton, NY

Lithograph on vélin bouffant d'Alfa paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Le Dur Désir de Durer, illustré par Marc Chagall, ...

Category

Expressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

'Pot-Bellied Stove', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
'Pot-Bellied Stove', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA

'Pot-Bellied Stove', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA

By Victor Di Gesu

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988). Stamped verso with certification of authenticity. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los...

Category

1950s Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite

“Gloucester Dockside”
“Gloucester Dockside”

“Gloucester Dockside”

By John Cuthbert Hare

Located in Southampton, NY

Here for your consideration is a very finely executed watercolor by the New England artist, John Cuthbert Hare of the fishing boats dockside in Gloucester. Condition is excellent. Signed by the artist lower right. Circa 1950. The artwork is framed in custom barn wood with a narrow linen liner. Artwork is under glass. Overall framed measurements are 16.5 by 14.5 inches. Provenance: Massachusetts estate. New England painter John Cuthbert Hare was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1908 and studied commercial art at the Pratt Institute in New York City and later at the Art Students League also in New York City. He also studied at the Grand Central School of Art in New York followed by employment with the Hearst Newspaper Corporation. For a number of years after his marriage in 1933, Hare and his wife traveled throughout the United States and Europe. Hare was a member of the Provincetown Art Colony, Cape Cod, Massachusetts and was to become known as the "Dean of Cape Cod Artists...

Category

Post-Impressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

On the Beach - Oil Paint by Renzo Vespignani - 1955
On the Beach - Oil Paint by Renzo Vespignani - 1955

On the Beach - Oil Paint by Renzo Vespignani - 1955

By Renzo Vespignani

Located in Roma, IT

On the Beach is an artwork realized by Renzo Vespignani in 1955. Oil on Canvas, 128x102 cm. It Includes a gilded modern frame. Hand signed and date lower left. Good conditions. Renzo Vespignani was born in Rome on February 19, 1924 to Guido Vespignani and Ester Molinari, great-grandson of Virginio Vespignani, a famous architect. After the death of his father, a surgeon and cardiologist, he had to move very young with his mother to the proletarian area of Portonaccio, adjacent to the San Lorenzo district, where he grew up. He began to paint during the Nazi occupation, hiding with the engraver Lino Bianchi Barriviera, his first teacher. Other important points of reference, which influenced his artistic beginnings, were Alberto Ziveri and Luigi Bartolini while, especially in his first paintings, the influence of expressionists such as George Grosz and Otto Dix seems evident. In 1945 he exhibited his first personal exhibition and began to collaborate with various political-literary magazines (Domenica, Folla, Mercurio, La Fiera Letteraria) with satirical writings, illustrations and drawings. His work, between 1944 and 1948, describes the attempt to resurrect an Italy destroyed by the war. In 1956 he founded, with other intellectuals, the magazine Città Aperta, focused on the problems of urban culture. In 1961 he was among the winners of the Spoleto Prize; an essay was dedicated to the selected artists accompanied by large-format reproductions (black and white and four-color) of the exhibited works. In 1963 a work by him was exhibited at the Contemporary Italian Paintings exhibition, set up in some Australian cities . In 1963-64 he exhibited at the exhibition Peintures italiennes d'aujourd'hui, organized in the Middle East and North Africa. Since 1969, Vespignani has been working on large pictorial cycles dedicated to the crisis of the society of well-being: Imbarco per Citera (1969), concerning the intellectual class involved in '68; Album di Famiglia...

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Braque, Oiseau, Derrière le miroir (after)
Braque, Oiseau, Derrière le miroir (after)

Braque, Oiseau, Derrière le miroir (after)

By Georges Braque

Located in Southampton, NY

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 85-86, 1956. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; ...

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Northern California Coastal Santa Cruz County Ocean Waves 1950 Plein Air
Northern California Coastal Santa Cruz County Ocean Waves 1950 Plein Air

Northern California Coastal Santa Cruz County Ocean Waves 1950 Plein Air

Located in Soquel, CA

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...

Category

American Impressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

"El Tren" Ceramic, Glaze, Colors, Mexican Folk Art, Four Sections
"El Tren" Ceramic, Glaze, Colors, Mexican Folk Art, Four Sections

"El Tren" Ceramic, Glaze, Colors, Mexican Folk Art, Four Sections

Located in Detroit, MI

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "El Tren" is a whimsical and playful rendition of a train. It is beautifully glazed in various colors. This particular ceramic was from the collection of Jane and Richard Knight’s Estate. Jane Knight was a famous fiber and textile artist. Richard was a photographer who worked for Eliel Saarinen and Alexander Girard. The Knights and Girard became close friends and it was Girard who gifted “Santa Cruz De Las Huertas Jalisco” to the Knights. Alexander Girard left his personal collection to the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM. The Girards eventually amassed a collection of more than 106,000 objects from across the globe. Their 1978 gift of this collection to the Museum of International Folk art quintupled the size of their collection and prompted the construction of a new wing, which opened in 1982 and houses a mere 10% of the Girard Collection in the permanent exhibition Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, which was designed by Alexander Girard himself. This collection includes numerous multiples and is notable for its great breadth, including traditional arts, popular arts, and paper ephemera. “I believe we should preserve this evidence of the past, not as a pattern for sentimental imitation,” Girard once said, “but as nourishment for the creative spirit of the present.” Indeed, folk art was an important inspiration for Girard’s design work. The renowned Candelario Medrano...

Category

Folk Art 1950s Art

Materials

Ceramic, Glaze

Lovers - Original Watercolor - 1950 ca.

Lovers - Original Watercolor - 1950 ca.

Located in Roma, IT

Lovers is an original drawing in mixed media on ivory paper realized in 1940 ca. by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. In very good conditions, except for some folding and very ...

Category

1950s Art

Materials

Watercolor

Marilyn Candid Moment

Marilyn Candid Moment

By Ed Feingersh

Located in London, GB

Actress Marilyn Monroe reads the book ‘To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting’ by Michael Chekhov in a quiet moment at the Ambassador Hotel in March 1955 in New York City, New York...

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Jean Dubuffet Lithograph Art Brut "I. Traces grotesques"
Jean Dubuffet Lithograph Art Brut "I. Traces grotesques"

Jean Dubuffet Lithograph Art Brut "I. Traces grotesques"

By Jean Dubuffet

Located in Detroit, MI

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "I. Traces grotesques" is an Artist’s Proof Lithograph. “Proofs” are either pulled or printed, and the artist has the option to work out the color and quality issues as they come out of the process. The only real difference between the two is the restricted quantity of prints bearing the AP designation and not the quality of the print. This lithograph is signed and titled by the artist, Jean Dubuffet, which indicates his complete satisfaction with the print. It is from 1958 and a perfect example of his style, “Art Brut.” His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced what is called “low art”, art by non-academically trained artists. It is sometimes referred to as “outsider art.” He did study briefly at the Academie Julian, Paris, but eventually followed his own aesthetics which eschewed traditional standard of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. This lithograph expresses the beauty he found in the meandering spontaneous black line. Jean Dubuffet began painting at the age of seventeen and studied briefly at the Academie Julian, Paris. He painted off and on for the next 20 years. It was not until 1942 in the midst of WWII in France that he began the work which has distinguished him as an outstanding innovator in postwar Europe. It is said of his work that “he looked to the margins of the everyday – the art of prisoners, psychics, the uneducated, and the institutionalized – to liberate his own creativity and coining the term ‘Art Brut’.” Art Brut is a French term that translates as ‘raw art’, to describe art such as graffiti or naïve art which is made outside the academic tradition of fine art. His paintings from the early forties in brightly colored oils were soon followed by works in which he employed such unorthodox materials as cement, plaster, tar and asphalt-scraped, craved and cut and drawn upon with a rudimentary, spontaneous line. Dubuffet worked in France and exhibited from the early forties on. He was included in the 1946 Pierre Matisse...

Category

Abstract 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Russian/Canadian Modernist Signed Fauvist Pointillist Landscape Oil Painting
Russian/Canadian Modernist Signed Fauvist Pointillist Landscape Oil Painting

Russian/Canadian Modernist Signed Fauvist Pointillist Landscape Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1957. Signed "Olga" verso. Displayed in a modern frame. Image size, 36"L x 26"H.

Category

Pointillist 1950s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Musee National d'Art Moderne (after) Wassily Kandinsky - Abstract
Musee National d'Art Moderne (after) Wassily Kandinsky - Abstract

Musee National d'Art Moderne (after) Wassily Kandinsky - Abstract

By Wassily Kandinsky

Located in New York, NY

This rare lithographic poster was printed in 1957 at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris. It was created to promote an exhibition of artworks by Kandinsky, on loan from the Guggenheim Museum to the National Museum of Modern in Paris. Certificate of Provenance: Each individual work of art carefully curated by Mourlot Editions comes with a Certificate of Provenance, signed, dated, stamped, and numbered by Eric Mourlot. This certificate guarantees the origin and authenticity of your personal lithograph. About the Artist: Kandinsky was a painter and art theorist, one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. After successful avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential Munich group Der Blaue...

Category

Abstract Geometric 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

“Abstract Figures”
“Abstract Figures”

“Abstract Figures”

By Neville Manns

Located in Southampton, NY

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

Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Paper, Crayon, Watercolor