1950s Art

Early Morris Gluckman abstract painting of a black shadow figure holding a pink item. Artist Biography: Morris Gluckman was born in 1894 in Kiev, Russia. He was an active artist in...

This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...

This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...

This is all about the work of George Douglas, a brilliant photographer of the mid 20th Century. In the 1940s, 50s and 60s he worked for leading magazines of the day, both in Britain...

This exquisite engraving by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), originates from the 1958 edition published b...

La Veille Dame, ink on paper by Jean Jansem (1920-2013). Stephanie's gallery's certificate of authentic available. Signed Jansem lower right.

Little Madeline is at it again, but this time with a big magician cloaked in a commanding red gown. In the Christmas spirit of giving, Madeline reaches up and offers him a plate of n...

The Carlton Hotel A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955. Another gorgeous and typically 'Slim' photograph, it epitomises the ...

Experience the vibrant coastal charm of California with "Capitola, California", an original oil on board seascape painting by acclaimed American artist Jon Blanchette (1908–1987), cr...

Beautiful still life drawing by American artist, Lloyd Raymond Ney (1893-1964). Ink on paper, 14.5 x 21 inches; 25.5 x 31.5 inches framed. Excellent condition with no damage or restoration. Signed lower right. Birth place: Friedenburg, PA. Addresses: New Hope, PA, 1925-64 Profession: Painter, lecturer, teacher Studied: PAFA with H. McCarter, 1914 -18 (Cresson Scholarship; traveled in Europe 1918-21; Paris in 1924) Exhibited: AIC, 1937; Guggenheim Museum, 1941-56; PAFA Ann., 1941, 1951; numerous group shows in Europe. Work: Guggenheim Museum, NYC. WPA commission, 1941, mural for New London, Ohio Post Office (Citizens of New London petitioned WPA administrator Edward Bruce to allow Ney to paint the mural) Comments: Abstract painter. He spent many years in Paris, where he was friendly with Pascin, Foujita, Frieske, H.O. Tanner, W. Pach and Roger Fry...

Original Color Lithograph by well-known French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985). This abstract subject is in excellent condition, pencil signed and dated lower right, pencil titled l...

Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by the artist Dedicated: "To Jon From Ray" Edition: 100 in two printings A studio proof from the second printing by Jon Clemens, master printe...

From a series of paintings by Clifford Ellis. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - o...

Abstract Composition Oil on canvas 30x24, signed lower left. Judith Sobel was born in Lwow Poland in 1924. After World War II, she attended the Academy of...

Arthur Wilson Gay 1901–1958 Artist and portrait painter of whose early training nothing is as yet known. Gay was elected a member of the Bristol Savages in 1928 and for more than thirty years worked at the studios of E. S. & A. Known for "Conchie" which is displayed in the Bradford Peace Museum. This piece was created with watercolour and is in a circle frame under glass. Keywords: Flowers Mid 20th Century Watercolor, British Still Life...

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1953 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1953 Spr...

This 1959 linogravure by Pablo Picasso, titled Bacchanale, is part of the celebrated series of prints published by Cercle d'Art in Paris. Identified as Plate 24, the work offers a re...

The illustration features an older woman shooting a water gun into a little boy's face as two other little boys lay in the grass beside them. Story illustration for "Adios, Miss Em" by J.H. Giles, published in McCalls, February 1958 The full caption reads: "As the summer wore on, she became accustomed to all their whimsical pretend games and learned to take part in them." Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...

The work is executed at the heyday of abstract expressionsim in the mid-50s. Colors are saturated and bright. Goldfield (of Goldfield Gallery). Written on the stretcher. Goldfield G...

This exquisite heliogravure after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Mademoiselle M.B. (Miss M.B.), from the album Portraits par Henri Matisse (Portraits by Henri Matisse), originates...

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1951 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1951 Spr...

'Figure Seated in Interior' by Millicent Tomkins, 1959. Woman Artist, Berkeley, San Francisco Museum of Art ---- Signed lower left, 'Millicent Tomkins' for Millicent Hanson Tomkins ...

Ship repair. 1956, oil on canvas, cardboard, 43,5x61,5 cm landscape with boats Dontsov German (1916. Saratow, Russia – 2001. Riga, Latvia) His professional carrier began...

Created in 1959 by the artist Lucien Boucher , Air France Map - Blue Pink is one of a series of eight posters commissioned by Air France. These "Planispheres" were first produced in ...

Here for your consideration is an original drawing done with conte crayon with hints of watercolor of a floating market place by the French artist, Rob...

Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956. Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies. Not signed nor numbered, as issued. ...

This abstract painting by Genichiro Inokuma measures 18" x 24" and framed 22 ⅝" x 28 ¾" x 1 ¾". Frame is original and all original labels are intact....

Louis Osman was an English artist, architect, goldsmith, silversmith and medallist. He is notable for the gold coronet he designed and made for the investiture in 1969 of Charles, Pr...

Rolph Scarlett (1889-1984) Geometric Shapes Gauche on Paper 14 ½" x 13” 22" x 21" framed In this original artwork, the artist transforms circles, shapes, and lines within an ide...

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...

16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Ted Shawn, pioneer of American modern dance, performing his "Mevlevi Dervish" in 1951 at Jacob's Pillow. It is ...

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is the most influential and valuable American artist of the 20th century. Caviar20 has been championig his inimitable works on paper from the 1950s. We believ...

Carmen Del'Orefice in Dior 1957 Archival pigment print Estate stamped, signed and numbered by Andrea Derujinsky with certificate of authenticity The entire Gleb Derujinsky Collection available exclusively at IFAC Arts on 1stdibs. Groundbreaking fashion photographer Gleb Derujinsky invigorated the fashion industry with his glamorous, exotic, and often unconventional photographs. Gleb Derujinsky's career as a fashion photographer took hold in the golden age of European haute couture, when Balenciaga and Pierre Balmain were at the top of their game and Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld were designing their first runway shows. Although air travel was still reserved for the happy few, Derujinsky convinced his editors Carmel Snow and Diana Vreeland to send him around the world to photograph beautiful models like Carmen Dell Orefice and his future wife, Ruth Neumann draped in expensive gowns juxtaposed against rough desert dunes or a glittering ocean at sunset. His ideas were revolutionary and they gave rise to the mystique and glamour that is now pervasive in fashion. Derujinsky was the quintessential Renaissance man photographer, award-winning cinematographer and commercial director, inventor, WWII veteran, world traveler, jewelry designer, musician, ski instructor, Ferrari America race-car driver, and champion glider pilot. His passion for photography started at the tender age of six, by ten, he had built a photo enlarger, and as a teenager, he became the youngest member of the Camera Club of New York. His photographs appeared in major lifestyle magazines and extensively in Harper's Bazaar from 1950 to 1970 Derujinsky’s best fashion photographs are typified by the frisson between high fashion in the 1950s and 1960s with the dynamism of locations and urban scenarios." Louis Vuitton Fashion Photography...

The 1959 original exhibition poster for Georges Braque's "Théogonie" is a striking piece that reflects the artist's deep engagement with mythology and symbolism. Created for an exhib...

A crowd is gathered outside the Bonwit Teller department store on Worth Avenue while a band plays opposite during the Palm Beach Easter Parade, Florida, 1955. Slim Aarons Palm Beac...

Medium: wood engraving (after the watercolor). Printed in Paris in 1955 at the atelier Coulouma for "Mille nuits et une nuit" (1001 Nights) which was the last major portfolio by Kees...

Portrait of a Man in a Polka Dot Clown Suit - Oil on Canvas Portrait of a man in a white and red polka dot suit by a Joan Tidwell (American, 1930-2005...

This striking 1956 original Soviet poster is a powerful example of postwar sports propaganda, celebrating physical culture, collective effort, and national pride. The slogan “Добьёмс...

"Pink Flower" is an original watercolor on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower right. This piece depicts a flower in graphic style. 11 3/4" x 6" art 13...

Milton Avery Fish, 1952 Signed and dated twice lower left Crayon on paper 3 1/2 x 10 inches Milton Clark Avery was born in 1885 in Altmar, New York. Largely self-taught, Avery is t...

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) LE BARBU (A.R. 217) stamped and marked 'Edition Picasso/Madoura Plein Feu/Edition Picasso/Madoura' (underneath) white earthenware ceramic pitcher, partially engraved, with colored engobe and glaze Height: 12¾ in. (31.5 cm.) Conceived in 1953 and executed in an edition of 500 LITERATURE: - Ramié, Alain: Picasso, Catalogue of the Edited...

Blue toned serigraph of a carousel with horses. The work is signed and numbered by the artist. It is not framed but comes with a white matte. Artist Biography: Barbara Maples...

Back Cover, from Joan Miro by Jacques Prevert and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes Artist: Joan Miro Editor: Maeght Year: 1956 Dimensions: 23 x 20 cm Refere...

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...

Artist: Alberto Magnelli Title: Paper Glue on Blue Background Medium: Pochoir in Gouache Date: 1957 Edition: 1500 Sheet Size: 12 1/2" x 9 3/4 Signature...

Vanity Fair Pleated Babydoll -- Mark Shaw photographed Vanity Fair lingerie over the course of ten years for an award winning advertising campaign. Image size is 40" x 50" (for 44" x...

Wapping Group of Artists by the Thames - Mid 20th Century Oil by Donald Blake Frederick Donald Blake Born in Greenock, Scotland in 1908 and died in 1997. Blake's family moved to Lon...

Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957 PRINTER : Atelier Mourlot. SIGNATURE : printed in the image LIMITED : 197 copies. SIZE : 64.5...

Kennedy, nb_100 -- Published on the cover of the Ladies Home Journal in 1961, this photo was actually taken in Hyannis Port in 1959 before JFK became president. THE 24” x 36” SIZE OF...

Audrey Hepburn 54_0309a_e – Audrey Hepburn was photographed for the June 1954 issue of Mademoiselle. Her dress is a Claire McCardell creation. Image size is 22" x 22" (for 24" x 36" ...

This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Attaque des Moulins (Attack of the Windmills), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quichotte de la Manche (Selected Pa...

Surrealist composition by Daniel 'Zev' Harris. Zev, meaning 'wolf' in Hungarian, was the name the artist chose for himself in 1953. He was born Daniel Harris. He studied at the Mas...

This exquisite lithograph and pochoir by Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985), titled Le maitre de ceremonie (The Master of Ceremony), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, No. 6 (double),...

The À travers la belle Suisse: Ligne du Saint Gothard travel poster, created by Katharina Anderegg circa 1950, captures the breathtaking beauty of Switzerland's iconic landscapes and...

John Edward Costigan, N.A. American, 1888-1972 Bathers Oil on canvas Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left 20 by 24 in. W/frame 26 by 30 in. John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters. At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions. A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century. John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934). Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.) During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution. John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career. This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...

The Portrait Of A Boy is an Original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower on the rear. ...

The Portrait Of A Boy is an original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in mid 20th century. Hand-signed on the lower in pencil. Good conditions. M...

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. He not only defined Pop Art, but had unrivalled influence on artists and image-making.  D...

This exceptional 1956 abstract oil on canvas by Serbian-American artist Henriette “Yetti” Stolz (b. 1935) embodies the refined simplicity and emotional depth of mid-century modern art. Painted in a harmonious palette of brown, white, black, and gray, the work blends abstract and figurative elements with confident brushwork and balanced composition. Stolz’s modernist sensibility reflects her deep engagement with postwar abstraction and the evolving art movements of the 1950s. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner, the piece is beautifully presented in its original vintage frame (overall dimensions: 42 ¾ x 16 ¾ inches; image: 42 ¼ x 16 ¼ inches). Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Henriette “Yetti” Stolz. The painting is in good condition—please contact us for a detailed condition report. Born in Serbia and later based in Denver, Colorado, Stolz studied at Colorado College under influential modernists including Mary...

Remo Michael Farruggio American, 1905-1981 Studio Oil on canvas 24 by 35 in. W/frame 28 by 39 in. Signed lower right & titled on stretcher “Studio” Circa 1959 Remo Michael Farrugg...