1950s Art

Acapulco Waterskier by Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition A water skier in motion, Acapulco in 1954. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print ...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

Nue - From the 12 plate Portfolio, 1959 Published by Denise Rene, Paris Lithograph in colors on heavy paper 20 x 26 inches Numbered in pencil, edition of 64/150 AUGUSTE HERBIN (188...

'Tennis In San Diego' California (Slim Aarons Estate Edition) A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees, San Diego, California, October 1956. The elegant pair dressed in tennis whites, save for the striped shirt of the young lady, enjoy a game of tennis, in the heat of the Californian sunshine...

'C. Z. Guest' American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida, 1955. ...

Stunning oil on canvas circa 1955 by American impressionist painter Johann Henrik Carl Berthelsen. The piece depicts a view of the illuminated waterfront buildings from the East Rive...

The danger of American life is captured in this Clyde Singer painting, City Peril (1958), where he depicts a moment in the city where a woman is targeted while walking. An accomplish...

Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau From "Théâtre" Portfolio, 1957 Edition: 207 / 8800 Dimensions: 22.5 x 15.5 cm Jean Cocteau Writer, artist and film director Jean Cocteau was on...

Nude of Woman is a china ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1970s. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a cream colored paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, ...

Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Mines de Rien, Year: 1957, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Rives, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 46/50, Image Size: 5.25 x 4.5 inche...

Gifford Beal (1879-1956) "Bareback Act, Old Hippodome" 1950 Lithograph Signed Lower Right With original Associated American Artists label verso image: 6 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (16.2 x 24.6 cm) sheet: 12 x 16 in. (30.4 x 40.6 cm) framed: 17 x 20 in. Gifford Beal, painter, etcher, muralist, and teacher, was born in New York City in 1879. The son of landscape painter William Reynolds Beal, Gifford Beal began studying at William Merritt Chase's Shinnecock School of Art (the first established school of plein air painting in America) at the age of thirteen, when he accompanied his older brother, Reynolds, to summer classes. He remained a pupil of Chase's for ten years also studying with him in New York City at the artist's private studio in the Tenth Street Studio Building. Later at his father's behest, he attended Princeton University from 1896 to 1900 while still continuing his lessons with Chase. Upon graduation from Princeton he took classes at the Art Students' League, studying with impressionist landscape painter Henry Ward Ranger and Boston academic painter Frank Vincent DuMond. He ended up as President of the Art Students League for fourteen years, "a distinction unsurpassed by any other artist." His student days were spent entirely in this country. "Given the opportunity to visit Paris en route to England in 1908, he chose to avoid it" he stated, "I didn't trust myself with the delightful life in ParisIt all sounded so fascinating and easy and loose." His subjects were predominately American, and it has been said stylistically "his art is completely American." Gifford achieved early recognition in the New York Art World. He became an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1908 and was elected to full status of academician in 1914. He was known for garden parties, circuses, landscapes, streets, coasts, flowers and marines. This diversity in subject matter created "no typical or characteristic style to his work." Beal's style was highly influenced by Chase and Childe Hassam, a long time friend of the Beal family who used to travel "about the countryside with Beal in a car sketching...

Traces groteaques is an original B/W lithograph realized by the French founder of Art Brut, Jean Dubuffet in 1959. Not signed nor numbered, as issued. Very good condition. The ar...

Edward Zutrau An Orange Seducing a Lemon while a Bunch of Grapes Look On, 4/20/1953 Signed, dated and titled on stretcher bar, and on the side of the work Oil on linen 18 x 21 inches...

Jamaica Sea Sailing, 1953 Fiber print Estate edition of 150 Signature stamped and hand numbered with Certificate of authenticity 1953: Two men sailing their yacht 'Eel II' in Jamaic...

Don Quixote Leaves the Stable on his Horse is an etching and drypoint print on ivory-colored China paper, realized by Wladyslaw Jahl in 1951. It belongs to a limited edition of 125 ...

Slim Aarons CZ's Dogs 1955 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity circa 1955: Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 - 2003) (aka...

A stunning mid-century landscape oil painting by Danish artist Max Victor (1919-1993), signed and dated July 3, 1958. The beautiful composition portrays a vast, open field under a ...

Amazing work by the French painter Jacques Falcou, depicting three pots of colorful pink flowers which, despite the lack of detail, appear to be geraniums. They stand out for their ...

A fashionable woman gazes into a mirror and fixes her hair as a young man stares at the bill in shock after a lavish meal at a restaurant. Illustrated on the cover of the February 21, 1959 edition of Panorama as well as HÖRZU, 1958, cover illustration. Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Bateau Lithograph from 1958. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. First, original edition. The work is in Good condition. -...

From a series of paintings by Clifford and Rosemary 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 thi...

Hayter, Stanley William. COMBAT SOUSMARIN (Black & Moorhead 233). Engraving and soft-ground etching in colors, 1957. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/50 in pencil. Printed on BFK...

A captivating midcentury cityscape titled "Denver Skyline", this original 1950s watercolor and graphite painting offers a rare industrial-era view of lower downtown Denver, Colorado....

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...

Audrey Hepburn, c19_27 -- Audrey Hepburn, ready in make-up and costume to play the title role in Paramount's Sabrina Fair. This shot is an out take from the photo essay in the December 7, 1953 issue of LIFE. Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Each print is Estate stamped on the back and signed and numbered by David Shaw...

Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Signed 'Hughes-' Lower Left This work was published as the cover of the June 17, 1950 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. Literature: J. Cohn, ...

A fine Impressionist oil, ' Young Friends by the Beach Watching Fishermen' circa 1950's. oil on canvas 43cm x 53cm Good quality gallery frame 52cmx62cm ...

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

One of a group of over 100 works personally selected by the artist and gifted to a close personal friend in 1969, this work was never matted, framed, glued, taped or exposed to light...

House in the Sun is an original 1950 black-and-white lithograph by celebrated New Mexico modernist Kenneth Miller Adams, a distinguished member of the Taos and Santa Fe art colonies....

Lawrence Rothbort Belt Parkway, circa 1950 Oil on canvas 48 x 48 inches Lawrence Rothbort was born March 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. He was a model from infancy for his father, Amer...

A colorful, 1950s Mid-Century Modern painting of a bull fight by notable Chicago artist, Francis Chapin. Oil on canvas, in a dark walnut brown stained frame. Painted most likely in...

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 10" x 12.8" (for 11"...

Vin - From the 12 plate Portfolio, 1959 Published by Denise Rene, Paris Lithograph in colors on heavy paper 20 x 26 inches Numbered in pencil, edition of 126/150 AUGUSTE HERBIN (18...

Enamel on Copper Pendant A small enamel similar to this one was shown in VOGUE Magazine in the early 1950s. Jewelry by the artist is quite rare. There are two examples at the Metal...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1959 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue number 116) and published in Paris by the Maeght atelier. Size: 15 x 22 inches (377 x 560 mm)...

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - David and His Harp Original Lithograph from 1956. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm. Publisher: Tériade, Paris. Reference: Mourlot 134. On the reverse: an...

Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference M 133. This beautiful color lithograph was printed by Mourlot and published in Paris by Teriade for Verve in 1956 for a special editi...

Slim Aarons Christmas Swim 1954 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, ...

This original U.S. one-sheet poster was issued in 1955 by 20th Century-Fox for the theatrical release of The Tall Men, a Western directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Clark Gable, Jane Russell, and Robert Ryan. Based on the novel by Heck Allen (writing as Clay Fisher), the film follows two brothers as they drive a massive cattle herd from Texas to Montana, set against a backdrop of frontier conflict, ambition, and shifting loyalties in the post–Civil War American West. The poster features bold, period Western imagery centered on its three leads, with Jane Russell prominently positioned between Gable and Ryan. The composition emphasizes scale and movement, reflecting the film’s themes of expansion and endurance. Strong color saturation—particularly in the warm earth tones and vivid costume accents—gives the piece immediate wall presence, typical of mid-1950s studio advertising design. This example is linen-backed using archival, acid-free materials, a standard conservation method that stabilizes the paper while enhancing displayability. Restoration appears professional and consistent with industry norms for a poster of this age, allowing the imagery to present cleanly while retaining its original character. The NSS number 55/373 confirms its year of release and studio distribution. While The Tall Men is not among the rarest Western titles, it holds steady collector interest due to its strong cast—particularly Clark Gable in one of his later Western roles—and the enduring appeal of classic studio-era frontier films. As such, it represents a solid and visually compelling entry point into 1950s Western poster...

This exquisite lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904–1989), titled Les Outres du Vin (The Wine Skins), from the folio Pages choisies de Don Quichotte de la Manche (Selected Pages of Don ...

Picasso with Sword, Arm Out, 1955 -- Photographed for LIFE in 1955 in his new Cannes Villa, La Californie, Picasso celebrates his Fashion debut by clowning around with a fedora and a sword. Top French Model, Bettina Graziani wears an outfit by American Fashion Designer Claire McCardell. The shirt's pattern is in the style of a Picasso still life. All the Picasso paintings pictured had been completed within the past few months. Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Each print is Estate stamped on the back and signed and numbered by David Shaw, and accompanied by a letter of authenticity. Lead time is four to six weeks, but we often receive them sooner. *Please note this image is available in several sizes. Prices increase as editions sell out. A photograph in color of Picasso with model Bettina Graziani. Picasso is wearing a blue collared shirt with brown shorts and a grey fedora. In his right hand, he has a sword. To his right is Bettina Graziani. She is wearing orange pants with an orange blouse and orange ascot. She faces Picasso...

Image dimensions: 30x25 cm. Limited edition of 30 prints, numbered and hand signed. Excellent conditions.

Pisa, Italy – Land of Your Dreams EPT, Agaf Firenze, Italy (1958) 40x25inches Original poster

This 1959 Air France poster promoting the Osaka International Festival is a refined example of mid-century travel advertising, where elegance, cultural imagery, and modern typography...

Nude is an original drawing in China ink artwork realized in 1941 by Toti Scialoja (Roma, 1914 – 1998) With a pencil description on the rear. Hand-signed and dated on the lower ri...

Frasconi, Antonio. NIGHT FLIGHT. Color Woodcut, 1958. Edition of 20. Signed and dated, numbered 10/20, and inscribed "imp," all in pencil. 19 x 34 inches,...

This exquisite lithograph by Georges Braque (1882–1963), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from Les Paroles Transparentes (The Transparent Words), originates from the May 11, 1955 issue ...

Composition of Diodora is an original lithograph realized by Bruno Capacci in 1950. The artwork is part of an edition in 500 pieces by "La nef d'argent" Paris. In good condition, n...

The global appeal of Campari is flouted in this 1959 advertising poster for the Italian liqueur label. Flags of various countries around the world wave julibantly behind the aperitif...