1950s Art

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framing is available.

Etching and aquatint Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 73/150 Publisher : Galerie Maeght (Paris) Catalog : Saphire E15 / Maeght 1402 64.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.2 in. x 1...

A limited edition, hand signed in pencil intaglio etching on French Arches deckle edged art paper. Krishna Reddy (1925 – 2018) was an Indian master intaglio printmaker, sculptor, and teacher. He was considered a master intaglio printer and known for viscosity printing. Krishna Reddy was born on 15 July 1925, in a small village called Nandanoor, near Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, in India. Reddy studied at Visva-Bharati University's Kala Bhavana (Institute of Fine Arts) with Nandalal Bose, from 1941 to 1946, and graduated with a degree in fine arts. From 1947 to 1949, he was head of the art section at Kalakshetra Foundation and was also teaching art at the Montessori Teachers' Training Centre in Madras. It was at this time that he took interest in sculpture and painting. In 1949, he moved to London, and continued his sculpture studies with Henry Moore at the University of London's Slade School of Fine Arts. In 1950, Reddy moved to Paris and met artist Constantin Brâncuși. Through Brancusi, he was introduced to cafe discussions on art and met many famous artists during studio visits. During his time in Paris he studied sculpture under Ossip Zadkine and engraving under Stanley William Hayter. In 1957, he traveled to Accademia Di Belle Arti Di Brera (Brera Academy) in Milan to study under Marino Marini. In 2016 he was one of the subjects of the exhibition Workshop and Legacy: Stanley William Hayter, Krishna Reddy, Zarina Hashmi...

Radiant Relections. Abstract Non-Objective 1950s Oil Mid 20th Century American Woman Female Artist. Signed lower right. Provenance: Estate of Foy C. Casper, Norfolk, Virginia (a close personal friend of the artist and a former director of the Irene Rice-Pereira Foundation). Sothebys American art sale October 10, 2008. The canvas measures 50 x 40. The work has been restored, relined and is housed in its original frame, made by the artist's second husband, George Wellington Brown, a marine engineer from Boston. BIO Periera was an American abstract artist, poet, and philosopher who played a significant role in the development of modernism in America. She is known for her work in the Geometric abstraction, Abstract expressionist, and lyrical abstraction genres and her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school. She helped found the Federal Art Project...

Original Arabic Art – Spain vintage travel poster. Artist: Jose Ortega. Size: 24.5" x 39.5". C. 1950. Original vintage European travel poster...

The lithograph, entitled "Laocoön and His Sons," depicts a modern and minimalist interpretation of the tragic mythological story of Laocoön. The artwork is done in black and white, and was created in 1953, showcasing a unique blend of classical themes and contemporary art styles. The image shows the high priest...

mixed media on paper Signed in blue, lower right 18.25 x 25 inches; 27 x 33.375 framed Provenance: Private Collection, Denver, CO

Lithograph, 1956 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 56/75 65.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.59 in. x 19.69 in. (paper) 47.00 cm. x 33.00 cm. 18.5 in. x 12.99 in. (image) BFK Ri...

Composition is an original color lithograph realized by Danièle Perré. The artwork is in good condition, included a brown cardboard passpartout (35x27.5 cm). Hand-signed, dated and...

Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) White & Yellow, c. 1953 oil on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 30 x 20 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...

The singularly brilliant Harold Town, one of the most celebrated abstract artists from the Painters Eleven group formed in Toronto in the 1950s. A fellow artist introduced him to pri...

"Florentine Night" is an oil on canvas painting by Edward (Eduardo) Arcenio Chavez (1917-1995) circa 1951 signed and titled on back of canvas. Signed and titled by the artist verso. Abstract painting in bright blue, purple, green, yellow, and orange. Presented in the original artist frame measuring 28 x 33 inches, image size is 24 x 30 inches. Expedited and International shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Born 1917 Died 1995 Born in Wagonmound, New Mexico, Eduardo Chavez...

Silksreen Handsigned by the artist in pencil After a gouache. Edition : 113/200 Printer : Jean Bruller (Paris) Catalog : Saphire E10 56.00 cm. x 38.00 cm. 22.05 in. x 14.96 in. (pa...

This exhibition poster by #Picasso commemorates the thirteenth May Salon in 1957, which was held at the Museum of Modern Art. On this poster, we find an iconic work "the torso of a woman" better known as "the Egyptian. The Salon de Mai was an annual exhibition organized by a group of French artists who first met in 1943 in a café in Paris...

Lithograph, 1951 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 104/200 Publisher : La Guilde de la Gravure, Paris-Genève Catalog : Passeron 29 38.00 cm. x 57.00 cm. 14.96 in. x 22...

Antique American abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed in monogram. Framing is available!

Antique American modernist seascape signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Framed. Image size, 30L x 15H.

Pink,red,white,yellow, Picasso Dora Maar is the pseudonym of Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Paris 1907 - 1997). Shrouded in the monumental shadow of Picasso, she has long been - and...

Serge Poliakoff - Colorful Abstract Composition - Lithograph Published in the deluxe art review, XXe Siecle 1961 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro. Serge Poliakof...

Artist: (after) Josef Albers (German-American, 1888-1976) Title: "Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel (Prefatio)" Year: 1957 Medium: Original Relief Print (Letterpress), Exhibition Poster on light wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany Publisher: Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany Sheet size: 24.75" x 17.63" Image size: 11.75" x 15.63" Condition: A few faint handling creases. Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition Extremely rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Nuremberg, Germany. Poster produced for a special exhibition of Albers' work "Early Pictures from the Twenties and New Works" at the Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel from May 28 - June 8, 1957. The image featured on this poster is Albers' 1942 lithograph edition "Prefatio", (Danilowitz No. 103, page 76), from his 1942 "Graphic Tectonics" series of 9 lithographs, (Danilowitz No. 100-108, page 74-79). Printer's imprint upper right. This is an extremely rare poster being if not the, one of the, earliest documented Josef Albers exhibition...

Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist in a career that stretched for more than 75 years. Born in 1889, Scarlett had his first retrospective by 1928. He subscribed fully to the modernist credo. Interviewed at the time, he said: "If a futuristic painting brings the casual gallery patron to an abrupt stop and forces him to spend five minutes in front of the painting, then the ends of modernism have been served," A major proponent of non-objective painting, Scarlett's career and artistic philosophy is closely linked with the early history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. His work, along with that of Kandinsky, Klee, and German artist Rudolph Bauer...

This is a stunning polychromed, engraved, and oxidized aluminum abstract still-life composition panel painting by Robert Pansart (1909-1973). The painted aluminum panel imitates the ...

Green, Yellow, abstract, Picasso, Atelier stamp lower right Dora Maar, original name Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Marković), (born November 22, 1907, Paris, France—died July 16, 1997, Paris), French photographer and Surrealist artist whose career and accomplishments were overshadowed during her lifetime by the details of her affair with Pablo Picasso. Her work was resurrected and reexamined more thoughtfully after her death. Maar and Picasso began a love affair in 1936. She photographed him often, and her pictures of him creating his epic work Guernica became important visual documents related to that painting. Throughout their relationship, Picasso painted Maar numerous times (e.g., Dora Maar Seated [1937]; Weeping Woman...

Composition is a lithograph on ivory-colorated paper by K.R. H. Sonderborg (1920-1976). In excellent conditions: As good as new. Not signed. K.R.H. Sonderborg (1923–2008) was a Ge...

Silksreen, 1954 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 70/200 Catalog : Saphire E6 38.00 cm. x 54.00 cm. 14.96 in. x 21.26 in. (paper) 25.00 cm. x 28.00 cm. 9.84 in. x 11....

Wonderful abstract expressionist painting of guitarist painted by Norman Rubington (American, 1921 - 1991) while in Rome, 1952. Signed lower left and on verso. Dated "11 - 52, Roma" ...

Irene Rice Pereira Composition with Figure, 1951 Inscribed, signed and dated Salford/Pereira 2/51 (lr); inscribed I Rice Pereira/2669 Great Clowes St/Sa...

Lithograph, 1953 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 27/100 Printer : Jean Pons (Paris) LCD5358

Vintage 1950s original signed abstract painting of New York City by Charles Ragland Bunnell from 1951, cityscape mid century modern skyline. Presented in a custom black frame, outer dimensions measure 21 ⅜ x 26 ⅜ x 2 inches. Image size is 19 x 24 inches. Painting is clean and in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a complete condition report. Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the artist: Charles Bunnell developed a love for art at a very young age. As a child in Kansas City, Missouri, he spent much of his time drawing. When he was unable to find paper he drew on walls and in the margins of textbooks for which he was often fined. Around 1915, Bunnell moved with his family to Colorado Springs, Colorado. He served in World War I and later used his GI Training to study at the Broadmoor Art Academy (later renamed the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) during 1922 and 1923. In 1922, he married fellow student, Laura Palmer...

Abstract Composition is a lithograph print on ivory-colored paper realized by Claude Clero in the 1950s. Hand-signed on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left, the edition of ...

Stencil The work signed in the plate 24.00 cm. x 35.00 cm. 9.45 in. x 13.78 in. (image) 42.50 cm. x 53.00 cm. 16.73 in. x 20.87 in. (frame) LCD5581

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Tête de chèvre de profil (A. R. 109 V) Terre de faïence plate, 1950, unglazed, aside from the editions A. R. 109 a...

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, signed and dated verso. 62.25 x 56.25 in. 64 x 58 in. (framed) Custom framed in a natural cherry wood floater. Provenance Washburn Gallery, New York Behnke Doherty Gallery, Washington Depot, CT Born in 1908 in Chicago, John Opper moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1916. In high school, he began studying art and attending classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art. After graduation, he enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art (now Cleveland Institute of Art), only to withdraw after a year and move to Chicago, where he took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. He eventually returned to Cleveland, enrolling at Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve), receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1931. The Depression has taken hold during this period, so Opper found work by teaching metalworking and sketching classes at the Karamu Settlement House, the oldest African American theater in the United States. In 1933, Opper traveled to Gloucester, Massachusetts, eventually connecting with the artist Hans Hofmann, who was teaching at the school run by Ernest Thurn. Hofmann encouraged Opper to work “in a more modern vein and start finding what it’s all about.” Heeding this advice, Opper relocated to New York, co-founding a mail-order club of American and British prints for dissemination to schools and museums. By the mid-1930s, he joined the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Easel Division, and also began attending the 57th Street school that Hans Hofmann had established after leaving the Art Students League. Looking back at his time at the school, Opper felt that beyond Hofmann’s teaching, most advantageous was his contact with fellow artists, including Byron Browne, Rosalind Bengelsdorf, and George McNeil. At the time, he also met Giorgio Cavallon and the sculptor Wilfrid Zogbaum. In 1936, Opper became a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, along with Balcomb and Gertrude Greene. The organization was formed to provide an opportunity for artists to show abstract works at a time when such opportunities were scarce. This led to his first solo show in 1937 at the Artists’ Gallery in New York. During his summer in Gloucester in 1933, Opper came to know Milton Avery. Painting in Avery’s informal studio in New York City the following winter, he became acquainted with Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko. Opper participated in a couple of shows during the 1930s of the American Artists Congress Against War and Fascism, whose president was Stuart Davis. About the same period, Opper joined the Artists’ Union and served as the business manager of its publication, Art Front. During World War II, Opper worked for a ship design company creating drawings for piping systems used in PT boats...

Signed lower left. Oil on canvas in what might be the original frame. Wonderful still life at a table with NYC street scene shown below. RFeally br...

This artwork features an oil landscape painting by French painter Emile Gerard. The artist used warm colors, overlapping layers of light, and dark oranges...

Bike Race; On the Line Bosco #46 Pierre Bosco (Italy/France, 1909-1993) 1950s Oil on canvas 25 x 13 inches, frame size “The savage art of Bosco bears its ru...

Mid Century Modern East Bay IV Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran Dynamic mid century abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California landscape by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999), circa 1950. From a collection of estate of Ruth Loran (wife of artist). Presented in mat. Unframed. Image size: 13"H x 16"W. Provenance: This piece was from Erle Loran's sketch book and this drawing was then matted, purchased from the Erle Loran estate and the Carlson Gallery, Carmel. Erle Loran was a modernist of urban-coast views and geometric painting. Loran was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1905. He attended the University of Minnesota for a while before studying at the Minneapolis School of Art, under Cameron Booth...

Antique American school modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Unsgned. Image size 36L x 60H.

A fine period Abstract Expressionist oil painting by noted American artist, Alexander M. Bing (1878 - 1959), signed 'AMB' lower right. Gallery label from ...

Artist: Joan Miro Medium: Original lithograph Title: Joan Miro (Plate 6) Portfolio: Joan Miro Year: 1956 Framed Size: 16 3/4" x 15 1/2" Image Size: 7 1/2" x 9" (19 x 22.8 cm) Sheet S...

Lithograph, 1953 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 27/100 Printer : Jean Pons (Paris) LCD5352

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...

*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Fire (3) by Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) Gouache and pastel on paper 27.7 x 20.3 cm (10 ⁷/₈ x 8 inches) Signed, ...

from "Fusées" - Joan Miró, one artwork out of "Fusées" portfolio Wonderful exemplar form the portfolio "Fusées". Aquatint etching from 1959 32 x 50 cm. Edition of 100

Icy Winter Size: 44 x 52 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A beautifully ethereal mid century modernist winter landscape scene, painted in oil onto canvas. This semi abstract land...

The artist Pinajian signed lower right with ink. it is ink on paper.

Guinovart. Thoughtful man. black and white. drawing on cardboard Josep Guinovart i Bertran (Barcelona 1927-2007) was a painter, draftsman and engraver from Catalonia, Spain. After ...

Here I have for sale a rare Avant-Garde painting by Minna Wright Citron (October 15, 1896 – December 21, 1991). She was wife of the famous social realist Bernard Koopman. Reginald Marsh and Raphael Soyer. She moved on to start teaching in the early 1950’s Abstract...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed.

Artist: Henri Matisse (after) Title: Vigne Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse Medium: Lithograph Date: 1958 Edition: 2000 Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 14 3/4" Sheet Size: 14" x 10 1...

20 x 30 inches; 22.125 x 32.0625 inches framed Provenance: Private collection, Denver, CO Exhibition History: Exhibition label on stretcher, "Elmhurst Art Museum, Hugo Weber, Septemb...

Émile Gilioli La Boisselune 1954-59 Bronze 23.6 x 15.4 x 7.9 in, 60 x 39 x 20 cm Signed, dated and numbered on the back: “Gilioli, 59, 1/6" Cast from La Plaine Edition 1/6 P...

This monochromatic, black-and-white abstract painting plays a constant game between forms and shadows. For the painter, his artworks are a pure contrast between the visible and the invisible. Dark gestural lines decorate the background and contrast against a disappearing white background with subtle details of grey. Organic patterns appear in the black line work, creating an ethereal use of depth and space. The foreground contains multiple uncanny shapes feeding an overall fantasy yet gloomy atmosphere. The title of the artwork is "Phase 2...

Original Cinquantenaire Aeronautique vintage poster. Archival linen backed and ready to frame. Printer: Bedos & Co, Paris. A- condition. (50TH ANNIVERSARY 23E SALON INTERNATIONAL D' AERONAUTICS, JUNE 12 TO 21, 1959 * LE BOURGET AIRPORT.) This mid-century modern original French poster is for an air show...

ZAO WOU-KI 1921- 2013 Beijing 1921 -2013 Switzerland (Chinese) Title: Etching No. 118, 1959 Technique: Original Hand Signed, Numbered and Dated Etching and Aquatint in Colours on W...

Abstract Composition is a lithograph on paper realized by Jean Joyet (21 June 1919 – 14 April 1994), a French painter in the 1950s. Hand-signed on the lower. Numbered, edition of 9...

Artist: Fernand Leger (after) Title: L'Artiste dans le Studio from Douze Contemporains Year: 1959 Original: 1938 Medium: Lithograph with Pochoir on Wove paper, signed and dated in t...

Vintage American modernist oil painting by Morris M. Shulman (1912 - 1978). Oil on board, circa 1955. Housed in a vintage frame. Signed. Image size, 28 by 20.