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Period: 1950s
Henri Matisse, The Swimming Pool II, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1958 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled La Piscine II (The Swimming Pool II), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. IX, No. 35–36, originates from the 1958 issue published by Editions de la revue Verve, Paris, under the direction of Teriade, Editeur, Paris, and printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, 1958. La Piscine II is one of the most expansive and lyrical compositions from Matisse’s late cut-out period, inspired by his deep fascination with the movement of water, light, and the human form. The work’s sweeping arrangement of floating blue shapes and rhythmic negative space evokes swimmers and sea life in motion, transforming a simple visual theme into a poetic meditation on fluidity, serenity, and the joy of life. Through its monumental simplicity and chromatic brilliance, La Piscine II exemplifies Matisse’s mastery of “painting with scissors” and his ability to translate motion into pure visual harmony. Executed as a lithograph on velin du Marais paper, this work measures 14 x 40.5 inches, with trifold as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued. The edition exemplifies the superb craftsmanship of the Mourlot Freres atelier, faithfully capturing the luminosity, rhythm, and tactile beauty of Matisse’s original gouache cut-outs. Artwork Details: Artist: After Henri Matisse (1869–1954) Title: La Piscine II (The Swimming Pool II), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. IX, No. 35–36, 1958 Medium: Lithograph on velin du Marais paper Dimensions: 14 x 40.5 inches, with trifold as issued Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered as issued Date: 1958 Publisher: Editions de la revue Verve, Paris, under the direction of Teriade, Editeur, Paris Printer: Mourlot Freres, Paris Catalogue raisonne reference: Duthuit, Claude. Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonne des ouvrages illustres. Editions Claude Duthuit, Paris, 1988, illustration 139 Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. IX, No. 35–36, published by Editions de la revue Verve, Paris, 1958 Notes: Excerpted from the publication, Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. IX, No. 35–36, published under the direction of Teriade, Editeur, Paris, and printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, 1958. This double issue of Verve was entirely devoted to the final works of Henri Matisse, composed of his celebrated gouache cut-outs, which the artist called “painting with scissors.” Completed shortly before his death, this issue represents the culmination of Matisse’s lifelong exploration of color, rhythm, and spiritual joy through the simplest means of expression. About the Publication: Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire was one of the most influential art periodicals of the 20th century, founded in Paris in 1937 by the visionary Greek-born publisher Teriade (Stratis Eleftheriades). Conceived as a synthesis of art and literature, Verve brought together the greatest modern artists and writers of its time—Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, Joan Miro, Fernand Leger, and others—alongside poets and philosophers such as Paul Eluard, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Each issue was a work of art in itself, luxuriously printed by master lithographers such as Mourlot Freres and produced in collaboration with leading typographers and designers. Verve became a platform for avant-garde creativity, publishing original lithographs and essays that reflected the evolving spirit of modernism. Matisse collaborated closely with Teriade from the magazine’s inception, producing some of its most iconic issues, including those devoted to his paper cut-outs. The final Verve issue of 1958, which featured La Tristesse du Roi, the Nu Bleu series, Poisson Chinois, and Vigne, stands as a testament to Matisse’s enduring genius and to the publication’s legacy as the definitive meeting of art, poetry, and printing craftsmanship in 20th-century France. About the Artist: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was a French painter, sculptor, draughtsman, and printmaker whose revolutionary vision redefined modern art through his daring use of color, line, and form. Celebrated as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, Matisse led the Fauvist movement and devoted his life to the pursuit of balance, beauty, and emotional expression in visual art. His early works burst with vibrant hues and liberated brushwork, while his later “cut-out” compositions achieved a poetic simplicity that transformed the relationship between color and space. Deeply influenced by the work of Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat, as well as by the rhythmic patterns of Islamic art, Byzantine mosaics, and Japanese prints, Matisse forged a new visual language that celebrated joy, movement, and serenity. He was part of an extraordinary generation of artists who shaped the evolution of modernism, maintaining lifelong dialogue and friendly rivalry with contemporaries such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Andre Derain, Albert Marquet, and Raoul Dufy—peers who, like him, sought to expand the expressive potential of color and composition. Matisse’s influence extended across generations, inspiring modern and contemporary masters including Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, each of whom drew upon his fearless experimentation and refined visual harmony. His paintings, sculptures, and works on paper are held in the most prestigious museums in the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Tate, and the Hermitage Museum, where his art continues to symbolize the essence of creativity and human emotion. The highest price ever paid for a Henri Matisse artwork is approximately $80.8 million USD, achieved in 2018 at Christie’s New York for Odalisque couchee aux magnolias (1923). Henri Matisse La Piscine...
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Modern 1950s Art

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Lithograph

Henri Matisse, Mrs. L.D., from Portraits by Henri Matisse, 1954 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Madame L.D. (Mrs. L.D.), from the album Portraits par Henri Matisse (Portraits by Hen...
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Fauvist 1950s Art

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Lithograph

After PABLO PICASSO "Tête de Femme au Chapeau"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PABLO PICASSO (AFTER) Tête de Femme au Chapeau. Color lithograph 1956 Sheet size 650x540 mm; 25⅝x21¼ inches, full margins. Proof before letters, aside from the published poster e...
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Cubist 1950s Art

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Lithograph

"Lazy Days Blues" TEXAS BLUEBONNETS, NICE LARGER SIZE LANDSCAPE CIRCA 1950
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 25 x 30 Frame Size: 34 x 39 Medium: Oil on Canvas Circa 1950 "Lazy Day Blues" Texas Bluebonnet Biography Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist who painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. Born in 1910 in Bastrop, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as landscape painter, Robert Wood. Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets". Salinas served in the military from 1943 to 1945. Although he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, he was allowed to live at home. At the fort, Colonel Telesphor Gottchalk assigned him to paint murals for the officer's lounge and various other projects, and Salinas continued to be able to paint during his entire conscripted period. Even before he achieved notoriety among galleries, dealers, and museums, Salinas was widely followed and appreciated by many Texans, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may be considered responsible for launching Salinas popularity beyond the boundaries of Texas. In 1973, Texas capital, Austin, honored Salinas for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas closer together with his paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas. From the years of the Great Depression through President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society of the 1960s, Texan Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) remained one of the Lone Star State's most popular artists. Today, his works remain popular with Texas collectors and those who love landscapes of the beautiful "Hill Country" that lies in the center of the state. One of the first Mexican American painters to become widely recognized for his art, Salinas was a favorite of President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as well as of Sam Rayburn, the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Texas Governor John Connelly. In fact, President Johnson was so enamored with his Salinas paintings that the artist will forever be associated with America's first Texas-born President. Works by Porfirio Salinas is in a number of museum collections, grace the halls of the Texas State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Austin, and are included in virtually every major private collection of Early Texas Art. Porfirio Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near the small town of Bastrop, Texas, about thirty miles from Austin. His father, Porfirio G. Salinas (1881-1967), and his mother, Clara G. Chavez, struggled to make a hardscrabble living as tenant farmers, but eventually were forced to give up farming. The family moved to San Antonio, where Salinas' father was able to get a job working as a laborer for the railroad, but the scenic area around Bastrop, with its pine trees and the wide expanse of the Rio Grande River, would forever remain a touchstone for the artist. For the rest of his life, Salinas and his brothers went back frequently to visit their grandmother in her little farmhouse. When in Bastrop, Porfirio painted on the banks of the Rio Grande or in the groves of pine trees. The Salinas family was close-knit, and Porfirio was the middle child of five children, so he had an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother and sister. His mother was a native of Mexico, so throughout his childhood the family made the long drive to Mexico to visit Clara Salinas' family. As a child growing up in the bi-lingual section of San Antonio, Salinas drew and painted incessantly and by the time he was ten, he was already producing work that was mature enough to sell to his schoolteachers. Many years later in an article in the New York Times he was described as a "boy whose textbooks were seldom opened and whose sketchbook was never closed." Instead of studying, the young artist spent his spare time watching artists paint in and around San Antonio. As an aspiring painter, Salinas was fortunate to grow up in the historic city, which had the most active art scene in Texas. It was his exposure to older, professional painters that encouraged the precocious young painter to leave school early in order to help his family and pursue a career as a professional artist, despite his father's inability to see art as a career with any future for his son. When Salinas was about fifteen he came to know the artist Robert W. Wood (1889-1979). He met Wood while he was employed in an art supply store and he soon began to work as an assistant to the English-born painter, who had moved from Portland to San Antonio in 1924. Although the diminutive Englishman was already an established professional artist, he did not have a great deal of formal art training and so he was then studying with the academically trained Spanish painter Jose Arpa (1858-1952) in order to augment his knowledge and give his work a more polished look. Salinas was an eager young man, and while working in Wood's downtown San Antonio studio he learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the English artist. He began to accompany Wood and Arpa to the hills outside San Antonio, where they painted small Plein-air studies of fields of blue lupin - the state flower, the famous "Bluebonnets" of Texas - in the springtime and scenes of the gnarled Red Oaks as they changed color in the fall. He was soon assisting Wood in the tedious work of painting the tiny blue flowers that collectors wanted to see in the landscapes they purchased of central Texas. According to a 1972 newspaper story, "Legend has it that one day in the 1920s artist Robert Wood decided he could not bear to paint another bluebonnet in one of his landscapes. He hired young Porfirio Salinas to paint them in for him at five dollars a painting." Whether this story is accurate or apocryphal isn't clear, but the ambitious and independent young Salinas wasn't destined to be anyone's assistant for very long. The formative event of Porfirio Salinas' teenage years was the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, a Roaring-Twenties dream of the eccentric oilman Edgar B. Davis (1873-1951). These competitive shows of paintings of wildflowers and Texas life were mounted in San Antonio from 1927 to 1929. Held at the newly opened Witte Museum each spring, the exhibition featured large cash prizes donated by the philanthropic Davis, which were an inducement for artists to travel from all over the United States to paint in the Hill Country of Texas. The "Davis Competitions," as they were known, helped to cement San Antonio's reputation as an art center, a legacy that remains with the "River City" today. The shows generated a great deal of excitement in the area, helping to make celebrities of the some of the artists who had already settled there and encouraging others to make San Antonio their home. Over the three years that the wildflower competitions were held, more than 300 paintings were exhibited, and many thousands of viewers saw the paintings at the Witte Museum and on tours throughout the state and in New York. Each year Davis would generously purchase the winning paintings and then donate them to the San Antonio Art League. Young Porfirio Salinas would have been able to not only watch his two mentors - Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa - paint the works that they entered in the Davis Competitions, he would have been able to see Arpa take several of the major prizes, receiving the judge's accolades for "Verbena," "Cactus Flower" and "Picking Cotton," works that are still on view at the San Antonio Art League Museum today. Unfortunately, Davis eventually put his donations to work in other charitable endeavors, bringing to an end the wildflower events, but only after they inspired Salinas and other young painters and had helped to make wildflower paintings the most sought-after subject for traditionalist Texas collectors. In 1930, when he was only twenty, Salinas hung out a shingle and began to paint professionally, augmenting the sales of his easel paintings with what little business he could garner by painting signs for local concerns. It was a struggle for the young artist to make a living, as the effects of the Great Depression were settling in. His early works are very similar to those of Robert Wood's, both in subject matter and treatment. Salinas did small paintings of Bluebonnets for the tourists who visited San Antonio to see the famous Alamo as well as paintings of the Texas missions...
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Impressionist 1950s Art

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Oil

Mid 20th Century, Ghent, Belgium Chateau des Comtes from Hoofdbrug
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Belgium. East Flanders - Ghent by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968) signed in both front lower corners, inscribed and dated to the back watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframe...
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Impressionist 1950s Art

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Watercolor

Slim Aarons Palm Beach Idyll
Located in New York, NY
Palm Beach Idyll, 1955 C-print 30 x 30 inches A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photograp...
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Modern 1950s Art

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C Print

'Audrey Hepburn ' Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Located in London, GB
'Audrey Hepburn' Limited Edition silver gelatin print 1958 A gorgeous candid and delicate shot of the fashion and style movie icon Audrey Hepburn, film actress (1929-1993) during a ...
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Modern 1950s Art

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Silver Gelatin

Pablo Picasso, The Rehearsal, original lithograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso The Rehearsal, (La Répétition) Original Lithograph, (litho crayon composition on transfer paper, transferred to stone) Hand signed in ink in lower left corner Numbered ...
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Modern 1950s Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1958 and published in Milan by Groupe Espace for the very rare Documenti d'Arte d'Oggi. Size: 8 3/8 x 12 3/8 inches (214 x 315 mm). Signed in ...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

Sabrina (1953) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Sabrina (1953) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) October 1953: Belgian-born actor Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) leans out of a car window on the set ...
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Modern 1950s Art

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1956 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

Marilyn Monroe, unique print of 1988 from original negative
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot wit...
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Modern 1950s Art

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Silver Gelatin

Henri Matisse, Mrs. Matisse, from Portraits by Henri Matisse, 1954 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Madame Matisse (Mrs. Matisse), from the album Portraits par Henri Matisse (Portraits by Henri Matisse), originates f...
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Fauvist 1950s Art

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Lithograph

Mid-Century Floral Still Life by Miriam Tabor — Oil on Canvas in Original Frame
Located in Buffalo, NY
A luminous mid-century floral still life by noted artist Miriam Tabor. This elegant composition features soft pink blooms in a dark vase, set before a sunlit window. Tabor’s fluid br...
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Impressionist 1950s Art

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Canvas, Oil

Large Antique French Avante Garde Abstract Expressionist Surreal Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and finely painted French modernist abstract painting by Jacques Doucet (1924 - 1994) . Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Artist Bio: Jacques Doucet's work is inextricably bo...
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Abstract 1950s Art

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Canvas, Oil

New York : Statue of Liberty - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Bernard BUFFET New York : Statue of Liberty, 1986 Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Justified EA (artist proof) On Arches vellum 76 x 58 cm (c. 30 x 22 inch) REFRENCES : Catalogue raisonne Bernard Buffet lithograph...
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American Modern 1950s Art

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Lithograph

Paris 1952 , a picturesque moment
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph, taken in 1952 in Paris along the Seine River, captures a tranquil and picturesque moment. In the foreground, a man wearing a light-colored straw hat ...
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Modern 1950s Art

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Black and White

'Venice, Santa Maria della Salute from the Cannaregio Canal', Large Venetian Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Venice, Santa Maria della Salute from the Cannaregio Canal' by Peter Götz Pallmann. Large Venetian Oil ----- Signed lower right, 'P. G. Pallmann'...
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1950s Art

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Oil, Masonite

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Pinned Hat, 1951 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), titled Le chapeau epingle (The Pinned Hat), from the album Les Lithographies de Renoir (The Lithographs of Renoir),...
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Impressionist 1950s Art

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Lithograph

"The Slope Near the Bridge" Paul Sample, Mid-Century, American Snowy Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Paul Sample The Slope Near the Bridge, 1950 Signed in pencil lower left Lithograph on wove paper Image 8 15/16 x 12 15/16 inches Sheet 11 5/16 x 15 1/16 inches From the edition of 25...
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American Realist 1950s Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Pont Neuf - Mid 20th Century French Naïf Paris Seine River Landscape Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
* No US duty or taxes to pay on this item * A beautiful signed and dated 1953 French naïf oil on canvas depicting the River Seine at the Pont Neuf, by Louis Florquin. Excellent qua...
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1950s Art

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Canvas, Oil

Serge Poliakoff, Untitled, from XXe Siecle, 1956
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Serge Poliakoff (1900–1969), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, No. 7 (double), Juin 1956, originates from the 1956...
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Modern 1950s Art

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Lithograph

Black And White Abstract - Oil And Gouache On Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Black And White Abstract - Oil And Gouache On Paper Black and white abstract painting by Felix Ruvolo (American, 1912-1992). Grey takes over the center of the paper with strokes of ...
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Abstract 1950s Art

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Paper, Oil, Watercolor, Gouache

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Lithograph on Arches paper - 1959
Located in Varese, IT
Lithograph on Arches paper, edited in 1959. Limited edition of 200 copies, numbered as 109/200 in lower left corner. Signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner. Paper size: 70...
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Surrealist 1950s Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Marilyn Monroe, unique print of 1988 from original negative
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot wit...
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Modern 1950s Art

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Color lithograph, 1959 Unsigned (as issued) From: Derriere Le Miroir, No. 113, 1959 Publisher: Editions Pierre a Feu Editor: A. Maeght Small edition as it appeared in the ma...
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Abstract 1950s Art

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Lithograph

SS De Grasse, Minimalist Abstract Lithograph by Ralston Crawford 1952
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ralston Crawford is best known for his Precisionist abstract paintings suggestive of urban landscapes and industrial spaces. SS De Grasse by Ralston Crawford, American (1906–1978) ...
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Abstract Geometric 1950s Art

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Lithograph

Les Vins Dauphin Original Poster by Tilyjac c1950
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is an original vintage poster created in the 1950's by the artist, Tilyjac. It tells the viewer to enjoy the Vins Dauphin (the Wines of the Dolphin). Dauphin is also a region in...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

wood engraving for Mille Nuits
Located in Henderson, NV
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...
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1950s Art

Materials

Engraving, Woodcut

"Le Pendu" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the poster). Printed in Paris in 1950 by Mourlot Freres, this lithograph faithfully reproduces the original Toulouse-Lautrec poster in a smaller-size format...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

Charles Levier [Solitude de Pierrot] signed large oil on canvas circa 1950
Located in Miami, FL
CHARLES LEVIER – [SOLITUDE DE PIERROT ⚜ Oil on Canvas ⚜ Hand Signed Lower Right ⚜ Original Period Frame A THEATRICAL PORTRAIT OF MELANCHOLY “Solitude de Pierrot” captures Charles Levier’s fascination with the archetypal Pierrot from commedia dell’arte. With angular black outlines and muted pastel tones, Levier reduces the figure to its essential gestures, creating a poignant symbol of isolation and quiet reflection. The vertical format emphasizes Pierrot’s elongated stance, while his downcast eyes and red-tipped nose heighten the painting’s emotive impact. This work was acquired directly from the artist by noted Beverly Hills designer Dean Richard Kukuk and retains its original Martin Lowitz Gallery label, underscoring both provenance and historical context. WHY COLLECT THIS WORK? ✓ An early and expressive Charles Levier oil from circa 1950 ✓ Features the Pierrot subject, connecting to the theatrical tradition of commedia dell’arte ✓ Strong provenance: Martin Lowitz Gallery, Los Angeles, and the collection of Dean Richard Kukuk, Beverly Hills ✓ Retains its original period frame in excellent condition with gallery label affixed verso ARTWORK DETAILS: ▸ Title: [Solitude de Pierrot] ▸ Artist: Levier, Charles ▸ Medium: Oil on Canvas ▸ Creation Date: circa 1950 ▸ Country of Creation: US ▸ Signed: Hand Signed Lower Right ▸ Current Condition: Excellent commensurate with age. Original period frame in great condition consistent with age. ▸ Documentation: Martin Lowitz Gallery label affixed to verso ▸ Provenance: Martin Lowitz Gallery, Los Angeles; Dean Richard Kukuk, Los Angeles ▸ Dimensions: — ◼︎ Canvas Size: 44.25 inches x 15 inches — ◻︎ Frame Size: 59 inches x 30 inches x 2.625 inches INCLUDED DOCUMENTATION ✓ Certificate of Authenticity ✓ Artist Biography Document THE ARTIST: Charles Levier (1920–2003) was a French-American painter known for expressive oils, gouaches, and watercolors that bridge Modernism and postwar design sensibilities. His subjects include harbor towns, still lifes, café society, and commedia dell’arte figures such as Pierrot and Harlequin. Levier’s linear bite and stylized elongations have invited comparison to Bernard Buffet, while collectors of Modigliani, Rouault, and mid-century École de Paris painting...
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Modern 1950s Art

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Canvas, Oil

'Luxury Dining' Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Edition Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Luxury Dining (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show, circ...
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Modern 1950s Art

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Circa 1950 advertising poster by Rouffé - La bougie Colin fouette le moteur
Located in PARIS, FR
This striking circa 1950 advertising poster by Rouffé showcases the dynamic power of La Bougie Colin, a renowned French brand of spark plugs. Designed to capture the speed, reliabili...
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1950s Art

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Paper, Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1952 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1952 Spr...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

Lemons Pears on Table - British 50s still life Post Impressionist oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This lovely British Post Impressionist still life oil painting is by artist Peter Field. Painted circa 1955 on canvas it is a still life of lemons and pears in a bowl...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Art

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Oil

Dusk on Schoelcher Lagoon Martinique
Located in London, GB
'Dusk on Schoelcher Lagoon Martinique', oil on canvas, by Robert Humblot (1959). The third in a series of artworks completed in 1959 when the artist vis...
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1950s Art

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Canvas, Oil

"L'Arbre" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1952 for the art revue Verve (Volume 7, Number 27-28) and published in Paris by Teriade. Size: 13 7/8 x 10 3/8 inches (352 x 263 mm). There is...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

Cafe Culture by Bert Hardy Limited Edition Giant Oversize Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
"Cafe Culture" by Bert Hardy A waiter serving clients on the terrace of a cafe on the Champs-Elysees, Paris, June 1951. Original publication: Picture Post - 5343 - Sunday Morning I...
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Modern 1950s Art

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Black and White

Antique American Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and en...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Art

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Oil, Board

Marc Chagall David and Bathsheba
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: David and Bathsheba Portfolio: The Bible Lithographs Medium: Lithograph Date: 1956 Edition: 6500 Frame Size: 22 1/2" x 19" Sheet Size: 14" x 10 3/8" Image...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

(after) Henri Laurens "Le compotier de raisins" pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the watercolor and collage). Printed in Paris by the atelier of Daniel Jacomet, and published in 1955 by Heinz Berggruen for a rare catalogue. The image measur...
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1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Braque, Les martinets, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 115, 1959. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original 1957 poster by the German National Tourist Office in Paris - Baviere
Located in PARIS, FR
This elegant original 1957 lithographic poster was commissioned by the German National Tourist Office in Paris to promote travel to Bavaria (“Bavière” in French). It captures the reg...
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1950s Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Marilyn Monroe, print of 1988 from original negative
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot without flash in available light. The photographs he made of her during the week March 24–30, 1955 as she prepares for two appearances; opening night of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Morosco Theatre and being fitted with a burlesque corset for her ride on a pink elephant at a charity event at Madison Square Garden. (from Wikipedia) This is a unique silver gelatine print, made in 1988 from the original negative.
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Modern 1950s Art

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Silver Gelatin

The Wrestlers - American Mid-Century Scene Painting. Americana Oil Painting.
Located in Marco Island, FL
The Wrestlers by Clyde Singer is an excellent Mid-Century painting of a popular Aschan subject. The artist George Bellows (1882-1925) was a precursor of Singer's who often depicted ...
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American Realist 1950s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Place de la Republique - Le Soir - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist oil on canvas landscape circa 1950 by sought after French painter Edouard Cortes. The work depicts an evening scene of the Place de la Republique square in Paris France. The ground, bare trees and buildings are covered in a dusting of white snow. The street lights are glowing and the Monument a la Republique is visible in the distance. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 19"x24" Unframed: 13"x18" Provenance: International Galleries - Chicago c. 1950 This work is included in the Catalogue Raisonne of the painters work "Edouard Cortes (1882-1969) : The Complete Works" Ref: EC001317 A photo certificate of authenticity accompanies the painting Edouard Leon Cortes, the son of the painter Antonio Cortès, was sent to the front during World War I to sketch enemy positions. In civilian life, his base was in Lagny in the former studio of Cavallo-Peduzzi. Although he travelled extensively in France. Notably in Normandy, Brittany, the Champagne region and Savoy painting...
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Impressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Joan Miro, Woman with a Mirror, from Derriere le miroir, 1956
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled La femme au miroir (Woman with a Mirror), from the folio Derriere le miroir, 10 Ans d'Edition 1946–1956, No. 92–93, origina...
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Surrealist 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Autumn Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Autumn Landscape, by 1958, tempera on Masonite, 24 x 36 inches, signed lower left, exhibited: 1) 133rd Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, New York, NY, February 20 – March 16, 1958 (Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Prize); and 2) Henry Ward Ranger Centennial Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, September 25 - October 12, 1958, #133 (see Levin, Meyer, Illustrative Paintings Gathered for Ranger Show at National Academy, St. Petersburg Times, October 13, 1958 (“There’s a warm, low-keyed picture of golden fields, with distant structures, called “Autumn Landscape,” by Robert Vickrey, whose magic realism is felt in so “regular” a subject.”), literature: 1) Watson, Ernest William, Composition in Landscape and Still Life, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1959, pp. 24, 155 and 157 (illustrated); and 2) Vickrey, Robert and Cochrane, Diane, New Techniques in Egg Tempera, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1973, p. 111 (illustrated); ex collection National Academy of Design Reflecting on his art, Robert Vickery...
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American Realist 1950s Art

Materials

Masonite, Egg Tempera

1959 Israeli Aharon Kahana Modernist Aquatint Etching Judaica Rabbi & Students
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract color composition, 1959 aquatint lithograph "the Master and his Pupils". This was from a portfolio which included works by Yosl Bergner, Menashe Kadishman, Yosef Zaritsky, Aharon Kahana, Jacob...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Aquatint

Fantastic Mid-Century Mark Coomer Serigraph of Chicago River & Wrigley Building
Located in Chicago, IL
You need this fantastic Mid-Century serigraph of Chicago's iconic Wrigley Building & Tribune Tower by artist Mark Coomer, in its original off-white panel f...
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American Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Masonite, Screen

Vintage English Rural Country Village Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3823 English country landscape painting Image size 15.5x19.5"
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1950s Art

Materials

Oil

Pablo Palazuelo, Untitled, from Derriere le miroir, 1952
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Pablo Palazuelo (1916–2007), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Derriere le miroir, Tendance, No. 50, originates from the 1952 edition publishe...
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Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Dante and Beatrice - Original WATERCOLOR, Signed (Descharnes #d6970_1951)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali Divine Comedy : Dante and Beatrice, 1952 Original watercolor Signed in lower center Dated 1952 On vellum lined on thin board 42 x 30 cm (c. 17 x 12in) REFERENCES : Th...
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Surrealist 1950s Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

"Pierre Matisse" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the painting). Printed in Paris on smooth wove paper at the atelier Mourlot and published in 1954. Size: 9 x 7 inches (228 x 178 mm). Not signed. Conditio...
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1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Gaspe: St. Lawrence Village
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right Provenance: Estate of the Artist With the artist's original presentation (Frame and matting) Two similar titles were exhibited in The ...
Category

American Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Watercolor

(after) Marino Marini - "Le cheval au manège" pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the lithograph). Printed by the atelier of Daniel Jacomet, and published in Paris in 1955 by Heinz Berggruen. The image measures 5 x 3 3/4 inches (130 x 93 mm)...
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Surrealist 1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Mid Century Floral Bouquet and Splendor Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful still life of orange and white flowers next to a bowl of fruit by Los Angeles and Carmel artist Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" lower right....
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American Impressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
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...
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1950s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Lovely Vintage French(?) Post-Impressionist Landscape Painting - Picking Poppies
Located in Baltimore, MD
This post-impressionist painting is signed, titled and dated 1955 by the artist, but the signature is difficult to decipher. It is oil on masonite board and is titled “Les Coquelico...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Art

Materials

Oil

Antique American School Signed Modernist Abstract Coastal Harbor Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted American modernist harbor oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 16H by 20L.
Category

Modern 1950s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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