Mid-20th Century Art

Medium: lithograph (after the original lithograph poster). During the late 1940's and throughout the 1950's, Henri Matisse created a series of posters at the atelier of Mourlot Frere...

ARTIST: Ginette Rapp (1928-1998) French TITLE: "Still Life Of Flowers" SIGNED: lower right MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 35cm x 30cm inclusive of frame CONDITION: very good DET...

Charles Turzak, 'The Workers (No. 2)', woodcut, edition 50, c. 1935. Signed and numbered 2/50 in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove Japan paper, with full margin...

Portrait of a Woman in a Blue Shirt by Georges Eugène Delhomme (French, 1904-1989) signed oil on board, framed in original vintage frame. framed: 30.5 x 26 inches board: 24 x 32 inc...

The Old Chateau, Provence by Paul Bret, (French, 1902-1956) signed and dated 1948 oil on canvas, framed framed: 29 x 36.5 inches canvas: 21 x 29 inches Provenance: private collection...

The Green Park French Post-Impressionist, circa 1950's period oil on board, framed framed: 22 x 19 inches board: 18.5 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: ve...

This authentic woodblock print is titled, Uso shidare-zakura 鷽 垂桜 (Bullfinch and weeping cherry-tree). It is printed and published by Ukiyoe Kenkyusho studio, known for making authen...

This striking coastal landscape by Bertel Bertel-Nordström captures the solemn beauty of a moonlit night along the Nordic shoreline. The composition is dominated by a dramatic interp...

Vintage post-impressionist oil painting on stretched canvas of ballerina dancers at the opera by French artist, Max Herve (1926-2018). Max Herve is the son of Jules René Hervé and c...

From the rare, fully signed edition of One Cent Life - only 100 examples were hand signed by the artists. Exceptional provenance from Robert Indiana's estate. Sam Francis, Karel App...

Title: Autumn River Bridge Landscape With Trees French Watercolor Gouache Pierre Neveu Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on card, unframed Size (H x W): 5.75 x...

Vintage Swedish landscape painting/figurative oil painting of a woman reading in the garden by Swedish artist Gunnar Wallentin (1905-1997). A very charming, oil on board with an ama...

Large Oil on Canvas by André Morisset (1876–1954), France, 1931 Title: Seaside at Sunset With frame: 91 x 120 cm – 35.8 x 47.2 inches Without frame: 75 x 103 cm – 29.5 x 40.6 inches...

Title: French Village House with Cypress Trees La Maison Churchill Watercolor Landscape Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on card, unframed Size (H x W): 6 x 5...

"A Quiet Corner" by Beete Hardinge-Smith (British, 20th century) signed oil on board, framed framed; 22.5 x 18.5 inches board: 20 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection, Surrey, ...

From the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei 名所江戸百景), the seals of the artist, publisher, and the carver are shown clear and with the highest quality...

This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...

This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...

➡️ Landscape with cows at dusk⬅️ ➡️Vivid Landscape⬅️ ⏩It is signed R Hesse⏪ René Jean Hesse (1910-2000) René Hesse was a French painter whose art captured the essence of rural Lor...

Individually framed: six lithographs "White Lines Squares," 1966, after Josef Albers, by Blair Litho (Lithograph in brilliant Colors on paper, 1966). Published to accompany an exhibi...

Title: Provence Lavender Fields with Farmhouse and Distant Hills French Landscape Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on artist paper, unframed Size (H x W): 8.5 x 6.5 inches Condition: Good overall, with light natural edge wear consistent with age. Provenance: From the artist’s studio sale in France; all works by this artist in our collection originate from the artist’s estate. Description: This luminous watercolor and gouache landscape by Pierre Neveu captures the quintessential beauty of Provence, featuring sweeping lavender fields, warm ochre farm buildings, and rolling blue-green hills under a glowing southern sky. Neveu’s ability to express the colours, textures, and atmosphere of the French countryside is fully evident here, making this an ideal work for collectors seeking an evocative Post-Impressionist interpretation of Provence’s most iconic landscape. The foreground is dominated by the rich purple rows of blooming lavender, painted with loose, rhythmic brushstrokes that convey both movement and scent—those unmistakable fields that draw visitors from around the world each summer. A sunlit farmhouse complex sits beyond the lavender, its tiled roofs and stone walls glowing in warm yellows, browns, and soft creams. The mid-ground transitions into layered greens of vineyards, orchards, and cypresses, characteristic of the Luberon and Vaucluse regions. Above, the composition rises into deep blue and indigo mountain ranges, their tonal shifts suggesting atmospheric heat and great distance. Neveu’s use of gouache adds solidity to architectural details while maintaining the translucency and fluidity of watercolor in the sky and foliage. His sketchlike graphite lines remain visible beneath the paint, giving the work an immediacy reminiscent of plein-air studies done on location in rural Provence. Perfect for collectors of French landscapes, lavender field paintings...

Title: French Hillside Village with Trees and Church Tower Modernist Watercolor Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed Size (H x W): 4 x ...

This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1938 and published in Paris by Teriade for the art revue Verve (volume 1, number 2). Kandinsky was invited to contribute an original compositi...

Large Nude, Female Nude, Large Nude Portrait, Original Oil Painting, Vintage Oil Painting, Large 1960's female reclining nude by renown French artist, Georges Pierre Guinegault (18...

Atmospheric Landscape by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on artist paper, unframed painting: 11 x 15 inches provenance: private collection, Cotswolds condition: very good...

English School, 20th century indistinctly signed oil on board, framed framed: 9.5 x 12 inches panel: 7 x 9 inches Glass covering Provenance: private collection, UK Condition: very g...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1938 and published in Paris by Teriade for the art revue Verve (volume 1, number 2). Andre Masson was invited to contribute an original compos...

Title: French Provençal Village Street Scene With Trees Watercolor Gouache Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour and Gouache on artists paper, unframed Size (H x W...

This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...

"Picador" 1966 Experimental Surrealist Composition Intriguing mixed-media piece by prominent California artist Morris Broderson (b. 1928 d. 2011.) A picador sits upon his horse, hol...

Title: Coastal Estuary with Distant Boats and Tidal Posts Watercolour Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour and Gouache on card, unframed Size (H x W): 6.75 x 11.7...

Vintage Post Impressionist framed snowscape oil painting on board by French artist Maurice Paris (1903-1969) This small jewel of a painting is quite beautiful. The artist has captur...

ARTIST: Indistinctly Signed TABE ? (mid 20th Century) English School TITLE: "Portrait Of A Lady" SIGNED: lower left MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 65cm x 55cm inclusive of frame COND...

Title: Provence Hillside with Stone Houses and Lush Trees French Landscape Watercolor Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on artist paper, unframed Size (H x W):...

This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...

Alexander Calder Balloons and spirals, 1965 Lithograph in colors Unsigned as usual On light vellum 32 x 23 cm (c. 12,5 x 9 in) Published in 1965 by National Museum of Modern Art, Pa...

Title: French Hilltop Village Fields Distant Landscape and Clouds Watercolor Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed Size (H x W): 6.25 x ...

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Purgatory 13 - The Second Terrace Color woodcut on paper Printed signature 1960/63 Printed on paper Vélin BFK Rives Size 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. 13 x 10") REFE...

Fabulous ca. 1960 mid-century modern painting of four fashion models. Oil on panel measuring 18 x 24 inches. Unsigned and unattributed.

Vintage Horse Portrait on wood by French artist Andre Hardy signed in the lower right and on the back. Dated 1962, this is a portrait of a pure blood Arab...

A Fabulous, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Studio Interior Scene of a Seated Female Nude Model by Famed Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Completed in the vibrant, Fauvist, ...

This folk art painting of a red sleigh in winter is by Maud Lewis. Maud Lewis is perhaps the best-known and most beloved folk artist in Canada; indeed her work has attracted a large...

Medium: lithograph (after the original lithograph poster). During the late 1940's and throughout the 1950's, Marc Chagall created a series of posters at the atelier of Mourlot Freres...

Title: Le Pontreau French Coastal Landscape Watercolour Seaside Scene by Pierre Neveu Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on card, unframed Size (H x W): 8.25 x ...

This is no ordinary winter scene. It is the story of prosecution and survival; of resolve and resilience during World War 2, as it was experienced by German Expressionist Heinz Lohma...

This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a signpost indicating various ski slopes and toboggan tracks in the resort of St Moritz,...

Title: Seated Female Nude by Window French Modernist Watercolour Figure Study Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on artist paper, unframed Size (H x W): 9.75 x ...

"The Vanguard Series Nr. XIV: A Collection of Postwar European Abstractions", oil on board, by Duval (circa 1950s–70s). A compelling body of work emerging from the forgotten studios ...

Andre de Dienes – Nude, 1950 – Original Vintage This striking black-and-white photograph by André de Dienes, taken in 1950, captures a poised nude model reclining on a modernist chai...

"The Vanguard Series Nr. XIX: A Collection of Postwar European Abstractions", oil on board, by unknown artist (circa 1950s–70s). A compelling body of work emerging from the forgotten...

Armand Manago Guerin (French, 1913-1983) Montmartre in the Snow, Paris Oil on masonite Signed lower right 18.25 x 21.5 inches 25 x 28.75 inches, framed The painter known as Armand M...

Beautiful portrait of a ballerina, mid-century art signed 'Georges Duc' a pseudonym used by Georges-Pierre Guingault (1893-1983). An atmospheric oil on stretched canvas by a capable ...

Vintage landscape post impressionist framed oil painting on thick board, signed in the bottom left and dated 1960. This is a bright and cheerful oil painting in a Montparnasse frame...

Vintage Post Impressionist framed oil painting on stretched canvas, signed in the bottom right, Abel Villard (1871-1969). A stunning, calm and moody depiction of a village boarderi...

This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Le lion de Juda et les Tables de la Loi (The Lion of Judah and the Tablets of the Law), from the album Marc Chagall, The...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Le vieux Roi Lithograph from 1959. The edition of 35/200 on Arches paper, signed in blue crayon. Dimensions of work: 64.5 x 49.5 cm. Hand signed. Pub...

This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Danseur au bar (Dancer at the Barre), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, 1945, this work reflects Degas’s sensitive mastery of line, movement, and the intimate psychological nuances of the ballet studio. Executed as a lithograph and pochoir on velin paper, this work measures 13 x 17 inches (33.02 x 43.18 cm). Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island. Artwork Details: Artist: After Edgar Degas (1834–1917) Title: Danseur au bar (Dancer at the Barre), from Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, 1945 Medium: Lithograph and pochoir on velin paper Dimensions: 13 x 17 inches (33.02 x 43.18 cm) Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 1945 Publisher: The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Printer: Albert Carman, City Island Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Notes: Excerpted from the album, Born in Paris in 1834, Edgar Degas lived, and surely loved the life of that city during most of his years. These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used them as models, he must have had an especial admiration for the ballet girls who followed a profession that at the time brought none of the glory and prosperity which attend it today. New aspects of the human body, revealed in movement, fascinated him. But his occupation with the simply anatomical side of his subjects never resulted in a cold interpretation. On the contrary there is a warmth and sympathy that pervades all of his work. The drawings here represent the painter in one important phase of his multi-sensitive view of life; and permit an insight which a more ambitious work might not do-into the operation of the creative process, the artist's transformation of reality as it passes through the mesh of his sensibilities. The Edition of this Portfolio is limited to MMMD examples. Rendered by Albert Carman. About the Publication: Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches (1945) is one of the earliest and most significant American postwar fine art portfolios devoted to Edgar Degas’s intimate works on paper. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, and rendered and printed by Albert Carman at City Island, the album sought to faithfully reproduce a group of Degas’s ballet-related drawings through a combination of lithography and hand-applied pochoir coloring. This hybrid technique allowed the edition to preserve the immediacy, tonal subtlety, and gestural delicacy central to Degas’s draftsmanship. Conceived as a fine art publication rather than a commercial book, the portfolio provided American audiences unprecedented access to Degas’s private, spontaneous studies—images that reveal the artist’s fascination with movement, anatomy, and the psychological atmosphere of the rehearsal studio. The album exemplifies the mid-20th-century revival of pochoir as a means of recreating the texture and coloristic nuance of original works on paper, and it remains an important document of how Degas’s legacy was translated into high-quality printed form for collectors, museums, and connoisseurs. About the Artist: Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor whose groundbreaking fusion of classical draftsmanship, modern experimentation, and psychological depth helped define the trajectory of Western art, positioning him as one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; renowned for his depictions of ballet dancers, racehorses, theater scenes, cafe life, domestic interiors, milliners, laundresses, and women at their toilette, Degas reimagined observational realism through radical compositional innovation—employing extreme cropping, asymmetrical framing, oblique viewpoints, and dramatic lighting that anticipated photographic and cinematic language long before these technologies shaped visual culture, and although associated with Impressionism, he rejected plein-air spontaneity in favor of studio-based discipline rooted in the linear precision of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the expressive chromaticism of Eugene Delacroix, and the modernity of Edouard Manet while also drawing inspiration from Japanese ukiyo-e prints, classical sculpture, and early photography; his independent artistic philosophy resonated with and helped shape the innovations of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whose explorations of movement, form, dream logic, abstraction, and conceptualism all find antecedents in Degas’s investigations into seriality, temporality, and the fragmented figure, and his pioneering use of pastel, monotype, and wax sculpture fundamentally transformed each medium, influencing artists from Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Giacomo Manzu to Paula Rego, contemporary realists, experimental photographers, and choreographers; his works are held in nearly every major museum collection worldwide—including the Musee dOrsay, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Courtauld Institute, and the National Gallery, London—affirming his central place in the history of art, and the highest auction record for Degas was achieved at Sothebys London on February 3, 2015, when Danseuses en Bleu sold for 37,033,000 GBP, cementing his status as one of the most sought-after and enduringly significant artists of the Western canon. Degas pochoir, Degas lithograph...

This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Danseur debout de profil (Dancer Standing in Profile), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, 1945, this work reflects Degas’s sensitive mastery of line, movement, and intimate observation, capturing the grace, poise, and psychological immediacy that define his iconic ballet imagery. In Danseur debout de profil (Dancer Standing in Profile), Degas reveals gesture and inner emotion through economical contour and lyrical nuance. Executed as a lithograph and pochoir on velin paper, this work measures 17 x 13 inches (43.18 x 33.02 cm). Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, one of the notable American ateliers specializing in fine art lithography during the mid-20th century. Artwork Details: Artist: After Edgar Degas (1834–1917) Title: Danseur debout de profil (Dancer Standing in Profile), from Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, 1945 Medium: Lithograph and pochoir on velin paper Dimensions: 17 x 13 inches (43.18 x 33.02 cm) Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 1945 Publisher: The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Printer: Albert Carman, City Island, 1945 Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Notes: Excerpted from the album, Born in Paris in 1834, Edgar Degas lived, and surely loved the life of that city during most of his years. These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used them as models, he must have had an especial admiration for the ballet girls who followed a profession that at the time brought none of the glory and prosperity which attend it today. New aspects of the human body, revealed in movement, fascinated him. But his occupation with the simply anatomical side of his subjects never resulted in a cold interpretation. On the contrary there is a warmth and sympathy that pervades all of his work. The drawings here represent the painter in one important phase of his multi-sensitive view of life; and permit an insight which a more ambitious work might not do-into the operation of the creative process, the artist's transformation of reality as it passes through the mesh of his sensibilities. The Edition of this Portfolio is limited to MMMD examples. Rendered by Albert Carman. About the Publication: Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published in 1945 by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, stands as one of the most elegant and scholarly mid-century American fine art folios devoted to the ballet imagery of Edgar Degas. Conceived as a high-quality interpretive portfolio, the album presents a series of lithograph-and-pochoir renderings based on Degas’s original drawings, executed with exceptional attention to tonal subtlety, contour fidelity, and the emotional interiority that defines the artist’s draftsmanship. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman on City Island, the publication embodies an American postwar effort to restore and celebrate European masterworks through meticulous handcraft and artisanal color application, honoring Degas’s distinctive line and the atmospheric delicacy of his studio-based studies. Produced in a substantial edition of MMMD examples, the portfolio offered audiences rare access to Degas’s private working drawings—images rarely seen outside institutional collections—while exemplifying the technical refinement and interpretive care characteristic of Carman’s workshop. Today, Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches remains a sought-after historical publication, valued for its craft, fidelity to Degas’s aesthetic, and its role in preserving and disseminating the artist’s intimate ballet imagery in a beautifully executed mid-century fine art format. About the Artist: Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor whose groundbreaking fusion of classical draftsmanship, modern experimentation, and psychological depth helped define the trajectory of Western art, positioning him as one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; renowned for his depictions of ballet dancers, racehorses, theater scenes, cafe life, domestic interiors, milliners, laundresses, and women at their toilette, Degas reimagined observational realism through radical compositional innovation—employing extreme cropping, asymmetrical framing, oblique viewpoints, and dramatic lighting that anticipated photographic and cinematic language long before these technologies shaped visual culture, and although associated with Impressionism, he rejected plein-air spontaneity in favor of studio-based discipline rooted in the linear precision of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the expressive chromaticism of Eugene Delacroix, and the modernity of Edouard Manet while also drawing inspiration from Japanese ukiyo-e prints, classical sculpture, and early photography; his independent artistic philosophy resonated with and helped shape the innovations of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whose explorations of movement, form, dream logic, abstraction, and conceptualism all find antecedents in Degas’s investigations into seriality, temporality, and the fragmented figure, and his pioneering use of pastel, monotype, and wax sculpture fundamentally transformed each medium, influencing artists from Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Giacomo Manzu to Paula Rego, contemporary realists, experimental photographers, and choreographers; his works are held in nearly every major museum collection worldwide—including the Musee dOrsay, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Courtauld Institute, and the National Gallery, London—affirming his central place in the history of art, and the highest auction record for Degas was achieved at Sothebys London on February 3, 2015, when Danseuses en Bleu sold for 37,033,000 GBP, cementing his status as one of the most sought-after and enduringly significant artists of the Western canon. Edgar Degas lithograph...

A captivating, 1930s portrait painting of a young woman by famed Chicago artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A sensitive, skilled portrait of a young female model, most likely h...