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Period: Mid-20th Century
Slim Aarons 'Bahamas Signpost''
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A signpost in Nassau points the way to Rum Cay, Andros, Abaco, Grand Bahama, Bimini, Eleuthera, Exuma and the Current, May 1964. (Photo by Slim Aarons...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lambda
On the Air - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on cardboard realized by Mino Maccari in 1960s.
Hand signed in pencil lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Antique American Architectural Rare Abstract Expressionist Mid Century Modern
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract street scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 12L x 7H.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Paris Streets with Moulin Rouge 2, Folk Art Acrylic Painting by Charles Cobelle
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charles Cobelle, French (1902 - 1994) - Paris Streets with Moulin Rouge 2
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 16 x 20 in. (40.64 x 50.8 cm)
Frame Size: 24 x 28 inches
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Acrylic
Jeu de la Cape (III), from A Los Toros Avec Picasso
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Jeu de la Cape (III)
Portfolio: A Los Toros Avec Picasso
Medium: Transfer lithograph
Date: 1961
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 17 1/4" x 19 3/4"
Sheet S...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Parisian Street Scene Arc de Triomphe" Post-Impressionist Oil Paint on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
In this piece, the artist depicts his subject in an abstract and impressionistic way, capturing the Arc de Triomphe busy street scene from the 20th Century with much life. The artist...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dramatic Lake District Mountain Range Rocky View, Beautiful Colors 1950's oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: E.Johnson, British mid 20th century, signed and inscribed verso
Title: 'Cumberland', a fine Post-Impressionist oil depicting this rugged mountain face bathed in vary...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
$915 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique Signed Spanish Flamenco Dancer Framed Elegant Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted Flamenco dancer portrait. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 20H by 16L.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
Graveyard Leapfrog
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
A group of boys playing leapfrog amongst the gravestones of the Corporation Burial Ground in Rutherglen Road, one of the few areas of greenery in the Gorbals, a slum district of Glas...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century abstract figurative by North Carolina artist Charles Chapin (American, 20th Century), 1964. signed and dated lower right (Chapin 8/64). Condition: Excellent. Image size: 38"H x 28"W. Presented in painted slat rustic frame. Framed size:: 39"H x 30"W x 1".
Charles Chapin received his BA from North Carolina and was associated with the Chapel Hill...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1960's Large Colorful Abstract Expressionist Swiss Oil Painting Robert Lauro
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting on canvas
Hand signed to lower right Lauro.
Provenance: Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Work Size: 39.5 x 39.5 in. framed 44 X 44 inches.
Roberto Lauro is a British-Swiss Post War & Contemporary artist who was born in 1932.
Roberto Lauro was born in 1932 in Gorey Harbor on the island of Jersey (Great Britain) the son of a Swiss mother, Rosa Ramseier, from Oberdiessbach / Emmental, Switzerland, and and Italian father Innocenzo Roberto Lauro, born in Mondovi, Italy. In 1941 he moved to Switzerland with his mother. 1949-1953 he lived in Gunten (Switzerland) where he did an Apprenticeship as a lithograph and offset printer and graphic designer in Thun. There he was introduced to the color theory of Johannes Itten by Hermann Oberli at the Bern School of Applied Arts. From 1953 to 1955 he worked as a fine art printer in Norway where he was influenced by the color theory of Edvard Munch. These works bears the influence of Russian artist Andre Lanskoy, Tachisme and the Cobra artists Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Joseph Noiret.
In 1955-1956 he worked as an offset printer in Amsterdam (Netherlands). Visit to the Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs. In 1957 he returned to Gunten, Switzerland. Where he started working in printmaking and and oil painting. He resumed his studies at the Bern School of Applied Arts. He was greatly impacted and influenced by abstract art on the occasion of a large Paul KIee exhibition. In 1958 he moved to Zurich where he worked part-time work as an offset copyist; fulfilling graphic orders for advertising agencies. In 1962 he took his final examination as graphic designer at the Zurich School of Applied Arts. In 1980 he begins his development of three-dimensional picture objects, Sculpture, detachment from the canvas, using metal as a support and play space for light and color. By 1981 he has turned full time to fine art. He spends the next years growing and developing his considerable talent. Inspired by classical music, the rhythm, mood and lightness of which form the basis for the large swings and loops of his colorfully lacquered metal and blown glass sculptures. These are "pensieri", thought sketches that capture the emotions in countless versions. There is something dance-like about his rotating sculptures. Everything becomes music and the rhythm of colors. In 1988, after exhibitions in Europe, he has his first exhibitions in Atlanta and San Francisco (USA), In 1989 he does his first glass and metal sculptures at the Roberto Niederer glassworks, Hergiswil (Switzerland). In 1992 has a retrospective exhibition in the Tan Gallery, Zurich, and the Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco. They Publish a catalogue raisonne, Eine Retrospektive, covering a 45 year career. In 1993 he creates A Retrospective, a unique sculpture in a table top form that contains his catalogue raisonne and an original lithograph.
1993–1995 he begins work on a number of large scale public outdoor commissions, including Light Columns for a Bank building, and a commission of a sculpture-fountain in Oetwil am See. In 2001 he creates a wall sculpture entitled "Color Poems of the Yearly Cycle. A linen bound book enclosed in a unique plexi display with a one - of a - kind metal and glass sculpture,containing 12 linocuts each printed in colors and signed.
Roberto Lauro's sculptural work work is spontaneous and loaded with energy. The furrows, rifts, cracks and scars in the metal allow light to enter; it is then reflected back by the glass. His work is a clear statement of our times, uniting the intellect and the heart in search of the spiritual. Like the interplay of light and shadow, his sculpture combines fragile, transparent glass with solid, heavy iron. These colorful and luminous sculptures convey a powerful presence and emit vibrant positive energy. With their jagged exteriors and translucent cores, the spectacular sculptures created by the synergy of metal and glass are powerful - yet fragile. Lauro has created and mastered his own idiom and proven that through the artist sheer will and vision, seemingly incompatible materials such as iron and glass can indeed be combined. In 2004 he has an anniversary exhibition Light and Color, Love of Life on the island of birth, Jersey. Ceramic works (raku with glass inclusions). Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Abstraction and Surrealism, 565 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA. Group exhibition with Joan Davis, Francesca Genoves. Vladimir Cora. Lauro's works have been shown in numerous exhibitions in Europe and the USA around the world, and he has also realized projects such as "KUNST AM BAU" in public spaces and for industry. He lives and works in Switzerland.
Select Exhibitions
Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert
ART IN THE FRAME FOUNDATION: The Harbour Gallery, Isle of Jersey
Galerie fur Gegenwartskunst,, Bonstetten, Switzerland
Galerie Annamarie Anderson, Zurich, Switzerland
“Color and Light,” Austerer-Crider Gallery, Palm Springs, CA, USA
“Color and Light: the art of Roberto Lauro,” Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
“Flower Power,” with Ed Baynard, Roberto Azank, Siegward Sprotte, and Daniel Phil...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abimelech - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Abimelech is an artwork from the Series "The Bible", by Marc Chagall in 1960.
Mixed colored lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature.
Edition of 6500 unsigned lithographs. Prin...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
$425 Sale Price
35% Off
L’Age de Soleil (Pour Roby), Modern Portrait Etching after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
This minimalistic portrait by Pablo Picasso features thin lines that outline and frame the features of the face without oversimplifying the understated, fresh composition. A restrike...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Antique American Impressionist Signed Coastal Seascape Wide Gold Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist coastal seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 30 by 36 inches overall and 24 by 30 painting alone.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Period Male Nude Surrealist Masterpiece Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Amazing early American surrealist nude male portrait landscape. Painted by Charles W St Clair. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 24L x 30H. Super detailed and rare!
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Banquet (Bloch 267-272; Cramer 24), Lysistrata, Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching on vélin de Rives BFK paper. Paper Size: 11.5 x 9 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Lysistrata, 1934. Published by The Limited E...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
$11,596 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Vintage Chinese Jade Carving with Mountains Blooming Trees
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Large Vintage Chinese Jade Jadeite Carving with Mountains
Jade sculpture dimension's 28w x15.5h x 9.5d presented on wooden base 30.5w x 24h x 11d.
Vintage after 1960's jadeite hand ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Stone
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 43 by 31 inches overall. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood mo...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Old Florida Southern School Beach Lighthouse Framed Seascape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist southern oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Label from a Florida frame shop verso.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine British Impressionist Antique Oil Painting Scottish Highlands Ben Nevis
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Ben Nevis
by William B Dealtry (British 1915-2007):
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 19.5 x 24 inches
board : 16 x 22 inches
Provenance: private collection of this artists work, E...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Le Joueur de Flûte (Cramer 34; Mourlot 197), Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 9.06 x 15.75 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Chagall, Marc,...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Signed American Modernist Framed Landscape Architectural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
French Naive, Fauvist Oil on Panel Painting "Le Petit Clocher" Michel Loeb
Located in Surfside, FL
Michel Loeb (French, 1931- )
"Le Petit Clocher"
Oil on Panel Painting
Frame: 22.5" X 26"
Image: 14.5" X 17.75"
Hand signed bottom left
Oil on board Fauve painting of a French countryside scene with trees, farmers and houses.
Michel Loeb, 1930- painter, was born in Saint-Cloud. Lives and works in Luberon. Art naïf. Pointillist, Fauvist, Surrealist, Dadai artist, unclassifiable, highly original, unique art. His works radiate a light, a love of colors, of the absurd, of the funny, of the tender and of the poetic. French Naive art. Galerie Felix Vercel showed his work. Whether in color or black & white, in painting, sculpture or a lithograph print, the world of Michel Loeb is a poetic, joyful and exuberant paradise, where humor and fantasy are never far away. Extravagant works that sparkle like their iconoclastic author whose titles often say a lot. Each work is executed with great attention to detail, often under the magnifying glass, by this former jeweler, including its very large formats. Michel Loeb has drawn parallels to his masters of painting, facetious but always majestic winks and the desire for paintings in the style of Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Edward Hopper, Hokusai.
Michel Loeb is a painter born in Saint-Cloud. He first trained as a jeweler and diamond dealer like his father and painted as an amateur. He devoted himself to painting from 1970, after his meeting with the famous art dealer Félix Vercel, who then took him under contract and exhibited him in Paris, New York and Tokyo. Galerie Felix Vercel in Paris (Avenue Matignon) and New York (Madison Avenue) showed artists as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Armand Guillaumin, Maurice Utrillo and Claude Venard.
He is part of School of Paris artists that included Marcel Cosson, Jean Jansem, Claude Salomon, Michel Kouliche, Bernard Buffet, Bernard Lorjou, Jean Dufy, and others. Naive art was then in fashion and his work enjoyed great success; he has prepared no less than one exhibition per year since this period. Recently he had the opportunity to present his work in Provence, Oslo or Shanghai. Since 1988, he has settled in Oppède, in the Luberon, among vineyards, scrubland and olive groves where he draws his inspiration. His work is simimilar in its childish naive appeal and is reminiscent of Henri Maik and Gustavo Novoa. In the French tradition of Séraphine de Senlis, Ferdinand Cheval, Henri Rousseau, Louis Vivin...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vintage Male Erotica 1951 Graphite on Paper Figure Study by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1951 black and white figure study of a nude male, by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 19" x 12 1/2". Archivally matted to: 24" x 30". Provenance: Estate of the Artist. Es...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Graphite, Paper
"BLUEBONNET AND HUISACHE" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY FRAMED 23 X 27
Located in San Antonio, TX
Pedro Lazcano
(1909-1970)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 16 x 20
Frame Size: 23 x 27
Medium: Oil on Canvas
"Bluebonnet and Huisache" Texas Hill Country
Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970)
I wa...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Panoramic New York Cityscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist cityscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 20H by 36L.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Slim Aarons 'Capri Tan' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1968, A kneeling sunbather shows off her rings and pendant on a beach in Capri, Italy.
Slim Aarons
Capri Tan
Hotel Punta Tragara, Capri, Italy
C...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lambda
Harlequin and the Horse trainer - Lithograph (Mourlot)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973),
Harlequin and the Horse Trainer, 1954
Lithograph (Mourlot workshop)
Unsigned
Printed date in the plate
On paper 26 .5 x 35.5 cm (c. 10,2 x 13.7 in)
INFO...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Antique American Impressionist New York Summer Beach Scene Framed Oil Painting
By Kamil Kubik
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist oil painting by Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011). Oil on board. Housed in a nice period impressionist frame. Signed.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life with Strings', Italian School (circa 1940s)
Located in London, GB
'Still Life with Strings', ink and pencil on paper, from the Italian School of artists (circa 1940s). This gallery acquired this artwork with two similar works for which this one may...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Antique American School Modernist Art Deco Bird Still Life Signed Oil Panting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Signed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$221 Sale Price
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English 1970's OIL PAINTING Female Nude In An Interior by FRANK JOHNSON
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Frank Johnson (1917-1998) British
TITLE: "Female Nude In A Living Room Interior'
SIGNED: unsigned, from the artists studio sale at Bonhams Chest...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
1940’s French Tonal Abstract Signed Oil Still Life Objects superb quality
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Pierre Georgeot, signed and dated 43'
signed on back
Title: still life of objects
Medium: oil on board
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
Provenance: private collection, Franc...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
$1,927 Sale Price
30% Off
Minna Citron, Heifer
By Minna Citron
Located in New York, NY
This subject, Heifer, relates to Citron's mural project focusing on the Tennessee Valley Authority.
It is signed, dated, and annotated 'Et...
Category
Ashcan School Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp playing chess during Duchamp's Pasadena Art Museum
Located in New York, NY
Listing is for an unframed print and includes free shipping to the continental US and 14-day return policy.
Julian Wasser
Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp pl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Antique American Impressionist Southern Gold Framed Farm Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 12H by 16L. Wonderful subject and great color. Excellent ready to hang condition.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,180 Sale Price
20% Off
Cocoa Beach Florida Summer Impressionist Beach Seascape Antique Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist beach seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas board. Framed. Measuring 11 by 14 inches overall and 9 by 12 painting alone.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century French Illustration Yellow Pink Flower Watercolour Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Mid-Century Style Painting 'Discovering Beefcake 1965 #1' Nude Male Gay
Located in Glenford, NY
In the Mid-Century Modern style of the 1960s, artist Gregory Cary recalls discovering "Beefcake" male nude photography when he was thirteen years...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Acrylic, Photographic Paper
Ève Maudite par Dieu (Mourlot 230-77; Cramer 42)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Mourlot, Fernand. C...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
A Los Toros Avec Picasso (Set of Four in Black Frames)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: La Pique (I), Le Picador (II), Jeu de la Cape (III), Les Banderilles (IV)
Portfolio: A Los Toros Avec Picasso
Medium: Set of four transfer lithographs
Ye...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Joven con cesta de flores
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
LLuís Muntané Muns (Mataró 1899 - Barcelona 1987).
"Joven con cesta de flores".
Firmado a mano en el ángulo inferior derecho. Y placa en marco inferior.
Óleo sobre lienzo.
Medidas: 9...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
The Fables of La Fontaine, 100 handsigned etchings
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887–1985, France)
Portfolio: The Fables of La Fontaine, 1952
Marc Chagall’s The Fables of La Fontaine is a masterful interpretation of Jean de La Fontaine’s classic 17th-century fables, blending poetic storytelling with Chagall’s dreamlike visual language. This rare edition, published by Tériade in Paris in 1952, features 100 handsigned etchings, each sequentially numbered 1–100, bringing to life the timeless allegories of human nature, morality, and wit.
Chagall’s etchings...
Category
Symbolist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Etching, Engraving
Inside the castle by David Hockney (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image of the story ‘The boy who left home to learn fear’. Hockney chose this story for its obscu...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Israeli Bronze Sculpture Lovers Embrace Abstract Modernist Ein Hod Israel
By Gedalia Ben Zvi
Located in Surfside, FL
Bronze sculpture signed in Hebrew and numbered from small edition of 6
BIOGRAPHY
"I was born in Czechoslovakia in the year 1925, of traditional parents. I spent my youth partly in ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Bronze
Still Life — Mid-century Modern
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Still Life', 1947, wood engraving, edition 8. Signed, dated, and numbered '3/8' in pencil. Titled and annotated 'wood engraving' in the bottom left margin. A fine impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charles Quest, painter, printmaker, and fine art instructor, worked in various mediums, including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts, where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929 and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters.
After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter, to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis. Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium, which he learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’
In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later, Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’, were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’, and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’ was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in a one-person show at the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). Kainen's press release praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’
At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951.
Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’.
An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for Georgetown University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division was the recipient of a large body of Quest's work, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Woodcut
This Must Be the Place (C. III.20), Pop Art Lithograph by Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein, American (1923 - 1997)
Title: This Must Be the Place (C. III.20)
Year: 1965
Medium: Offset Lithograph, signed in the plate and in pencil l.r.
Edition of unk...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Offset
Portrait de Jacqueline
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Portrait de Jacqueline
Lithograph from 1967.
The edition of 29/500 on Auvergne Richard de Bas paper.
With two watermarks - one of the paper, second of ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
$2,379 Sale Price
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Henri Louis-Ph. Leroux (1872-1942) - Framed Oil, The White Horse
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming oil on panel by the Impressionist painter Henri Louis-Ph. Leroux (1872-1942). The composition depicts a lavish dining room interior with a white ceramic horse positioned a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
The Red Shoes (Erotic), Ink and Watercolor Painting by George Grosz
By George Grosz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Grosz, German (1893 - 1959)
Title: Sex Scene in Red Shoes (Erotic)
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Watercolor, Pen and Ink on Paper, signed
Size: 17...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
California Valley, Near Capistrano, 20th Century Western Mountainous Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
California Valley, Near Capistrano, c. 1937
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right, titled verso
15 x 20 inches
18.5 x 24 inches framed
Fr...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
Matisse, Composition, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, De la couleur,...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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A ca. 1950 Watercolor of Male Bathers in Morocco by Artist Andre Delfau
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1950 watercolor of male bathers in Morocco by artist Andre Delfau. Image size: 7 1/2" x 7 3/4". Archivally matted to 14" x 14". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Born in ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Ervin B. Nussbaum (1914 - 1996). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Dated 1950.
Artist Bio:
Ervin B. Nussbaum was born in Co...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Toujours la Vie Recommence
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Edouard Goerg (1893-1969), France, 1958. Life is always the same. Acquired in 2017 from the personal collection of Edouard Goerg. Measurements : with frame : 62.5x53.4 cm - 24.6x21 inches, without frame : 55x46 cm - 21.7x18.1 inches, format 10F. Signed "E.Goerg" (see photo).
Preserved by the painter, then by his family since his death in 1969, this painting appeared in 2017. Entitled "Always life begins again", it is a crepuscular work. Testamentary one could say, so much the statement which is made there is definitive. The fact that he kept it until his death tends to consolidate this vision. Far from the empty looks and death faces of the rebellious era of sarcastic expressionism, the terrifying and compassionate testimony of the Spanish war, and the post-WWII flower women, we are dealing here with a a form of reasonable abdication, but honest. This idea that although everything changes, nothing changes. Changed times, actors, ideas, the same comedy occupies the society. Having given up the idea of changing the latter, Goerg accepts the fact that the only alternative is to stay there or get lost. But stay afloat with his values, completely independent, whatever the cost is.
This work is similar to La Vie Recommence of 1935, reproduced on page 54 of Gaston Diehl's book devoted to the painter (Éditions de Clermont, 1947). On the latter, the artist depicts his vision of life, from birth to death, made of hope, fear, cruelty, resignation and fatality. 23 years later, Toujours La Vie Recommence shows us the road traveled by the painter. It is no longer a matter of denunciation, but ultimately of acceptance of reality and the difficulty of staying there yourself.
The admirer of Hieronymus Bosch gives us an inspired composition. The hand of God, the only expression of physical beauty in this work, comes down from heaven to give life. Symbolically, it holds an egg that dispenses the element from which the human protagonists find their birth, and in which they move and tangle more than they impose. Beautiful allegory of society. Four characters, two women and two men evolve in this societal marigot. The man in the foreground, ruddy face, evolves with ease. His body is supple, flexible, adaptable. The woman on the left observes him with admiration. Obviously, this man is in his place and causes rapture. The right man with massive shoulders and wrapped, shows a physical maladjustment to the activity he is doing. He struggles to stay afloat, his face expresses effort, even exhaustion. But he assumes. He does with what he has, with what he is. The other woman shows him the greatest indifference. What is not the case of the demonic archangel (recurrent in the works of Bosch) with the stunted body, who leads the dance and holds this character, we understand the painter, under his control as to have fun. As this character cannot change bodies, Goerg cannot change values. He does it with. Had he not said to the critic Roger Brielle: "Independents, sensitive and just men, that's what we must strive to stay in this world in disarray". Goerg will have come to narrative expressionism to give us a balance sheet allegory of his deep self and his condition.
Édouard Goerg is one of the major artists of his generation. Coming from a Champagne family, he was born in Sidney, Australia, in 1893, during a professional stay of his father. After passing through London, he arrives in Paris at the age of seven. At twenty, between 1913 and 1914, he studieds painting at the Académie Ranson with Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier. He travels to Italy and India. Mobilized in 1914, he is sent to Artois, then to Argonne. From 1920, he exhibits at the Salon des Independants, then at the Salon d'Automne where he joins with Laboureur. At Berthe Weil, in 1924, he participates in the exhibitions of the Gromaire group, a prelude to a series of exhibitions in Paris (Berthe Weill, Bernheim Jeune), as in Brussels (Le Centaure). Goerg illustrates books including Table of the beyond by F.Boutet. In 1928, he meets Paul Guillaume who exhibits his works in Boston and the Art Institute of Chicago. He continues to show his works, satires of the bourgeois manners, at Bernheim Jeune, then at Lucie Krogh. In 1934, he travels to Belgium and Holland where he paints surrealist paintings that will be exhibited at Jeanne Castel. In 1935-1936, he meets Aragon, who opened the doors of the houses of the cultures created by the Association of Writers and Revolutionary Artists. The Spanish war and the Second World War mark it deeply. He must protect his daughter and his Jewish women...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mayan Trio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Mayan Trio
Lithograph, 1950
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition 250 for Associated American Artists
Publsihed 1950
Reference: AAA Cat.: 1950‑05; 1958‑01
AAA Index 1087
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 x 9 1/2 inches
Francisco Dosamantes (b. October 4, 1911 - d. July 18.1986) was a Mexican artist and educator who is best known for is educational illustrations and graphic work against fascism. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Life
Francisco Dosamantes was born in Mexico City on October 4, 1911. His father was Daniel Dosamantes who was a builder, interior decorator and painter. He was not registered into the civil registry until he was about twenty years old on March 6, 1939. His mother’s name is not listed on the certificate. As a child, he demonstrated a strong interest in drawing and color, influenced by his father and his uncle Juan. The Mexican Revolution occurred while he was a young child and he stated that he remembered events such as soldiers on horses charging as well as the execution of rural farm workers.
He attended primary and high school in Mexico City but stated that his education was irregular and deficient. He then entered the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, where he studied for five years. Initially, however, he was disappointed with the inexperience of the young professors and he left for a short time to study on his own. During this time, some of the dissatisfied professors organized the 30 30 group against the academic system of the school and which whom he sympathized. The effort gained the attention of established artists such as Diego Rivera who intervened.
He died on Mexico City on July 18, 1986
Career
After he graduated, he worked with the cultural missions of the Secretaría de Educación Pública in Oaxaca, Michoacán, Guerrero, Colima, Coahuila and Chihuahua (state) from 1932 to 1937 then again from 1941 to 1945. He stated that this experience was vital to his conscience as he worked with rural farm workers and others he stated were worthy of dignity and respect, but victims of deceit and exploitation. When he returned to Mexico City, he gave classes in high schools from 1937 to 1941. In 1945 he founded and directed the Taller Escuela de Dibujo y Pintura “Joaquín Claussell” in Campeche, Campeche.
Dosamantes was a politically and culturally active artist with most of his work and affiliations related to such. He was a member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios from 1934 to 1938. He was a founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, serving as administrator in 1940 and remaining a member until his death except for one short hiatus. He created posters for conferences about fascism and Nazism such as Alemania bajo bayonetas (Germany under bayonets) in 1938. In 1940 he became the secretary general of the Sindicato de Maestros de Artes Plásticas. He was also a member of the Sociedad para el Impulso de las Artes Plásticas en 1948, a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1949 and a member of the Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas from 1952.
He painted a number of murals in rural areas of Mexico generally when he was there on cultural missions. His main mural is at the former home of José María Morelos in Carácuaro, Michoacán, but there are a number at various rural schools. These were all painted between 1941 and 1946.
As a book illustrator he mostly worked for the Secretaría de Educación Pública working on books for literacy campaigns.
He exhibited his works, which included engravings, oils, tempuras and lithographs in Mexico and abroad. His first individual exhibition was in 1930 at the Galeria de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. His major exhibitions include the Excelsior Gallery in Mexico City in 1932, various exhibitions in New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Los Angeles in 1937; the Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Missouri in late 1947, and the Gallery of Mexican Art in...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Geo Ham 1937 Paris Race Poster
By Geo Ham
Located in San Francisco, CA
Geo Ham: 1900-1972. Well listed French artist who is best known for his posters of car racing. He has auction results over $32,000 for a single poster. This original lithographic pos...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Mill Creek
By Fern Isabel Coppedge
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on artist board
Circa 1930 -1935
Signed verso and dedicated to JF (possibly John Folinsbee, fellow artist and neighbor). Overall size encased in custom 22K gold leaf frame wit...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Lithographier Originale (Abstract Expressionism)
By Joan Miró
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miro
Lithographier Originale
Original Color Lithograph
Year: 1961
Size: 14.5x10.5in
Edition: 1,500
Portfolio: DLM 125-126
Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris 1961
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Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
$255 Sale Price
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Original Oil Painting of Tranquil Greek Landscape with Villa and Cypress Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original Oil Painting of Tranquil Greek Landscape with Villa and Cypress Trees
Artist: Roland Pichard
Signed: Bottom right
Medium: Oil on oil paper, mounted on card
Size: ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil