Mid-20th Century Art

Dina Nath Walli (1908–2006) Almond Blossom, Kashmir Watercolour on Board c 1960 Framed size: 42.8cm x 52.8cm Image size: 27.5cm x 38cm Signed and dated 1970 on the verso, gifted fro...

A stunning and pertinent example of Berthelsen's charming New York City winter scenes depicting Washington Square Park in the snow. An iconic scene that so many have come to love and...

A beautiful mid 20th century French naïf oil on canvas depicting a tree lined river bank, by Maurice Ghiglion-Green. The artist is featured in Anatole Jakovsky's ''Peintres Naïfs''...

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...

Antique American school surreal oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring 30 by 35 inches overall and 25 by 30 painting alone.In excellent original condition. Handsomely fram...

F. De La Fuenta Bluebonnet San Antonio Artist Image Size: 12 x 16 Frame Size: 18 x 22 Medium: Oil 1962 "Bluebonnet"

Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper Year: 1954 Paper Size: 14.25 x 10.125 inches Inscription: Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Catalogue Raisonné Reference: Cramer 67; B...

Impressive early American impressionist cityscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Apparently not signed. Image size, 20H x 24L.

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) - Double profil d'hommes béliers Lithograph from 1960. With artist stamp. Edition of 151/250. Dimensions of work: 56 x 76 cm Printed by: Lecoeur imprime...

1940s Barcelona street scene watercolour on paper by Belgian artist André Pierard, signed and dated bottom right. André Pierard had a second home near C...

A beautiful 1930s Carlton Ware Art Deco Garden pattern vase of shouldered ovoid form, decorated with iconic art deco shapes on a green, blue, yellow and beige background , pattern no...

'Bassets D'Artois a Jambes Torses'. French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a Fre...

Sandro Botticelli Allegory of Spring Etching Not signed On vellum 57 x 76 cm (c. 22.45 x 29.93 inch) INFORMATION : Published by the Chalcographie du Louvre and authenticated by the...

Pablo PICASSO (after) Portrait of Roby, c. 1950 Restrike etching Printed signature in the plate On Japan paper 33 x 25 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) REFERENCE : Catalog raisonne Bloch #680 Fr...

Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Sarah and the Angels Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible Medium: Lithograph Date: 1960 Edition: Unnumbered Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/4" Image Size: 14 3/8"...

Femmes Poules (Hen Woman) is an artwork realized in 1968/69, from the Series "Faust" (La Nuit de Walpurgis). Etching, Drypoint, Watercolor and Roulette on Japon Paper. Hand signed ...

A beautiful 1960's oil on canvas by Paul Lucien Dessau depicting the famous entrance to Horse Guards in central London, with mounted Guardsmen on watch and parade. The work is signe...

This framed 26.5" x 31" oil painting by an unknown French constructivist artist uses a dynamic palette of bright colors in a geometric abstraction to create an industrial assemblage ...

Original pastoral scene by the Danish painter Niels Peter Christiansen (1873-1960). Horse and cattle grazing a riverside field. Well presented in a 20th-century gilt frame. Signed in...

Marcel Duchamp Coeurs Volants (Fluttering Hearts) (Schwartz 446C), 1961 Silkscreen in colors Hand signed in ball-point pen by Marcel Duchamp and annotated with the dateline "Stockhol...

Tertia die resurrexit ("Raised up the Third Day") is an artwork realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969. Color lithograph on heavy rag paper. Signed and dated on plate on the right margin. Perfect conditions. Prov. Private Collection, Southern France. This artwork represents the Resaurrection of God after his Death. According to the Scriptures, in fact the God raised up after three days. In the representation there are two figures that spread light and brightness. The spontaneous Bulletism process and the richiamo colors in the image truly highlight Dali’s range of creativity and use of space. The lithograph is part of the imponent work Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969. It was illustrated by Salvador Dalí with a suite of 105 colored lithographs after water-color artworks. The paper sheets are signed and dated on plate, and each of them comes with a Japanese paper tissue with a printed biblical quotation. In 1963, Biblia Sacra was commissioned by Giuseppe Albaretto, a very pious man, who was one of Dalí’s closest friends and patrons between the 1950s and the 1960s. Giuseppe Albaretto and his wife Mara commissioned several of Dalí's works, and became important publishers of his etchings and lithographs, including the Biblia Sacra. Through these commissions, Albaretto hoped that Dalí would reconcile with religion. The friendship between the Albarettos and Salvador Dalì provided the art world with some of the most spectacular Surrealist artworks. These works are a few of the most desirable graphic works ever created by the artist. In the preface of the work, the publisher asserts that the lithographs “configure, in both a universal and a personal way, the dynamic vision that characterizes the relationship between men and God”. Salvador Dalí (Figueres, 1904 – Figueres, 1989) is considered one of the most versatile and prolific artists of the XX century and the founding father of Surrealism. In the course of his long career, he successfully experimented with sculpture, fashion, writing, and filmmaking. In his early use of organic morphology, his work bears the stamp of Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. His work is also characterized by a fascination with classical art, manifested in the realistic style and religious symbolism of his latest works. Dalí was born near Barcelona to a middle class family. He soon demonstrated an interest in art, and, at the age of 18, he attended the Special Painting, Sculpture and Engraving School of San Fernando in Madrid. His eccentricity was notorious, and at first even more famous than his works. When he traveled to Paris, he met Pablo Picasso in his studio and took inspiration from Cubism. In 1928, he collaborated with Buñuel on Un Chien Andalou...

PABLO PICASSO Vase à deux anses (A.R. 213), 1953 Ed. 400 pcs White earthenware, engobe decoration, engraved with a knife under partial glaze with a brush H. 39 cm I H. 15 3/8 in Insc...

Les Alpilles, St. Remy-de-Provence French School, mid 20th century signed oil on board, framed framed: 18 x 21 inches board: 13 x 16 inches provenance: private collection, Paris cond...

Andrè Girard is an original artwork realized by an artist of the mid-20th Century. Booklet André GIRARD by Bignou GALLERY New YORK. Titled on the top ce...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Dans L'Atelier de Picasso Lithograph from 1957. The edition 211/275. With Arches watermark. Dimensions of work: 65 x 44 cm Publisher: Fernand Mourlot...

Printed as one of 11 lithographs included in the 1967 publication "Bernard Buffet: Lithographs 1952- 1966." Produced in cooperation with Fernand Mourlot, this was a catalogue of all ...

Original vintage poster: VINAIGRERIES GENERALS BORDEAUX BASTIDE, FRANCE. A more unique vintage poster that is round. The poster features a sun in the middle in deep red, with th...

This candid black and white capture features Audrey Hepburn, star of "Sabrina", candid on the set, posed against a large studio light. Film and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn was a Bri...

Vase with Flowers Charles Cobelle French (1902–1994) Date: circa 1960 Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.32 cm)

Outstanding painting by the italian artist Donato Frisia, dated 1930. Signed lower left in red. A sensual nude of woman reclined on a sofa is depicted with, at the same time, appeal...

This is a cast metal sculpture of a woman and child, mother and baby in a rocking chair. It has a patina on a white metal. Not sure if it is steel or aluminum. It is and older vintage piece and has wear to patina where it sits and rocks on table. It is not signed or numbered and there is no foundry mark. Hence it is being sold as being after or in the manner of Henry Moore. Henry Spencer Moore (1898 – 1986) Moore was born in Castleford, the son of a coal miner. He became well-known through his carved marble and larger-scale abstract cast bronze sculptures, and was instrumental in introducing a particular form of modernism to the United Kingdom later endowing the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues to support education and promotion of the arts. After the Great War, Moore received an ex-serviceman's grant to continue his education and in 1919 he became a student at the Leeds School of Art (now Leeds College of Art), which set up a sculpture studio especially for him. At the college, he met Barbara Hepworth, a fellow student who would also become a well-known British sculptor, and began a friendship and gentle professional rivalry that lasted for many years. In Leeds, Moore also had access to the modernist works in the collection of Sir Michael Sadler, the University Vice-Chancellor, which had a pronounced effect on his development. In 1921, Moore won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art in London, along with Hepworth and other Yorkshire contemporaries. While in London, Moore extended his knowledge of primitive art and sculpture, studying the ethnographic collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum. Moore's familiarity with primitivism and the influence of sculptors such as Constantin Brâncuși, Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Frank Dobson led him to the method of direct carving, in which imperfections in the material and marks left by tools became part of the finished sculpture. After Moore married, the couple moved to a studio in Hampstead at 11a Parkhill Road NW3, joining a small colony of avant-garde artists who were taking root there. Shortly afterward, Hepworth and her second husband Ben Nicholson moved into a studio around the corner from Moore, while Naum Gabo, Roland Penrose, Cecil Stephenson and the art critic Herbert Read also lived in the area (Read referred to the area as "a nest of gentle artists"). This led to a rapid cross-fertilization of ideas that Read would publicise, helping to raise Moore's public profile. The area was also a stopping-off point for many refugee artists, architects and designers from continental Europe en route to America—some of whom would later commission works from Moore. In 1932, after six year's teaching at the Royal College, Moore took up a post as the Head of the Department of Sculpture at the Chelsea School of Art. Artistically, Moore, Hepworth and other members of The Seven and Five Society would develop steadily more abstract work, partly influenced by their frequent trips to Paris and their contact with leading progressive artists, notably Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Arp and Alberto Giacometti. Moore flirted with Surrealism, joining Paul Nash's modern art movement "Unit One", in 1933. In 1934, Moore visited Spain; he visited the cave of Altamira (which he described as the "Royal Academy of Cave Painting"), Madrid, Toledo and Pamplona. Moore made his first visit to America when a retrospective exhibition of his work opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[28] Before the war, Moore had been approached by educator Henry Morris, who was trying to reform education with his concept of the Village College. Morris had engaged Walter Gropius as the architect for his second village college at Impington near Cambridge, and he wanted Moore to design a major public sculpture for the site. In the 1950s, Moore began to receive increasingly significant commissions. He exhibited Reclining Figure: Festival at the Festival of Britain in 1951, and in 1958 produced a large marble reclining figure for the UNESCO building in Paris. With many more public works of art, the scale of Moore's sculptures grew significantly and he started to employ an increasing number of assistants to work with him at Much Hadham, including Anthony Caro and Richard Wentworth. Moore produced at least three significant examples of architectural sculpture during his career. In 1928, despite his own self-described "extreme reservations", he accepted his first public commission for West Wind for the London Underground Building at 55 Broadway in London, joining the company of Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill. At an introductory speech in New York City for an exhibition of one of the finest modernist sculptors, Alberto Giacometti, Sartre spoke of "The beginning and the end of history...

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...

'Bassets D'Artois a Jambes Droites'. French chromolithograph, published in 1931. Signed by artist in the plate. Printed title lower right of sheet. Plate number top right. From a Fr...

Noon Time Lull (Charleston, South Carolina) Etching, c. 1930 Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo) Note: An image done in South Carolina. An impression of this image...

Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987) Title: Rabbi and Student Year: 1957 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 16 x 11 inches Frame Size: 25 x 20 inches

Lithograph on vélin Saint-Vincent-de-Blanzat des Papeteries Navarre paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Sources du vent 1915-1929, avec ...

Lithograph and stencil on papier a la cuve du moulin Richard de Bas paper, spécialement filigrané pour cette édition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From ...

Andre Lanskoy (French / Russian 1902-1976) Untitled from the portfolio La Genese, 1966 Color lithograph on wove paper Signed 'Lanskoy' lower right Edition 11 of 30. Numbered lower ri...

A superb large scale Modern British oil on canvas portrait of a smartly dressed young man wearing a striped shirt, suit jacket and tie. Excellent quality and unsusual work, which i...

Lithograph on Arches wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros, 1961. Published by aux Éditions Cercle d'...

This vibrant 1965 travel poster, created by renowned French designer Jacques Nathan-Garamond, showcases the expanding global reach of Air France during the golden era of jet travel. ...

A Vibrant, Colorful Modern Watercolor, "Garden in a City Park" by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Painted in the 1960s, most likely depicting a city garden in Europe, Mexico o...

This harbor scene oil painting is by noted Massachusetts artist Albert Rufus Thayer. Thayer was born in Concord in 1878 and studied in Boston and New York before returning to his hom...

Lucien Delarue (1925-2011) Paris Seine River Scene. "Seine at Paris" Provenance: Newman Gallery, Phila. Label verso. Hand signed on Canvas. Dimensions: H: 25 inches: W: 31.5 inches: Frame: 35 X 41 inches Artist Lucien Delarue was born in Paris in 1925, and he is known for his spectacular cityscape painting. Post Impressionist painter He studied at the studios of Grande Chaumiere, Paris and was a pupil of Maitre Yves Brayer. He is best know as a French Impressionist. He loved to paint the romantic streets of Paris with its stunning architecture and beauty. Also included in his repertoire is colorful French floral still life paintings, South of France country cottages, harbor views, and river scenes. At a very early age Delarue began taking part in exhibitions. Quickly he was talking medals for his works including first prize and the Vermeil-Medaille at the Salon Violet. Other gold medals include the Salon of Vincennes, and the Salon of Clichy (1973). In 1974 he won the silver medal at the Salon des Artistes Francais, and a bronze medal at the "Arts-Sciences-Lettres" exhibition in Paris. He also exhibited works at the Museum of Ile de France in the chateau of Sceaux. He held exhibitions in New York and in San Francisco in the United States. He was a member of the Salon des Artistes Francais and of the French Watercolor Society.Lucien Delarue excelled in recreating the cottages, harbor views, and expressionist architecture of Paris in his artwork. His watercolor paintings include color-rich representations of France's many scenic rivers. Delarue would eventually become a member of the French Watercolor Society and the Salon des Artistes Francais. He showed with Henk Bos...

Oil on canvas mounted on board, realized by Francesco Settimj in 1930s. Good condition.

Original 1940 Loterie Nationale Vintage Poster. Tranche de l”Historie de France. Linen-backed in very good condition – excellent, ready to frame. The team of Eddgard Derouet and C...

Colorful Still Life Composition pastel on artist paper, unframed painting: 24 x 18 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very good condition For more any more inf...

Artist: Marc Chagall Title: The Accordionist (Derriere le Miroir 99-100) Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir Medium: Original Lithograph Date: 1957 Edition: 2500...

The Rolling Hills of Connemara Irish artist, mid 20th century signed oil on board, unframed board: 14 x 20 inches Provenance: private collection, UK Condition: very good condition D...

#5-3457 Moonlit Sea Painting ,oil on canvas displayed in a pale blue wood frame.Signed by E.Mc Cormick April 1966.Image size 15 H x 19 W. Excellent condition ,wear on the frame

Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, The Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque, Verve: Revue Arti...

This black-and-white group portrait features some of the greatest stars of the 1920s and 30s all standing together and chatting. From left to right: Bela Lugosi...

NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural Ernest Fiene (1894-1965) Cityscape 36 x 30 inches Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1930. lower right Provenance Estate of the artist. ACA Galleries, New York Exhibited New York, Frank Rehn Gallery, Changing Old New York, 1931. New York, ACA Galleries, Ernest Fiene: Art of the City, 1925-1955, May 2-23, 1981, n.p., no. 5. BIO Ernest Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894. As a teenager, Fiene immigrated to the United States in 1912. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1914 to 1918, taking day classes with Thomas Maynard and evening classes with Leon Kroll. Fiene continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York from 1916 to 1918, adding classes in printmaking at the Art Students League in 1923. Fiene began his career as an artist in 1919 with his first exhibition of watercolors at the MacDowell Club arranged by his mentor Robert Henri. In 1923 the Whitney Studio Club mounted a large exhibition of his works. The following year he had an exhibition at the New Gallery in New York, which completely sold out all fifty-two works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings. With the proceeds of sales from the New Gallery exhibition, Ernest Fiene and his younger brother Paul, a sculptor, built studios in Woodstock, New York in 1925. In the early Twenties Ernest Fiene painted mostly landscapes of Woodstock and both the Ramapo and Hudson River Valleys. The first monograph from the Younger Artists Series was published on Fiene in 1922. Published in Woodstock, the series went on to include Alexander Brook, Peggy Bacon, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The book reproduced 1 illustration in color and another 27 reproductions in black and white. Around 1925 Fiene became fascinated with the intensity, excitement, and opportunities for color harmonies New York City offered as a subject. His paintings shifted to urban and industrial themes with architecture, industry, and transportation becoming his subjects. By 1926 Fiene had attracted the dealer Frank K.M. Rehn, who gave him a one-man exhibition that year, which travelled to the Boston Arts Club. C.W. Kraushaar Galleries gave Fiene a one-man exhibition of urban, landscape, portrait, and still life paintings in 1927. Julianna Force, the director of the Whitney Studio Club and first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, included two of Fiene’s paintings in a fall exhibition in 1928. The Whitney Studio Club showed Fiene’s paintings in a two-man exhibition with Glenn O. Coleman that year and acquired three of Fiene’s paintings. Also in 1928 Fiene became affiliated with Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery where he had an exhibition of 20 lithographs in the spring. Fiene sold his house in Woodstock in 1928 to spend more of his time in New York City. With so many successful exhibitions, Fiene returned to Paris in 1928-29 where he rented Jules Pascin's studio and studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In France, Fiene painted both landscape and urban subjects developed from ideas influenced by Cubist geometry and the use of flat areas of broad color. Upon returning to New York in 1930, Fiene used this new approach to continue to paint New York skyscraper and waterfront subjects, as well as to begin a series of paintings on changing old New York based on the excavations for Radio City Music Hall and the construction of the Empire State Building. Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries exhibited this series, titled “Changing Old New York,” in 1931. Fiene also has solo exhibitions at Rehn Galleries in 1930 and 1932. Fiene’s oil paintings are exhibited at the Chicago Arts Club in 1930 as well. Fiene was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans in December of 1931. Visiting New York, Henri Matisse saw the exhibition and called Fiene’s Razing Buildings, West 49th Street the finest painting he had seen in New York. Fiene had two mural studies from his Mechanical Progress series exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers in 1932. Fiene sent View from my Window which depicts Fiene working on a lithograph stone while looking out his window to the newly completed Empire State Building to the Carnegie International in 1931. In 1932 Fiene participated in the first Biennial of American Painting at the Whitney Museum and his prints were included in exhibitions at the Downtown Gallery and the Wehye Gallery. In the same year, Fiene was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to further study mural painting in Florence, Italy. On his return from Italy in 1933 Fiene re-engaged himself in New York City life and won several public and private mural projects. Fiene resumed his active exhibition schedule, participating in two group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and a one-man exhibition of recent paintings at the Downtown Gallery in January 1934. In 1933 he purchased a farm in Southbury, Connecticut, which added Connecticut scenes to his landscape subjects. This was also the year Fiene began to spend summers on Monhegan Island, Maine, where he painted seascapes, harbor scenes, and still lifes. Fiene’s landscape paintings attracted numerous commissions as part of the American Scene movement. Through the fall and winter of 1935-36, Fiene took an extended sketching trip through the urban, industrial, and farming areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Most of the twenty-four Pennsylvania urban and rural paintings...

Eleanor Arnold Clark (American, 1911-1982) The Meeting Oil on canvas Signed lower right 25 x 29 inches 36 x 40 inches, framed Eleanor Arnold Clark was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylva...

c. 1964 Stamped and numbered “3228-3” in black ink, verso Also titled, dated, and inscribed in pencil, verso This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

Artist: Henri Matisse Country: France Title: Untitled – 'Figure Study' Medium: Lithograph on Vellum paper Size: 15 x 11 inch Published: 1952 in France Provenance: Derriere le Miroir...

Max Schnitzler (1903-1999). Untitled, ca. 1950's Oil on canvas measuring 18 x 24 inches. Unframed. Minor area of paint loss at margin upper left.

Artist: Peter Young Title: Two People Looking at a Piece of Paper from New York 10 Year: 1969 Medium: Screenprint and pochoir, signed, numbered, and dated in pencil Edition: 67/100 ...

A large oil on Masonite painting of a street scene in Martha’s Vineyard, with the Old Whaler's Church in the background by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 24" x 36". Framed s...

Sea Shells – Blue & Gold, c. 1940s, watercolor on paper, signed upper left, 15 x 19 ¼ inches (image); title and artist’s name and address inscribed verso, presented in a newer glazed...