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Figurative Photography For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1910s
This Week's Listings Only
Painting of House - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Painting of House- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'New England Skiing' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons/Getty Images Archive)
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Inst...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Sherwood Forrester (Above) and Jerry Stevens (Below)
Located in New York, NY
Vintage silver print
Western Photography Guild studio stamp in purple ink, verso
Stamped "Wrestling Poses" and numbered "Series 37 No. 5" in purpl...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
Jayne Mansfield Casino - Oversize Limited Print
Located in London, GB
Jayne Mansfield Casino 1955
by Frank Worth
This action shot features bombshell star Jayne Mansfield playing roulette in Las Vegas circa 1955
Captured by celebrity photographer Fr...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Groucho Marx - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Groucho Marx is a black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Elephants at the Circus - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Elephants at the circus is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical mom...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Paris Night from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius Giant
Located in London, GB
Paris Colour from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
Giant oversize 60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Archival pigment print
Framing and siz...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Airline's Office - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Airline's office- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century by Donald Chapman.
Stamped on the rear.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Inauguration of the Science Palace in Rome - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Inauguration of the Science Palace in Rome is a vintage photograph in black and white realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
C.Z. And Guest (1955) Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
C.Z. And Guest (1955) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 – 2003) poses with Joanne Connolly (right) ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Inauguration of the Science Palace in Rome - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Inauguration of the Science Palace in Rome is a vintage photograph in black and white realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Inauguration of the Science Palace in Rome - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Inauguration of the Science Palace in Rome is a vintage photograph in black and white realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Seine Scene from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Seine Scene from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
30 x 40 inches/ 76 x 101 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Archival pigment print
Framing and size options availabl...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Make Up Mirror Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Thurston Hopkins – Signed Lifetime Print
Limited Edition 33/50
Fibre Print
Date printed: 2011
Signed & Editioned by Photographer, ink recto (front)
Paper size 20 x 24 inches / 51 x...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Transportation of Marble Blocks - Vintage Photo - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Transportation of Marble Blocks is a Silver Salt print realized in the 1910s.
From Alinari archive.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Murray Garrett 'Frank Sinatra' Limited Edition Photograph by Getty, 16x20
Located in San Rafael, CA
American singer and actor Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998) gestures with his hands while singing into a microphone during a recording session in a studio at Capitol Records, early 1950s. ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Silver Gelatin
'Beauty Queen' 1955- Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Beauty Queen' 1955
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
Cosmetics queen Helena Rubinstein (1870 – 1965), third from right, at her Park Avenue, New York apartment with her hus...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Transportation of Marble Blocks - Vintage Photo - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Transportation of Marble Blocks is a Silver Salt print realized in the 1910s.
From Alinari archive.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Transportation of Marble Blocks - Vintage Photo - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Transportation of Marble Blocks is a Silver Salt print realized in the 1910s.
From Alinari archive.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Transportation of Marble Blocks - Vintage Photo - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Transportation of Marble Blocks is a Silver Salt print realized in the 1910s.
From Alinari archive.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Inauguration of the Science Palace in Rome - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Inauguration of the Science Palace in Rome is a vintage photograph in black and white realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Transportation of Marble Blocks - Vintage Photo - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Transportation of Marble Blocks is a Silver Salt print realized in the 1910s.
From Alinari archive.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mid Century Vintage -- Arab Couple - Palestine
By Eva Korn
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning black and white photograph of Arab couple by photographer Eva Korn (German, 20th c.), circa 1951. Eva Koran studio stamp on verso. Presented in black metal frame and mat. Im...
Category
1950s Photorealist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nice Pool 1955
American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Hotel Sports - Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 150 only).
1958: Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
France
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
6...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Circus Performance - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Circus Performance is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, pla...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Paris Colour Scene from the Paris In Color Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Paris Colour Scene from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
40 x 60 inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size
Printed 2023
Archival pigment print
Framing and size options available - Please enquire
About:
Peter Cornelius (1913–1970) was a German photographer and photojournalist. The goal he set himself was to capture: “the right colours at the right moment”. He was never concerned with a pure, apparently “right” picture of “reality”.
After World War II, he began his career with reportage, landscape and sailing photography...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Skiing Waiters'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Pussy Footing
1958, Printed Later
C print
24 x 24 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Caption: Three skiing wait...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Skiing Beauty 1969 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Skiing Beauty Suzy Chaffee 1969
by Toni Frissell
Suzy Chaffee at Vail, Colorado in one of her own designed ski suits.
Suzanne Stevia Chaffee (born November 29, 1946) is a former ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Adele Collins for Vogue Limited Norman Parkinson Estate Print
Located in London, GB
Adele Collins, British Vogue
1959
by Norman Parkinson
Archival pigment Print, stamped and authenticated by the Norman Parkinson Archive.
Parkinson’s homage to a painting by Dutch a...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
NEW Slim Aarons 'Three Sisters' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Shoppers on the pavement outside a Three Sisters boutique in Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Three Sisters
1955
Fiber Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 1...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Boys In Paris from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Boys In Paris from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
30 x 40 inches/ 76 x 101 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Archival pigment print
Framing and size options avail...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests relaxing by the swimming pool at John Young's villa 'Plantana', Ocho Rios, Jamaic...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests relaxing by the swimming pool at John Young's villa 'Plantana', Ocho Rios, Jamaic...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Historical Photo - Queen Elizabeth in 1950s - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Queen Elizabeth in 1950s is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1950s.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal families...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Friendly Paris Policeman Paris In Color 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Friendly Paris Policeman from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
20 x 16 inches / 51 x 31 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Archival pigment print
Framing and size opt...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Fan Mail' 1955- Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Fan Mail' 1955
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print Oversize
Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly afte...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Street Scene In Montmartre from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 Giant size
Located in London, GB
'Street Scene In Montmartre'
from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
Crowds on the street, Rue Norvins, Montmartre, Paris. From the series Paris in Colour, 1956–...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Togni Circus - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Togni Circus is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, places, f...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Hotel Sports - Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 150 only).
1958: Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
France
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
6...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Leg Up from The Black Sitting
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph printed from the original negative by Milton Greene, created in 1956. This photograph depicts Hollywood Icon Marilyn Monroe, who was a close friend and business partner of the artist. This piece is a part of Greene's series entitled "The Black Sitting...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Elsa Morante - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Elsa Morante is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1950s.
The photo depicts Elsa Morante, an Italian writer , essayist , poet and translator , among the most i...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Peter Cushing in a scene from "The Hound of the Baskervilles", a 1959 British gotich horror and mistery film, directed by Terence Fisher.
Vi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
NEW Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Fox Hunt' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Hunt followers on horseback among a pack of dogs during a fox hunt, Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Fox Hunt
1955
Fiber Print
Estate signature stamped and h...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
NEW Slim Aarons 'Flo Smith And Friends' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American fashion editor Florence 'Flo' Pritchett Smith (left) and Dolly O'Brien (centre) with a friend in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Flo Smith And Friends
1955
Fi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Trio de Saltimbanques, Arles 1955, Photo by Lucien Clergue
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucien Clergue, French (1934 - 2014)
Title: Trio de Saltimbanques, Arles
Year: 1955 (printed 1992)
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, Signed in ink
Edition: I/V
Image Size: 20.5 x...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Paris Nights II from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Paris Nights II from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
30 x 20 inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Archival pigment print
Framing and size options avai...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Elegant Daywear (1957) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Elegant Daywear (1957) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo By Popperfoto/Getty Images Archive)
A young woman modelling an outfit consisting of a three-qu...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Paris Butchers from Paris In Color Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Parisi Butchers from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
large oversize 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Archival pigment print
Framing and size options available - Please enquire
About:
Peter Cornelius (1913–1970) was a German photographer and photojournalist. The goal he set himself was to capture: “the right colours at the right moment”. He was never concerned with a pure, apparently “right” picture of “reality”.
After World War II, he began his career with reportage, landscape and sailing photography...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Paris Culture Vultures 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Paris Culture Vultures from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
Giant oversize 152 x 101 cm / 60 x 40 inches paper size
Printed 202...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Paris Café from the Paris In Color Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Paris Café from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Archival pigment print
Framing and other size options av...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Poolside In Kenya' 1958 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside In Kenya'
A woman sits at the edge of a swimming pool in Kenya, December 1958.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Phot...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Coco Chanel and Jeanne Moreau, Color, 1957
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Color Portrait of Coco Chanel and Jeanne Moreau, 1957 -- Chanel visits with Jeanne Moreau, the famous French film actress. This color image is a rare addition to the black and white ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Giclée
"Children Playing" Paris In Color 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Children Playing In Paris from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
12 x 16 inches / 31 x 41 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Archival pigment print
Framing and size op...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Fan Mail' Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Fan Mail' 1955
Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film ‘The Asphalt Jungle’ had been released. ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Capote At Home' 1958 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Capote At Home'
Author Truman Capote (1924 – 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York. 1958.
30x30" inches / 76 x 76 cm p...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Gordon C. MacKenzie, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the race driver Gordon C. MacKenzie in Franconia, New Hampshire.
This is an estate stampe...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Henry Miller And Eve Miller On Partington Ridge - 1954 Original Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Henry And Eve Miller On Partington Ridge" - 1954 Original Photograph
1954 original black and white silver gelatin photograph of Henry and Eve Miller at their house on Partington Ridge in Big Sur, California by California photographer Jim Healy (American, 20th C.). Eve Miller sits behind a desk while Henry Miller leans against a bookshelf in their home office in Big Sur. Eve holds a cigarette in her hand, with Henry next to her, leaning his elbow against the bookshelf.
Titled, stamped and dated on verso.
"Henry and Eve Miller on Partington Ridge 1954 photo by Jim Healy"
Stamped "Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur California"
Presented in a white mat.
Mat: 20"H x 16"W
Photo: 14"H x 11"W
Image: 13 1/8"H x 10 5/8"W
Henry Miller was born December 26, 1891 in New York, New York. In 1920 Miller began working for Western Union Telegraph service where his interest in writing began. He soon left for Europe in 1928 where he resided in Paris in 1930. He continued full time with his long and lucrative career as a writer of more than 36 creative and analytical works. Miller's entrance into the writer's circle began with Tropic of Cancer, which still proves to be Miller's most famous work. Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn chronicle Miller's lives and loves as an expatriate in Paris. They were both originally published in France by Jack Kahane at Obelisk Press in the mid-thirties. Soon after the publishing of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Miller's other works to date were published in the United States. During this time it was said that "Miller became a legendary character, a kind of folk hero, the Paul Bunyan of literature, larger than life as exile, bohemian, and rebel, the great champion of freedom of expression and other lost causes...
Category
1950s Photorealist Figurative Photography
Materials
Ink, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Find Figurative Photography for Your Home or Office
Life becomes art in figurative photography. Shared moments are captured and history is recorded in images of people and their lives.
Figurative photography is often used to describe a kind of photography in which people are the subject. Early black and white photography of people can be a glimpse into a past century — witness the celebrated work of photographers such as Ansel Adams or lesser-known artists like Berenice Abbott, for example. The cultural and social standards of the time are captured in these figurative photographs.
Mid-century photos might show the life and fashions of the day, sometimes with the shared thread of humanity, joy and love. Indeed, figurative photographs can be a source of inspiration and wonder, speaking of common life experiences and beauty. Vintage photos of celebrities and iconic actors can be valuable keepsakes as snapshots of a bygone era.
Just as if you were bringing paintings, prints or drawings into your space as part of the decor, there are many ways to arrange your figurative photography. Large photos can be statement pieces in a room. Smaller photographs can be placed on bookcases or on compact wall spaces to add an artistic element to a living room or a bedroom.
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