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Period: 1950s
Karen Appel (Dutch, b. 1921-d. 2006) Abstract Signed E/A 1950 Lithograph.
By Karel Appel
Located in Chicago, IL
Early Karel Appel abstract lithograph, épreuve d'artiste, or E/A artist proof dated 1950. A rare 9/24 rendition of an abstract work by Appel in browns, greys, purples, blacks and gol...
Category
Vintage 1950s Dutch Prints
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Marino Marini (Italian, 1901-1980) 'Cheveaux et Cavaliers V' Lithograph
By Marino Marini
Located in Chicago, IL
Marino Marini (Italian, 1901-1980) 'Cheveaux et Cavaliers V' Lithograph
Undated, pencil signed lower right, pencil numbered 26/40 lower left, depicting an abstract image, matted be...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Prints
Materials
Metal
William H Littlefield Abstract Mixed-Media on Board
By William Littlefield
Located in Chicago, IL
Abstract Expressionist painting entitled "All Manner Of Thing," by William H Littlefield (1902-1969). Littlefield was a Provincetown and New York painter who studied under Hans Hofma...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood, Paint
Vibrant Water Color of a Mountain Homestead, Signed Brockway
By Michael Brockway
Located in Chicago, IL
Excellent color and technique in this vintage water color signed Brockway. Possibly a Michael Brockway, listed English watercolorist born 1919 and ...
Category
Vintage 1950s British Paintings
Materials
Glass, Paint, Paper, Wood
Blue Woman with Hat Oil on Canvas by B. Maltz
Located in Chicago, IL
Oil on canvas of a blue woman wearing a red top, holding a Mexican hat. Painted in the expressionistic style. Rustic wood frame, signed B. Maltz, 1957.
Framed size: 41" H x 21" W ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
Materials
Wood, Canvas
Abraham Rattner Signed Print with Figure and Verse
By Abraham Rattner
Located in Chicago, IL
Abraham Rattner (1893-1978) surrealist print of an abstract human figure in black and white with various words and verse. Low numbered short run ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Prints
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Robert J. Cronauer Expressionist Nude Painting
By Robert J. Cronauer
Located in Chicago, IL
Expressionist nude oil painting on canvas by western PA artist Robert J. Cronauer (1916-1995). Cronauer graduated Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1937, earned his master's degr...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
Materials
Silver Leaf
Signed Merton Simpson Reduction Linocut Print
By Merton Simpson
Located in Chicago, IL
Graphic and colorful abstract print depicting an African-American man feeding pigeons in front of a brick building. Signed under the mat "Merton Simpson" as shown in photo. Although ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Prints
Materials
Paper
Large 1956 Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting on Canvas by R. Post
Located in Chicago, IL
Terrific oil painting on canvass signed R.Post. Abstract Expressionist color and movement with cubist style shapes created by intersecting straight and curved lines. Ochre, teal, bla...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Colorful and Large Batik Fabric Painting with Villagers, Horse and Elephant
Located in Chicago, IL
Hand-painted batik in orange, scarlet, saffron, green, brown and black. Several vignettes featuring Indian men and women in daily activities such as pipe smoking and music playing, a...
Category
Vintage 1950s Indian Paintings
Materials
Brass
William Morehouse 1950s Abstract Impressionist Landscape
By William Morehouse
Located in Chicago, IL
William Morehouse [1929-1993] was a Bay Area painter who was renowned for his work in both Abstract Expressionism, as well as plein air landscapes, mostly done in a style known as Ab...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Abraham Rattner (1893-1978) Black and White Limited Edition Signed Print
By Abraham Rattner
Located in Chicago, IL
Abraham Rattner (1893-1978) signed and numbered limited edition abstract print of a man and his dog. Black and white with grey matting and black lacquered wood frame.
Rattner, who...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Prints
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
William August Hoffman Colorful Still Life
By William August Hoffman
Located in Chicago, IL
Vibrantly colored still life featuring a pitcher, a ceramic container and fruit in a wire bowl. Matted and framed, signed Hoffman.
Framed 22.75" H x 25.25" W x 0.5" D.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vibrant Orange, Lavender and Black Impasto Oil On Canvas Signed F. Benson
Located in Chicago, IL
Sunset on the shore impasto oil painting with by F. Benson. Appears to be an older work as the black and orange oils have intricate checking patterns. Framed in an aged Italian gilt ...
Category
Vintage 1950s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Colorful Turtle Block Print In Green, Red, Black & White
By Whitey Pollock
Located in Chicago, IL
Colorful block print of a red and green shelled turtle on a green background. Titled "Turtle," numbered "Second 60 60, signed "Whitey Pollock", and dated "50."
Framed dimensions: ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Henri D'Anty Abstract Still Life Oil On Canvas
By Henri d'Anty
Located in Chicago, IL
Henri D'Anty 1910-1998, oil painting on canvas, still life of fruit and bottles on a tray table. Brass frame with umber linen liner; framed 24.5" H x 21" W x 1" D.
He studied at t...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Paintings
Materials
Brass
Hand Painted Ceramic Tile Art Of Woman Holding Wheat Sheaf
Located in Chicago, IL
Possibly Danish in origin tile mosaic of a young woman with a scarf around her neckk, and her arms wrapped around a bundle of wheat. Great colors of red, brown, grey, black and white...
Category
Vintage 1950s Danish Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
Renaissance Revival Tole Metal Wall Hanging Candelabra
Located in Chicago, IL
Renaissance revival tole metal wall hanging candelabra finished in gold leaf, silver leaf and green, red, yellow and brown lacquer. Center shield s...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Candle Holders
Materials
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf, Metal
Chalcographie Engraving Issued By The Louvre
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraved metal print on paper of two villagers at rest. Nicely finished in a green lacquered carved wood and gesso frame.
The Chalcography of the Louvre Museum brought...
The Chalcography of the Louvre Museum brought...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Prints
Materials
Wood
Vibrant Water Color Of A Mountain Homestead Signed Brockway.
By Brockway Carpets
Located in Chicago, IL
Excellent color and technique in this vintage water color by Brockway. Beautiful purple and orange mountains and a dusk sky with three outbuildings...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
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Marc Chagall '1887 1985' Plate Signed Modernist Figural Lithographic Print
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Painting of a woman in a hat by Hugó Scheiber, oil on Isorel board, 1930s
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Bernd Haussmann Modern Abstract Mixed-Media on Paper
By Bernd Haussmann
Located in New York, NY
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Bernard Cathelin 1980 Lithograph Annotated to his dealer David Findlay
By Bernard Cathelin
Located in Sharon, CT
Beautiful 'School of Paris' artist original stone lithograph limited edition. Signed, and annotated. Paper size: 13 5/8" x 15 3/4". Plate size: 6 1/2" x 9 3/8".
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H 13.63 in W 15.75 in D 0.94 in
Vintage Portrait of a Woman, Oil on Canvas, Unframed
Located in San Francisco, CA
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Mid-20th Century American Paintings
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Salvador Dali "Le Cavalier Cosmique" Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Vienna, AT
Le Cavalier cosmique (Cosmic Rider), around 1982, hand-signed: Dali, numbered: 265/300, drypoint with pochoir in color, partly hand-colored (watercoloured) and with gold dust on wove...
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Pair of Karel Appel Curtains, 1963, Documented at Stedelijk Musem
By Karel Appel
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
Super rare and impressive pair of large cotton ''gordijnstof' curtains, designed in 1963 by world renowned Dutch painter and sculptor Karel Appel (1921-2006) for the textile company Hermann Hartman & Co of Amsterdam.
This extremely rare, original repeat print textile is documented in the Stedelijk museum's textile collection under object nubmer KNA 1998, please see image 2.
Each curtain measures 56.7" X 83.85" (144cm X 213cm).
'Gordijnstof' translates as "curtain fabric" confirming that this textile was originally designed by Appel specifically for use as curtains however being of such an impressive dimension these examples could equally be used as wall hangings ,as photographed, or mounted on both sides of a screen or mounted and framed as an art work in its own right , a practice which is becoming increasingly commonplace as high end textile designs by important artists are becoming increasingly valued , appreciated and sought after in the marketplace.
Appel's paintings and sculptures can be found in the collections of some of the world's most prominent museums including the Museum of Modern art in New York and Tate Modern ,London.
Each curtain is of a very impressive scale with each measuring
56.7 " (144 cm) X 83.85" (213cm).
The curtains are signed on the banding KUNSTENAAR DESSIN ONTWERP Karel Appel, HARTMAN PRINT, AMSTERDAM. Another of Appel's designs for Hermann Hartman,Amsterdam can be found in the collection of the national textile museum in Holland. Please see image 9.
Even a small sample of this 1963 textile in good condition would be hard to find today but to find two large scale Appel curtains intact and in beautiful unfaded condition with no staining or fraying must be next to unique today. This is a very rare find and certainly a unique opportunity.
Image 10 shows Karel Appel in his atelier in New York in 1966.
Provenance:
These curtains come from the private collection of a retired Professor from Oxford,UK.
Biography:
Karel Appel was an Expressionist Dutch painter. He was a member of the famous Cobra, the European group of the late 1940s to early 1950s, which promoted spontaneous expressionism and abstract features in painting. Appel's paintings incorporate applications of vibrant, violent colors often possessing a primal, childlike quality or a schizophrenic innocence. Later in life, Appel turned to creating figurative sculptures. Examples of his work can be seen in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, and other collections. Expressionist painter Karel Appel made a name for himself in the world of painting by creating a majestic collection of highly distinguishable work for which he became internationally renowned. From the start, art curators could not ignore Appel's work, which has been exhibited at major museums around the world, including New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Manhattan-based Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Tate Gallery in London. Though Appel is widely recognized as one of the best-known Dutch Expressionist painters of all time, he was also a passionate printmaker, sculptor, and ceramicist.
Karel Appel’s childhood and early life
Christiaan Karel Appel was born on April 25, 1921, in his parents’ house at 7 Dapperstraat, Amsterdam. His father, Jan Appel, owned a barbershop. His mother, born Johanna Chevalier, was a descendant of French Huguenots. Karel Appel had three brothers. He studied art from 1940 to 1943 at the Rejksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts during the German occupation and befriended young painter Corneille and, some years later, Constant. His parents opposed his choice to become an artist, leading him to leave home. This was also necessary to hide himself from the German police so that he would not be picked up and sent to Germany to work in the weapon industry. Appel produced his first real painting on canvas, which was a still life of a fruit basket at the age of fourteen. On his fifteenth birthday, his wealthy uncle Karel Chevalier gave him a paint set and an easel and some lessons on painting.
Career.
In 1946, his first solo show was held in Groningen, Netherlands. He also participated in the Jonge Schilders exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam nd created a buzz in the art world, as it generated a huge scandal and many objections in the press and public. About this time, Appel was influenced first by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, then by the French brute-art artist Jean Dubuffet. In 1947, he started sculpting with various used materials and painted them in bright colors such as white, red, yellow, blue and black. Karel Appel became the member of Nederlandse Experimentele Group in Holland along with the young Dutch painters Anton Rooskens...
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Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Quilts and Blankets
Materials
Cotton
Abstract Lithograph Signed by Joan Miró
By Joan Miró
Located in San Diego, CA
Nice abstract contemporary color lithograph signed by Joan Miró in the lower right, circa 1960s. The image is 13.5" x 17" and the overall framed piece is 25" x 28.5". The piece in ex...
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Prints
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Lithograph of Pret a Porter Feminin by Gerard Razzia, 1980s
By Razzia (Gérard Courbouleix–Dénériaz)
Located in Hamburg, PA
A stunning lithograph poster custom framed pencil signed "Razzia". Typography reads "Pret A Porter Feminin" "Paris". This large-scale graphic poster would look great hanging or leani...
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