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Period: 1950s
Abstract Expressionist With Orange and Blue Colors
By Sandro von Lorsch
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Expressionist Abstract Composition With Orange and Blue Colors Canvas size 24"x32" gold leaf frame 27"x35", signed lower right corner. Sandro von Lorsch German painter born 1921-19...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Summer Beach Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive mid 20th century impressionist beach scene. Oil on board. Framed. No signature found.
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Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lovely American Post Impressionist Oil Painting - A Young Girl Pouring Tea, 1956
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is not your typical child’s portrait. Young Ellen Warfield is steadily pouring tea or coffee in a proper manner that certainly conforms to societal expectations of the 1950’s. ...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil

'The Seine in Winter', School of Paris, Tonalist, Snowy French Landscape, Mood
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Charles Harris', for Charles Gordon Harris (American, 1891-1963) and additionally signed verso. A substantial and atmospheric landscape showing a view of the S...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard

California Farmhouse Landscape in Watercolor on Paper (Two Sided)
Located in Soquel, CA
California Farmhouse Landscape in Watercolor on Paper Original watercolor painting of a farmhouse at the top of a hill by Bertram Spencer (American, 1918-1992). A small farmhouse si...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Important and Large Antique American Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract oil painting by Ken Munowitz. Oil on canvas. Framed.
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Woman in Aqua', De Young, Oakland Museum, LACMA, CWS, AWS, San Francisco
By Jade Fon Woo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jade Fon' for Jade Fon Woo (American, 1911-1983) and painted circa 1955. A charming and character-filled study of a young woman, shown brimming with life and h...
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Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

House In The Green - Original Acrylic On Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
House In The Green - Original Acrylic On Paper Original acrylic painting depicting a white house in the woods surrounded by greenery by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Two white ...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Vintage Modernist Signed Exhibited Fauvist Landscape Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract landscape signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 18H.
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Modern 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist Mid century Swedish tram and figure scene in Fauvist colors
Located in Woodbury, CT
Acquiring a mid-20th-century Fauvist painting by Wilhelm Henning is an opportunity to own a piece of art that captures the vibrant spirit and expressive color palette of the Fauvist ...
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Fauvist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

The Gathering
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe. His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academiJirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe. His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute. es on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute. The Gathering...
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1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Mid Century Original Abstract Expressionism -- Sierra Mountains Cabin Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Sierra Mountain Cabin Abstract Expressionist Landscape Original acrylic painting depicting a cabin in the Sierra Mountains by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985), circa 1950....
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Modern 1950s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Guinovart. 21 Thoughtful Man Black and White. drawing on cardboard
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Guinovart. Thoughtful man. black and white. drawing on cardboard Josep Guinovart i Bertran (Barcelona 1927-2007) was a painter, draftsman and engraver from Catalonia, Spain. After ...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Portal. 1956. Paper, watercolor, 75x55 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portal 1956. Paper, watercolor, 75x55 cm The central focus of the artwork is on an old town, a historic district known for its antiquated architecture, cobbled streets, and a sense...
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Realist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Sam Uhrdin, The Twilight View
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This beautiful mid-20th-century oil painting by Swedish artist Sam Uhrdin (1886-1964) depicts a woman playing the guitar in a gently lit room at twilight. Bathed in a warm radiance ...
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1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Monastery Beach Carmel California Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Carmel Monastery Beach California Impressionist Oil Painting Beautiful impressionist style painting of iconic Monastery Beach in Carmel by Charles Hulett (American, 190...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

1951 Monhegan, Maine MUSHROOMS painting by Morris Shulman ex. Rehn Gallery
Located in Exton, PA
Wild period abstract expressionist painting by Morris Shulman. The painting is egg tempera on Masonite measuring 32" x 22". Signed M Shulman and dated '51 at the lower right. Titled...
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Modern 1950s Paintings

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Oil

Composition
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category

Abstract 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique American Signed Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract expressionist painting. Framed in a silver modernist molding. Signed lower right.
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting -- Half Dome From Yosemite Valley
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting of Yosemite's Half Dome 1950's abstract expressionist painting of Yosemite's iconic Half Dome by San Francisco artist Honora Berg (Americ...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Rice Paper, Oil

“Pier and boats”
Located in Warren, NJ
This is an Nicola Simbari (1927-2012), Pier and Boats, Oil on Board, 1953. Early work! In good condition Unframed. Measures 9x13
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1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid Century Autumn Trees Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid mid century landscape of autumn trees blurring into colorful abstraction by Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Presented in a giltwood frame. Image size: 10" H X 8" W. G...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

At the kolkhoz club on a holiday. Cardboard, tempera, 42x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At the kolkhoz club on a holiday. Cardboard, tempera, 42x80 cm
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Realist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Cardboard, Tempera

La Baloneuse Framed Signed Painting
By Emile Wegelin
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Emile Wegelin: Capturing the Essence of Nature.  Painting on Hardboard   Size-Width Size-Height: 32'' x 25'' Signed in Ink Emile Wegelin (1875-1962) devoted his life to paintin...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

French, Mid-Century View of a Port dated "59"
Located in SANTA FE, NM
View of a Port "59" French Modernist School Oil on canvas Illegibly signed. l.r., dated "59" 28 3/4 x 23 3/4 (30 x 25 frame) inches A positively brilliant, Modernist view of a French port...
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Modern 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Flamenco Dancer', Wisconsin, Paris, Académie Julian, Art Institute of Chicago
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Grill' for André Joseph Grill (American, 1916-1985) and painted circa 1955. A light-hearted and animated study of a young flamenco dancer painted when the artist was in his forties. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Andre Grill...
Category

Expressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Laid Paper

Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Nude Portrait Framed Oil Painting - Female Form
Located in Bristol, GB
FEMALE FORM Size: 75 x 56 cm 29.5 x 22.04 inches (including frame) Oil on Canvas A brilliantly executed mid-century modernist nude study, painted in oil onto canvas. In this compo...
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Modern 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cubist Nude Study Pastel Painting by John Begg
Located in Atlanta, GA
This elegant pastel painting on paper was created by John Alfred Begg (1903 - 1974). This piece features a striking cubist nude study in a blue-gray color with contrasting black line...
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Cubist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Pastel

'Tuscan Landscape', California Fauve, Paris, De Young & Oakland Museums, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, lower left, 'W. Georgetti' for Wedo Georgetti (American, 1911-2005) and painted circa 1955. Additionally signed, lower center. Born in Italy, Wedo Georgetti came to the Uni...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Plywood, Oil, Laid Paper

Mid Century Serene Lake German Impressionist Landscape
By Karl Lechner
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Serene Lake German Impressionist Landscape by Karl Max Lechner Gorgeous mid-century plein air oil painting of a lake in a sprawling ...
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Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard, Canvas

Emile Albert Gruppe Rocky Ocean View
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) Bass Rocks, Gloucester coastal rocky formations with a sea view with a sailboat in the distance. Oil on artist board. In an appropriate giltwood f...
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1950s Paintings

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Paint

La Rochelle France mixed media painting urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Emilio Grau Sala (1911-1975) - La Rochelle - Mixed media Artwork 49x65 cm. Frame measures 69x85 cm. Son of cartoonist Juan Grau Miró, he was born in Barcelona in 1911. Although he a...
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Fauvist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Emile Albert Gruppe Morning Gloucester
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896 - 1978), "Morning, Gloucester", oil on canvas, signed lower left "Emile A. Gruppe", Canvas: 24 x 20 Inches Framed: 27.25 x 23.25 Inches Conditi...
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1950s Paintings

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Paint

Simone Lienard Still Life Oil Painting Mid Century Nature Mort
Located in Dallas, TX
A Spectacular and Striking Simone Lienard (Belgium, 1912-1988), circa 1950 oil on canvas painting of ducks on the kitchen table with wine, mushrooms, apples, pottery jugs and a wine ...
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1950s Paintings

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Paint

Antoine Blanchard Boulevard De Capucines, Place De La Madeleine
Located in Dallas, TX
Antoine Blanchard (1910 - 1988) Boulevard Des Capucines, Place De La Madeleine. A wonderful and vibrant scene from the Grand Boulevards of Paris under the rain in fall. You can hear ...
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1950s Paintings

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Paint

Arthur Meltzer “Winter Farm Landscape” Watercolor
Located in Dallas, TX
Arthur Meltzer (1893 - 1989) "Winter Farm Landscape" Image size: 12 x 21 inches Framed: 32.5 x 23.5 inches watercolor on paper landscape painting with Farm houses, barns and a t...
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1950s Paintings

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Paper

Emile Albert Gruppe Gloucester Docks
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) Gloucester Docks, circa 1950 Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm) Original Frame: 26 X 30 Inches Signed lower right: Emile A. Grup...
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1950s Paintings

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Paint

Antoine Blanchard Cafe De La Paix
Located in Dallas, TX
Antoine Blanchard (1910 - 1988) Cafe de la Paix. Circa 1950 wonderful and vibrant scene from the Grand Boulevards of Paris under the rain in fall. You can hear the horses prancing an...
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1950s Paintings

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Paint

Antoine Blanchard “L’Arc De Triumphe”
Located in Dallas, TX
Antoine Blanchard, oil on canvas, "L' Arc de Triumphe", Circa 1950. A typical rainy day on the boulevards of Paris with horse drawn carriages and pedestrians getting on with their da...
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1950s Paintings

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Paint

Arthur Meltzer “Winter Farm Landscape” Watercolor
Located in Dallas, TX
Arthur Meltzer (1893 - 1989) "Winter Farm Landscape" Image Size: 12 x 21 inches Framed: 32.5 x 23.5 inches watercolor on paper landscape painting with Farm houses, barns and a tra...
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1950s Paintings

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Paper

Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963) - Nature Morte au Pot
Located in Dallas, TX
Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963) - Nature Morte au Pot Signed ‘G Braque' (underlined) bottom right Oil on canvas Canvas: 18 x 21.75 in. (45.7 x 55.2cm) Framed: 26 x 30 inches Execu...
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Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Paint

Self Portrait
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to...
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Expressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Polish French Ecole de Paris Mid Century Modernist Oil Painting Clown Juggler
Located in Surfside, FL
Abram Abraham Krol was born January 22, 1919, in Pabianice (Lodz), Poland. Abram Krol went to France in 1938 to study civil engineering at the University of Caen. In 1939 at the be...
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Modern 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Lonely Rocks" - Original 1958 Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Lonely Rocks" - Original 1958 Watercolor on Paper Original watercolor painting of a woman in a red dress standing on rocks along the seashore by Bertram Spencer (American, 1918-199...
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Untitled (#222)
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated verso. 49.5 x 34.5 in. 51 x 36.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in a maple floater with a polyurethane clear coat finish. Provenance Howard Wise Galle...
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Post-War 1950s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La fenetre a Meneaux - French Cubist Landscape Oil Painting by Andre Lhote
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas landscape by French cubist painter André Lhote. The piece depicts a view of a mountainous landscape from a Mullion window - a decorative with a vertica...
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Cubist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Plastic space
Located in Roma, RM
Piero Sadun (Siena 1919 - 1974), Plastic space (late 1950s) Oil painting on canvas measuring 90 x 100 cm. The work appears to be archived at the Piero Sadun Archives. Provenance: ...
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1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Femme se Coiffant
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Georges Dayez 1907-1991 Georges Dayez was born on July 29, 1907. His father Jules was a commercial printer. In 1909, the Dayez family moved to Vaires-sur-Marne. Dayez’s father fough...
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Cubist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Harlequin
By Richard Mandin
Located in London, GB
'The Harlequin', oil on board, by Richard Mandin (1952). Harlequin's traditional diamond patterned costume, bicorn hat, and the wooden sword that denoted his buffoonery have appealed...
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Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Board

Marcel Dyf Fille Se Coiffant 1957
Located in Dallas, TX
MARCEL DYF (FRENCH 1899-1985) Fille se coiffant, 1957 This delicate yet strong young woman of modest means combs her hair semi nude sitting in a chair in her bedroom gazing at a fl...
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1950s Paintings

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Paint

Lovely 1950s Park Painting
Located in Larchmont, NY
Untitled, 1951 Oil on canvas 19 7/8 x 24 in. Framed: 28 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. Signed and dated lower left
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American Impressionist 1950s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967) Les Oliviers, oil on panel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967) Les Oliviers, A landscape with olive trees signed "EODV Guillonnet" lower right Oil on wood panel 38 x 46 cm Framed : 44 x 52 cm Provena...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil

'The Hill Dwellers'
Located in Cambridge, GB
The Hill Dwellers' JOHN BOLAM, 1922-2009 Oil on board, 1959, signed and inscribed verso. John Bolam is seen by many as following in the path of the neo-Romantics, most notabl...
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Post-Modern 1950s Paintings

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Oil

Au Port de Bordeaux
Located in Los Angeles, CA
BORIS CHEMETOV "AU PORT DE BORDEAUX" OIL ON CANVAN, SIGNED FRANCE, C.1950 26 X 32 INCHES FRAMED 33.5 X 39 INCHES ______________________________________________________ Boris C...
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Cubist 1950s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled abstract expressionist mid-century painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 Untitled, c. 1950 oil on masonite 8 x 10 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting -- San Francisco Shore Birds
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting of San Francisco Bay Shorebirds at Surf's Edge 1950's abstract expressionist painting of shorebirds at water's edge by San Francisco arti...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil, Rice Paper, Watercolor

Abstract Judaica Enamel Mounted Wall Panel Plaque Artwork by George Welch
Located in Atlanta, GA
George F. Welch (1926 - 2003) designed this lovely Mid-Century modernist enamel on copper artwork. The large square enameled plaque is wall-mounted and framed. The artwork boasts an ...
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Abstract 1950s Paintings

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Copper, Enamel

Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
RICHARD ANDRES American, 1927–2013 Untitled, c. 1950 oil on canvas signed lower left 10 x 7 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Clevelan...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings

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Oil

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