Mid-Century Modern Paintings

We recently acquired a number of paintings from the estate of the noted outsider artist Peter Paul Sakowski (1915-2000) of Holyoke, Mass. His style tended to vary from an illustrativ...

Mid-century framed abstract drip-style acrylic painting. Framed in black metal under glass. Unsigned. Four drip-style paintings are available (see last picture) and sold separately, ...

Geometric landscape by Helen Gerardia. Signed lower right, Gerardia. Circa 1950-60. Good overall condition with some surface paint scuffs and losses. Ov...

RARE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST WORK! MODERN ART CUT & LAYERED INCREDIBLE WOOD DRIP TECHNIQUE OIL PAINTING! After Jackson Pollock DIMENSIONS: Approximately 26" x 24" x 2" This i...

Enamel on canvas "Untitled" signature on the back. Certification by the artist is present. Archived in 1997 Monte Titano Arte General Archive of Mario Schifano's paintings n. 713/97 dated 19.09.1997 Monte Titano Arte. Bibliography: the work is present in III° Mario Schifano Works on Canvas 1991-1998 page 401 The dimensions are without frame. This painting, comes from a private collection and is beautified by an impressive original frame in natural wood, in almost perfect condition. The painting is also protected by glass Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Sabrina Egidi official Expert in Italian furniture for the Chamber of Commerce of Rome and for the Rome Civil Courts. Mario Schifano (Homs 1934 - 1998) was an Italian painter and filmmaker. Together with Franco Angeli and Tano Festa he represented a fundamental point of Italian and European Pop Art. Perfectly integrated in the international cultural scene of the 1960s, he was reputed to be a prolific, exuberant and drug-addicted artist. A keen student of new painting techniques, he was among the first to use computers to create works and was able to process images from the computer and transfer them onto emulsified canvases. Mario Schifano was born in Italian Libya and after the end of the war returned to Rome where, due to his restless personality, he left school early to follow in his father's footsteps who worked at the Etruscan museum of Villa Giulia as an archaeologist and restorer. Thanks to this experience, he approached art, initially producing works that were influenced by Informal Art. His first solo exhibition was at the Galleria Appia Antica in Rome in 1959. In the late 1950s, he participated in the artistic movement Scuola di Piazza del Popolo together with artists such as Francesco Lo Savio, Mimmo Rotella, Giuseppe Uncini, Giosetta Fioroni, Tano Festa and Franco Angeli. The group met at Caffè Rosati, a Roman café then frequented by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Moravia and Federico Fellini, among others, and located in Piazza del Popolo, from which they took their name. In 1960, the group's works were exhibited in a group show at Galleria La Salita. In 1961 he exhibited in a solo show at Galleria La Tartarugadi Plinio De Martiis in Rome. In the meantime, he had met, among others, his future lover Anita Pallenberg at the Caffè Rosati, with whom he made his first trip to New York in 1962, where he came into contact with Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga at the Factory. During this period he participated in the New Realists exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery, a group show that included most of the young artists of Pop art and Nouveau Réalisme, including Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. He then had the opportunity to participate in the New York social scene, which led to his first experiments with LSD.[6] On his return from New York, after participating in exhibitions in Rome, Paris and Milan, he took part in the XXXII International Art Exhibition in Venice in 1964. During this period, his paintings defined as 'Anemic Landscapes', in which it is memory that evokes the representation of nature with small details or allusive inscriptions, and the reinterpretations of art history that later led to his famous pictorial works on futurism appear in embryo. In Rome, he met and frequented Marco Ferreri and Giuseppe Ungaretti to whom, already in his 80s, he offered an evening at Peyote. But one of the acquaintances of this period that most influenced him was that with Ettore Rosboch, with whom he formed a deep friendship, based on a shared passion for music. In those years, also thanks to their constant trips to London, the two became friends with the Rolling Stones, to whom they introduced Anita Pallenberg, who in 1965 began a relationship with Brian Jones, and years later became Keith Richards' partner. In 1969, the flat in Piazza in Piscinula in Rome that then belonged to Schifano was used by Ferreri as the set for the film Dillinger is Dead, on the walls of which some of the artist's paintings can be seen. In 1969, the Rolling Stones dedicated the song Monkey Man to Mario Schifano. In 1971 some of his paintings were included by Achille Bonito Oliva in the exhibition Vitalità nel negativo nell'arte italiana 1960/70. Many of his works, the so-called 'monochromes', present only one or two colours, applied on wrapping paper glued on canvas. The influence of Jasper Johns was manifested in the use of numbers or isolated letters of the alphabet, but in Schifano's way of painting analogies can be traced to the work of Robert Rauschenberg. In a painting from 1960, one can read the word 'no' painted with drips of colour in large capital letters, as in a wall graffiti. The influence of Pop art can be seen in all the artistic production of Mario Schifano, who was fascinated by new technologies, advertising, music, photography and experimentation. In particular, the artist's closest works to Pop Art are those of the 1980s. Among the most important works of this period are the Propagande, a series dedicated to advertising brands (Coca-Cola and Esso) in which we have a clear example of the conveyance of commonly used and easily recognisable images quoted in multiple ways or details of them, bicycles, flowers and nature in general (among the most famous series are the Paesaggi anemici, Vedute interrotte, L'albero della vita...

Important work in marker on cardboard by the great Roman artist Tano Festa, one of the major exponents, together with Mario Schifano, of the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo. "Homage to ...

A fantastic vintage Abstract original oil painting. Beautiful soft colors in a chic geometric design. Signed by the artist. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

Fantastic vintage original oil on board. A fab composition of a smiling female Navy soldier. Sure the brighten the mood in any room. Acquired from...

A large and evocative circa 1950 framed impressionist landscape oil painting on canvas titled “Princeton Beach [Boat Repair]” by noted northern California artist William “Will” E. Frates (b. 1896–1969). Captivating coastal setting depicts an unassuming barn-like structure beside a pair of fishing boats in dry dock, one of which is on stilts with figures discernible on deck going about their repairs. Sandy shoreline terrain in the foreground and turquoise-colored waters in the cove lead to a sliver of beach below verdant foothills in the distance that rise up into a cloud-filled sky. Earthy palette punctuated by reddish-orange pops of color that capture the warm glow of an inimitable California sunset on the building, boat hulls, and a section of water. Artist’s loose yet assured brushwork on wonderful display throughout, with impressionistic details and textures that reward those who lean in for a closer look. Based on Frates’ San Francisco Bay Area roots and the title, the setting could be somewhere near Princeton-by-the-Sea just north of Half Moon Bay, which is a short drive south of San Francisco on scenic Highway 1. Signed on front at bottom and signed, titled, priced, and notated in pencil on verso. Title on verso appears to have originally been “Princeton Beach Boat Repair”, with “Boat Repair” having been crossed out. Original circa 1950 price was possibly overwritten from “$200” to “$300”, which in either case translates to nearly $4,000 in today’s dollars. Presented in its original plaster-coated wood frame with painted faux-stone finish and painted white wood interior border. Canvas backed by stiff paperboard. Will Frates was born in Hayward, California in 1896, and was an active, versatile, and very skilled oil, watercolor, pastel, and etchings artist from the 1920s until his passing while on a painting excursion in Myrtle Creek, Oregon in 1969. His subjects were mostly San Francisco Bay Area and California “Mother Lode” landscapes, though he also painted scenes far afield, from New Mexico to the coast of Maine. Frates first studied art in San Francisco with noted landscape painter and ornithologist William Otto...

Possibly Watercolor or Acrylic on Paper. Signed Phil Flash. Wood Frame With Wire Cord For Hanging on the Back. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured. Dimensions. 27 W ; ...

Possibly Watercolor or Pen on Paper. Unsigned Landscape Art of Mountains and waterfall. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured Dimensio...

Vintage Artwork of Abstract Landscape Focusing on a Mountain and Trees.Possibly Watercolor on Paper. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured. Dimensions. 20 1/2 W ; 1/8 D ...

Very rare Carlo of Hollywood Mid-Century watercolor painting featuring a full jazz band with an array of musical instruments and scrolling music notes. The painting comes in the orig...

A fantastic vintage Contemporary original Abstract painting. A striking mixed media by Scottish artist Niki Smith. A composition of ceramic on Sgrafitto in pale blue and white. Signe...

Nude Woman post Fauvisme , superbe by the technique at romantisme atmosphere . rare by the quality Artistic Movement: Post-Fauvism was a significant art movement that followed Fauv...

This acrylic painting by Brian Ackerman beckons viewers into a kaleidoscopic realm where the elements of fire dance and weave in an abstract tapestry. Brian Ackerman signed in the ba...

20th Century Abstract Oil on Wood Painting Attributed to Burton Wasserman. Burton Wasserman (1929-2017) was born in Brooklyn, NY to Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Poland. He attend...

Mid-century framed abstract drip-style acrylic painting. Framed in black metal under glass. Unsigned. Four drip-style paintings are available (see last picture) and sold separately, ...

Oil on Canvas Citscape in shades of Blue. Painting is from the 1960's and in nice shape. Signed Man?

S U P E R B ! MID CENTURY MODERN C I T Y S C A P E P A I N T I N G ! ICONIC HELLER MID CENTURY STYLE! OIL ON BOARD HUGE! Approx. 29 " x 53 " C I R ...

Vintage Painting on Canvas, Signed in the Lower Corner as Pictured. Textured Paint.,Particularly on the Wolves. Complimented Well with the ...

1970's oil on canvas Fire Island Pines modern painting signed "J. Williams" in vintage original condition with some wear and patina due to age and use, there is some wear to the oil ...

Mid century still life oil painting on canvas showing a crumpled newspaper and a multi-colored checkered top hat. Signed in lower left corner Russo ‘55. Marked on verso Giornale e Ca...

Acrylic on canvas painting of two boxers in the ring with the spectators in the background. Done in a slightly figure abstract style with the look and feel of the 1950s. The canvas i...

Abstract Portrait of a Native American Man wearing a Traditional Headdress. Possibly Watercolor and Pastel on Paper. Signed JP Gaston as Pictured. Vintage Condition Consistent with A...

Modernist oil in the jazz era manner of Stuart Davis entitled “Window” and signed Palester, circa 1960s

Historic Print of Original Oil Painting by Fr. & R. Stegmiller of Jerusalem in 1928. Primarily Red and Yellow Tones as Pictured. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured. D...

Possibly Oil or Pastel on Paper. Frame Has Been Reinforced on the back. Frame has Floral Motifs. Frame Circa 1920s. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured. Dimensions. 26...

Nude Portrait of a Woman. Appears to be Pastel or Watercolor on paper. Signed UP Gaston as Pictured. Wear and Condition Consistent with Age. Dimensions. 26 W ; 20 H

Alex Tschernjawski (Born 1933) is active/lives in New York / Yugoslavia (former). Alex Tschernjawski is known for Figure, street landscape. Good o...

MONUMENTAL! ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING CARLO OF HOLLYWOOD ARAB MARKET DIMENSIONS: ( LARGE Approx 53" By 22" Framed ) If you're a mid century art collector, you've likely heard of Carlo of Hollywood and his unique and coveted pieces! In the post war period, original art for the home was a rarity. There was no internet, very few art galleries in the new suburbia or throughout most of middle America...

Vintage Signed Artwork on a Canvas that Doubles as a Fully Functioning Radiator. The Back of the Painting Contains Safety Information , the Switch to Turn the Heater on is on the Si...

Pair of Vintage Paintings of Garden Scenes . One Painting Features Swan and other Shows a Court Yard.They are Complimentary due to the Pink Floral Accents and the Similar ponds . Woo...

Vintage Painting of Red and Floral Bouquet Signed by Helmer. Frame has Black Velvet or Accent. Possibly Oil or Acrylic on Cavas. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured. D...

Surrealist Oil on Canvas signed 'Bob Cowan, 1968." Visually appealing with attractive colors incorporated. Framed dimensions: H: 48.25" x L: 29.25" x D: 1.5"

Jean Nerfin Oil on Canvas Canadian, born 1922 Landscape in the Mid-Century Modern Paris School style. Painting in nice original condition! Signed and dated bottom right corner.

Vintage Landscape Painting with Purple hue on Board. Signed in the Lower Corner as Pictured. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured. Dimensions. 20 W ; 16 H

Astonishingly beautiful and monumental mural spanning eleven individual panels which when assembled are 16 feet long by 6 feet high. The panels are reverse paint and applique on she...

Dimensions: Height: 38 3/4in Width: 28 3/4in Depth: 1in This vintage abstract painting on canvas is perfect for you and your home! If you look at the photos provided, you can see...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...

A somber rendering of a young girl with a page boy haircut wearing a red dress seated in a high back chair. Her arms are raised above her head. Oil paint on board. Entitled "Seated" ...

Serigraphy by Dordevic Miodrag, Serbia, 1970s

Donald Roberts mid century modern large oval abstract geometric formica sandblasted painting titled Aureole Project Azure March 1966. Donald Roberts b.1923-2015 in Boston, Massachu...

Vintage Illustration of British Soldier on Horse. Frame has Makers Mark on the Backyard. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured. Dimensio...

A modern abstract cubist composition in the manner of the jazz age paintings of Stuart Davis, entitled “The Knight of the Cello” (translated from Fre...

A vintage Mid-Century Modern original oil painting on canvas. A chic Abstract composition in pale neutral colors. Signed and Dated 1963. Acquired from an Miami estate.

Possibly Watercolor or Pen on Paper. Signed JP. Gaston and Numbered 300647. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured. Dimensions. 26 W ; 16 H

Abstract Orange Floral Painting Painting on Cloth , Wrapped Around Canvas. MakersCard on the Back as Shown. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured. Dimensions. 13 W ; 19 H

Large Vintage French Style 58" x 70" Gold Frame Still Life Oil Painting with Bouquet of Flowers. Item features a large gold carved wood frame, oil on canvas, stately impressive size,...

SINFULLY GOOD! ORIGINAL OIL "FORBIDDEN FRUIT" ABSTRACT PAINTING DAN SHARP SIGNED & TITLED Circa 1993 Mid Century Revival Expressionism Dimensions: LARGE Approximately 32...

Mid Century Modern Style Artwork with 3 D Texture. Frame is Bronze Toned, Signed M. Bak Rick as Pictured. Dimensions. 20 W ; 1 1/2 D ; 10 H

Beautiful and evocative oil painting by the great French school modern artist Moya Dyring specializing in marinas. It depicts a harbor with boats probably from the French Riviera painted with great intensity but giving, at the same time, a sweet sense of serenity. Moya Claire Dyring was born in Coburg, Victoria in 1909. She produced drawings, oil paintings and pastels. She was one of the first women artists to embrace Modernism and exhibit cubist paintings in Melbourne. For several years she was a member of the modern art community known as the Heide Circle, named after the home of art collectors John and Sunday Reed, and now the Heide Museum of Modern Art. Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Sabrina Egidi official Expert in Italian furniture for the Chamber of Commerce of Rome and for the Rome Civil Courts. Dyring then travelled to the USA and France, where she lived most her life. Her work is held in the Heide Museum as well as the National Gallery of Australia. One of her earliest works in cubist in style, Melanctha, 1934, was acquired by Sunday Reed. In 1934 Dyring also painted Portrait of Sunday Reed which went into the Reed's collection, along with a cubist style Portrait of a Woman from the same year. While her early works were figurative or cubist, in France she turned to landscape as she travelled to various towns throughout France. In her later years, unable to travel freely, she painted children against the backdrop of Paris. As time passed, she was largely glossed over and not included in major exhibitions of artists, especially women artists, of the 30s, 40, and 50s. In 2002, at the University of Melbourne, Gaynor Patricia Cuthbert delved into her life and work for a doctoral thesis, helping to bring back attention to her work. Collection The Heide Museum of Modern Art holds many paintings and drawings, some acquired through the John and Sydney Reed collection. The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra includes one drawing. The Art Gallery of New South Wales holds multiple works. Third child of Carl Peter Wilhelm Dyring, medical practitioner, and his second wife Dagmar Alexandra Esther, née Cohn, both Victorian born. Moya was educated (1917-27) at Firbank Church of England Girls' Grammar School, Brighton. After visiting Paris in 1928, she studied (1929-32) at the National Gallery schools, Melbourne, and shared fellow student Sam Atyeo's interest in artistic innovation. Classical modernism engaged her attention in the early 1930s. She painted at the George Bell school and studied under Rah Fizelle in Sydney; Mary Alice Evatt and Cynthia Reed were her colleagues. For several months in 1937 she took charge of Heide, the home and garden of John and Sunday Reed, at Bulleen, Melbourne. The Reeds were pivotal both to her sympathy for modernism and her belief in congenial fellowship. She enjoyed something of the intense relationship with Sunday Reed that the latter would subsequently extend to Joy Hester. In June Dyring held an exhibition, opened by H. V. Evatt, at the Riddell Gallery, Melbourne. Less enthusiastic than the Reeds and the Evatts about her art, Basil Burdett wrote of her 'somewhat incoherent interpretation of modern ideas', although he did acknowledge that her work had 'audacity of colour and a certain monumental feeling for form . . . qualities rare enough in Australian painting'. In August Dyring embarked for Panama whence she travelled by bus to New York, breaking her journey to view major galleries. She had intended to paint in the United States of America, but disliked the work of contemporary American artists and sailed for France. In 1938 she was based in Paris, taking advantage of Atyeo's contacts within the avant-garde. She studied at the Académie Colarossi, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and with Andre Lhote, although by October she denounced him as a 'racketeer'. In 1939 Dyring and Atyeo settled on a farm at Vence, France; inspired by memories of Heide, they grew fruit and flowers. Sam accepted a commission to decorate a house in Dominica, West Indies, leaving Moya at Vence. Evacuated to Australia via South Africa, where she painted and searched for tribal art, she then journeyed to Dominica and married Atyeo. They were not happy, neither painted and Dyring was ill. Evatt offered Atyeo work and Dyring accompanied him to the U.S.A. She viewed art, painted occasionally and claimed to have exhibited in Washington in 1943. After World War II Evatt found Sam various postings, while Moya returned to Paris to pursue a full-time career in art. They were to be divorced in 1950. From about 1946 Dyring's art was more personal than innovative. She gained a considerable reputation among French regionalist and nationalist artists for her sympathetic appreciation of provincial scenes and life. Bernard Smith placed her in the French tradition of intimiste painters. In 1948 she leased and renovated an apartment on the Ile St Louis, which, as Chez Moya, became a centre for Australians who enjoyed her hospitality, cooking and practical assistance. She revisited Australia and exhibited in various cities in 1950, 1953, 1956, 1960 and 1963; the press carried her reports of Parisian cultural life. Dyring held a solo exhibition in London in December 1949 and was in close contact with expatriate Australians, among them Loudon Sainthill, Donald Friend...

Vintage Watercolor Painting of Landscape on paper within a Silver Toned Frame. Signed in the Lower Left Hand Corner by Artist . Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured. Di...

Louis Nallard, “Interior”, circa 1955 – Tempera on cardboard, professionally framed Original artwork by French painter Louis Nallard. In this abstracted Interior the artist blends grey and earthtones with strokes of vibrant blues, orange and green. Signed by the artist, right bottom corner. About the artist Louis Nallard (Algiers 1918 – Paris 2016) was a French non-figurative painter of the Nouvelle École de Paris. Born on June 17, 1918, in Algiers, French Algeria, had a life intertwined with art and creativity. Despite facing early hardships with the loss of his mother to the Spanish flu, Nallard found solace in his ancestral landscapes. Every summer, he returned to the Dombes region, his father’s birthplace, which became a wellspring of inspiration for his artistic endeavors. At the tender age of sixteen, in 1934, Nallard unveiled his debut exhibition featuring portraits and landscapes, showcasing his skills in watercolors and gouaches. The exhibition took place at the gallery owned by Thomas Rouault, the nephew of the renowned painter. In 1941, Nallard enrolled at the Beaux-arts in Algiers, where he encountered fellow artists such as Marcel Fiorini and Robert Lavergne. Lavergne later became his introducer at the prestigious Galerie Jeanne Bucher. During this time, Nallard also met Maria Manton...

"Provincetown Ice House, 1940s" Bruce McKain (American, 1900-1990) C. 1940s Oil on Canvas Canvas Dimensions: 41.5 in. Width 31.5 in Height Frame Dimension...

“ The Child and the Falcon “ was Created by Kate Bossier in 1979. Numbered 10/20. Red and Black Accents. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured. Dimensions. 29 W ; 1/2 D ...

Are you looking for a unique and beautiful work of art for your interior? Then this painting of a man in traditional dress might be for you. This pai...

Fantastic vintage abstract original oil. A brilliantly colored composition on wood. Signed and dated by the artist Jack Hammack, 1967. Acquired from a Portland estate