Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
MID-CENTURY MODERN STYLE
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the mid-20th century
- Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
- A heyday of innovation in postwar America
- Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
- A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
- Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
- Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
- Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
- Promotion of functionality
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Charles and Ray Eames
- Eero Saarinen
- Milo Baughman
- Florence Knoll
- Harry Bertoia
- Isamu Noguchi
- George Nelson
- Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
- Eames lounge chair
- Nelson daybed
- Florence Knoll sofa
- Egg chair
- Womb chair
- Noguchi coffee table
- Barcelona chair
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
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Style: Mid-Century Modern
Stunning Modernist Architectural Rendering, Drawing by G.F.Hahn
Located in Buffalo, NY
Original MCM Pen and ink architectural study for a Palm Springs Residence (unbuilt). Framed and signed; J.H.Hahn, Reminiscent of the famed Dinah Shore hous...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Lead
Cast Iron Rose Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cast iron rose sculpture.
Dimensions
9" width x 4.75" depth x 2" height.
Condition
Good vintage condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Signed Abstract Modernist Metal Sculpture Attributted to Early Curtis Jere
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Buffalo, NY
Signed abstract modernist metal sculpture. One off, original, stunning form, texture and design, apparently early work of Curtis Jere Company, long before they're sculptures and desi...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Unique Ceramic Dish With motif Of Boats Under Moonlit Sky By Jeppe H. Olsen
Located in Lejre, DK
Unique ceramic dish by Jeppe Hagedorn-Olsen (1929–2011), who was a renowned Danish ceramist and painter, educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and the ceram...
Category
Late 20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Mexican Handmade Ebony Bookends
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1960, We offer this rare pair of Mexican Handmade Bookends made in fantastic Ebony wood this kind of wood its very hard and heavy.
Category
1960s Mexican Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Ebony
Janet Leach Signed British Studio Pottery Japanese Chawan Tea Bowl with Box 1971
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully designed and glazed Japanese Mingei style Chawan tea ceremony bowl with ears by esteemed American born/ British potter Janet Leach, wife of f...
Category
1970s British Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Large Midcentury Porcelain Letter "B" from the Stix Baer and Fuller Sign
By Bauhaus
Located in St. Louis, MO
Large 44.75" H porcelain letter B, from the former Stix, Baer & Fuller sign. This letter was once on the Mid-Century Modern Stix, Baer & Fuller department store in the Westroads Shop...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
Modern Abstract Constructivist Walnut Wood Sculpture Signed Czeslaw Budny
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This contemporary abstract wooden sculpture is by Czeslaw Budny in constructivist style circa 2022. This unique sculpture is made of recycled walnut. Budny utilizes the simplicity of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Walnut, Reclaimed Wood
Glen Lukens Signed Midcentury Blue with Gold Crackle Glazed Ceramic Pottery Bowl
By Glen Lukens
Located in Studio City, CA
A rare and likely early work featuring a blue or green with gold flecks crackle glaze by influential Mid-Century Modern ceramist Glen Lukens whose work has become very collectible and relatively scarce and difficult to find.
The work is signed by Lukens on the underside.
Lukens was the founder of the University of Southern California...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware
Set of 5 Antique Spanish Foam Dolls, circa 1980
Located in Barcelona, ES
Antique hand made Spanish foam doll. Manufactured circa 1980 in Spain. In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina. Ma...
Category
1980s Spanish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Foam
Vintage Christmas Small Red Nutcracker, Wood, Erzgebirge, Germany, 1970
Located in 05-080 Hornowek, PL
Wooden nutcracker figure from the Erzgebirge. The region Erzgebirge formerly Eastern Germany is famous for this special kind of nutcrackers, where intricate carving has been their ho...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Mel Smilow White Abstract Grid Oil on Canvas Assemblage 1988
By Mel Smilow
Located in Virginia Beach, VA
Mel Smilow, 1988, an assemblage of cut foam blocks in an array of modern abstract image of shapes assembled in a grid pattern, covered in a white acrylic. Trimmed in a thin contrasting pine.
Signed.
Mel Smilow, the famed mid century furniture designer...
Category
1980s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Painting Oil Naive Three Sloops Spirit of Alfred Wallis Framed Blue White Black
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Three sloops under full sail
Oil on cardboard
Characterful naive picture in the spirit of Alfred Wallis
Board Length 41cm., 16" Height 25cm., 10"
In th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Other
Oli Painting Made On Canvas With Gilded Frame Signed By T.H Skovgaard From 1930s
Located in Lejre, DK
Oil painting with motif of a fisherman's wife hanging things to dry. In the background is a small house with a shed next to it, and the coast can be seen behind the house. In the for...
Category
1930s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Mirror Designed by Estrid Ericson for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1930
Located in Stockholm, SE
Mirror designed by Estrid Ericson for Svenskt Tenn,
Sweden, 1930.
Pewter and mirror.
Measures: H: 62.5 cm / 2' 1/2''
W: 41 cm / 16''
D: 2 cm / 3/4''.
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Pewter
Painting Oil Naive Cutter Boat Spirit Alfred Wallis Oil Length 40cm 16"
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Cutter pz17 in full sail past a lighthouse
Board length 24cm., 9 1/2", height 21cm., 8 1/4"
Floated on a cream mount in a recycled black moulded frame with some losses Length 40cm.,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Paint
Mid-Century Modernist Bronze of Mother and Child - W8391
Located in Shamokin Dam, PA
Mid-Century Modernist Bronze of Mother and Child - W8391
This is a beautiful vintage bronze of a mother and child (or could be a man and woman). It came from a local estate.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Ceramic Lamp in the Style of Georges Pelletier, or Accolay, circa 1950/1960
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Ceramic lamp in the style of Georges Pelletier, or Accolay circa 1950/1960.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Joseph Abraham Bolinsky (American, b. 1917) Untitled Bronze
By Lynn Chadwick
Located in Buffalo, NY
Joseph Abraham Bolinsky (American, b. 1917) Untitled Bronze,, manner of Lynn Chadwick,, Classic modernist form,, Wonderful patina,,
Profession: Sculptor, educator
Studied: Columbia...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Oli Painting Made On Canvas With Wooden Frame Signed Mary L
Located in Lejre, DK
Oil painting framed in a black wooden frame with motif of a coastal town with warm colors. Signed by Mary L.
Measurements: L:58.5 cm W: 68.5 cm
Category
Mid-19th Century Danish Antique Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Vintage Everlast Boxing Punching Bag with Folk Art Illustration
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage Everlast punching bag. This looks like a classic "heavy bag," also known as heavy duty or jumbo bag, used for strength training in boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai and a range o...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Nylon
Impressive and Seldom Nigerian Large Basket Garment and Cover
Located in Antwerp, BE
An impressive and seldom Nigerian large basket garment and cover, with dyed patterned band.
Those baskets where used to preserve grains.
Tall colorful handwoven lidded basket from ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nigerian Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Straw
Mid-Century German Minimalist Teak Mirror from Zier-Form, 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid Century Teak Spiegel from Zier-Form, Munich.
Large corridors with a very minimalist teak frame. This piece has an attribution mark, It is completely authentic for any authentici...
Category
20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Teak
Arjumand Aruba Blue & Jasper 240x300 cm Handknotted Rug
By JAIPUR RUGS
Located in Milano, IT
Introduce yourself to a realm of romance, artistry, and cultural fusion with Arjumand, a mesmerizing rug from the Majnun Collection crafted by Pavitra Rajaram. Drawing inspiration fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Set of 7 Mid-Century Era Painted Wood Carnival Folk Art Sign Box Letters
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This set of seven Folk Art wooden box letters were made in Canada is circa 1965 and were once mounted on a carnival sign for either a ride or an at...
Category
Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Czeslaw Budny Signed Modern Abstract Constructivist Marble Sculpture Base
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This contemporary abstract marble sculpture is by Czeslaw Budny, a Polish-Canadian artist in the constructivist style circa 2022. This unique sculpture i...
Category
2010s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stone, Marble
Czeslaw Budny Modern Abstract Constructivist Marble Sculpture Stone Base Signed
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This contemporary abstract marble sculpture is by Czeslaw Budny, a Polish-Canadian artist in the constructivist style circa 2022. This unique sculpture i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stone, Marble
Patrick Danion, Painting, Acrylic on Paper, France, 1989
Located in Nice, Cote d' Azur
Patrick Danion,
Painting, Acrylic on Paper,
Signed on the bottom right corner,
France, 1989.
Measures: Width 134 cm, Height 122 cm.
Category
1980s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Acrylic, Paint
Rare Pair Of Mid-Century Rope Oval Mirror Adrien Audoux & Frida Minet
Located in Austin, TX
Rare Pair Of Mid-Century Rope Oval Mirror Adrien Audoux & Frida Minet.
21 inches H. , 13.5 inches W.
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Rope, Mirror
Bronze Head Sculpture
Located in Long Island City, NY
This bronze head sculpture signed by artist O. Ramsburg can be displayed as an elegant table top art piece.
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Albert Chubac, Gouache Painting, circa 1980, France
Located in Nice, Cote d' Azur
Albert Chubac, Composition
Gouache,
Signed lower right,
circa 1980, France.
Measures: Height 15 cm, width 15 cm, depth 3 cm (without frame).
Albert Chubac was born in Geneva in 19...
Category
1980s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Paint
Modernist Abstract Painting , Ink, by Martha Visser T Hooft, circa 1961
Located in Buffalo, NY
Martha Visser't Hooft
(1906-1994)
Martha Hamlin Visser't Hooft was an artist and teacher whose family was deeply involved in the arts and sciences. Her father, Chauncey Jerome Hamlin, was one of Buffalo’s most influential civic leaders and planners, and an attorney known for his activism in museums. Her mother, Emily Gray Hamlin, was a social activist with interests that extended to the arts and philosophy. Martha Visser’t Hooft studied art in Paris in the 1920s at the Académie Julian, and explored exciting new European developments, such as cubism and surrealism, Russian ballet, and modern music. In 1926 she moved to New York to study briefly at the Parsons School of Design before transferring to the John Murray Anderson School of Theater Design.
She took several trips to Taos, New Mexico, meeting several prominent artists of the area, including Buffalo-born patron Mabel Dodge Luhan...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Paint
Modernist Abstract Stacked Wood and Painted Sculpture "Bug" by Robert Brock
By Robert Brock
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist abstract stacked wood and painted sculpture "Bug" by Robert Brock. Wonder color,,texture and proportion...Intricately designed, , signed BROCK 67
Brock was born in Tacoma, Ohio and was a graduate of the University of Dayton, Dayton Art Institute and Ohio University...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Beatrice Wood Signed Midcentury Monumental Large Figurative Luster Glaze Vase
Located in Studio City, CA
We try not to use the term "museum quality" often but in the case of his particular work, it is more than apt.
A simply breathtaking piece by famed American ceramicist Beatrice Wo...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware
Collection of Seven Danish Vikings by Hans Bolling and Bojesen
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This offer is for a collection of seven Danish vikings by Hans Bolling and Bojesen. The Vikings are made out of mix woods and real fur. They are from th...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Vintage Belgian Tile Faced Entry Door Pull Handle by Artist Juliette Belarti
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Architectural door pull by Belgian ceramic tile artist Juliette Belarti.
Vintage midcentury Belgian tile faced entry door pull handle.
Great b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Brown Stoneware Ceramic Pitcher by Benoist Favre La Borne 1970 Design
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
Benoist Favre
Realised circa 1970 in la Borne
Original brown ceramic pitcher
Handmade production
Original perfect condition
Signed at the ...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
One-Off "Yin Yang" Puzzle Lounge Chair, Modernist, Bench Made
Located in Buffalo, NY
Unusual "artist crafted" lounge chair, five or eight figured plywood. Yin-Yang design, attached back seat cushion.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Birch
Mid-20th Century Stylized Plaster Sculpture of Madonna and Child
Located in Antwerp, BE
Mid-20th century stylized plaster buste of Madonna and Child.
Measures: Height 34 cm.
Category
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Plaster, Wood
Spanish 'Hachero' Traditional Stained Wood Candleholder – Circa 1930.
Located in Barcelona, ES
Spanish 'Hachero' Traditional Stained Wood Candleholder – Circa 1930, Made in Spain, By Unknown Manufacturer
This traditional Spanish Hachero candleholder, dating back to circa 1930...
Category
1930s Spanish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Organic MCM Marble Interprative Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
The Brendan Bass Estate Collection is an homage to the beauty of vintage and antique
pieces, each artfully concealing endless stories collected through the generations in which they...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Marble
Arthur Court Aluminum Torso Bust
By Arthur Court
Located in Westport, CT
Arthur court aluminum men's torso bust.
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Aluminum
Portrait of an Elegant Woman, Signed Hugo Scheiber
By Hugó Scheiber
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor / painting signed Hugo Scheiber: Budapest (1873-1950).
Hugo Scheiber was born in Budapest in 1873. At the age of eight, he moved with his family from Budapest to Vienna. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Modernist Flat- Weave Rug Signed Valja
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist Textile Flat Weave Rug signed Valja ,Wonderful hues of blues, grays taupes. Fit seamlessly into any environment.
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Albert Chubac, Airbrush on Canvas, France, circa 1960
Located in Nice, Cote d' Azur
Albert Chubac (1925-2008), Composition,
Airbrush on canvas,
France, circa 1960.
Measures: Height 100 cm, width 50 cm.
Albert Chubac was born in Geneva in 1920. After studying dec...
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Mid-20th century sheet metal shoemakers trade sign
Located in London, GB
Mid-20th century sheet metal shoemakers trade sign
A sculptural sheet metal mid-20th century English boot makers shop trade sign. Still with its original loop hanging and side supp...
Category
1940s British Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Mid-Century Coca Cola Delivery Truck by Buddy L, C1960
By Buddy L. 1
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous buddy L Coca Cola delivery truck with aluminum hand truck from the late fifties early sixties. One rear tire is smaller by not much, it's a little dif...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
Eugene Deutch Signed Mid-Century Modern Studio Pottery Ceramic Vase, 1950
Located in Studio City, CA
Wonderful work my well-known Hungarian-born, Midwest potter Eugene Deutch.
This magnificently glazed vase/ vessel features a dark, rich glaze that drips freely down the inside of the work.
Signed and dated (1950) on the underside.
Would make for a great addition to any midcentury pottery collection or eye-catching Stand-alone work in about any setting.
Deutch's work is held in many private collections and museums and he was exhibited in solo shows at the Dallas Museum of Art...
Category
1950s North American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Modernist Abstract Welded Steel Sculpture "Explosion" by Robert Brock
By Robert Brock
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist abstract welded steel sculpture "Explosion" by Robert Brock. Intricately designed, precision welded steel rods, intentionally made to look as if it was blasted open, truly ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Steel
Antique Vintage Binoculars on a Leather Case, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, ES
Antique nautical binoculars in a leather strapped case. Made by unknown manufacturer, circa 1950. In original condition, with some visible si...
Category
1950s Asian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Pair of 1938 Andre Bourgault Miniatur Carved Wood Statues Couple Rocking Chairs
By Andre Bourgault
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of very small original Andre Bourgault statues hand carved and stamped
Please note the delivery fee listed is just a guide, it ...
Category
1940s Canadian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Harrison Mcintosh Signed Monumental Midcentury Large Ceramic Pottery Charger
Located in Studio City, CA
A very rare and early atomic themed or motif (a motif he would later come back to some years later) substantial charger by renowned American West Coast Californian master ceramist Ha...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Mid-Century Rope Desk Lamp Adrien Audoux & Frida Minet
Located in Austin, TX
Rope table or desk lamp by Audoux Minet, circa 1960. European socket.
Category
1960s European Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Rope
1960 Pop Art Oversized Walnut Wood Toothbrush
Located in Staten Island, NY
1960 Walnut Wood Giant Toothbrush. A unique and conversation piece for any space
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Walnut
Large Mid Century Modern Sculptural Brass Horse by Luciano Bustamante 1965
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous large brass Brutalist patchwork stallion horse with blown black glass eyes. Fantastic artistic piece by Luciano Bustamante of Mexico c1965. In excellent vintage condition wi...
Category
1960s Mexican Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Former Mannequin Head Representing The French Actor Fernandel, circa 1960
Located in Mouscron, WHT
Former Mannequin Head Representing The French Actor Fernandel, French Manufacturing circa 1950/1960.
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
Modernist Abstract oil painting on canvas by WNY Artist Polly King
By King
Located in Buffalo, NY
Polly King
(1901-1993)
American
Born: U.S.
Polly King was a painter and sketcher with a special love of travel and water. Born in West Virginia, King mo...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Albert Chubac, Composition, Mixed Media on Paper, circa 1980, France
Located in Nice, Cote d' Azur
Albert Chubac (1925-2008), Composition,
Mixed media on paper,
Signed lower right,
Framed,
circa 1980, France.
Measures : Width 50 cm, Height 65 cm.
Albert Chubac was born in Geneva in 1920. After studying decorative art, then at the Beaux-Arts in Geneva, he obtained grants to travel to Italy, Algeria, Spain, Egypt and Greece, stages which will mark his work.
He settled in 1964 on the Côte d ‘Azur in Aspremont in a very Spartan house, attracted by the light, the sun and the colors of nature.
The year 1967 is the year of the establishment of the School of Nice. He will work and exhibit alongside Aman, César, Tinguely, Gilli, Ben, Rayse, etc ...
In 1990, it was the consecration with the opening of MAMAC in Nice. Albert Chubac then becomes accessible to the general public.
He will use solid primary colors, will develop modifiable structures and then develop the collages in three dimensions.
Gradually, he broke away from his classical training and figuration to move towards abstraction through the encounters and influences of contemporary artists.
Always in search of simplicity, He will radically limit the plastic means with a reduced palette, geometric shapes and simple gestures to concentrate on minimum conditions of possibility.
His work, which lies between constructivism and geometric abstraction, is playful and imbued with the artist's joie de vivre.
In 2004, following the major retrospective at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice, he donated around one hundred works to the City of Nice.
Albert Chubac died in 2008 in Tourrette-Levens, near Aspremont.
Bibliography:
- Albert Chubac, MAMAC Nice, Cultures Nice Editions, 2004.
- Albert Chubac, Galerie Harter, 2013.
- Albert Chubac, a lifetime of artist, Patrick Boussu and Cynthia Lemesle, South Art éditions, 2021.
During the workshop auctions in Nice and Marseille, the Harter Gallery acquired the largest part of his work.
Personal exhibitions:
- 1950: Personal exhibition in Athens at the Zappéion museum.
- 1954: Exhibition at the Arman Gallery in Geneva.
- 1956: Exhibition at the Galerie Connaître in Geneva.
- 1957: Exhibition at the Galerie La Palette in Zurich.
- 1958: Exhibition at the Galerie L’Entracte in Lausanne.
- 1960: Exhibition at the World House Gallery in New York.
- 1967: Exhibition at the Galerie Loo in Geneva, at the Salon Comparaison in Paris, Aspects in Chexbres in Switzerland.
- 1968: “Paintings” exhibitions from March 30 to May 11 at the Galerie Alexandre de la Salle.
- 1970: Exhibition at the Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture de Magnan in Nice, at the Maison de la Culture Le Corbusier in Firminy entitled "Chubac recent works" and at the Galerie Royal Luxembourg in Nice.
- 1971: Exhibition at the Galerie Germain in Paris and at the Fernand Léger School in Malakoff.
- 1972: Exhibition on the village square of Aspremont, at the Galerie Royal Luxembourg in Nice.
- 1973: Exhibition at the Galerie Ferrero in Nice.
- 1974: Exhibition at Art-club in Antibes.
- 1975: Exhibition at the Galerie Jacques Boudin rue de Dijon in Nice.
- 1978: Exhibition at the Galerie Anne Roger in Nice.
- 1980: Exhibition at the Galerie de la Salle in Saint-Paul de Vence from August 8 to September 9.
- 1981: Exhibition at Lieu 5 in Nice from February 13 to March 20.
- 1983: Exhibition at the Galerie d'Art Contemporain in Nice, at Anne Roger.
- 1984: Exhibition "Lille Nice" at the Galerie GodArt in Lille from April 14 to May 17 and at the Galerie Luisella d´Alessandro in Turin.
- 1985: Exhibition in Thonon les Bains at the Galerie Galise.
- 1988: Exhibitions at Galerie Argéco in Nice and Galerie Triade in Barbizon
- 1989: Exhibitions at the Galerie de la Salle, at Lola Gassin's in Nice, in galleries in Nice
- 1990: he made four mobiles for the MAMAC in Nice, Exhibitions at the Galerie François Moulin in Lyon and Golden Gallery, ArtJunction in Nice.
- 1991: Exhibition at the Galerie de la Salle in Saint-Paul.
- 1992: Exhibitions at the Espace du consulat suisse in Nice, Besançon and opening of the Espace Chubac in Tourrette-Levens.
- 1993: Exhibition at the Maison Comoni in Revest-les-Eaux, at the Galerie François Moulin in Lyon.
- 1994: Exhibition at the Espace Caravadossi in Aspremont.
- 1996: Exhibition at the Espace Dellile in Nice.
- 1997: Exhibition at the Galerie de la Salle in Saint-Paul.
- 1998: Last personal exhibition at the Galerie de la Salle in Saint-Paul.
- 2000: Exhibition at Lympia college in Nice.
- 2001: Exhibition at the Espace Chubac in Tourette-Levens.
- 2002: Exhibition at the Galerie Scholtès in Nice and in Carcès in the Var entitled "Albert Chubac-Couleurs mobiles".
- 2004: Great Albert Chubac retrospective at MAMAC in Nice.
- 2011: Permanent exhibition at the Galerie Harter in Nice.
- 2012: Exhibition at the Olympia Show in London at the Christopher Jones Gallery and at the Serge Castella Interiors Gallery in Bascara, Spain.
- 2013: Exhibition at the Municipal Contemporary Art Gallery of Pochettes in Nice.
- 2019/2021: Exhibition of works belonging to the permanent collection of MAMAC in Nice and exhibition "Geometry according to Albert Chubac" at the Galerie Harter in Nice.
- 2021/2021: Permanent exhibition at Galerie Atelier 55...
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1980s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
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Paper
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