1950s Decorative Art
Period: 1950s
Color: Beige
Painting by Peter Keil, Mid-Century Modern Art, Painted in Paris, On Paper, 1959
By Peter Keil
Located in New York, NY
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 an artistically talented woman, took her son and struggled her way to West Berlin...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage Pablo Picasso Exhibition Poster from Musée Galliéra, France, 1956
Located in Copenhagen K, DK
Pablo Picasso
France, 1956
“Les Peintres Témoins de leur Temps” Musée Galliéra. Vintage exhibition poster.
Measures: H 78.5 x W 53 x D 2.5 cm.
Category
French Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Other
Large Ceramic Decorative Dish with Characters Signed by Roger Capron, 1955
By Roger Capron
Located in Paris, FR
Roger Capron (1922-2006)
- Roger Capron studied at Art appliqués of Paris from 1938 to 1943 before teaching drawing in the same establishment from 1945. In 1946, he settled in Valla...
Category
Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Wall Thermometer, Vienna, Around 1950s
Located in Wien, AT
Wall thermometer, Vienna, around 1950s
Original condition.
Category
Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Brass
Matisse "Femmes et Singes" Orignal Lithograph, 1954 by Mourlot Freres, Paris
Located in London, GB
Matisse "Femmes et Singes" Orignal Lithograph printed in 1954 by the renowned Mourlot Freres, Paris. This original lithograph was published in a limited edition by Tériade. Matisse's famous painted...
Category
French Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Large Ceramic Decorative Dish "Woman & Bird" Signed by Roger Capron, 1955
By Roger Capron
Located in Paris, FR
Roger Capron (1922-2006)
Roger Capron studied at Art appliqués of Paris from 1938 to 1943 before teaching drawing in the same establishment from 1945. In 1946, he settled in Vallaur...
Category
Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Woven Wool Tapestry in the Style of Evelyn Ackerman
Located in Kansas City, MO
Beautiful vintage modern wall hanging of an outdoor scene with people, animals, and trees in the styled of Evelyn Ackerman. Very good condi...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
Painting by Peter Keil, Mid-Century Modern Art "Abstract Face", C 1959, Framed
By Peter Keil
Located in New York, NY
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 an artistically talented woman, took her son and struggled her way to West Berlin where they settled. This is where Peter Robert Keil grew up in the working-class neighborhood of Berlin-Wedding and where he discovered his interest in painting – particularly in expressionistic artists and in Pablo Picasso's work. From 1954 on, the East Berlin-based painter Otto Nagel became his mentor and taught him first craft skills and painting techniques. In 1954, he began his traineeship as an artist metal worker and between 1959 and 1961, he studied at the University of Arts in Berlin. When the Berlin Wall was built, he lost contact with his mentor Otto Nagel and from the early 60s on, Keil started to spend more and more time abroad. During his studies at the University of Arts in Berlin, he came in contact with numerous other artists who later became influential artists of their generation, like for example Georg Baselitz, Eugen Schönebeck, Markus Lüpertz and Joachim Schmettau. During his time in Mallorca, he also met with Joan Miró in his studio several times. From the early 60s on, Keil established studios in Paris, London, Berlin and in the US. Today he mainly lives and works in Zimmerau (Bavaria, Germany), Berlin and Los Angeles.
This painting is painted on newspaper. It was painted in Palma Mallorca...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage Brutalist Brass Cross
Located in Milano, IT
Rare brass cross designed by Arnaldo Pomodoro and his brother Giò Pomodoro in the 1950s, of fine Italian manufacture. It is part of the V/58/16 model.
The...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Brass
Vintage Anatomical Human Front Muscular Structure Chart, 1950s, Germany
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
Vintage pull-down anatomical human chart, print of a painting for Tanck & Wegelin, Germany. The chart is part of the series: Naturalien und Lehrmittel Anatomie und Biologie, Hamburg....
Category
German Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Linen, Paper
Authentic French Art Deco Maison Rings Crystal Opposite Face Parrot Appliques
Located in Madrid, ES
Authentic French Art Deco Maison rings crystal opposite face parrot appliques
Authentic French Art Deco Maison Bagues cristal opposite face parrot sconces A pair of authentic French...
Category
Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Art Glass
Vintage Anatomical Human Internal Organs Structure Chart, 1951, Germany
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
Vintage pull-down anatomical human chart, print of a painting for Dr. Neues & Co Kempen, Germany. The chart is part of the series: Biologisch-hygienisches Unterichtswerk des Deutsche...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Linen, Paper
Vintage Metal Tree Wall Art Sculpture Mid-Century Modern
By Curtis Jeré
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Vintage metal tree wall art, three trees. Comes ready to hang.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Metal
Roger Capron Set of 7 Ceramic Plates with Stylized Birds, Vallauris, 1950s
By Roger Capron
Located in Paris, FR
Roger Capron (1922-2006)
Unusual ceramic with birds decor set of 7 plates (diameter 18 cm).
As wall decoration or dessert plates.
Signed Capron Vallauris on back.
Manufactured, circa...
Category
Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Walter bosse swallow birds key holder around 1950s
Located in Wien, AT
Walter bosse swallow birds key holder around 1950s
Original condition
Category
Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Brass
Tris Masks Ceramic Faenza Vintage 1950s, Art
Located in Foggia, FG
Tris Maschere ceramica Faenza Vintage 1950 -Art-
Anno: 1950 circa Ceramica Faenza firmate sul retro
Misure: Cm 21 H
Condizioni: Eccellenti
Tris Masks Ceramic Faenza ...
Category
Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Four Postcards Sets Printed by The Taller de Gráfica Popular
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1950. We offer this 4 sets of postcards printed by the Taller de Gráfica Popular, each set includes 12 postcards.
El Taller de la Gráfica Popular is a collective of engravers founded in Mexico in 1937 by the artists Leopoldo Méndez...
Category
Mexican Folk Art Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Mid-Century Modern Lithograph Portrait of a Woman
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Decorative art work, a lithograph with a figurative abstract representation. The work is signed in pencil, but this is not clearly legible. The work is framed in a simple gilded wood...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Wall Ceramic, Belgium circa 1950/1960
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Wall ceramic, Belgium circa 1950/1960.
Category
Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
'Magic Mirrors' Signs
Located in Alton, GB
A glorious piece of English fairground history and a great tribute to the art form that developed around this genre.
This hand painted large wooden framed...
Category
Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Metal
Pair of Hand Painted Freeform Dishes, Italy, 1950's
Located in Barcelona, ES
A pair of italian free form dishes from 1950's signed Man. Hand painted glazed ceramic. They can be used as a dish or tray or as wall decoration.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Hand Painted Freeform Dishes, Italy, 1950's
Located in Barcelona, ES
A pair of Italian free form dishes from 1950's signed Man. Hand painted glazed ceramic. They can be used as a dish or tray or as wall decoration.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Hand Painted Freeform Dish, Italy, 1950's
Located in Barcelona, ES
Italian free form dish from 1950's signed Man. Hand painted glazed ceramic. It can be used as a dish or tray or as wall decoration.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Mexican 1950’s Pepsi Cola Bottle Cap Embossed Metal Sign
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare 1950’s. Mexican Pepsi Cola Soda Pop Bottle Cap Gas Embossed Metal Sign
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Sheet Metal
Tropical Airbrush Watercolor Panther Painting Signed Peters
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Mid-century era tropical airbrush artwork watercolor panther painting on paper. Signed Peters.
Measures: Frame 35" wide x 31" tall
Art 24" wide x 20" tall.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Painting, Nude, Midcentury, Black and White Nude, Modern Art, C 1959, No Frame
Located in New York, NY
Nude painting, circa 1959. The acrylic paint is done on hard paper. The art work is signed and dated.
The frame is NOT included.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Acrylic
Domika Signed Artwork Orginals on Silkscreen Set of 2 "Tropical Fish and Corals"
Located in Van Nuys, CA
In this set there is two original painting airbrushed on silkscreen press canvas, these two matching artworks depicted tropical fish in corals, with a...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Paint
Modern Framed Fused Glass Wall Art by Higgins Studio, Signed, circa 1950
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Glass artists Michael and Frances Higgins were considered to be pioneer's of the fused glass process. The Chicagan duo first developed their craft for Higgins Studio...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
Original Oil on Board 1950, “Portrait of a Horse”, Signed Lower Right by Harold
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Original oil on board 1950, “Portrait of a Horse”. Signed lower right by Harold Mcintosh. Born in Winnipeg Canada, Mr. Mcintosh studied at Winnipeg School of Art with L.L. Fitzgerald...
Category
American Hollywood Regency Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Paint
Cream, Orange, Blue Midcentury Abstract Acrylic Painting, Germany, 1950s
Located in New York, NY
1950s German acrylic abstract painting in natural color wood frame.
The dominant color is cream surrounded by blue, orange and black.
The artist is unknown.
The painting is framed...
Category
German Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Ski Bunny" 1950s Illustration Watercolor and Guache Framed
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Signed Dick Williams, who was a major illustrator for companies like Coca Cola from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Category
American Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Harlequins, 1950s Otello Rosa Sculptural Wall Lamps for San Polo Venezia Ceramic
By Otello Rosa
Located in Brussels, BE
Harlequins, 1950s Otello Rosa sculptural wall lamps for San Polo Venezia Ceramic, Italy.
Original cabling, to be re-electrified.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Pablo Picasso Large Ceramic Plate, Tormented Face 1956 C117
Located in London, GB
Pablo Picasso Tormented face. Ceramic plate 1956.
Large unglazed light earthenware charger with raised design from the “Tormented Face” series . Produced by Madoura in 1956. Numbered...
Category
French Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Pol Chambost, Large 'Coquillages' Faïence Plates 1950, France
By Pol Chambost
Located in Berlin, DE
Pol Chambost, a pair of large seashell faïence plates , circa 1950, France.
Mother-of-pearl white enamel, violet, black and greens.
signed. Measure: 44.5 cm, 45 cm.
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Faience
Jean-Pierre Capron '1921-1997' "La Mosquee Bleue D'istanbul" Oil on Canvas
By Jean-Pierre Capron
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Jean-Pierre Capron (1921-1997)
"La Mosquee Bleue D'Istanbul"
Oil on canvas, painted by Jean-Pierre Capron (1921-1997),
signed J.P. Capron lower right, in a gilded gallery frame
...
Category
Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
Pablo Picasso Drawing 'Pours Mes Chers Fiancés, ' 1956
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A unique vintage Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) framed, signed and inscribed title page of L'Oeuvre Gravé de Picasso dedicated and presented to the engaged couple Sylvette David and Tobias Jellinek, who married later in 1956 with original pastel sketches of the couple below a signed dedication reading 'Pour mes chers fiances' dated to the upper left corner 20.4.56.
Provenance: Given by Pablo Picasso to Sylvette David and Tobias Jellinek on their engagement and who later married; thence sold to Eila Grahame.
Other notes: "In 1956 the art periodical, Verve, had an image of Sylvette on the cover and Sylvette and I were given a copy. We went to see Picasso that day and took the book with us, and asked Picasso if he would sign it for us. He went and found some colored crayons and wrote the dedication, adding the little sketch of us both.
The likeness of Sylvette shows how comfortable he was with producing her image, which he had previously worked with for several months. His drawing of me with my new beard is less of a
likeness!"
Tobias Jellinek, April 2017.
Pablo Picasso had been working on a portrait of Sylvette David, aged 19, as the girl with the ponytail before doing the present cartoon sketch.
"Sylvette" is the title of one of Picasso's numerous paintings featuring a young woman with a ponytail. The model for the painting, Lydia Sylvette David, also known later by her married name Lydia Corbett...
Category
European Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Crayon, Paper
Sailing Clipper Oil on Canvas Painting Signed Ronald Davies
Located in Montreal, QC
Oil on canvas painting depicting a four mast sailing clipper; signed lower right: R DAVIES. Marked on reverse: Copy Right Reserved # 01211 RONALD DAVIES ...
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
French Stage Size Playbill from Theater in Chateau de Groussay
Located in Nashville, TN
Painted canvas playbill stretched on wood frame. Folds into three sections. Monumental in size.
Category
French Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Santo En El Museo De Cera Acrilic on Canvas Handpainted
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We found this acrilic on Canvas handpainted Santo en el Museo de Cera movie.
Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (23 September 1917 – 5 February 1984), known professionally as El Santo...
Category
Mexican Folk Art Vintage 1950s Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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