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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: Early 1900s
Leonard Maurer Oil Painting "Ferry" 1949
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A charming modernist painting by Leonard Maurer, ca' 1949. Influenced by Matisse, but clearly in his own style with a uniquely American mid-century feel.
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages by Baron Van Der Elst, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages by Baron Joseph Van Der Elst. Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company Inc., 1944. Stated 1st Ed hardcover. An in-depth look into art of the Middle Ages. Contents: 1. The Times and the Men who Made Them: Men of Flanders; The Flemish Parade; The Good Black Earth; The Rise of the Towns; The Medieval Guilds; Of Love, the Dream; The Upward Glance; Pt. 2. The Flemish Masters: Jan van Eyck; Petrus Christus...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
Restored Post-War Hawaiian Bird and Botanical Airbrush Painting, Framed
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Billy Seay Airbrushed Parrot Lovers artwork (original airbrushed over a print) for the Turner Company, circa 1948, in the original white painted frame. This a great example of the post-WWII Hawaiian and tropical art/decorating boom. Great for vintage Art Deco dwellings and rattan-inspired rooms. The print is new old stock and has never been displayed until now.
Bill Seay (1922-2012) started his working life as Billy Seay, a child actor, in the late silents and early talkies (“Kid Millions” with Eddie Cantor, “Topaze” with John Barrymore, and “The Unknown” with Lon Chaney and the young Joan Crawford, are the most noted of these films), then followed in his father’s footsteps as an artist, joining the designer Sacha Brastoff in his studio from 1952 to 1959, remaining a life-long friend and co...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
20th Century Expressionism Oil on Canvas by Alphonse Vermeir
Located in Casteren, NL
20th century oil on canvas painted and signed by the Belgium artist Alphonse Vermeir (1905-1994.)
Depicting a Belgium townview.
Originates Belgium, dating, circa 1940.
Category
1940s Belgian Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Floral Still Life on Board by Rosario Gerbino (1900-1972)
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A vibrant impressionist style oil painting on bard, artist signed Derbino '41..
Framed in original frame.
Born in Sicily, Italy, Rosario Gerbino became a landscape painter and illustrator who lived in New York City where he taught at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School. He studied at the National Academy of Design with George Maynard, Charles Hinton...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Bullfighting poster, Inauguration of the San Sebastian bullring. Oil on canvas.
Located in Madrid, ES
Bullfighting poster, Inauguration of the San Sebastian bullring. Oil on canvas. PÉREZ SAAVEDRA, Manuel (doc. Circa 1903). 1903.
Original poster for a bullfighting event for the open...
Category
Early 1900s Spanish Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
Materials
Other
John Henry Frederick Bacon, A.R.A. Life-size English Family Portrait
Located in New York, US
Our magnificent oil on canvas by John Henry Frederick Bacon, A.R.A. (1868-1914), entitled The Golden Butterfly, depicts the family of John and Julietta Boyd-Harvey at Tondu House in South Wales in 1907. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1907, no. 572.
This very large painting depicts the Boyd-Harvey family on the lawn of Tondu House in South Wales, with the mountain and valley of Tondu in the background. John Bacon...
Category
Early 1900s British Edwardian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Vintage Oil Painting Of Gypsy From Zamutov, Czechoslovakia 1940s
Located in Zohor, SK
Beautiful vintage oil painting in an original frame. The pinting is named Gypsy Woman from Zamutov. Originally from the region of Czechoslovakia. The painting was hanging in the firs...
Category
1940s Czech Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Mid 20th Century Flower Still Life in Pastel on Board Paintin by Simone Dujardin
By Dujardin
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Beautiful flower still life, painted with soft pastels on paper, by the Belgium female artist Simone Dujardin. Signed and dated (1944) left under. The painting has a lively use of bright colors. The porcelain and book provides a nice balance in the composition. The painting is framed behind glass, for protection of the pastel. In a beautiful carved gold leaf wooden frame.
Dimensions frame: 53 x 58 cm
Dimensions painting: 38 x 43 cm
Simone Dujardin was a Pupil of Firmin Baes...
Category
1940s Belgian Romantic Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper, Giltwood
"Theatrical Scene, " Art Deco Painting with Tragedy, Comedy in Celestial Setting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This extraordinary, almost surreal scene by one of America's leading muralists in the Art Deco period, Eugene Savage, depicts a floating female nude on the stage, with figures of Com...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Striking Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Young Lady
Located in Søborg, DK
Striking antique oil on canvas portrait of a young lady.
The artist skillfully captured this young lady’s beauty whilst at the same time also her striking pose.
Signed H.P. On th...
Category
Early 1900s German Victorian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Portuguese 1944 Watercolor Sunday Morning Mass
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Portuguese 1944 Watercolor Sunday Morning Mass.
Category
1940s Portuguese Vintage Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood
Antique 4 Drawings by a Boston Artist, Signed 1908, D1
Located in Norton, MA
4 Drawings by a Boston Artist, Signed from 1908 D1
Four drawings of figures, each 7.25" x 4.5", were drawn in the early 20th century, 2 "Framed (16.75" x 22.5") under glass.
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
Leonard Maurer Oil Painting, 1948
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A charming oil painting by noted Washington DC artist Leonard Maurer, ca' 1948. Depicting children climbing trees. Wonderful sense of color and a real m...
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Provincetown Ice House, 1940s" by Bruce McKain
Located in New York, NY
"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...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Rollin Crampton Early Abstract Expressionist Oil on Board
Located in Sharon, CT
An early "over-all painting". Oil and graphite on 'beaver board'. This painting is illustrated in "The Art of the Artist" Arthur Zaidenberg, Crown Publishers NY 1951. Signed on back....
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antique Italian oil Painting After The Bath Nude by Rosati
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3308 Oil on canvas in a custom gilt wood frame
Image size 15.5x11.5"
Category
1940s Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Kofron Fragment Hexentanz w. Decapitated Mans Head Oil on Canvas, Germany c 1940
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A strikingly brutal piece that raises more questions than answers. It was painted during the early 1940s by the German relatively unknown artist Franz Kofron. The fragment has been cut out of a larger subject/motif. Either due to censor or the obvious blasphemy of the subject mattter. A simple act of vandalism without any motiv does not make any sense.
The technique used is referred to as Grisaille where a variety of shades/nuances within one color, typically gray, is used to create dept, mystic and atmosphere.
The subject matter is a female with powerfull physic and rather masculine facial features/traits carrying a decapitated mans head attached to a stick by his long hair. One can argue that it articulates a reference to Judiths beheading...
Category
1940s German Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
"Coca-Cola and Coffee", Important Industrial Design for 1949 Vending Machine
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An astonishing and important example of Moderne-Mid Century Modern industrial design, this original watercolor rendering of a short-lived Coca-Cola/coffee vending machine was painted...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antique French Winter Horse Drawn Carriage Ride Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3288 Winter horse drawn carriage
Oil on board
Image size 19.5x 15.5"
Category
1940s Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Vase of Flowers with Fruit Oil Painting, Fitger Hermann
Located in Vo', Veneto
Fitger Hermann - Vase of Flowers with Fruit
Measures: 32cm x 44cm - frame excluded
50cm x 62cm - with antique fir frame
oil on canvas applied to cardboard - 1946
20th cen...
Category
1940s German Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Stoking the Engine", Painting for Coca Cola on "Uses of Coal" for 1949 Campaign
By Lyman Anderson
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Important both historically and artistically, this painting by Lyman Anderson of a railroad engineer feeding the engine with a fresh supply of coal was commissioned by the Coca Cola ...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
20th Century Oil on Masonite Italian Dated and Signed Still Life Painting, 1942
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting dated 1942 on the back. Oil on masonite framework signed lower left Laustino, referable to Emanuele Laustino (1916-1988) depicting a pleasant still life with primros...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Paintings
Materials
Masonite
Signed French Framed Artwork Resting Nude Woman Hand Carved Bleached Oak Frame
Located in Miami, FL
Signed French framed artwork resting nude woman hand carved bleached oak frame.
Category
1940s French French Provincial Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oak
Gotsch Friedrich Karl '1900-1984' Painting, Still Life 1945
Located in Handewitt, DE
Friedrich Karl GOTSCH (1900-1984), very well-known and renowned german painter of the golden era of expressionism, impressionism and „Neue Sachlichkeit“.
Friend of many world-famous artists of the time. His extraordinary works can be found in many exhibitions and collections around the world.
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Oil / Gouache on cardboard from 1945. New professional framed.
Monogrammed „F...
Category
1940s German Expressionist Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Signed William Sheldon Horton Impressionist Landscape Painting
By William Sheldon Horton
Located in Redding, CT
Signed William Sheldon Horton impressionist landscape painting. This "Plein Air" artist has majestically captured the purple desert canyons of California. This substantial canvas is ...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
"Justice Triumphant", Mural Study for Queens, Ny Courthouse, circa 1941-1942
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking example of WPA mural art, this study for one of the murals proposed for the new Queens Supreme Courthouse -- a 1930s Works Progress Administration project in Queens, New York -- was painted by Eugene Savage. Like many paintings from the period, the study is teeming with allegory and symbolism, surmounted at the top by the figure of Justice with a long sword, spurning businesspeople at her feet who offer gifts and favors. Savage is best known for a spectacular set of murals illustrating the history and lore of Hawaii commissioned by Matson Shipping Line for the S.S. Lurline, executed in the 1940s but not installed until the 1950s. The artist also painted other series of murals and paintings, include an enormous mural...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Uno Dewoon Oil Painting Landscape Painting (1909-1988) Swedish Neutral Artwork
Located in Rochester, NY
Signed and dated. Plaque affixed to frame reads: Nykopings automobil Fabrik. Heder spris. Nykoping Jun 7, 1946.
This soothing oil painting has a serene feeling to it, and the neutr...
Category
1940s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Little Boy Blue Painting on Canvas Cloth
Located in Redding, CT
Early 20th Century Little Boy Blue Painting on Canvas Cloth. Classic Fairy Tale illustration of Little Boy Blue fallen asleep in the hay. Grea...
Category
1940s Folk Art Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen
Antique Canvas Depicting 'The Preaching of St. Peter'
Located in Milano, IT
Beautiful framed wooden canvas from the end of the 19th century.
The reference narrative is the one found in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:14-42) in which Saint Peter starts pre...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Romantic Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Landscape by Martin Friedman
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous landscape abstract by Martin Friedman. He has shown at the Whitney and other NYC Galleries. Dramatic use of deep blues indicative of the time period. Well balanced , very en...
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Original Bavarian Tyrolian Folk Art Painting, Signed and Dated
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Original Bavarian Tyrolian Folk Art painting, signed and dated
This charming folk painting is executed in oil on artist board. A beautiful and rus...
Category
1940s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Other
Antique Spectacular Winter Scape with Hare Painting Russian
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Spectacular melancholic antique winter scape with hare oil on canvas large painting. Signed in cirillyc lower right/ probably White Russian emegrant artist.
Category
Early 1900s Balkan Neoclassical Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Surrealist African American Self-Portrait by Harry Leopold D. 1943
Located in Peabody, MA
An African American self portrait by the surrealist painter Henry Leopold (1920-2009). Leopold studied fine art in Belgium, France and Italy. He attended the American Artists school, the Pratt...
Category
1940s North American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Oil on Wood Panel Religious Painting of Marie De Bourgonne by Moerenhout
Located in Montreal, QC
Oil on panel of Marie de Bourgonne signed: Moerenhout Gent 1902
Mary of Burgundy (French: Marie de Bourgogne; Dutch: Maria van Bourgondië; 13 Februa...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood
Imported Art Deco Quilted Pheasants on Canvas in Walnut Frame
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Unique and large frame hand quilted pheasants that stand out in vivid hues. Imported artwork and sold by the heritage Woodwards Store in Canada. Excellent for use in study or bedroom...
Category
1940s English Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Pál Fried, well listed Hungarian artist. Oil on canvas. Portrait of a ballerina.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Pál Fried (1893-1976), a well listed Hungarian artist.
Oil on canvas.
Portrait of a ballerina in a pink dress.
Ca. 1940.
Signed and stamped with gallery stamp on the back.
Perfect co...
Category
1940s Hungarian Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Scandinavian Seascape, " Painting
Located in New York, NY
Another piece of every man's Nordic heritage: a fisherman and his wife, earning their living on the sea. Masts capture the gusts, propelling the pair forward on their journey, nets a...
Category
1940s Swedish Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Ornately Giltwood Framed Floral Painting by Charles Franzini D’issoncourt
Located in Miami, FL
Original oil on canvas painting by the very talented French artist Charles Henri Franzini d’Issoncourt who won an award in Paris at the Universal Exposition in 1900 for his artwork. ...
Category
Early 1900s French Baroque Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Giltwood
Pair Rare Italian Hand Painted Pastoral Panels, Harvest Time, Duane Perrigo
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Just in, this Pair of Rare Italian Hand Painted Pastoral scenes Panels, called "Harvest Time" by Italian artist Duane Perrigo.
Beautiful blues and whites hand painted on Wood board...
Category
1940s American Louis XVI Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood
French oil painting in the style of Paul Louis Narcisse Grolleron, ca. 1900
Located in Meulebeke, BE
France / 1900 / Painting / canvas, oak / art / antique
A beautiful reproduction of Paul Louis Narcisse Grolleron’s “Soldier Carrying a Wounded Soldier, 1898. The artist employs a ri...
Category
Early 1900s French Romantic Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oak, Paint
John Cuthbert Hare Watercolor Paintings - Cape Cod and Provencetown
Located in Savannah, GA
John Hare
(American, 1908-1978)
A pair of watercolor paintings: "Provencetown Rooftops” and “Afternoon Light - Cape Cod”, circa 1940s.
sight: 8 by 6 ¾ inches
frame: 17 ⅝ by 16 ½ in...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Harold Cohn Stillness in the Nude Signed Modernist Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A modernist figurative oil painting on canvas titled “Stillness in the Nude” by Harold Cohn. Signed and dated 1941 on the lower right as well as verso. This evocative painting by Har...
Category
1940s North American Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Watercolor of Majestic Mountain View Signed Harold Broadfield Warren
By Harold Broadfield Warren
Located in Boston, MA
Watercolor on paper of a majestic view of the mountains signed Harold Broadfield Warren. He is a well listed landscape artist who lived from 1859 to 1934. He was born in Manchester, ...
Category
Early 1900s American Adirondack Antique Paintings
Materials
Paper
Mid Century Modern Cubist Artist James Koenig 1948 Titled, Cool Canopy
By James Koenig
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Titled Cool Canopy - Buffalo artist James Koenig paintings reflected many phases of American painting styles including scenes from the WPA period, abstr...
Category
1940s American Expressionist Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Hardwood, Paint
Zoute, 1941
Located in Rochester, NY
Primitive modernist oil painting on homasote board of a male and female figure ( a self portrait of Leon and his wife Thelma ) by Zoute (Leon Salter 1903-1976 North Rose, NY) Brillia...
Category
1940s American Other Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mid-century Hawaiian Two Lilies Oil Painting on Paper signed E. Wolf, Framed
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This Post-War Hawaiian oil painting on paper, titled "Two Lilies," is a beautiful piece signed by the artist E. Wolf. The artwork captures the vib...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
Mid 20th Century Oil Painting - Fisherman on the River - C. Vanderstraeten
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
An interesting oil painting depicting a fisherman on the bank of a river. It is a somewhat curious representation, with the man shown from the back, but that is precisely why the pai...
Category
1940s Belgian Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood
Pierre Lardin French Mid-Century Painted Wall Mirror
Located in Queens, NY
French mid-century (1940s) oak framed horizontal wall mirror with reverse glass painted Neoclassic scenes. (attributed to Pierre Lardin).
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Oak, Mirror
"Rearing Horses, " High Style Pair of Art Deco, Mixed-Media Pieces by Von Liski
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This extraordinary pair of Art Deco pieces, each depicting a pair of horses, one with its head up and one down, was executed in ink, colored pencil and gouache by Robert Reinhardt Von Liski, a Prussian-American artist. Von Liski worked in Chicago as a commercial artist in advertising agencies and elsewhere, and did work for RCA Victor and Arrow Shirts...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Dancing Angel", Classic 1940s Tempera Painting with Nude Male Figure
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Reminiscent of the work of Jared French in its material (tempera), its color palette and its approach to the male figure, this lovely depiction of two dancing angels, one in the fore...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Oil on Cardboard Boats on the Sea in 1940 with Lacquered Frame
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Oil on cardboard boats on the sea in 1940 with lacquered frame.
Category
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood
"Waiting at the Station" Superb 1943 American Scene Painting, Indianapolis
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Highly atmospheric and winning, this American Scene painting of three young men waiting for the next train in downtown Indianapolis -- perhaps...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Large Orientalist Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large, early 20th century orientalist painting. Oil on canvas. No trace of signature.
Category
Early 1900s French Aesthetic Movement Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Expressionist painting by Robert Deman, Belgium 1940s
Located in Meulebeke, BE
Belgium / 1940 / painting / Robert Deman / wood, canvas / Mid-century
An oil painting of a solitary man seated at a rustic wooden table, exuding an air of contemplation and introsp...
Category
1940s Belgian Expressionist Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Depisis Style Midcentury Oil Panting Vase Rose Flowers 1940s Classic Frame
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Depisis style midcentury oil panting vase rose flowers signed T.Rossi 1940s classic frame.
Elegant and refined as a picture of Depisis.
Category
1940s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Jute, Wood, Paint
"Legacy, " Original Painting by Ivan Bartlett, Mid-Century Fabric Designer
By Ivan Bartlett
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In his early years, artist Ivan Bartlett was known for his WPA mural painting, such as for the Ada County courthouse in Boise, Idaho, but in the 1940s and 1950s he became famous for ...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Joseph Milne, 1861-1911, English Artist, English Landscape with Grazing Cows
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Joseph Milne, 1861-1911. English artist. English landscape with grazing cows. Title: "Pasture". High quality painting, circa 1900.
In very good condition.
Signed in the bottom left...
Category
Early 1900s Scottish Antique Paintings
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