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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: Early 1900s
"The Courtship" by Max Gaisser
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Oil on board signed lower right.
Provenance: Private collection New England, David Dike Fine Art, Dallas
Measuring 25" x 19" panel and 30" x 24" including the frame.
Max Gaisser...
Category
Early 1900s German Victorian Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint
Country Wedding
Located in Houston, TX
BERKES, ANTAL (1874-1938)
Well listed Hungarian artist. Active: Paris, Budapest, Munich, Vienna. Berkes studied at The Academy of Fine Arts between 1889 and 1894 in Budapest, Hungar...
Category
Early 1900s Hungarian Other Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Oil Painting by Ernst Rasmussen
By Ernst Rasmussen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil painting by well listed artist Ernst Rasmussen(1912-1964) The painting is painted on canvas and dated "46". Store formerly known as ARTFUL DODGE...
Category
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
20th Century Oil on Canvas German Signed Franz Bombach Landscape Painting, 1900
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great German painting from the early 20th century. Artwork oil on canvas, first canvas, depicting a wooded landscape, view of the river, of good pictorial quality. Painting adorned...
Category
Early 1900s German Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Post War White Orchid Airbrush Painting on Paper by Tip Freeman, Framed
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Vintage Wood Framed Painting with White Orchid Motif, by Tip Freeman
This painting by American artist Tip Freeman depicts a White Orchid. This artwork has...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Large Antique 19th Century Genre Portrait of a Boy by Adolf Heller, Oil Painting
By Adolphe Keller
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large antique 19th century Genre Portrait of a boy by listed artist Adolf Heller, (German , 1874 -1914) A beautifully executed portrait that captures the ...
Category
Early 1900s German Early Victorian Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
"Pan Playing His Pipes, " Charming Mural Sketch for Liberty Music Shop, NYC
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of verdant greens and suffused with a lovely quiet spirit, this depiction of Pan resting against a tree and playing his pipes was a perfect image for the famous Liberty Music Shop in New York. This sketch for a mural at the Shop was painted by Donald Forbes, who worked for the Federal Art Project in the 1930s where he would have learned from the work of other muralists supported by federal programs. Liberty Music Shop was famous for its collection of sophisticated jazz recordings from around the world; in the 1930s it created its own label, producing a series of records for Lee Wiley, Beatrice Lillie, Mabel Mercer, Ethel Merman...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Early 20th Century Watercolor View on Harbor
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Decorative old watercolor of a harbor view. The work is not signed, maker unknown. With beautiful fine lines and a surefire touch. With a wooden hand painted frame, frames behind gla...
Category
Early 1900s Belgian Antique Paintings
Materials
Pine, Paper
Continental Giltwood Framed Oil on Board Coastal Painting ca. 1940, Signed
Located in Atlanta, GA
Continental Giltwood Framed Oil on Board Coastal Painting ca. 1940 , Signed
Category
1940s Vintage Paintings
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
"Snowy Egrets and Cypress, " Large Art Deco Painting by Harcombe, Aqua and Blue
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly capturing the exotic and beautiful landscape of the cypress swamps of South Florida, this painting of a pair of snowy egrets is a superb example of Art Deco scene painting. The turquoise hue of the water and the cerulean of the sky contrast with the smooth limbs of the cypress tree and the white and purple-greys of the birds. This painting was made by Renee Harcombe...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Signed Ghiglia Still Life Painting, 1940
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting from the first half of the 20th century. Framework oil on canvas, first canvas, depicting still life with fruit and vegetables of good pictorial quality. Painting of...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Midcentury Water Color from Axl Leskoschek, Original Frame, 1946, Austria
Located in Vienna, Austria
Axl Leskoschek, an Austrian artist was born on September 3rd 1889 in Graz, Austria. He died on February 12, 1976 in Vienna, Austria.
He began his studies with Law but in 1917 he had...
Category
1940s Austrian Aesthetic Movement Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Minna Citron (1896-1911). Abstract Expressionist Oil "Gazelle" 1947
By Minna Citron 1
Located in Sharon, CT
An important 14 3/8" x 13 5/8" oil on 'beaver board'. Signed upper left, and artist framed. Exhibited: 1947 Gallerie Lydia Conti, 1949 Havana (1st exhibited abstract art in Cuba) and...
Category
1940s American Expressionist Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
George Schwacha "New Jersey Bathers" Painting
By George Schwacha Jr
Located in Westport, CT
Painting title "New Jersey Bathers" circa 1949 (1908-1986) works represented in over 30 Museums. Was president of the American Artists league and past president Audubon Artists and a...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood
"Personnage dans l'arbre", oil on canvas by Paul Ackerman, France, circa 1945
Located in Paris, FR
Large oil on canvas by Paul Ackerman, entitled « personnage dans l’arbre » (« character in a tree »).
Biography
Paul Ackerman, Romania-France (1908-1981)
Paul Ackerman is a Romanian painter, lithographer, sculptor and theater designer, living in France since 1912, he belongs to the School of Paris .
Paul Ackerman was four years old when, in 1912, his father, a company director and great art lover, decided, out of constraint in the face of « the anti-Semitism which is a harsh reality in Romania », to come and settle in Paris, in a large villa facing the Bois de Vincennes. He did his secondary studies at the Lycée Charlemagne (where he befriended Gabriel Arout, future playwright for whom he would later design the sets), then at the Ecole Alsacienne. From 1925, Ackerman studied law and letters at the Sorbonne, but, frequenting the Louvre Museum assiduously, he knew that his vocation lay elsewhere.
In 1933, Paul Ackerman met Simone Laverrière, a native of Royan, whom he married in 1935. In 1936, in his studio at 100, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, he designed projects for posters, fabrics and jewelry for Elsa Schiaparelli and Marcel Rochas while visiting Fernand Leger’s studio.
In 1939 Paul Ackerman was mobilized, taken prisoner then released, he found his wife Simone in Vichy where he was expelled as a Jew and left for Saint-Tropez. He then leads a cloistered life in the south of France, made up of small means (painting on...
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Still Life Wooden Framed Painting / Oil on Canvas, Signed Bianchi
Located in Beirut, LB
19th century oil on canvas painting signed on the bottom right corner "Bianchi", representing still life, fruits, grapes and peach basket , and apples
The frame is in its original st...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
A Medieval Battle Scene Antique Original Oil Painting, Early 20th Century
Located in Bristol, GB
Antique Original Oil on Canvas Painting
A wonderfully energetic depiction of an Eastern battle scene, probably depicting the medieval Crusades including knights on horseback, pikem...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Wood
"Whiskey Sours, " Cubist-Art Deco Painting with Bottle and Jigger
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Taking its cues from the broken planes and tilted objects of Cubist masters such as Braque and Gris, as well as the polished art of the Art Deco movement, this brilliant painting sho...
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Oil On Canvas Circular Art Deco Paintings Of The Smoky Mountains
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Rare circular Art Deco scenes of the Smoky Mountains with date and details rendered behind the paintings. Beautifully hand painted in vivid hues and original circular gilt frames. Em...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Antique pastel painting "portrait of a woman" signed Dagnaux, France 1900
By Albert Dagnaux
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Refined pastel painting "portrait of a woman" executed by A.Dagnaux in 1920,delicate in the strokes and use of color the author demonstrates remarkable skill in execution,the feather boa covering the female figure is sublimely executed ,it almost feels as if you can touch it as the female figure's own hand.
Beautiful original frame of the 'era,overall good condition.
Albert Marie Adolphe Dagnaux (Paris, July 10, 1861 - Mantes-la-Jolie, November 22, 1933) was a French landscape, tableaux and figure painter.
Biography
His father owned a small restaurant, "Le Dagnaux," in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. He began his studies in 1878 at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts under Professor Ernest Victor Hareux. His first exhibition was in 1883, at the Salon.
In 1890 he left the Salon to join the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, founded by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier.It was at that time that he began to receive positive critical attention. His first great success came with his tableau Avenue du Bois de Boulogne...
Category
Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Crayon
"Portrait of Catulle-Mendes" by Leonetto Capiello
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Charcoal and pastel on paper measuring 24.5" x 17.25" including frame.
Signed lower right and with the stamp of the Leonetto Capiello, Paris workshop at the bottom left.
Catulle-Me...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Bedouin, " Striking Art Deco Painting by Stahlhut, NY World's Fair Poster Artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Striking and handsome, this depiction of a Bedouin in his traditional robe has the color and intensity one would associate with the fierce sun and heat of North Africa. The painting ...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Home Front Fox Hole, " Vivid Depiction of American Life During World War II
By Joseph E. Bolden
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Pulsating with life and color, this depiction of a crowded mom-and-pop store in wartime America, filled with a sailor in full regalia, homemakers and children, grandmothers and worki...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Hawaiian Airbrush Nude on Paper by Mundorff Honolulu in Bamboo Frame, 1945
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Early Mid-century WWII wartime Hawaiian airbrush artwork nude featuring young topless women on an island beach with a palm tree overhead. The airbrush was done on Paper signed by the...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Nude and Unicorn, " High Style Art Deco Painting by Matulka, Blue & Black, 1944
By Jan Matulka
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This brilliant example of Art Deco painting by Jan Matulka shows hints of the modern take on Cubism that the artist worked out with Stuart Davis. Matulka was born in Prague and came ...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
"The Pool Players" by Vincent Richard Campanella
By Vincent Campanella
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Oil on artist board signed and dated lower right featuring pool players playing a point match in the pool hall. Great WPA feel and texture impasto. Most likely the original frame measuring 15.25" x 19.25" overall.
Born in New York in 1915, Campanella studied at the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School where the curriculum was based on the Naples Academy founded in the 1440s. He took this classical Renaissance training to the streets of New York, then-rural Astoria, Monhegan Island, and Wyoming.
As an easel artist for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s he painted and taught in Rock Springs, Wyoming. There his style became Abstract and works of Classical Abstraction were recognized in art reviews and exhibitions. He was represented by the Rehn Gallery in New York until the death of Frank Rehn in 1956. His work has been shown at The Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Institute, Brooklyn Museum, Corcoran Art Gallery, Denver Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, San Diego Museum, San Francisco Museum, Seattle Museum, Toledo Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Universities of Nebraska, Tennessee and Wyoming. He was a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony in 1968. Retrospective shows of his work have been held at Hunter College (1995) and the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art (2007).
Campanella taught at the University of Wyoming (1940), Columbia University (1946-49), the Kansas City Art Institute (1949-52) and Park College (1952-80). Notable students include Robert Morris, Wilbur Niewald...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Sign from the School Classroom Door, 1900s
Located in Praha, CZ
Hand painted sign from classroom door.
Made around 1900s.
Category
Early 1900s European Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
Materials
Metal
Pierre Adrien Ekman (1904-1993), Discovery of the New World, Framed Oil Painting
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb oil painting by Pierre Adrien Ekman (1904-1993). Beautiful representation of the Discovery of the New World. Painting style with touches of the Romantic, Naif, Art Deco, surre...
Category
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Two Women Lounging", Richly-Imagined Portrait of Figures in Satin & Silk, 1940s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Voluptuous in its approach to scene and palette, this sumptuous portrait of two women, lounging side by side amongst pillows and fabrics in satin and silk, was painted by Rudolph Sch...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Young Man in Striped Shirt, " Portrait with Harbor Scene by Cuban Artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted by Cuba's most important figural painter in the mid-20th century, this portrait by Victor Manuel depicts a young man with a bicycle cap and a white and red striped shirt, loo...
Category
1940s Cuban Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Lying on the Sand, " WPA-Era Atmospheric Beach Scene with Male & Female Bathers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In an era when Reginald Marsh, Paul Cadmus and many other painters loved to capture the joy and energy of crowded beach scenes in America, John Winters created this lovely genre scene of a male bather in his one-piece swim suit reposing on the sand (probably the Lincoln Park beach in Chicago...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Set of five Christian Berard style theatre costume gouaches, 1940s
Located in Lisboa, PT
Set of five gouaches paintings representing theatre characters in Renaissance costumes, in the style of Christian Berard. France, 1940s.
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
"500 LB Lady, " Colorful and Charming WPA-Era Carnival Scene by Lincoln
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Full of energy and vivid color, this atmospheric and charming scene of a small-town carnival, complete with a barker, boys with balloons, a blue tent in the foreground and a sign announcing the "500 LB Lady," was painted by E. Wilder Lincoln in the 1930s or 40s. Painters and sculptors were fascinated with circuses and carnivals...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
United States Battalion "300th Engineers by Michael Marsden
Located in Pomona, CA
United States Combat Battalion "300th Engineers". Artist Michael Marsden 1902-1994 is known for painting flowers this painting was painted during the war or veteran reunion.
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood
Pietro Fragiacomo Italian Period Venetian Landscape
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful oil on panel painting representing Venetian landscape.
The luminosity of this evocative view combined with the impressionistic style of br...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Romantic Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood
Kurt Thorsén, Sweden, Oil on Canvas, Self Portrait of the Artist, Dated 1943
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Kurt Thorsén, Sweden. Oil on canvas. Self-portrait of the artist. Dated 1943.
The canvas measures: 93 x 52 cm.
The frame measures: 6 cm.
In excellent condition.
Signed and dated.
Category
1940s Swedish Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Lady on Ottoman". Wood Framed Pinup Painting by Wilma Raffaelli, 1948.
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original watercolor artwork pint on paper featuring a young dressed-up woman on an ottoman with a riding crop in her hand titled "Lady on Ottoman" by Wilma Raffaelli, 1948. This pain...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
Henry William Standing (British, 1894-1931) Equine Painting of a Lady Riding
Located in Middleburg, VA
A refined equestrian portrait by celebrated British artist Henry William Standing, signed and dated 1905. Executed in watercolor and gouache on ...
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Glass, Giltwood
Airbrushed Daffodil Flowers with Bow Mid Century Art Signed by Terone
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original artwork Pink Daffodil Hawaiian Flowers with a bow (original airbrushed over a print) signed by Terone. In hardwood frame with carved details. A great example of the post-WWII Hawaiian and tropical art...
Category
1940s Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Large Arts and Crafts Sweeping Landscape of Countryside
Located in Redding, CT
Large Arts and Crafts Sweeping Landscape of Countryside. Romantic rolling fields with sheep and blue mountains in the distance. Perfect painting for above a stone fireplace with your...
Category
Early 1900s Arts and Crafts Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oak, Paint
Large oil on canvas Painting Artwork by O. Redgrave Still life with Genie
Located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Large oil on canvas Painting Artwork by O. Redgrave Still life with Genie C1900.
An impressive large work.
Something really different that would look great in the right location!
...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Painting by Morris Walton Leader (1877-1966)
By Morris Walton Leader
Located in Houston, TX
Morris Walton Leader (1877- 1966)
Morris Walton Leader was born in Marshall, Texas, in 1877. He died in Austin, Texas, where he had lived since he was a young boy. He studied with ...
Category
1940s American Other Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Fishermen Painting, 1940s
Located in Savannah, GA
An oil on canvas of a fishing charter boat at sea with fishermen. Likely an illustration for a publication circa 1940s.
canvas: 27 by 21 inches
frame: 31 by 25 inches
Fair overall...
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1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Swedish Landscape, Painting
By T. Lorentzson
Located in New York, NY
More peaceful than a feng shui fountain, this post-impressionist oil on canvas shows a stunningly normal scene from the Swedish forest. Stands of linden trees, fir and aspen frame a ...
Category
1940s Swedish Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Framed Oil Painting on Canvas by L. Delderenne (1864-1921)
Located in Dallas, TX
19th Century Framed Oil Painting on Canvas by L. Delderenne (1864-1921) is a captivating view of the Alps that provided the artist with inspiration to immortalize the scene. The sno...
Category
Early 1900s Belgian Belle Époque Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Vintage French Art
Located in Nashville, TN
This is beautiful antique oil painting! The colors on this piece as so vibrant and appealing! Lots of green and blue and terracotta hues that pair with the stone work excellently. Th...
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Paul Meltsner, Portrait of a Youth, American Modernist Realism O/C, c. 1940
Located in New York, NY
American Art Deco
Modernist Social Realism
Paul Raphael Meltsner
Portrait of a Youth
Oil on canvas
Circa 1940
DIMENSIONS
CANVAS: 26 x 20 inches
FRAMED: 30 .5 x 24.5 inches
DETAIL...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Hayward Veal Australian Nocturne Cityscape Painting
By Hayward Veal
Located in Essex, MA
An oil on board painting by Australian painter W. Hayward Veal (1913-1968), entitled Nocturne No. 4, depicting a night scene of a park and tree in the foreground with a man walking, ...
Category
1940s Australian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Pine, Masonite, Wood, Paint
Mid-Century Robert Broner Oil Painting with with 3 Figures
By Robert Broner
Located in New York, NY
1948 3 figure oil painting by the artist Robert Broner (1922-2010). Broner has pieces in the collections of the MOMA, Guggenheim, Metropolitian Musuem of...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood
20th Century Oil on Panel Italian Landscape Painting Sacra di San Michele, 1948
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting dated 1948. Framework oil on panel depicting a view of the famous Sacra di San Michele (seen from Avigliana) of good pictorial quality. Small framework with frame in...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood
20th Century Oil on Masonite Italian Landscape with Figures Painting, 1945
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting dated 1945. Work oil on masonite depicting a particular view with characters Celebration of Spring of excellent pictorial quality. Nice size framework of pleasant de...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Paintings
Materials
Masonite
Portrait of a Blonde Girl in a Red Dress Wearing a White Beanie, Oil on Canvas
Located in Pasadena, CA
This portrait features a blonde lady in a red dress wearing a white beanie. The artwork is an oil painting by an unknown artist. The subject's expression ...
Category
1940s Unknown Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"African Youth with Gourds and Flowers, " English Art Deco Painting, 1946
By Stuart Maxwell Armfield
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A brilliant painting executed in vivid colors, this view of an African male youth holding a basket of gourds and an enormous bouquet of calla lilies, day lilies and other tropical bl...
Category
1940s Great Britain (UK) Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting, Portrait of Boy by Robert Rukavina, circa 1948
By Robert Rukavina
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Vintage portrait of a young boy wearing a striped red shirt with blue argyle sweater. Oil on canvas painting by artist Robert Rukavina (1914-1977), who lived in the United States and...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Reclaimed Wood, Paint
"Adolescent Parallels, " Midcentury Mural Design with Male Youths, 1949
By George Frederick Hinchcliff
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A remarkable vision of brotherly utopia, with a hint of homoeroticism, this beautiful study was painted by British artist George Frederick Hinchcliff in preparation for a proposed mu...
Category
1940s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Jacques Villon Style Cubist Still Life
By Jacques Villon
Located in Sharon, CT
A beautiful unsigned oil on canvas in the School of Paris Cubist style of Jacques Villon.
Category
1940s French Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Preparing the Meal" by Sam Uhrdin
Located in Wiscasset, ME
This oil on canvas is signed and date in the upper left and measures 38" x 45.25" including the frame.
Sam Uhrdin (Swedish School, 1886-1964).
Sam Uhr...
Category
1940s Swedish Beaux Arts Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Vase of Flowers" by Hobson Pittman
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Hobson Pittman (1899-1972)
Signed upper left. Oil on panel.
Provenance: Boca Raton Museum of Art
Many examples of Pittman's paintings can be found in numerous museum collections, ...
Category
1940s American Arts and Crafts Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
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