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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: 1880s
"Tropical Fish, " Brilliant Art Deco Undersea Painting, Hawaii, 1942
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The American public was fascinated with all things exotic in the 1930s and 1940s, including aquatic and seaside themes and Art Deco hotels and residential interiors often featured pa...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Hawaiiana, " Extraordinary Art Deco Cubist Surreal Painting after Pearl Harbor
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Saturated with the brilliant hues of earth and sea, and filled with symbols and signs of Hawaii's spectacular landscape and rich history -- including an angry Hawaiian king with his traditional feathered headdress or "mahiole" -- this watercolor was painted in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Roberto Gigli, "View of the Hercules Victor Temple at the Forum Boarium"
By Roberto Gigli
Located in Belmont, MA
Roberto Gigli (Italian, 1846-1922), “View of the Hercules Victor Temple at the Forum Boarium”, watercolor, signed lower right. The Forum Boarium was th...
Category
1880s Romantic Antique Paintings
Materials
Paper
Ernest Wagner Japanese Landscape Scene Gouache 1949
By Ernest Wagner
Located in Encino, CA
Ernest Wagner
Gouache on paper depicting a Japanese scene, dated 1949-1950 and wears the artist's stamp on the back.
H.20" x W.18"1/2 ( drawing ) - H.22"1/2 x W.18"1/2 ( sheet )....
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
Paul Zimmerman "Tobacco Workers", 1948
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A wonderful oil on canvas by the noted American artist Paul Zimmerman. It is titled and dated 1948 on the back and signed in red on the left front bottom. In a strip frame.
Biography: Paul Zimmerman was an internationally known artist and Professor Emeritus of the Hartford Art School. Born in Toledo, OH, he graduated from Kokomo, IN High School in 1941 with a full scholarship to John Herron Art School, where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1946. At graduation he received the Mary Milliken Memorial Fund Scholarship, which provided funds for him to relocate to NYC. Professor Zimmerman came to Hartford at the invitation of his former teacher, Heinrich Mayer, then Director of the Hartford Art School. He accepted his faculty post in 1947. Paul remained on the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford faculty until his retirement from full-time teaching in 1986. Though retired, he continued to paint in his studio, and to teach part-time at the Hartford Art School and at the West Hartford Art League until the year before his death. A prolific landscape painter, his oils and watercolors are found in numerous museums, corporate and private collections, including the following: The Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; the Wadsworth Anthenium; the Slater Museum; the University of Notre Dame; Lehigh University; First New Haven National Bank and United Technologies Corporation. His work is included in the private collections of actress Dina Merrill...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"One United Nations Indivisible, " Stunning, Original Painting for UN Poster
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking example of graphic design in the 1940s, which was moving from elegant Art Deco stylization to a looser, collage-like assemblage of overlapping images, this original painti...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Kublai Khan, " Large Art Deco Painting Masterpiece with Male Nudes, 1943
By Milton Bond
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Inspired by "Kublai Khan," the famed Romantic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and one of a series painted by Milton Bond dating from the 1940s and 1950s, this depiction of a nude youth...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
1940s American Abstract Expressionism Painting
By Richard Pousette-Dart
Located in Cathedral City, CA
1940s American abstract expressionism painting on board in the style of Richard Poussette-Dart.
Category
1940s American Expressionist Vintage Paintings
Materials
Board
"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
Robert Falcucci Oil on Board
Located in Bridgewater, CT
Falcucci Robert (1900-1989).
A large oil on board depicting a nude bathing female figure, circa 1940s,
signed lower left Falcucci.
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Board
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
"Actaeon, " Large Art Deco-Mid Century Painting by Hollywood Figure
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large and arresting, this stylized depiction of the great hunter in Greek mythology, Actaeon, resting on a slab of marble with his bow and quiver of arrows, was painted by Leon Dusso...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Colette Gueden Signed Watercolor Painting, circa 1948-1949
Located in Encino, CA
Colette Gueden (1905-2000).
"Leaves and fruits."
Extremely rare signed watercolor on paper. Collette Gueden was a very famous and popular French artist and designer in the 1950s....
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Dockside with Seagull, " Important Painting by WPA Artist Stull
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly painted in rich hues of cerulean, purple, deep pink and burnt siena, this abstracted view of a dockside scene was painted by John De Forest ...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
S. W. Brooks, Pastel Portrait, Miami Beach, 1947
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
S. W. Brooks, pastel portrait on cardboard, Miami Beach, 1947
Dimension: 68 x 82 cm
Without frame: 44 x 60 cm.
Category
1940s North American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Antique Gouache of Nelsons Tomb
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Nelson's tomb in St. Pauls Cathedral by Amy Sawers (Exh. 1887-1909)
Painted in gouache by this well listed artist who exhibited at many different venues including 16 at The Royal Ac...
Category
1880s English Antique Paintings
"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
George Inness II Oil on Panel Coastal Plain at Sunrise, Signed, circa 1887
By George Inness
Located in Nantucket, MA
George Inness II (American 1854-1926), Barbizon style coastal landscape, circa 1887, an oil on panel view of coastal plain at sunrise with ocean close on horizon, signed and inscribed across the bottom and on the back.
George Inness II was one of America's foremost figure and landscape artists. He followed in the footsteps of his father, one of the first American artists in the Barbizon and Impressionist Schools, and a founder of the Tonalist School...
Category
1880s American Barbizon School Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood
Pierre Lardin French Mid-Century Painted Wall Mirror
Located in New York, 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
French 1940's Gouache on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French 40's Gouache on paper. Custom framed with sandblasted oak frame with acid free paper and UV glass.
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Family w/ Rocking Horse, " Ptg. by WPA Artist De Forest Stull
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Dated 1945, just before the end of World War II, this important and powerful painting by John De Forest Stull shows an embracing mother and father stand...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Architecture & Construction, " Allegorical Mural Study for Rhode Island Capitol
By Robert Charles Haun
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A superb example of allegorical mural painting, this circular study depicting a female figure in Grecian robes overlooking a child with a plumb line, surrounded by scenes of construc...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Werner Drewes Modernist American Painting, Southwest Subject, 1947
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Werner Drewes (1899-1985) oil on canvas, 1947
Titled: “Adobe Village”
Measures: 15 ½ x 36 Frame: 21 x 42
Signed lower left and also on the verso
In e...
Category
1940s Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
"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
"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
"Two Female Nudes, " Mid-Century Masterpiece by Alexander Cañedo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Author of "How Cañedo Draws the Figure" and one of the acknowledged masters of the nude in the Art Deco and Mid-Century periods, Alexander Cañedo painted this remarkable scene of two female...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
"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
"Headlock, " Art Deco Painting with Wrestling Theme by Littlefield, 1941
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Fascinated with high-energy scenes of men engaged in sporting activities, most often boxing but in this case wrestling, William Littlefield painted this pair of wrestlers in 1941, using black gouache highlighted with white on green paper. Although fairly obscure now, during his heyday Littlefield's paintings and drawings were collected by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Mrs. Paul Mellon and Victor Mature, among others, and he painted a large and important portrait of Lincoln Kirstein...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Charles Keith Miller, the Navy, Glasgow, 1888, Oil on Board
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Charles Keith Miller (b. 1836, d. 1907) the navy, Glasgow, 1888.
Oil on board.
Measures: 38 x 25 cm.
The frame measures 2 cm.
Price example: A similar painting by Charle...
Category
1880s English Antique Paintings
"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
Signed M. Coloman Framed Oil Painting on Canvas Titled Venice Italy 1940
By Coloman
Located in Miami, FL
VENICE oil painting, featuring the Doges Palacio, Italian School, circa 1940s in its original 1940s frame.
Signed M. Coloman, 20th century.
Category
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint, Canvas
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
"Table with Fruit, " Vivid Cubist Still Live in Oranges and Greens
By Helen Manchester
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A brilliant example of American Cubism, this vividly-hued still life depicts an autumnal array of fruit, green and red grapes, lemons, figs and persimm...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
“A Floral Still Life” by Natalia Suvorova
By Natalia Suvorova
Located in Sheffield, MA
Natalia Suvorova
Born 1945, Leningrad, Russia.
Signed A. Cybopoba
Russian, Early 20th Century
“A Floral Still Life”
Oil on Board
Signed lower right
31 by 21in. W/fr...
Category
1940s Russian Vintage Paintings
Materials
Board
Monumental Axel Salto Budding Vase Watercolor Paper Vintage Mid-Century Danish
By Axel Salto
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Original artwork by the master. It is in as-found poor condition. It will be shipped in a tube without glass or framing. Pencil signed with information on backing paper, crayon numb...
Category
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Laundry Day, " Brilliant Ptg. of Rural North Carolina Life During World War II
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Fresh as a crisp fall day, this painting of a woman taking down laundry at the base of a hill dominated by her home above is a reassuring depiction of wholesome rural life in 1941, p...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Japanese Six-Panel Screen "Wild Grasses and Peonies by Rivers Edge"
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Six Panel Screen: Wild Grasses and Peonies by Rivers Edge. Early Meiji period (1868 - 1912) painting of a grassy knoll next to a running brook or river. A soft breeze is m...
Category
1880s Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Nude in Tropical Garden, " Brilliantly-Hued Art Deco Painting by Cenci, 1949
By Gustavo Cenci
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Perfumed with the heady colors and forms of tropical flowers such poppy and hibiscus, this arresting Art Deco watercolor was painted by Gustavo Cenci, best known for his part in pain...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Joseph Misraki, Egypt, born in 1895 “Reclining Nude”
By Joseph Misraki
Located in Sheffield, MA
Joseph Misraki
Egypt, born in 1895
“Reclining Nude”
Oil on canvas
30 by 40 in. W/frame 39 by 49 in.
He was a member of the salon d’Autom...
Category
1940s Egyptian Vintage Paintings
"The Sculptor at Rest" Painting by Maurice Glickman
Located in Asbury Park, NJ
An oil on canvas self-portrait by Maurice Glickman– depicting the artist in a seated position, wielding his sculptor's tools. It is titled and signed ...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
"Fresh New World, " 1944 Masterpiece Depicting Early Suburban Life in America
By Allan Dudley Jones
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A true masterpiece of genre painting, with its depiction of idyllic World War II-era suburban life filled with children playing and adults attending to their homes and chores, this piece was created by Allan Jones in 1944. It is a stunningly beautiful spring day, and the view is looking through an open window with a blackbird sitting on the sill, into the backyards of a half dozen tidy brick and wood houses. The homeowners are attending to their Victory Gardens...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Colette Gueden Signed Watercolor Painting circa 1948-1949
Located in Encino, CA
Colette Gueden (1905-2000).
"Leaves and fruits."
Extremely rare signed watercolor on paper. Collette Gueden was a very famous and popular French artist and designer in the 1950s....
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Signed Oil Painting of Amsterdam
Located in Stamford, CT
1940s oil painting of Amsterdam's red light district.
Category
1940s Dutch Vintage Paintings
Signed WPA Style Harborscape Oil On Canvas
By Bolus
Located in Chicago, IL
Colorful impressionistic oil on canvas painting of fishing boats in a harbor. Greens, blues and reds comprise the majority of the color pallet. Nicely framed and signed Bolus. 33" x ...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood, Canvas
"Nude and Unicorn, " Brilliant and Important Art Deco Painting by Matulka, 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
Watercolor, Ink, Paper, Gouache
"Grecian Nude and Broken Column, " Art Deco/Surrealist Painting by Matulka
By Jan Matulka
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This brilliant Surrealist composition, with the stylization and exaggerated plant forms of Art Deco, was painted by Jan Matulka in 1944. Both Surrealism and "Moderne" decorative arts thrived in the 1940s, and here the artist draws from both styles. Matulka was born in Prague and came to America as a young man, and trained here and in Paris, where he became exposed to Cubism. He exhibited in New York, created illustrations for New Masses which advanced the interest of American workers...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Paper
"Still Life"
Located in Hillsborough, CA
American School
Circa 1940's
"Still Life"
Oil on board
11 ¾ by 24 in w/frame 12 ½ by 24 ¾ in.
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Floral Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Stamford, CT
Signed oil painting of lush flowers in a classical urn. Oil on canvas in gilt frame by R. Martin.
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
W.P.A. Style Painting, Science, Politics Industry 1940s-1950s, Oil on Board
By WPA
Located in Buffalo, NY
Amazing W.P.A. style painting, trip-tic depicting science, politics industry, worker's, 1940s-1950s. Oil on board, measuring: 52" x 32". Attention to details. Unfortunately not signe...
Category
1940s American Folk Art Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
The painting "Dogs on the hunt".
Located in Chorzów, PL
The picture is painted with oil paints on canvas.
Dimensions:
Frame: height 79 cm / width 108 cm
Image: height 66 cm / width 95 cm
Category
1940s Scandinavian Other Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Oil Painting on Canvas by Radi of a Navy from the 1940s
Located in Milano, MI
Painting of a marina, made in oil on canvas by Radi in the 1940s
Ø cm 36 h cm 30
Category
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Pastels on Paper Portrait of Young Woman, Signed
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Beautiful antique french painting pastels on paper. Portrait of a young woman signed by the famous french artist Antony Paul Emile MORLON (1838-1918). High artistic quality.
Category
1880s Italian Antique Paintings
Materials
Paper
Late 19th Century Oil Painting Flower Still Life, Jules Ragot
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
An antique painting of a flower still life with roses. Painted with oil paint on canvas. Gilded wooden frame.
Jules Félix Ragot. Belgium, 1835-1912. Ragot was a Belgian Painter, w...
Category
1880s French Romantic Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pine, Paint
Royal Vienna Pair of Splendour Plates with Bacchant Scenes, circa 1880
Located in Vienna, AT
Two large, splendid porcelain plates with elaborate painting: cobalt blue flag with dense, scattered flower painting in gold, delimited by Fine and wider gold rims, collar in pink wi...
Category
1880s Austrian Classical Greek Antique Paintings
Materials
Porcelain
Post War Hawaiian Airbrush Hibiscus Floral on Velvet in Frame, Signed Frank Oda
By Frank Oda
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Post War circa 1948 Hawaiian Airbrush hibiscus floral on velvet in the original period wood frame.
Signed artist Frank Oda
Measures: Art: 15.25"...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Velvet
Mid-Century Modernist Oil on Canvas Still Life
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Classic impressionist modern still life oil on canvas painting with original carved wood scrubbed giltwood frame. Vibrant color pallet with a vase of citrus branches with an assortme...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Germaine Verna Double Sided Oil Painting
By Germaine Verna
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Germaine Verna double sided oil painting, circa late 1940s. These masterful works employ thick brush work and expert blending of colors. Either side of the painting can be exhibited.
Category
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Classic American Portrait, Oil on Canvas, William Lee Judson, 1882
By William Lees Judson 1
Located in Buffalo, NY
William Lees Judson was a pioneering California Impressionist artist of many talents. With his three sons, he founded the Judson Stained Glass Stud...
Category
1880s American American Classical Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
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