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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: Early 1900s
Mid-Century Modern Cubist Artist James Koenig Buffalo NY1948 Titled 'Tangent'
By James Koenig
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Titled 'Tangent' - Buffalo artist James Koenig paintings reflected many phases of American painting Styles including scenes from The WPA period, abstrac...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Hardwood, Paint
Painting Attributed to Jose Arpa
By Jose Arpa
Located in Houston, TX
Jose Arpa (1858-1952), known as “The Colorist Painter” of figures and landscapes was born in Carmona, Spain. His works demonstrate the brilliant legacy of a Spanish painter who loved...
Category
Early 1900s Spanish Other Antique Paintings
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
"Utopian Motif, " Lovely Art Deco Painting with Frieze of Agrarian Labors, 1946
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Lovely and ethereal, reminiscent of the pale, ideal compositions of Puvis de Chavannes in France and America, this utopian vista depicts a series of figures gathering fruit and grain, all in formal classical poses like an ancient, early Renaissance painting...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
C.P. Initials, Portait of African Girl, Charcoal on Paper, Signed Banzyville 1944
Located in Leuven , BE
C.P. Initials,Portait of African Girl,Charcoal on Paper,Signed Banzyville 1944,Framed,Signed and Dated
Category
1940s Congolese Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
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...
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1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Montague J Dawson, ‘Valetta Harbour’
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Montague J Dawson (1895-1973), ‘Valetta Harbour’, oil on board, painted in a grisaille palette with a British Hunt Class Type II destroyer in Valetta Harbour, Malta, signed ‘Montague Dawson’, English, 1940.
Footnote: Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973) was born in West London, in Chiswick in 1895, Montague Dawson was the grandson of Victorian landscape painter Henry Dawson. He studied under the seascape artist Charles Napier Hemy...
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1940s English Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Terrace, " Brilliant, Cubist-Expressionist Masterpiece by Virginia True, 1946
By Virginia True
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Best known for her depictions of New Mexico and the Southwest, here Virginia True painted a brilliantly-hued Cubist scene reflecting her years in New York. Showing the influence of P...
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
1940s Signed French Collage Cubist Guitar Painting
Located in Dallas, TX
This collage style painting displays great contrasts in color and composition and the French newspaper clippings only add to it's interest.
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
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
Wilton Motley Oil Painting
Located in Vienna, AT
Wilton Motley coastal motif, signed, oil on canvas. Dimensions: 50 x 75 cm.
Category
1940s British Vintage Paintings
Early 20th Century Still Life Abstract Oil Painting from France
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early 20th-century French Cubist still-life oil painting on canvas. The semi abstract work depicts a tabletop with fruit, a candlestick, a palette, and a bottle used as a vase for wi...
Category
Early 1900s French Edwardian Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint
Søren Christian Bjulf, Fishwives at the Old Dock, Copenhagen, Oil on Canvas
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Søren Christian Bjulf. Fishwives at the Old Dock, Copenhagen.
Fishwives at Old Dock are waiting for today's catch, by Søren Christian Bjulf (1890-1958)
Oil on canvas.
Signed Bjulf...
Category
1940s Danish Vintage Paintings
"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
Original Paul Lauritz High Sierras Nine Lake Basin Early California Oil Painting
By Paul Lauritz
Located in Tustin, CA
"High Sierras, Nine Lake Basin" painting depicts a rugged, snowy mountain scene in the Sierra Nevada mountains, with large rocks and a lake shore with pine trees in the foreground an...
Category
1940s American Other Vintage Paintings
Materials
Masonite
Maurice Savin Painting, Oil on canvas "Les Baigneuses, " circa 1940
By Maurice Savin
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Maurice Savin (French 1894-1973).
"Les baigneuses."
Oil on canvas,
circa 1940.
Signed.
More images available upon request.
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
S. C. Bjulf: Fish Mongers, Oil on Canvas
Located in Copenhagen, DK
S. C. Bjulf: Fish mongers.
Oil on canvas.
Signed Bjulf.
Measures: 37 cm. x 30 cm. The frame measures 8 cm.
In perfect condition.
Category
1940s Danish Vintage Paintings
"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
Early 20th Century Still Life Oil Painting on Canvas by artist B. Buchet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early 20th-century French signed still life oil painting by artist Boris Buchet. The image depicts a bowl of fruit in a manner similar to early Cezanne. Vibrant yet contemplative, th...
Category
Early 1900s French Edwardian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Fontanarosa French Art Deco Oil Painting of a Couple in a Boat
Located in New York, NY
French Art Deco oil on canvas painting of a couple in a boat by Lucien Joseph Fontanarosa, (Paris 1912-1989) . The canvas is laid down on a thin plywood pan...
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
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
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
"Knight on Horseback, " Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau Medieval Revival Mural
By Harvey Ellis
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A rare and magnificent example of a mural influenced by both the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements, this painting of a plumed knight on horseback...
Category
Early 1900s American Arts and Crafts Antique Paintings
"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
Rabbinical Judaica Expressionist Portrait Painting Attributed to Hugo Scheiber
Located in New York, NY
Hungarian modernist rabbinical Judaica Expressionist oil and tempera portrait painting, attributed to Hugo Scheiber. Scheiber, born 29 September 1873 in Budapest, died 7 March 1950, ...
Category
1940s Hungarian Expressionist Vintage Paintings
"Sculptor and Nude, " Large and Important Danish Painting, 1903
By Oscar Matthiesen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly capturing the intensity and artistry of the sculptor at work, this large and important painting by Oscar Matthiesen depicts his subject with wild, unkempt hair and a lean frame. The sculptor has rolled up the sleeves of his artist smock and is reaching out to touch the shoulder of the nude he is in the midst of creating. On the wall behind him is another painting that serves as a faint aureole that gives the sculptor a saintly character. Matthiesen studied with Puvis de Chavannes in Paris, and is best known for a massive painting...
Category
Early 1900s Danish Belle Époque Antique Paintings
"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
1900 Oil Painting on Canvas Pastoral Scene
Located in Marseille, FR
Provencal landscape large format. French school Baudin signed late 19th canvas.
Category
Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Paintings
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
Oil Painting on Canvas in Simpel Frame by Ejner Johansen, 1948
Located in Lejre, DK
The oil painting on canvas by Ejner Johansen from 1948 sounds like a delightful piece of art. Ejner Johansen was a Danish artist known for his paintings, often featuring still life c...
Category
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Portrait of Old Man and Cat" Oil on Canvas by Paillet
Located in Marseille, FR
Portrait of old man with cat. Oil on canvas by Fernand Paillet (1850-1918). Giltwood framed.
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"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
Painting from the 1940s, Mid-Century Art, Golden, Blue, Chocolate & White Colors
Located in New York, NY
Decorative painting from the 1940s. Painting has a beautiful gold frame with a linen liner.
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Negro Night Club, " 1945 Painting Depicting African American Social Life
By Adalie Margules Brent
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A brilliant and lively depiction of a crowded cafe scene in 1945, this painting by Adalie Margules Brent depicts a slice of Black America at the end of World War II, probably in New ...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Provence Seascape Oil on Canvas Raymond Allegre
By Raymond Allegre
Located in Marseille, FR
Oil painting on canvas by Raymond Allegre. He left Marseille with Vollon he studied in Paris in the studio of JP Laurens, and is working with Jean-Baptiste Olive to the decoration of the Gare de Lyon in Paris "Le train Bleu".
Category
Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Paintings
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...
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1940s American Expressionist Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
"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
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
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
Mid Century Modern Artist James Koenig 1948 Buffalo NY Titled 'Net Work'
By James Koenig
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Titled ‘Net Work’ buffalo artist James Koenig paintings reflected many phases of American painting styles including scenes from the WPA period, abstract...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern 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...
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"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
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
"Snowy Egrets and Cypress, " Large Art Deco Painting by Harcombe
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...
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1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
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
"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
Marcel Vertes Poodle with Flowers Painting
Located in Water Mill, NY
Impressionistic tempera painting of a still life with dog and flowers in a vintage giltwood frame by listed artist Marcel Vertes (1895-1961.)
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Watercolor Painting from England
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early 20th-century English watercolor painting with an earthy color palette of deep ruddy browns, smoky charcoals and creamy bone whites. Dreamy and otherworldly, the subject matter ...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Paintings
Materials
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...
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1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
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....
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1940s French 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
French sanguine Art work
Located in Bronx, NY
French sanguine Art work representing a detail of a Parisian Park.
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Painted Backdrop with Ballet Theme for Residential Theatre
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Charming and beautifully painted, this painted backdrop for theatre, perhaps for a residential space or a small professional theatre, depicts several ...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
"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
Western Oil Painting by Ruth Wilcox
By Ruth Wilcox
Located in Water Mill, NY
Western still life oil painting by listed artist Ruth Wilcox-Soho Location.
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Two Female Nudes, " Mid-Century Masterpiece by Alexander Cañedo
By Alexandro De Canedo
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
Painting by Richard Ranft, Young Woman and Pierrots Costumes
Located in Antwerp, BE
Jeune Femme et Costumes des Pierrots, Junge Frau mit Harlekin und pierrot, circa 1900.
Richard Ranft.
Painter of landscapes, engraver, illustrator and poster artist. (Swiss 1862–19...
Category
Early 1900s Swiss Art Deco Antique Paintings
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
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