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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: 1840s
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
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
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
"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
"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
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
"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...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
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
"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
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
"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
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
19th Century French Flower Still Life
Located in Belmont, MA
F. Fleury, mid-19th century, flower still life with blue and white delft vase, oil on canvas, signed: "F.Fleury". The painting will be send from Europe. Shipping to Boston included.
Category
1840s French Romantic Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"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
"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
Art Deco "African Buffalos" by Jeanne Thiais Loubris, 1938
By Jeanne Thiais Loubris
Located in Encino, CA
Jeanne Thiais Loubris (1906-2004)
Rare oil on canvas titled " Buffles Africains " (African Buffalo).
Titled and dated 1938 on the back.
Measures: H:...
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"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
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
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
"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
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
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
French Landscape Oil on Canvas. Signed by Artist. A. Mazar. Circa 1840
Located in Hollywood, SC
French landscape oil on canvas in gilt frame. Signed by artist. A. Mazar. Mid 19th Century
Category
1840s French Louis Philippe 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
Carl Hilgers Düsseldorf Painting
Located in Belmont, MA
Carl Hilgers (1818-1890), the castle of Dornebourg in the Netherlands, painted oil on canvas. The painting will be directly shipped from Germany, please a...
Category
1840s German Romantic Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"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
"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
Oil Painting of Ivo Patcevitch-Conde Nast Founder, Attributed to Renee Bouche
By René R. Bouché
Located in Water Mill, NY
Oil on board of Ivo Patcevitch founder of Conde Nast attributed to Renee Bouche.
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas
"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
Egron Lundgren Oil on Canvas
Located in Vienna, AT
Egron Lundgren, oil on relined canvas, signed and dated 1849.
Dimensions:
46 x 38 cm.
Category
1840s Swedish Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"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
"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
"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
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
Louis Wolchonok Painting "Reclining Woman"
Located in Cathedral City, CA
1940s oil on canvas painting of reclining woman signed by Louis Wolchonok. (American/New York 1893-1973)
Please note: Two small repairs see details pictures.
Louis Wolchonok stud...
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
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
"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
"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
Rolph Scarlett Abstract Expressionist Painting, 1945
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Abstract expressionist gouache and watercolor on paper
by noted artist Rolph Scarlett - Signed and dated lower right.
Archivally matted, unframed. Image size: 11" H x 15" W.
In excellent condition.
Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s.
Born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1889, he left Canada at the age of 18 to go to New York City and returned to Canada during the years of World War I. However, by 1924 he had established New York City as his home. While he was beginning his career as an abstract painter, he was designing stage scenery for George Bernard Shaw...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
Original "Village of Picardy" Oil on Board signed Jean Leon '43
By Jean Leon
Located in Chicago, IL
Wonderful vintage French painting of Picardy nestled within the rolling panoramic countryscape. This fine painting transports your soul to a much more pleasant and easier going time ...
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
The Ford, by Thomas Creswick
By Thomas Creswick
Located in New York, NY
The Ford, by Thomas Creswick (1811-1869). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated.
Category
1840s Irish Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
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
"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
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
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
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
"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
Naughty Girls at the Lake 1915 and 1950
Located in Ferndale, MI
Naughty girls at the lake 1915 and 1950, Signed Ornold, 1940.
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
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
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
"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
'Touareg in Hoggar' Gouache by Monique Cras, Art Deco, 1942
By Monique Cras
Located in Paris, FR
Gouache depicting a seated Touareg (also called blue man of the desert because of their indigo dyed clothing). The painting is signed Monique Cras, dated 1942 and titled 'Chasseur de...
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
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
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
“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
"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
French sanguine Art work
Located in Bronx, NY
French sanguine Art work representing a detail of a Parisian Park.
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
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
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