1950s Paintings

This ink and watercolor painting was the winning submission for a large mural at Fort Meade in Maryland in 1951, solicited by a design competition and intended for one of the service clubs. We do not know if the mural was actually painted, but it does not survive today. The theme of "Peace and Prosperity" was a classic subject in the post-World War II era, and the soldier-artist -- Achille Forgione...

Original painting by Philip R. Perkins, circa late 1950's. Painting depicts an Egyptian woman, signed in the upper left corner. Painting is oil on board and displayed in it's origin...

A magnificent example of midcentury reverse-painted glass, this piece by Marianna von Allesch depicts a woman and her square-jawed dog, possibly a boxer, amidst a grove of trees and ...

Intimite expressive female portrait painting on canvas by M.Simon, France 1940-50's. The painting is framed in a tri-colour frame.

Donald Raymond David. American, 1906-2006. Abstract. Oil on canvas 30 by 24 in. Donald Raymond David was born in Springbrook, Oregon in 1906. He attended Fresno State College in 1927 and studied with Alexandra Bradshaw. By the 1930s Don David was in Los Angeles, where he studied with Barse Miller and attended the Chouinard Art Institute and the Art Center School. From the mid-1930s to the early 1940s he lived in Sacramento and exhibited at Sacramento’s Kingsley Art Club from 1934 to 1943. Throughout the 1940s David also exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Oakland Art Gallery, the Glendale and Laguna Beach Art Associations, and the California Water Color Society. David had a solo exhibition at Los Angeles’ Francis Webb Galleries in 1946, and exhibited with Milford Zornes...

Stanley William Hayter CBE (1901-1988) Pink/ Blue Abstract Composition Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right, '59 (1959) Size: 124cm x 124cm - 48¾ ins x 48¾ ins Provenance: Ex...

Composition abstracted from Charlotte Henschel (1905-1985), France, 1950, signed low right. Frame of origin, under glass. 99.5cm/72.5cm (off frame) Raise of the school of Paris, ...

Amy Kasi, Japenese American oil over canvass over masonite board.

Painting "Flowers". Dimensions: Frame: 31 cm / width 34 cm Picture: 27 cm / width 30 cm

Midcentury abstract oil painting, framed.

Abstract still life by Toon Kelder (Rotterdam 1894 - Den Haag 1973). Signed and dated 1950.

Oil painting of New England Haystack by Listed American Artist Wayne Morrell was shown in Grand Central Gallery.

The painting depicts a noble and imposing knight on a majestic white horse, a scene that evokes the nobility and romance of the past. The use of vivid colors and the captivating comp...

A nice newly framed under glass Gouache by the European artist Rosario Moreno. She has sold in many auction houses in Europe and is listed as being born...

Beautiful Batik painting of a nude in a landscape holding a flower.

This representational double portrait of a couple is signed with initials "MN" in the lower left corner, by an unidentified artist. It is a flat, washed out image, perhaps painted by...

A vibrant oil on board by the noted artist William McCloy. It is titled on the frame "Death of Ray Goddard". It is monogrammed lower right M 51. Purchased from the artist's estate. L...

Composition abstracted from Charlotte Henschel (1905-1985), France, 1950, signed low right. Frame of origin, under glass. Measures: 99.5cm/72.5cm (off frame) Raise of the school...

Impressionist Oil 20th Century ELEGANT 1950s FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST OIL. UNREADABLE SIGNATURE. GOOD CONDITION. TITLE: POETRY - MEASUREMENTS: 86X64 AND 73X50 CM

Beautifully painted portrait of a lovely young woman in gilt wood frame. Oil on canvas. Signed (upper right) Paul Longenecker and dated 1954. Paul...

Oil on canvas by Henri Hecht MAÏK (1922-1993). “Snow Landscape”. sign and date lower right “MAÏK 57”. Framed with a natural oak and painted French fra...

Signed dated ad titled “The Irresistible Landscape”. This painting was personal to the artist as Brook was born on July 14, 1898 ad at the age of twelve was bed-ridden with Polio. This painting is a self-portrait showing the artist looking out the windows of the room he rarely was able to leave. This painting was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fie Arts ad the Ogunquit Museum Of America Art, exhibition tags from both institutions are attached to the stretcher en verso. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Alexander Brook was a realist painter, whose works consisted mostly of still-life subjects, landscapes, and figures, often of women. He was very successful in his day, winning second prize to Picasso's first prize at the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition of Modern Painting in 1930. In New York, he studied at the Art Students League between the years of 1914-1918. It was at the Art Students League that Brook developed significant relationships with Niles Spencer, Reginald Marsh, Kenneth Hays Miller, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and, perhaps most significantly, Peggy Bacon, whom he married in 1920. Along with Kenneth Hayes Miller, Brook studied with John C. Johansen, Frank V. DuMond, George Bridgeman and Dimitri Romanofski. Within this group lay the foundations of American Realism. Brook was a member of the Society of Independent Artists, who rebelled against the strictures of the National Academy of Design. In 1938 Brook traveled to Savannah, Georgia, there he did some of his most provocative work. After two years in the South, Bacon and Brook were divorced. Brook later married the painter Gina Knee. During the years 1928 through 1939, Alexander Brook had works in over one-hundred exhibitions, fifteen of which were one man shows. By 1942, Brook had resumed teaching at the Art Students League. Demand for the artist's work kept him in significant collections, galleries, and museums, including the Downtown Gallery (New York), the National Academy of Design, the Rehn Gallery, the Larcada and the Knoedler galleries. Some feel Brook may have retreated from the art world with the rise of Abstract Expressionism, although a sketchbook that he kept from 1949 to 1951 reveals an active engagement in painting and served multi purposes--a repository for his ideas, an address book, notebook, and travel diary. Of special interest are his notes on watercolor technique. It also includes tips for using new painting tools...

A large and beautiful vintage oil painting by Keith Gretton b.1934 . This oil on board painting is signed and dated 1957. It is titled “Joyous Spring Growth” , it is beautifully exe...

Oil painting on board "Eclipse by Candlelite" by William George Nes.

Fabulous vintage abstract painting of a French gendarme with a woman over his back circa 1950's. This painting is oil on board, with a linen mat framed under glass in a gold leaf fra...

These three abstract paintings by Jacob Semiatin (1915-2003) are in wooden frames. Sold one by each.

Fabulous French abstract lion painting found at an antique fair in the South of France. Great color palette of blues, greens and oranges creating this s...

By Ernest Burnett Hood (1932-1988). Cafe Royal still standing (original) in Edinburgh as it did when initially opened in present location in 1863.

Oil on canvas signed Henri Mars and dated 1955.

Opere di Johan sono presenti nelle maggiori collezioni francesi e americane e sono state presentate alla mostra di antiquariato di Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze 2005. Of Spanish origin, born in Valencia in the early 1900s, she specialized in sculpture and animal painting. She worked mainly in Lyon, her painting influenced by post-Cubist geometry remains realist in style; straight lines dialogue with curves and plays of angles give rhythm to the composition, her taste for color harmoniously mixes light and dark tones. His works represent the broad creative scope referable to the “Animaliér” artists. Johan’s works can be found in major French and American collections and were presented at the Palazzo Strozzi antiques exhibition...

For sale: Eugene Montgomery's 1950s Oil on Canvas with Original Frame, Signed Lower Left Renowned artist Eugene Montgomery, known for his prowess as a painter, illustrator, and mura...

A rare piece to be found. Due to his early demise the number of works available by this artist are limited. His work can be found in every major collection in the United States. He was a Guggenheim Fellow, Museum of Modern Art Curator and rising Futurist Artist who was murdered in his New York apartment in 1961 when he was only 38 years old. Titled "Hypnerotomachia", the name means 'the act of falling in love in a dream'. This amazing and rare piece was created just one year after his success with exhibiting at the Venice Biennale of 1956. Semi-abstract composition and very dream like. This painting retains the original carved and gilded Hydenryk frame and has been professionally cleaned and conserved. His work can be found in every major collection in the United States. Charles Oscar...

Jan Sierhuis 1959 signed oil on canvas painting. This painting measures: 50.5 wide x 1 deep x 45 inches high. We take our photos in a controlled lig...

The original oil painting is painted by Viktor Freytag (1870-?), Berlin in 1950 on deep streched canvas and is currently unframed.

Painting "Flowers". Dimensions: Frame: 31 cm / width 34 cm Picture: 27 cm / width 30 cm

Rex Dennis Parady, American (20th century). "Of Time and Illusions, mixed media on canvas, 1956. Signed & dated lower right, with Berkshire Art Associat...

This is a large rectangular oil-on-canvas painting titled L'Orchestre, signed by François Jacquemin and dated 1950. The artwork reflects the dynamic post-war artistic movement associ...

Artist: Rolph Scarletti (Canadian, 1889 – 1984) Object: Modernist Abstract Composition Period: Ca. 1950’s Medium: Guache on paper, framed Dimensions (unframed): Height: 9-1/3” Width: 12” Dimensions (framed): Height: 22-3/4”” Width: 25-3/4” Rolph Scarlett (Canadian, 1889 – 1984) was a consummate explorer of twentieth-century abstract painting. Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him while steadfastly aware that he was on his own path and his alone, Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist of the eras in which he lived. Exposed very early on to the work of Paul Klee through a chance meeting in Europe with the artist himself, Scarlett took up abstraction with a fervor that never diminished during his long and impressive career. To create something that had never existed before: this was Scarlett’s great cause. And that is what is most obvious when you look at Scarlett’s work—you have never seen anything quite like it. Scarlett was Canadian-born, came of age in the Midwest, and spent few important years in Hollywood, where he designed stage sets. His work from this early period echoes Klee’s use of color, his confidence in naïve, primitive forms, and his blend of abstraction and figuration. In its flat spatial qualities it prefigures the Indian Space painting of the 1940s by a decade. He moved to New York in 1933 and eventually found his first great patron at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, directed by Baroness Hilla Rebay and art patron Solomon R. Guggenheim. Guggenheim would collect over 60 works by Scarlett for his collection, more than any other artist outside of Vasily Kandinsky and Rudolf Bauer. As a frequent exhibitor and lecturer at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (MNOP), Scarlett honed his sensitive feel for bodies in space and capitalized on his trademark use of bright, vivacious colors into accomplished, perfectly harmonized geometric works. However, Scarlett soon morphed these hard-edged forms into a nuanced expressionistic abstraction which, at its best, seems to be populated by dancing forms that animate the canvases. Along this way he was advised by Rudolf Bauer, the German expatriate and one of the originators of non-objective painting in the teens. Bauer had the idea for the Museum, and Rebay, his champion, had found in Solomon Guggenheim a patron for manifesting it. When Bauer emigrated just before World War II, he wanted to meet Scarlett. The two became friends, and Bauer advised Scarlett on his work over the course of many years. Even in a 1979 interview, Scarlett began to tear up as he recalled his first meeting with Bauer, a man whose work he "worshipped," describing that, "It was a touching moment for me, I’ll tell you." Scarlett and Rebay also had a close, important relationship, one in which he bore the brunt of her sometimes condescending, if motherly, critiques and admonitions with tolerance and gratefulness. Eventually, though, he had to push back. In a letter from 1951 he writes, "I have noticed with growing amazement that during the past three years you have accepted less and less of my work—and, that same work, which you rejected has been accepted and shown in the best and largest shows all over this country." This period—the late 1940s to the early 1950s—did in fact correspond to Scarlett’s most critical success, and to a return to the fanciful forms and characters of his pre-war work. At the same time, he found his own rhythm and complexity using a drip style similar to, though denser and more opaque than, the one made famous by Jackson Pollock, who had worked for many years at the MNOP and with whom he shared common influences. In 1949 he had a very well received solo show in 1949 at the Jacques Seligmann Gallery, reviewed very favorably in The New York Times: "The impression made by these paintings is one of originality and strength." He was also included in a juried show "American Painting Today" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1950 and in the Whitney Annual of 1951. The curator for the Whitney show in fact bypassed a selection of Scarlett’s careful geometrics in favor of a new "lyrical" drip painting—one which he describes as having had "a helluva good time" making. Rebay articulated her loss of control over Scarlett very keenly in one of her last official letters to him: "So your way ended in the horrid jungle it is in now; even a Mr. Pollock’s smearage was not bad enough for you to have a try at; and betraying yourself, you betrayed art and my faith in you, and my present disgrace by my failure to foresee such an outrageous possibility—since you even paint objectively now." Yet, despite the fact that he was moving in his own direction when the change in leadership took place at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting and Rebay was forced out as director, Scarlett was hit hard. He understood this change rightly as a betrayal by the establishment. Scarlett was a unique individual and soul, and was affected personally and philosophically by the idea that the movement with which Scarlett had aligned his talents seemed to disappear overnight, and his life’s work rendered valueless. Without the Museum’s support, Scarlett decided eventually to move to the artists’ community of Shady, New York, just outside of Woodstock. He had occasional shows throughout the years, but mostly settled down to regional obscurity. He began making jewelry, which had been his first trade, and it was following a show of his jewelry in 1975 at the Jaro Gallery, that he was rediscovered by Samuel Esses, and his wife Sandy. Samuel Esses was a successful businessman and an avid collector. He always sought out that which was unusual and, like Scarlett, was ahead of his time in many ways. For example, in 1979, Sam became enthralled with the early graffiti appearing on the New York subway trains. With the sole goal of preserving these groundbreaking yet short lived works of art he was inspired to create "The Esses Studio," a painting warehouse and workshop for graffiti artists to work in a studio, collaborate, and paint on canvas. The biggest names of graffiti writing participated—Futura, Crash, Dondi, Zephyr, and Daze to name a few. The project was well received and provided critical validation at an important time for this alternative form of abstraction to be recognized by the established art world. The success of the "Esses Studio" helped fuel an alternative fire that would propel gallerists and curators to acknowledge other street artists and provide a foundation of acceptance for the early careers of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. It is not a stretch to say that what Esses saw in the graffiti art of the 1970s was very similar to what he saw in 1950s-era Scarletts—something raw, honest, and melding many twentieth century influences into one unique form. Inspired by the importance of the collection and the passion of the collector, Weinstein Gallery...

Oil on canvas in the style of Krøyer. Circa 1950. Dimensions : H 157cmx W 96 cm x D 3cm Ref : 1007 Price : 1600 € for this painting.

This is a double-sided painting - Side 1: View of Manhattan, signed lower left and dated 1954. Side 2 (reverse): Genre scene with porters. Dimensions: Unframed: 20.5 x 30.5 inches Framed: 32 x 37 inches Sam Diamond, Polish/American (1919 - 1978) - Born May 1, 1919 in Warsaw, Poland. - Family immigrated to the United States in November 1919. - Began drawing at 6 years of age and continued an active interest in art throughout his school years. - Graduated from Long Beach High School in 1936, at 16 years of age. - Awarded a scholarship to Pratt Institute. - Received art certificate from Pratt in 1939. - Enlisted in U.S. Army Signal Corps. - Film Strip Division- doing artwork for training manuals from 1941-1946. - Formed advertising art studio in 1946 - Continued painting and sculpture to present. - Award for Sculpture and Painting, Westchester Art Society...

Midcentury semi-abstract oil on canvas painting dated '50, signed Boardman in a wood frame of the period

Albert Chubac (1925-2008) Geometric composition Cutting and collage. Signed and numbered 8/8 Dimensions ; 118.5 x 78.5 Cm. Price : 3200€. Who is Albert Chubac? Albert Chubac was born in 1925 in Geneva. Figuration Libre: In 1947, Albert Chubac, a graduate of the Geneva School of fine Arts, left for Algeria and produced his figurative paintings on paper. On his return, he met many artists, including Nicolas de Staël, who had a significant influence on his work. He continued his travels around the Mediterranean as far as Greece and Egypt; his future work (colour palette, pictorial references), strongly influenced by Egyptian Antiquity...

Impressive and very beautiful oil on panel made by Paul Robert Bazé, an artist of French origin. It represents a still life with a bouquet of flowers in the foreground on a dark background. It mainly shows dahlias and camellias, which give the work its name. The traditional still life genre shows its evolution here. It presents the characteristic style of the genre to which it corresponds, realistic and meticulous, especially noticeable in the way it works with the different qualities of the flowers and leaves. The dark background is also inherited from the still life genre, with a marked dark interest reflected in the dark backgrounds. Signed in the lower left corner. Paul Robert Bazé (1901-1985) was born in Paris, although he soon moved to Bayonne and then to Bordeaux, where he was a student of Paul Quinsac...

Pastel of angelic child by Forbes dated 1954 in a wood frame under glass.

Midcentury abstract expressionist ink drawing on paper by Salvatore Grippi, 1953. Measures: 9.5" x 12". This ink wash figurative abstract Expressionist piece on paper is signed by it...

This is truly a master work by this artist, which we cannot find more information about. The quality of the coloring and texture of this abstract portraiture is amazing! Framed in th...

This is a wonderful midcentury textured abstract by important and listed French painter. Signed and titled on reverse "Tache Rouge 1956". We have left the original gilt frame within ...

Oil painting on canvas. DIMENSIONS: height 50 cm, width 62 cm,

Art deco image from 1960 B. Renkowski Highly recommended item will be perfect complementation of the rooms in not only Classic style, but also Art Deco and modern.    

The oil painting on canvas, depicting a tranquil beach and sea scene, was masterfully crafted by Sixten Wiklund (1907-1986) around the 1950s. Capturing the serene beauty of the coas...

John Crockett, British (1918-1986). "Painswick Beacon from Whitely Court, Snowy Evening" Oil on masonite, 1959. Signed, dated, & titled on verso. Presented in a gray whitewashed wood frame. A lovely Mid-Century Modernist landscape in icy blues, depicting Painswick Beacon in the coastal county of Gloucestershire, England. John Crockett was an accomplished artist, theatrical designer, and television director, known for his work as founder and artistic director of the touring theater company The Compass Players. In 1964, he directed a critically acclaimed episode of Doctor Who...

A wonderfully whimsical painting of three nude ladies sitting on a park bench. This is signed but unable to identify the artist. Old canvas from the 1950s.

Italian Artist - 50's Painting - Modern Italian Artwork Painting Stunning oil on canvas painting by Italian modern artist Remo Bianco, Spatialist painter. The canvas is signed and d...

Man playing trumpet after a night of celebration.

Painting on board of an atmospheric still life of eggs in a cloth draped basket by Chicago artist Stanley Mitruk titled "Basket of Eggs", dated 1958. Measurements given below are ...

Composition - Pierre Piget Oil on isorel signed lower left Numbered on the back 27A Size : 81x65cm 250€ Ref 2951.

This is a firework for a big artwork made in 1958 for the Swedish company LKAB. Its called "Passages" and is executed with sand and ink on paper on a woode...

Vintage Italian painting by Giordano Giovanetti depicting at the heart of the painting a poignant scene: a distraught ballerina sitting while ...

Landscape of the Ariege Regagnon Albert (1874-1961) representing around Sentarailles dated 1951. French school oil painting on canvas.

A graphic oil on canvas painting displaying a dynamic interplay between an expressionistic color-field of fire-toned hues and a totemic, geometric structure in black and gray. The pa...