1950s Paintings

This is a captivating 1957 vintage oil on canvas painting by Guy Norris, titled Prison Dreams. Bursting with vivid blues, greens, reds, and yellows, the composition radiates energy a...

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...

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...

Post-War American India ink on paper painting of a seated nude leaning on a table, executed in a minimalistic, contoured style in a white wooden frame (...

Bright, vivid and quite fabulous abstract by Polish American artist Josef Presser (1909-1967), circa 1950s. Known for his figural work this is a beautifully executed portrait of two ...

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

A small oil painting on canvas. It is a naive portrait of an American soldier in uniform. It appears to be framed in a handmade oak frame along with ...

Oil on canvas with frame, mid 20th century, Bouquet of flowers Measures: Painting - W: 32.5 cm, H: 21 cm Frame - W: 40 cm, H: 30 cm, D: 2 cm.

Dimensions: Frame: height 73 cm / width 63 cm Picture: 64 cm / width 54 cm.

Encaustic painting (1957) by the Dutch artist JCJ Vanderheyden ('s-Hertogenbosch, 1928-2012). Title: 'waterside'. Signed and dated. The frame is of a recent date.

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

This is a beautiful antique French landscape! The color palette of this piece is light and vibrant with green and blue hues mixing with softer brown and yellow. In the forefront of t...

A rare gem of a piece. Untitled by Allen Atwell, creator of the Psychedelic Temple in 1964. His works become available few and far between. Measure: 10 x 16 in., 11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. ...

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

This is a wonderful Oil Painting by the great painter Harry Nadler. This piece predates his first showing at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1960) and is quite possibly his easiest ...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

Oil painting by Curtis Miller titled "Range Top" Signed and dated lower right frame. 1955.

This romantic feeling oil painting of two young lovers is finished in thin washes of earth tones. Signed "Michael Martin '58". The painting sits in a large silvered frame...

Large and powerful piece by Dutch artist Joop Vreugdenhil. A piece from his early career. Although abstract in composition, upon a closer look one can see hints or architecture Abou...

We present picture hunting of the famous polish painter Mieczyslaw Krzyzak (1914-1984). Highly recommended item will be perfect complementation o...

Man playing trumpet after a night of celebration.

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.

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

Oil on canvas by Henri Hecht MAÏK (1922-1993). “Underwater Landscape”. sign and date lower right “MAÏK 56”. Framed with a natural oak and gilded brass...

Franz Mörscher The composition of the painting is deliberately designed for reduction and corresponds to the idea of cultural minimalism and the new objectivity that developed in the 20th century. Mörscher chooses the rational, crystalline form of the representation of selected objects (vases, lemon, fruits?) and uses color as surface and line to create structure in the space. In this composition, Mörscher reduces the classical means of perspective to create a pictorial space between object light and color. The application of paint appears partially modeled. The natural crack and fissure network (Krakelee) of the sometimes layered paint application seems to be deliberately achieved. The selection of the depicted objects is possibly also based on symbolic aspects. After the desolation of the war years, the painting speaks of the color world of the spirit of optimism of the 1950s. W 63 x H 50 Measures with frame: W 71 x H 58 Biography Franz Mörscher was born on November 7th, 1931 in Bundenbach and died on July 14th, 2018 in Neunkirchen (Saar). Besides the sculptor Hubert Nietsch, he was the second artist to set a monument to the miner’s cow in public space in Germany from 1993 to 1995. Franz Mörscher studied from 1951 at the School of Arts and Crafts Saarbrücken with Boris Kleint among others in the subjects of painting and sculpture. During his studies he met the photographer Otto Steinert...

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...

Original vintage sports poster for the 1955 basketball european championship in Hungary. Wonderful artwork by an unknown artist. Framed...

Oil painting “nr 24” by Harry Booström. Provenance: William och Maud Appelquist, Gotland. Galerie Bel’Art, Stockholm. Private collection, Stockholm.

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...

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...

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

Portrait of his Majesty Baudouin I - Pierre Piget Oil on isorel signed and dated lower right Numbered on the back : 46 Size : 50cm x 61cm 1954 250€ ...

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...

The oil painting, crafted on canvas with green and brown shades by Sixten Wiklund (1907-1986) from around the 1950s, stands as a testament to the artist's skill and creativity. The ...

Painting, oil on canvas. Playing a shuffleboard game on deck, on a cruise ship of HAL (Holland Amerika Lijn). Circa 1950, recent frame.

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...

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

Mixed-media on board on gesso ground, in gouache and oil using the impasto technique. The work also includes areas of collage using applied materials beneath the paint to add depth ...

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...

Japanese painting, Svampar, Denmark Mixed technique on artistic fabric The work is signed by the artist Work dimensions 34/96 Unframed work Work in original vintage condition. It h...

Lennart Lilja Oil on canvas Work signed by the artist Dimensions 62/77 Framed work Lennart Lilja (1924-2008). He was a Swedish artist. Student of Isaac Gründewald and Otte Sköld. In...

This 1958 oil painting, “Firefighter” by Ellie Mae Jones, is a poignant tribute to the bravery and resilience of firefighters. Created in Jessup, Maryland, the piece employs a palett...

A painting depicting an abstracted mask in tones of black, blue, grey and cream. Titled "African Image", the piece retains its original New York Krasner Gallery exhibition label.

A fabulous vintage Boho original oil portrait. A chic brightly colored composition of a young woman. Signed and dated by the artist. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

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...

Utterly unique pair of Mid-Century Modern painted glass panels depicting African figures. The diptych features African warriors on one side, and women ...

Louis Sola French, 1928-2011 Still life Oil on canvas 25 by 31 in. with frame 31 by 37 in. Signed & dated 58 lower right Louis Sola was born in Genoa in 1929 and studi...

Spiders House, 1957 Oil Painting. Signed Scudder Florence. Heavily applied oil paint to stretched canvas. Abstract Painting.

Gio Colucci, painter, sculptor, ceramist was born in Florence, Italy in 1892. In 1911, he moved to Paris to study architecture at the Fine Art School. Colucci settled in Cairo in 191...

Painting by Bertil Öhlund (1923-2003). "Sunny City in the south of Spain". Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1958. A typical example of the Swedish modern artists of the 1950s.

Adriano Gajoni, Cleopatra, 1950s, Oil on Canvas, Framed Dimensions with frame 70hx60x6 Dimensions of painting 52.5hx42

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.

Mid-century framed oil painting on canvas by Ed Florens dated 1954 is a splendid still life which comes from a centuries-old tradition of such a genre in Europe, and has been carried...

1950s German acrylic abstract painting in a natural color wood frame. The dominant color is orange with cobalt blue, black and wine. Artist is unknown. The painting is framed with...

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...