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Period: 1950s
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Large Weathered Canvas, France circa 1950
Located in Culver City, CA
France circa 1950
Painted Canvas with lettering.
94.5”w x 1”d x 78.75”h
Category
Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Oil on Canvas "Lying on The beach" by Gustav Bolin
Located in Montreal, QC
Gustav Bolin's family, which was of Russian origins, settled in France in 1921. At age 18, Gustav was part of Emile Othon Friesz 's courses at the Academy de la Grande Chaumière. Whe...
Category
French Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
‘The Forest Road, Boldrewood, Hampshire’ by Montague Dawson
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
‘The Forest Road, Boldrewood, Hampshire’ by Montague Dawson, oil on canvas, showing a road winding past a stand of tall conifers. Signed, framed and glazed, a paper label on the rev...
Category
English Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Vase de Fleur", Oil on Canvas, Andrés Segovia (1929-1996)
By Andrés Segovia
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is a wonderful oil on canvas floral composition by Andres Segovia. Adding so much interest to this piece is the placement of the vase and the appeared wall in the background, dr...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Painting by Per-Erik Böklin, Sweden, 1955
By Per-Erik Böklin
Located in Stockholm, SE
Painting by Per-Erik Böklin,
Sweden. 1955.
Gouache.
Dimensions:
H: 43 cm/ 17''
L: 52,5 cm/ 20 3/4''
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Japanese Two Panel Screen, Sun and Cresting Waves Through Maple
Located in Hudson, NY
Maple, sun and waves in mineral pigments on gold leaf.
Category
Japanese Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Maurice Alvo Painted screen from Galerie Jean Royere
By Maurice Alvo
Located in Encino, CA
Maurice Alvo.
Very interesting screen for the Galerie Jean Royere.
An important and rare oil on canvas mounted in two panels of a wooden screen, depicting musical Harlequins. The o...
Category
French Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Philip & Kelvin Laverne Rare Greek Mythology Painting 1959, 'Signed'
Located in New York, NY
Early rare painting of a Greek mythology scene with Medusa and warriors on patinated and engraved bronze and pewter with colorful enamel cloisonne by Philip & Kelvin LaVerne, America...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Ink on Paper of Nudes "Réflexion Dans Un Mirror" by Boris Vansier
Located in Montreal, QC
Ink on Paper of Nudes "Réflexion dans un Mirror" by Boris Vansier
With Original Sticker Gallery Agnès Lefort
Boris Vansier spent his youth in Geneva and left for the United States in 1946, settling first in New York where he took classes at Adelphi University then in Los Angeles where he attended the prestigious Chouinard Art Institute. In 1948, after a brief return to Switzerland, Vansier moved to Montreal where he met gallerist Henry Kleemann, who offered him his first exhibition at the Kleemann Gallery in New York. In 1954, he left Canada to settle in France, first in Cannes until 1956, then in Paris during the 1960s where he befriended New Realist artists including Arman, David Lan-Bar, Raymond Hains...
Category
Canadian Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Colorfull Oil on Canvas Abstract "Composition" by Serge Rezvani
By Serge Rezvani
Located in Montreal, QC
Oil on canvas abstract "Composition" by Serge Rezvani.
France: circa 1958
Born in Tehran, Rezvani is the son of a Persian father, Medjid-Khan Rezvani (1900–1962), and a Jewish mother who had immigrated from Russia
Rezvani has written more than 40 novels, 15 plays and two collections of poetry. He is the author of more than 150 songs, including the famous Le Tourbillon sung by Jeanne Moreau in the film Jules and Jim, as well as J'ai la mémoire qui flanche [fr], also performed by Moreau (he signed these songs under pseudonym Cyrus Bassiak, which means "barefoot" in Russian).Rezvani also wrote two songs for Godart's Pierrot le fou...
Category
French Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Vintage Oil Painting by Swedish Bertil Öhlund 1958
Located in Stockholm, SE
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.
Category
Swedish Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
‘Tea at the Vicarage’ by Margaret Dovaston, Dated 1952
By Margaret Dovaston
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
‘Tea at the Vicarage’ by Margaret Dovaston, dated 1952, an oil painting showing four gentlemen having an earnest conversation over a cup of tea on a terrace outside a cottage garden, Margaret Dovaston, dated 1952. English.
Margaret Isabel Dovaston (1884 – 1954) was a British artist who became particularly well known for her historical genre scenes, often depicting groups in Georgian costume. In the course of her education, she was taught by Thomas William Cole at the Ealing School of Art and Arthur Stockdale Cope at the South Kensington School of Art. Her crowning achievement was winning a five-year scholarship the to the Royal Academy Schools (1903-1908) where she won many medals. She exhibited at the Royal Academy (1908 and 1910) and helped set up The Ealing Art...
Category
English Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Japanese Two-Panel Screen Stylized Waves on Silver Leaf and Golden Sun
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese two-panel screen: Stylized waves on silver leaf and golden sun. Showa period (1926-1989), modern painting in mineral pigments on silver.
Category
Japanese Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
Lesley Arthur Wilcox ‘World Commerce’
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This watercolour shows a bustling port scene with lorries and porters loading a white ship with a yellow funnel, while passengers watch from the deck. A label on the back reads ‘World Commerce, L.A. Wilcox per Rogers & Co. 1950, 7898’. English, circa 1950.
Lesley Arthur Wilcox (1904-1982) was an English artist known mainly for his marine works in oils. He was also a watercolourist, illustrator, poster artist, marine model...
Category
English Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Passager" Wall Art by Pierre Olofson, 1921-1996
Located in Stockholm, SE
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...
Category
Swedish Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Wood
Painting ‘No. II’ by Harry Booström, Abstract Art, Signed, Sweden, 1953
Located in Stockholm, SE
Painting ‘No. II’ by Harry Booström,
Sweden. 1953.
Oil on panel.
Measurements:
H: 89 cm/ 2' 11"
W: 119 cm/ 3' 10 7/8"
Provenance:
William and Maud Ap...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Painting 'Mural II' by Harry Booström, Abstract Art, Signed, Sweden, 1953
Located in Stockholm, SE
Painting 'Mural II' by Harry Booström,
Sweden, 1953.
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
H: 90 cm / 3'
W: 122 cm / 4' 1/2''
Shown with Harry Booström at the Artists of Söder Exhibition, 19...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
20th Century Painting "Sailing Barge, Yarmouth Roads Geoffrey Chatten circa 1950
Located in Banner Elk, NC
20th century sailboat seascape painting, Geoffrey Chatten, circa 1950. Title on reverse, "Sailing Barge, Yarmouth Roads".
From Chatten's website, ...
Category
English Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Angelo Testa Painting
By Angelo Testa
Located in Chicago, IL
Angelo Testa, untitled, watercolor on paper, 13 1/4" x 16"
Signed "angelo testa" lower right recto, framed circa 1950
Testa studied fine art painting and sculpture at the Chicago In...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Painting by Bengt Orup, Sweden, 1950s
By Bengt Orup
Located in Stockholm, SE
Oil on canvas.
Signed.
Provenance: Bo Mattssons collection, Malmö.
W: 66,6 cm/ 2' 2 1/5"
H: 56 cm/ 1' 10"
D 2,7 cm cm/ 1"
Category
Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Adja Yunkers Expressionist Painting
By Adja Yunkers
Located in New York, NY
Gouache and ink on mat board by Adja Yunkers, signed and dated 1958 on verso. An early work from Yunkers's Abstract Expressionist period, when he was married to art critic Dore Ashton and was part of the circle that congregated at Cedar Tavern. Born in Riga, Russia, Yunkers led a highly cosmopolitan life, studying and working in Leningrad, Berlin, Paris, London, and Stockholm (where he edited and published two art magazines) before settling down in the U.S., primarily in New York City in 1947. A teacher at the New School for Social Research, Yunkers was internationally renowned for his woodblock prints and lithographs, turning to painting--first Expressionist, later Minimalist color fields--in the late 1950's. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, the Corcoran Gallery, MFA Boston...
Category
American Expressionist Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Painting by Harry Booström, Abstract Art, Signed, Sweden, 1953
Located in Stockholm, SE
Painting by Harry Booström,
Sweden. 1953.
Oil on panel
Signed: Booström
Measuremnets:
H: 129.5 cm/ 4' 3 1/4"
W: 96.5 cm/ 3' 2 1/2"
D: 8 cm/ 3"
Provenance: William and Maud Appelq...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Painting by Harry Booström, Abstract Art, Signed, Sweden, 1953
Located in Stockholm, SE
Painting by Harry Booström,
Sweden, 1954.
Oil on panel.
Signed: Booström
Measurements:
H: 69.2 cm/ 2' 3 1/2"
W: 85 cm/ 2' 9 3/4"
D: 8 cm/ 3"
Provenance: William and Maud Appelqui...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Colorful Abstract Gouache "Lovers in Landscape" by Gio Colucci
By Gio Colucci
Located in Montreal, QC
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...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Colorful Abstract Gouache "Serpentine Shapes" by Gio Colucci
By Gio Colucci
Located in Montreal, QC
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...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Colorful Gouache "Abstract Dancing Nudes" by Gio Colucci
By Gio Colucci
Located in Montreal, QC
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...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Harry Booström Oil Painting nr 24
Located in Limhamn, Skåne län
Oil painting “nr 24” by Harry Booström. Provenance: William och Maud Appelquist, Gotland. Galerie Bel’Art, Stockholm. Private collection, Stockholm.
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Abstract Venetian Cityscape Painting by Olivier Charles
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Venetian cityscape painting by Olivier Charles, Venice, 1959. (Signed "Olivier Charles 59, Venezia”).
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
"Lac Iman" Canvas by Pierre Bosco
By Pierre Bosco
Located in New York, NY
“Lac Iman,” abstract oil in heavy impasto on canvas by Pierre Bosco,
French, 1955 (signed Bosco on front and gallery label on verso).
Category
French Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Painting by Umberto Romano
Located in Sagaponack, NY
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...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Painting by Umberto Romano
Located in Sagaponack, NY
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.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Amy Kasi Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Amy Kasi, Japenese American oil over canvass over masonite board.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paint
India Ink Nude Painting in White Wood Frame (Signed Loew, 1959)
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
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 (signed LOEW '59)
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper
Art Deco Painting by André Margat
By Carl Andre
Located in Bridgewater, CT
André Margat, (1903-1999).
Eagle and snake, 1956.
Pastel and gold-leaf on board. Measures: 25 5/8”x21 3/8 (framed: 33 1/3" x 29"). Signed ...
Category
French Vintage 1950s Paintings
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