1970s Paintings

Amazing, almost three dimensional original artwork by calligrapher, illustrator and artist, Sam Fink. The piece features Einstein holding a violin. It was painted on board but also...

The Cliffs by Balcomb Greene painted in 1978. Signed on the front titled and dated on the reverse. Paintings of the Montauk coast by Balcomb Greene are few and far between. This painting likely created at his Studio in Montauk New York. Painting is in excellent original condition and retains the original gallery frame. provenance: Estate of Gertrude B. Pascal / Gifted from the previous in 1987, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY / Christie's, New York 2012 / Private Collection, New Jersey Public collections: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Over a lifespan of 86 years, Balcomb Greene followed his muse wherever it led, unfettered by what had come before, unafraid of where the future might lead. Despite a series of different pathways explored, his purpose remained ever constant: to express truth as he found it and communicate it to a broader audience. In the 1930s, Greene was a young artist committed to abstraction as his expressive language. Greene’s paintings and collages of the 1930s reflect the influence of Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian and put him in the company of fellow Americans, including Ibram Lassaw, Josef Albers, Ilya Boltowsky and George L. K. Morris, all among the founding members, in 1936, of American Abstract Artists. John Wesley Greene, his christened name which he never legally changed, was born in 1904 in Millville, New York, the third child and only son of Methodist minister The Reverend Bertram Stillman Greene (1864–1929) and Florence Stover Greene (1876–1911). His family on both sides were Revolutionary-era colonists, originally living in Connecticut and Vermont before joining the Yankee migration to the western frontier of New York State. In 1922, John Wesley Greene enrolled at Syracuse University aided by a scholarship for the sons of Methodist ministers and intending to fulfill the promise of his name and follow his father into the ministry. As with so many before and after him, the liberal education he absorbed at Syracuse broadened his horizons and reshaped his life plan. Studying philosophy, psychology, and literature, along the way he separated himself from organized religion. During his senior year, on a visit to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Greene was introduced to Gertrude Glass (1904–1956), an art student and the Brooklyn-born daughter of Latvian Jewish immigrants. Following Greene’s graduation, the two married in 1926 and went to Europe. They stopped briefly in Paris but spent most of their time in Vienna where Greene had a fellowship to study psychology. When they returned to New York in 1927, Greene enrolled in a master’s program in ‘English literature at Columbia University. When his thesis advisor rejected his essay topic on the “fallen woman” in seventeenth-century literature as inappropriate, he left without a degree. From 1928 until 1931, Greene taught English at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. At some point, he stopped using his given name, John, and began to call himself, more distinctively, Balcomb, the family name of his paternal grandmother. While Greene wrote three novels (all unpublished) during his teaching years at Dartmouth, his wife was a working artist, and he eventually developed an interest of his own in painting. In 1931, Greene gave up his teaching position and he and Gertrude went to Paris, determined to immerse themselves in the modern art ferment they had briefly experienced in their earlier visit. For young Americans with no prescribed agenda, a receptiveness to innovation, and wide-open eyes and minds. Paris, in 1931, offered a rich stew of approaches to modern art. The city absorbed and transmuted an international mélange of styles—cubism, orphism, futurism, dadaism, constructivism, neoplasticism, suprematism, de Stijl, Bauhaus—France encountering Holland, Germany, Italy, and Russia with Pablo Picasso from Spain, Constantin Brancusi from Romania, and Jacques Lipchitz from Lithuania. As a sculptor, Gertrude Greene...

1978 Artwork Old Man Painting Oil Hovland Style of Picasso 22 x 28 x .25 thick signed and dated 1978. Original vintage condition. See images provi...

Italian modern red, brown, green, light blue, orange, black and white abstract painting from an milanese house-studio, 1970s Beautiful and simple, medium size abstract painting from...

Jean Savi-Léojac (1927-1989), a French artist. Surrealist composition. Oil on canvas. Approx. 1970s. Signed. In excellent condition. Visible size: 54.5 x 63.5 cm. total dimensions: 6...

Large wall-hanging framed collage “Hellenic Memories” in patinated engraved metals with hand-painted polychrome enamels with partieal figural elements by...

Wonderfully detailed and dramatic set design gouache and watercolor painting in the manner of the famous set designer, Oliver Smith. Colorful and vibrant ...

Modern Abstract Art Helen Oguerran Painting Oil on Canvas Abstract Art Signed Frame 23.5 Tall x 19.5 w x 1 d Art 19.5 h x 15.5 w Preowned original vintage condition unrestored. Refer...

Here we have an early HC X/X edition of Personaje Blanco, before the whole edition was made in 1976. This is signed in crayon LR and Numbered LL. The dimensions of the sheet are 29 7...

Georges Vaxelaire, oil on canvas "composition géométrique", 1974, Belgium.

Oil on panel signed Regis Delous 1970. Fishermen going up the nets of the day fishing in the port of Marseille in France. Painting reflecting the sty...

Color lithograph after the work by Henri Matisse, Signed in the stone. Henri Matisse whether working as a draftsman, a sculptor, a printmaker or a painter Henri Matisse was a m...

20th century impressionist oil painting garden landscape by Mary Lawrence, 1979 English artist, Mary Lawrence, favored Sout...

Unsigned boxing Glicee print featuring a prizefighter in the moment of knocking out his opponent. The painting is framed in a gold-tone frame.

Great oil painting signed and dated, 1978. Original wood frame. Picture with Eames LCW for scale.

REDUCED FROM $2,500....Original gouache painting by Andrés ( García Benítez) (1926-1981), a Cuban painter well known for creating covers for Carteles, a prestigious weekly magazine i...

Italian painting from the 60s / 70s. Framework oil on panel depicting The Procession, view with numerous characters, of excellent brightness and good pictorial quality. Painting sign...

Italian painting from the second half of the 20th century. Framework oil on panel depicting a mountain landscape in impressionist style of good pictorial quality. Painting signed low...

Sonja Henningsen, Danish artist. Oil on canvas. Abstract modernist composition. "Forced", 1970s. Canvas measures: 69 x 48.5 cm. The frame measures: ...

Sonja Henningsen, Danish artist. Oil on canvas. Modernist still life. Dated 1979. The canvas measures: 48.5 x 36.5 cm. The frame measures: 1 cm. In...

Abstract expressionist framed oil on board portrait painting titled "The Young Pablo Picasso With A Hat", created in 1973 by Peter Robert Keil in his studio in Palma. Dated and signe...

Op Art Artwork by artist Linda Harter- Many Rainbows in Bold Green Vibrant Color Dimensions: 28 1/4" x 22 1/4" H x 2" D, Art 22" W x 18" H Original Unrestored vintage Condition. S...

This quirky hand painted elephant is painted on board with some bas-relief like texture. It is highly decorative and arresting. Newly framed in the USA. Could be used in any room of ...

This charming, mixed media collage combines nautically themed imagery is signed by French artist France Cami. Newly matted and framed.

REDUCED FROM $3,850....Agustin Fernandez, born in Havana, Cuba in 1928, attended famed San Alejandro art school in Havana at the age of 15. His early...

signed 1975 by Werner Graeff, provenance: private collection in Essen, Germany Hand painted figures like the NIBLI, HALOC and others on giant photopri...

Luis Germán Cajigas is known for his folkloric style which celebrates the simplicity of life. In this original 3d painting, he is depicting a detail...

Oil painting on Masonite from 20th century. Spanish framework signed lower right. Work depicting a character of good pictorial quality. Silvered wooden frame with passepartout in goo...

Karel Appel, Dutch, 1921-2006, biomorphic figures, watercolor and graphite, circa 1971. Provenance: painted for and personally given to the superintendent of Appel's apartment buildi...

Abstract, slightly surrealist painting of three 3-dimensional structures against a mint green background. The unsigned canvas rests in a black painted wood ...

Excellent use of shade and color - this 1977 etheral abstract image reminiscent of storm clouds. Great in scale and simple original frame.

Surrealistic tempera painting "Des Weite Weg" (The White Road) Signes B.Kastenholz-Framed under glass.