20th Century Paintings

Antiques of London Presenting a captivating still life painting featuring a vibrant floral bouquet, elegantly framed in a gilded frame that enhances its beauty. This exquisite ar...

Oil painting on cardboard by Etienne Yver. A multi-faceted artist, Étienne YVER has gradually built up a singular work placed under the light of an expressiveness sometimes tinged wi...

A superb example of American allegorical painting celebrating the nation's trade and commerce, this gorgeous, high energy view of a major port, bustling with sailing ships, steam shi...

Le Palais de Topkapi, Topkapi Palace. Published 1993 by Aksit Kultur Turizm Sanat Ajans First Edition January 1993) Edition Language French. By the 16th cent...

A large stunning painting from the legendary Amazonian artist Moacir Andrade "A Lenda Do Pacu" (The legend of the Pacu) Acrylic on canvas depicting a central Pacu which is a lar...

French vintage framed oil portrait of a lady (“Lydie”) surrounded by cherry trees in an orchard; painted by her adoring husband to remember the occasion. The Impressionist technique ...

Olivia Holm-Møller (Danish, 1875-1970). Painting: 'Dancing Women'. Oil on wood panel. Artwork size: 63.5 x 53.5 cm. Framed. Signeret OHM

This ink figurative abstract Expressionist piece on paper is signed by its creator, noted New York School artist Salvatore Grippi. Though undated, the piece is similar in form and st...

English Victorian style (20th Century) unframed canvas oil painting of a woman wearing a long pink dress Setting a table for tea alongside a home, while ...

Italian Neo-classic style (20th Century) still life oil painting of softly rendered irises, peonies and other florals, gathered in a vase on a table, emerging from a darkened backgro...

VENICE oil painting, featuring the Doges Palacio, Italian School, circa 1940s in its original 1940s frame. Signed M. Coloman, 20th century.  

Beautiful impasto, oil on canvas. Contemporary custom frame. Unsigned, but very well executed painting.

Copy of a portrait painting of a woman in high collared dress with pearl necklace and lace

Amazing hand painted pink, purple and green flowers in a pink frame.

French vintage 20th century Impressionist style oil on canvas portrait of a young woman dressed in 19th century fashion down to the red parasol, as she takes in the view of the sea f...

A soft impressionist oil painting on canvas by Shirley Petersen. This piece depicts a forest of lush green and yellow Autumn Ferns. It is presented in a pale blue frame with metallic...

Monumental Harley Francis abstract male nudes oil painting on canvas Offered for sale is a monumental abstract oil painting by Harley Frances ( 1940...

Black and Tan Abstract Oil Painting by Joe Stefanelli (1921-2017) C. 1962 in a gold metal and wooden frame. Signed "J. Stefanelli" and dated on back.

Original lithograph by Enrico Benaglia, signed and numbered 99/99. One of the artist's most iconic works, in which a mechanical doll is depicted next to an abacus, in a dreamlike un...

A dynamic expressionist work by Hans Kessler, a student of Kandinsky at the Bauhaus. Signed H.Kessler, 1925 at bottom. Gouache comes with Photocopy of ...

This is a Scandinavian vintage oil on canvas painting with motive of a traditional countryside half-tilbered farm house. The colours are strong and clear; the grass is green and the ...

Vintage framed acrylic painting a hand clutching a book titled “MAN”. Original and one-of-a-kind. American, late 20th century.

Copy of a traditional style portrait of family with four children - Infant on Mothers Lap.

A framed oil on canvas by 20th Century artist Ensor. The scene depicts a broad European street scene, signed in the lower right corner. Set in a beveled wooden frame with a framed ca...

A very well done Signed "Ship in Storm" Gouache on Paper Artwork. Newly professionally framed and ready to hang. In the style of Edward Hopper & Win...

This fresh and vibrant portrait of a young woman with glowing blond hair and a blue 1940s frock is one of the finest World War II vintage portraits we have ever offered. Her complex...

Mid 20th Century Modern Abstract Expressionist painting on stretched canvas signed and dated by the artist Donato, 1969 in the lower left corner. This well preserved painting was mo...

Oil on canvas by José Herrera (Spanish, 1943-). Signed and dated 1973. Original stainless steel frame. A beautiful piece.

Copy of an impressionist landscape titled "Starry Night"

Uno Svärd (1924-2002), Sweden. Oil on canvas. Modernist landscape, 1960s-1970s. The canvas measures: 98 x 40 cm. The frame measures: 0.5 cm. In excellent condition. Signed.

Albert Rosenthal, American, 1863–1939. Artist studio. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1913. 30 by 25 in. with frame 38 by 33 in. Albert Rosenthal was born in Philadelphia in 1863 and was known as a painter, etcher and lithographer. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art under his father Max...

A romantic landscape oil painting by David Stirling, American artist (1887-1971). The soft light in this oil painting evokes a dreamy sense of sunset in autumn. The light gently ref...

Highly textured abstract painting by Pierre Massin-Pierson signed and dated 1982.

Scandinavian artist. Oil on canvas. Abstract composition. 1980s. The canvas measures: 40.5 x 32.5 cm. The frame measures: 1.5 cm. In excellent ...

Abstract mixed medium-on-paper by Philip Renteria (1947-1998), 1973. Untitled gouache and ink on paper, both dated and hand-signed by artist. Newly-framed, float-mounted within black...

Mid-Century Danish Abstract Painting Osmund Hansen (1908 - 1995) This captivating piece by the Danish artist Osmund Hansen, entitled "Abstract Fish Painting," is a mesmerizing ble...

1959 Latin American School Abstract Cubist Fish Painting, W. Cabrera Offered for sale is a 1959 abstract painting by W Cabrera of the Latin American School. The work is a boldly-hu...

Williamson presents us with a floating figure looking like a new species of bird alongside a red sphere, interpreted as a red moon. This piece is unique, and the frame appears seaml...

In this work by Isis Lully, the viewer finds himself faced with an organic world evoking the very origin of life. Presented in a horizontal format, signed and dated '69, the watercol...

A very interesting and unusual Lancaster Covered Bridge Original Oil Painting by artist J. Earle Pfoutz. The painting is produced on artist board and comes complete with what appears to be an original artist decorated/painted frame. The painting is signed on the front by the artist and is dated 1936 on the rear. Overall frame Size approximately 28″ wide x 2″ deep x 22″ high J. Earle Pfoutz had a long and distinguished career as a self trained artist. More can be learned about him from reading this article produced by Gary Hawbaker at askART Earle Pfoutz Born: 1891 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania Died: 1957 Known for: Landscape, figure, still life painting An image of J Earle Pfoutz Biography from the Archives of askART J. Earle Pfoutz (John Earle Pfoutz) – (Oct 23, 1891-Nov 9, 1957) “A seventh generation descendant of a Swiss family which arrived in America early in the 17th Century, J. Earle Pfoutz was born in Lancaster, PA, son of John Bachman and Susan Allison Pfoutz. He painted houses for a living and pictures for a life. A self-taught artist, described as a primitive, he was distinctive for his vivid imagination and bold color application. He painted hundreds of Lancaster County scenes. Pfoutz traveled through the hills near his home and along the Susquehanna River in search of scenes. He began painting with a brush when he was fourteen, but added a palette knife after suffering an eye injury. He completed eighth grade in the Lancaster Public Schools and there his formal education ended. However, the Department of Public Instruction of the State of Pennsylvania thought so highly of his work as an artist that officials certified him as an art instructor and he taught for a year in the York (PA) public schools. He also was an art instructor under the program for disabled veterans, sponsored by the Veterans Administration, when he gave private instruction to veterans in their homes. In 1947, J. Earle Pfoutz finally earned national recognition as an artist. His painting, Opalescent October, was chosen by the Museum of Art of Dayton Ohio, to travel all over the country for a year with its Group Exhibition. Described as a “very colorful, calm scene, iridescent in color, sweeping in design,” the painting started on its journey around the country early in 1948. In an interview with the Sunday News (Lancaster, PA – Nov 2, 1947), Pfoutz stated that he didn’t know whether he was a “primitive” or an “impressionist.” No master taught him, no school channeled his style. “Sometimes I didn’t eat, but I always managed to paint,” he recalled. Many of his hundreds of canvases -most of them not sold, but given away to friends – found their way to other parts of the country. “I never remember the day when I did not love color,” Pfoutz said. “I was about 12 years old when I saw my first palette – a string of different colored paint paddles that graced the stores of that day. As a boy I had two great desires. One was to be able to eat all the strawberry jam I could, and the other to possess a string of those beautiful paint paddles. Well, I’ve got my fill of jelly, but I’ve never yet got my fill of beautiful colors.” In 1950, Pfoutz’s one man show of paintings made front page headlines in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal: “Most of the twenty oil paintings on exhibition are landscapes, although there are several interesting figure studies. Colors again, as in all Pfoutziana are rich and full-bodied, but for the most part not as startlingly as in some of the earlier work. Most of the paintings were done during the past year, and also reveal the painter’s characteristic heavy impasto technique, in which the rich swirls of paint carry their own message. Among the figures, The Banjo Picker, and The Magician, are the most provocative. Both are character studies; the first being of a tramp musician whose drab clothing is set-off by a luminous aqua blue background. Modern in feeling and treatment is The Magician, a clown-faced wizard whose spinning ball in the air suggests the fourth dimension – space. The use of the primary colors in this picture serves to emphasize the theme effectively. A large colorful landscape, Opalescent October, depicting rolling hills against a late afternoon sky is new to Lancastrians, as it has just returned from Dayton, Ohio, where it hung in the Dayton Art Institute. Another landscape with soft dreamy colors is Fantasie D’Autumne, and one of the loveliest pictures in the show. Pennsylvania Dutch Country is another with eye appeal, and was one of the works which was hung in the Old Customs House in Philadelphia during Pennsylvania Week, and before that in a collection of Pfoutz work in the same place. In deep contrast to the sunny skies and brilliant foliage of many of the pictures, is the somewhat morbid Worry, in which the center of interest is a tremendous rat. This, the painter explains, was symbolic of 1948 in China, which was ‘The Year of The Rat’ in the Chinese calendar. Background material for the picture was furnished to Pfoutz by author Pearl Buck. Other pictures include Autumn Prelude, Miners Village, painted at Cornwall, PA; Humid Day, Saint Peters Kierch, at Middletown, PA; Lady Pfoutz, inspired by the painter’s wife; Sun Flowers, Sentimental Journey, Gyne, Luzon Woman, Old Bridge, The Cow Path. Lemures, based on Roman mythology, and Ethiopian, painted from an ebony wood carving from Kenya Province, S. Africa.” In 1953, Pfoutz was installed as President of the Lancaster County Art Association. A. Z. Kruse, New York City artist, writer and member of the faculty of the Brooklyn College and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, Manhattan, was the guest speaker. In January of 1953, thirty-five Pfoutz oils were exhibited at the Old Custom House in Philadelphia, PA under the sponsorship of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation. Several Lancaster County landscapes and covered bridges were included as well as Katy, a Pennsylvania Dutch scene. Symbolic paintings included End of the Second Day, the artist’s visualization of the second coming of Christ, and Twilight, typifying the grief of mothers of all lands for sons lost in battle. In June of 1953, a Pfoutz oil made history in Lancaster. From the Lancaster New Era: “For the first in local art history, a painting has been withdrawn from an exhibition because of objections from viewers and hostesses serving at the show. The painting, Jeune Fille, a standing nude done by Pfoutz, was one of the paintings in the annual spring exhibition of the Art Association and had become the center of the controversy. Pfoutz said he took the painting down… ‘graciously but reluctantly.’ ‘From an artistic standpoint, there is nothing offensive about the painting,’ Pfoutz said. ‘This community just wants its nudes with clothes on.’ “It is most brilliant in color, and because it is so brilliant I thought it would make a nice lively spot for the show. This is the first time I’ve had to take a picture off the walls. I substituted a seascape for it.’ Pfoutz said he felt the painting brought a lot of viewers to the show because it was so controversial. It had never been exhibited before. ‘If this had been shown in a metropolitan city,’ he commented, ‘people wouldn’t have given it a second glance. But the viewpoint here is more conservative, even though I don’t think moderns would have minded.’ He said he felt the painting was neither ‘objectionable nor pornographic,’ but had complied with the wishes of fellow members of the Art Association who telephoned him to relay the protests they had received. The art controversy was the first to arise here publicly since the showing of Amish Grandmother, an oil by William Gropper which was part of the Gimbel Pennsylvania exhibit at the Griest Building several years ago. — Numerous viewers of Amish Grandmother, [a painting showing an Amish woman holding a white goose], expressed themselves quite vocally, calling it an affront to the Plain Folk. But it stayed on exhibit throughout the length of the Gimbel show. Pfoutz expressed no rancor, implying that if Gropper could take it so could he.” After his death, there were several shows of Pfoutz’ work organized by his son J. Earle, Jr. J. Earle, Jr. also saw to it that President Eisenhower would receive an oil called The Cow’s Path. The president first saw the painting in 1950 when, as president of Columbia University, he visited Lancaster to address a student assembly at Franklin and Marshall College. After his address was over, the then Gen. Eisenhower stopped at the Fackenthal Library on the campus to view an exhibition of Pfoutz’s paintings. The Cow’s Path intrigued him. For some time, as his aides fumed to get him back on his time schedule, Eisenhower and Pfoutz talked, as artist to artist. Prior to his death, Pfoutz requested that The Cow’s Path be given to the President if he wanted it. The painting was presented to Ike at the White House in November of 1959. Mrs. Eisenhower owned a Pfoutz painting titled, In the Manor. Though house painting was his livelihood, he worked for Millersville State Teachers College (now a university) for a time during World War II, and called himself “the Chimney Sweep of MSTC.” During that period he knocked out a dizzying canvas in the surrealist style (he thought it was terrible) and got into the campus newspaper when one of the students spotted it. Earle Pfoutz was not the humble, downtrodden artist, not the Douanier Rousseau type at all. As he developed his skill and style through the years, he also fashioned a resilient confidence in himself as an artist. Whether he was building his own home (he built two) or painting one for somebody else, he never lost faith in his ultimate recognition—though he was never sure he would live to see it. Whether he was working as a rigger for a hoisting company, in the Stehli Silk Mill of Lancaster, carving Cloister-style chairs, decorating old chests, cementing bricks from the old Safe...

Mid Century Modern Impasto Portrait of a Woman. Heavy impasto painting on board. She reminds us of Jackie O with a headband but with white hair...

Søren Edsberg (b. 1945), Denmark. Oil on canvas. Abstract composition. 1970s. The canvas measures: 39 x 29 cm. The frame measures: 11 cm. Signed. In ...

Watercolor & ink depicting a coastal scene with colorful sailboats in the marina. The scene with pastel structures over-looking the blue tonal waters and dark blue rolling hills in t...

Monique Beucher (1934), French artist. Oil on canvas. Abstract composition. Colorful palette. From the 1980s. Perfect condition. Exhibited at "La Galerie" 67 rue Saint André des Arts...

Outstanding 1940's oil on board painting in original custom shadowbox wood frame with distressed finish. The figural painting depicts an indigenous people...

Evocative midcentury abstract acrylic painting on canvas with a dreamy warm palette and mysterious vague inscriptions.

Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and transformation By Rubin, William, Editor; with essays by Anne Baldassari. by Pablo Picasso, Anne Baldassari, Pierre Daix, Michael C. Fitzg...

Finely painted in gouache by J. Collazzi, who did a series of landscapes and fantasy paintings in the 1930s, this scene of two classical figures restraining a horse is classic Art De...

Oil on board Wooden frame Danish Signed and dated 1953.

Dutch (19th Century) still life oil painting featuring peaches, pears, grapes and melon lushly composed on a table corner, enhanced by a slightly glossy varnish and mounted in an orn...

Mid-Century Surrealism Alexander Cañedo Dancing Man Oil on Canvas ca. 1950’s PAINTING DIMENSIONS: Canvas: 44 x 44 cm (17-3/8 x 17-3/8 in.) Framed: 68 x 68 cm (26-3/4 x 26-3/4 in.) Alexander Cañedo (Mexican-American, 1902 – 1978) was born in Mexico City as Alejandro de Cañedo; his father was a Mexican government official and his mother was from the United States. In 1918, when Cañedo was 15, his parents sent him to École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studied under the sculptor Jean Magrou. In 1923, Cañedo traveled to Rome where he continued his art studies. In 1927, Cañedo briefly returned to Mexico. During that trip, the Mexican Government appointed him attaché to the Mexican Embassy in Rome. In 1928, Cañedo held his first art exhibition with the Circolo Artistico in Rome, a collection of pencil drawings. More exhibitions followed in other cities in Europe. That same year, he traveled to the New York City where he exhibited widely. At this point, he began signing his work with just his last name; eventually, he also Anglicized his first name as "Alexander" and dropped the "de". Cañedo was commissioned in 1929 to illustrate the amatory novel Orientale: The Adventure of Therese Beauchamps by the French author Francis de Miomandre. The highly stylized Art Deco results were so successful that he retained Cañedo the following year to illustrate his next novel, The Love Life of Venus. In 1932, Cañedo was invited to have a solo show of his pencil drawings at Walter P. Chrysler, Junior's newly opened Cheshire Gallery, located in the Chrysler Building. He also had a solo exhibition at the Argent Galleries, and participated in shows of the Art Students League of New York, of which he was an active member. By the mid-1930s, Cañedo began exhibiting watercolors. These were shown at solo exhibitions at the Arthur U...

This is an atmospheric antique oil on canvas landscape painting with motive on an old barn by a small dirt road surrounded by fields. A building in the background with a windmill is ...

English Art Deco oil painting of "Kit" signed and dated 1917 in gilt frame.  

"A Fields View", Depicting green bushes in a large field. - Oil on Canvas , signed lower right - Unframed

Original Still Life of a Water Lily Oil on Board with original hand-painted frame by James Pasqual Bettio. It features a brass tag with the artwork title "Water Lily" and the signatu...

Aurelio Arteta Errasti (2 December 1879, Bilbao - 10 November 1940, Mexico City) was a Basque painter who worked in several styles; including Symbolism, Cubism and Social Realism. ...

From pasta primavera to world-renowned decadent desserts, Le Cirque's ubiquitous reputation for presenting its fine dining fare with whimsy and fun, landed it on the map of must-dine destinations in New York for glitterati and foodies alike. No matter the location, monkeys and circus themes remained a design staple of the iconic restaurant. Although the landmark restaurant's NYC doors are now closed, We are pleased to offer items from the famed restaurant. Sword Swallower - Large Original Mural on...

Add a burst of color and creativity to your space with this vintage boho original abstract oil painting on canvas. Featuring bold, expressive brushstrokes and vibrant hues, this piec...

Oil painting by an artist from the 1930s-1950s. Nude scene of a woman. Oil on wooden panel. Unsigned. The painting technique is strongly reminiscent of the famous German painters of ...

Although she is famous for her genre scenes such as "Bleeker Street Fire Hydrant" and "New Year's Eve in Greenwich Village," Kyra Markham began her career...