Mid-Century Modern Paintings
MID-CENTURY MODERN STYLE
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the mid-20th century
- Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
- A heyday of innovation in postwar America
- Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
- A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
- Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
- Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
- Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
- Promotion of functionality
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Charles and Ray Eames
- Eero Saarinen
- Milo Baughman
- Florence Knoll
- Harry Bertoia
- Isamu Noguchi
- George Nelson
- Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
- Eames lounge chair
- Nelson daybed
- Florence Knoll sofa
- Egg chair
- Womb chair
- Noguchi coffee table
- Barcelona chair
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
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Style: Mid-Century Modern
1950s Geometric Abstract Painting
Located in Garnerville, NY
A scintillating period Abstract Expressionist oil painting on masonite. A finely rendered piece that reveals a highly worked surface of the medium with brush stroke and palette knife...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paint
$944 Sale Price
20% Off
Charles Levier (French, 1920 - 2003) Large Watercolor & Ink Still Life
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Watercolor and ink depicting a bright and cheery floral bouquet standing proud in a blue and white vase on a table top surface in front of a red wall. A black bird is making it's way...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Metal
Raouf Hanna - Mid Century Expressionist Oil Painting - Framed - Signed - C. 1950
Located in Chatham, ON
RAOUF HANNA - Mid Century Expressionist style landscape oil painting on canvas covered panel - signed lower right - untitled - framed - vintage Simpson...
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
$1,750 Sale Price
30% Off
Original 20th Century Abstract Painting
By (after) Jackson Pollock
Located in Miami, FL
Stunning piece of abstract artwork.
Very decorative and interesting midcentury original abstract composition, oil on board.
Abstract Expressionism was a movement or artists that be...
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
$1,035 Sale Price
62% Off
Vintage Modernist Still Life Oil Painting, Signed, Framed
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Vintage small Modernist still life painting features a composition of fruits and flowers in a blue vase. Jewel-like colors of burnt orange background juxtapose the intense blue colo...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Giltwood
Magnus Engstrom Signed Swedish California Artist Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting
By Magnus Engstrom 1
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful and quite colorful oil on canvas painting by Swedish-American California artist Magnus Engstrom (1936- ).
The painting features a futurist cityscape and is done in the neo-cubist abstract expressionist artistic painting style that Engstrom embraced.
The painting is signed and dated (1970) by Engstrom.
Would be a great addition to any Mid-Century Modern or California art painting collection...
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1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Mid Century Modern Abstract Painting by Holger Jacobsen - 1973
By Holger Jacobsen
Located in Ventura, CA
Mid Century Modern Abstract Painting by Holger Jacobsen - 1973 Holger Jacobsen is a Danish painter who was born in 1918. Holger Jacobsen's work has bee...
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20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Painting by Peter Keil, Signed, Acrylic On Paper, No Frame, Germany, C 1965, Art
By Peter Keil
Located in New York, NY
Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...
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1960s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage Mid Century Modern Village Harbor Scene. Signed ‘94. Original Painting.
Located in Seattle, WA
This Vintage original painting depicts a seaside vintage/town and a harbor or port. It is a mid century modern style painting in a gold toned frame. It is also signed and dated ‘94. ...
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1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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Wood
Abstract Oil on Canvas
Located in Denton, TX
Vintage festive abstract oil on canvas with a simple lathe frame bu Barbara Tuch.
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Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
$1,200
Vibrant Mid-Century Modern Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas by Jane Potash
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A beautiful work done by Philadelphia Artist Jane Potash. All original work with signature on front and original frame. Not dated, probably created late 19...
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1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vintage Boho MCM Original Abstract Oil on Canvas
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A captivating and deeply textural vintage abstract oil on canvas, alive with the intellectual and creative energy of the Mid-Century era. The artist employs a masterful use of impast...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Charles Levier (French, 1920 - 2003) Figurative Large Oil On Canvas Montparnasse
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Charles Levier born of a French Father and American mother. He was was active/lived in New York, California / United Kingdom, France and is known for landscape, still life and figura...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Mid-century Overscale Abstract Beach Scene Oil Painting, Signed, 1962
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century Overscale Abstract Beach Scene Oil Painting, Signed, 1962
Offered for sale is a bold and vibrant oversized abstract oil painting on canvas depicting three figures at the...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Venice Canal Original Vintage Oil Painting, Italy, 1960s, Signed, Framed
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
Venice Canal Original Vintage Oil Painting, Italy, 1960s, Signed, Framed.
This painting of a gondola boat on a Venice canal is lovely, with delicate shadows and details.
The artwork...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Semeraro Painter Oil on Canvas Italian Pastel Colors 1970s Metaphysical
By Semeraro
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Semeraro painter oil on canvas Italian pastel colors 1970s Metaphysical, Italian artist.
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1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
$1,004 Sale Price
30% Off
Oil On Canvas Painting of Vienna Farm Scene, Mid 20th Century
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Austrian Oil on Canvas Painting of European Countryside, circa 1950's.
A very charming lifelike rendering of a Countryside typical in any European city. This 20th Century oil pai...
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Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Still Life with Pears Belgium Mid 20th Century
By Giorgio De Chirico, Giorgio Morandi
Located in Meer, VAN
Still Life with Pears Belgium Mid 20th Century.
Great and rather large painting. A bit like Picasso or De Chirico. Or Morandi. Still life with pears, apples and wine. Great colors a...
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Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Signed 1969 Large Oil on Canvas "Rose and Lilly" by Tommi Parzinger
Located in Minneapolis, MN
This is a wonderful and large painting by Tommi Parzinger (1903-1981). The painting measures 48" by 36" and is unframed. Titled "Rose and Lilly" and numbered #67, the oil on canvas i...
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1860s American Antique Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
$3,840 Sale Price
20% Off
1930s French Original Still-Life on Stretched Canvas by Rodolphe Fogé 1890-1976
Located in COLMAR, FR
A wonderful still-life by French painter Rodolpe Fogé (1890-1976). He lived and worked in the Alsace region in north-eastern France and is mostly known for his local landscape painti...
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Early 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Wood, Paint
Vintage Watercolour Painting, English, Framed Art, Landscape, Signed, Circa 1990
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage watercolour painting 'Blue Poppies.' An English, field landscape signed by the artist, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1990.
Beautifully presented watercol...
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Late 20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mid c20th Swedish oil on canvas of hibiscus and apples
By Karl Enock Ohlsson
Located in London, GB
Very pleasant and relaxing framed Swedish still life oil on canvas painting.
In the foreground the surface shows a blue vase filled with a flowering pink hibiscus branch with a whit...
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1950s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Robert Crowder Signed 5 Panel Large Japanese Nihonga Lanscape Pastoral Painting
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, engaging, original, and quite rare work of art by American artist Robert Crowder (1911-2010). Crowder lived in Japan in the 1930s (u...
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1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
1957 Fred Hocks Oil on Canvas Abstract Painting
By Fred Hocks
Located in San Diego, CA
Excellent example of a large oil on canvas abstraction by Fred Hocks from 1957. This painting was included in the 1976 retrospective at the Fine Arts Gallery in San Diego which later became the San Diego Museum of Art.
No painter embodies San Diego’s early avant-garde more than Fred (Ferdinand) Hocks, a German-born painter who began visiting San Diego in the late 1920s after studies at the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco and the Art Students League in New York. Fellow painter Dan Dickey credited Hocks in 1947 with “opening up pathways for future, more enlightened generations (of artists),” and predicted that Fred Hocks would be “esteemed a master.”
During the post-war years Hocks was assistant director of the San Diego School of Arts and Crafts, a private art school in La Jolla, and was instrumental in keeping affordable artist’s studios in Spanish Village. Along with modern architect Lloyd Ruocco, Fred Hocks co-founded the dynamic Allied Artists Council with Belle Baranceanu, Everett Gee Jackson, Dan Dickey and John Olsen.
The well-travelled Hocks exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Paris, Mallorca and Guadalajara, had several one-person shows at the Art Center La Jolla/La Jolla Museum of Art and at the Fine Arts Gallery (SDMA). The San Diego Museum of Art held a major retrospective of his painting in 1976, just a few years before his death. He brought a continental element to the local art scene and is described in Bruce Kamerling’s 100 Years of Art in San Diego as “one of the most adventurous local artists…an intelligent and articulate defender of modern tendencies in art.” Local arts and architecture writer James Britton called Fred Hocks “the dean of the San Diego moderns...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Mid Century Abstract Still Life Painting
By Lentz
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large oil painting on canvas still life in original wood frame, signed Lentz.
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Vintage 1960s Abstract Painting by John Popovic
Located in Oxnard, CA
Here is a stunning and powerful painting by Montreal artist, John Popovic. The work features deep dark blacks, contrasted with splashes of red, orange and...
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Painting by Peter Keil, C 1977, Signed, Acrylic on Board, Germany, Art, No Frame
By Peter Keil
Located in New York, NY
Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...
Category
1970s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Modernist Parisian Street Scene Painting
By John Cunningham
Located in Denton, TX
Modernist Parisian street scene painting oil on board with the moon light shining on rue d'ursine in the early hours of the morning.
Signed John...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite
Large Abstract Sculptural Collage Signed Krasner
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large captivating abstract abstract mixed on board, showcasing a stunning fusion of metal, shells, plaster and paint in a mesmerizing 3D relief. The bottom half of the artwork is ado...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Metal
Jacob Semiatin Abstract Painting
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Jacob Semiatan abstract watercolor painting. We have many more original paintings from this artist so please view our other listings. This painting is unframed but we can have it fra...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Vintage Original Framed Signed Abstract City Scape Artwork.
Located in Seattle, WA
Possibly Watercolor or Acrylic on Paper. Signed Phil Flash. Wood Frame With Wire Cord For Hanging on the Back. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured.
Dimensions. 27 W ; ...
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1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
Jacob Semiatin Abstract Painting
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Jacob Semiatan abstract watercolor painting. We have many more original paintings from this artist so please view our other listings. This painting is unframed but we can have it fra...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Jean-Pierre Clement Painting
Located in Norwalk, CT
This surrealist work by listed French artist Jean Pierre Clement depicts a female portrait of a woman with a geometric blue headdress and one expos...
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1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
$1,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Cosme Contemporary Abstract Painting, 2018
Located in Barcelona, ES
Cosme contemporary abstract painting 2018 Handsigned and dated.
Category
2010s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
$298 Sale Price
72% Off
1961 Eugene Kloszewski Reflective Mirage Abstract Art
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1961 Modern Art Fabulous Reflective Mirage Eugene Kloszewski Abstract Painting
medium lacquer on gesso panel
Eugene Kloszewski studied at Cleveland Institute of Art and Yale Universi...
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1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Paint, Gesso
1970s Italian Painting
Located in London, London
1970s painting
Framed wihin a glazed frame
Image measures 40 x 50 cm
Signed on the back.
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Modern Blue Abstract Painting by Mark Janson, circa 1958
Located in Miami, FL
A captivating dance of color unfolds in 'Vers L'Eau' (Towards the Water), an abstract oil on canvas by the renowned French-Belgian artist Marc Janson (b. 1930). The composition explo...
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Lester Elliot 1955 Oil/Canvas 'Genesis'
Located in Sharon, CT
Expressive and richly colorful Abstract Expressionist oil/canvas by Lester Elliot a second generation painter of the 'New York School'. Purchased from The Artist's Gallery, NYC in 1...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Jacob Semiatin Abstract Painting
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Jacob Semiatan abstract watercolor painting. We have many more original paintings from this artist so please view our other listings. This painting is unframed but we can have it fra...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Copy of Dali's "Persistence of Memory" Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of painting by Salvador Dali titled, "Persistence of Memory" Showing melting clocks in landscape
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Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Impressive Mid-Century Still Life Painting by Franz Pricking dated 1955
Located in Chicago, IL
Stunning still life of fruit by German artist Franz Priking. Painted primarily in shades of gold, deep green and black and housed in a beautiful frame that has gilded accents, this original work of art is a stunner. Signed and dated in the upper right hand corner "Pricking 1955". There is a label on the reverse side from World House Galleries on Madison Ave in NYC. The label states the artist is French (where he resided at the time this work was painted).
Priking was born in Germany and was eleven years old when WWII broke out. It is said that the war influenced him and his art for the rest of his life. Immediately after the war he began to show an affinity for the Expressionist art that was banned by the Nazis. Priking was a student of Max Pechstein by 1948 at the Bauhaus, and by 1952 he had moved to southern France, meeting Picasso at Vallauris. Picasso is said to have strongly encouraged him, saying he would become one of the great artists of the century. He exhibited mostly in Europe but also in Tokyo and Sao Paolo. The artist's use of black (prominent in this work) is said to reflect the darkness of his early years during the war. His work moved through various phases, beginning with Fauvism and Cubism, moving through Expressionism and finally on to abstraction in his final decade. In 1958 he was awarded the Prix de la Jeune Peinture in Paris, in 1961 he was elected a member of the International Institute of Arts and Letters in Geneva. He died at barely age 50, cutting short a promising career. In 1990 when Ecole de Paris paintings...
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1950s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Mid Century Haitian Painting on Board by E. Abelard
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Vintage Haitian acrylic painting on board executed in an unusual minimalist modern style with houses, trees and people. Signed E. Abelard and presented in a mahogany frame.
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20th Century Haitian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paint
"Basket Fishing", Powerful Mid Century Painting with Shirtless Man, South Africa
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This powerful depiction of a half-nude man capturing a fish in his conical basket -- much like men and women have done for centuries -- is painted in a rich, deep palette of warm bro...
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1950s South African Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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Paint
1960s Art Modernist Original Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1960s abstract modern painting original oil on canvas art.
In the style of Francis Bacon.
Dominant colors red and black.
Unframed.
Unsigned.
43.5 l x 29.75 x 1.75
Original unrestored...
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1960s Unknown Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Jacob Semiatin Abstract Painting
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Jacob Semiatan abstract watercolor painting. We have many more original paintings from this artist so please view our other listings. This painting is unframed but we can have it fra...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Vintage Orig Metallic Painting by O. E. L. Graves Extremely Rare Collectible
By O.E.L. Graves
Located in Palm Springs, CA
We are so proud to offer this original work of art by legendary Palm Springs artist O. E. L. Graves. We discovered his work when we first purchased a second home here in 1997. His work was very difficult to come across, but stories about Mr. Graves were legendary, and the first art we saw of his were his extraordinary and very collectible cover art for vintage mid century Palm Springs villager magazines which we found at some thrift stores! We have since collected 8 original paintings. This is the Rolls-Royce of the collection. His artwork is now collected by a new generation of the Palm Springs younger rich and famous entertainment industry that have brought new life to the town with Coachella Music Festival and the endearing architecture Palm Springs is famous for! We purchased an amazing coffee table book by French photographer Robert Doisneau called “Palm Springs 1960” Mr Graves himself and his artwork is featured in wonderful 1960s vintage photographs. This spurred on more collectors looking for his paintings. This large painting was definitely owned by a Palm Springs/Beverly Hills client. His work was even sought out by Rockefeller that wanted to buy a painting of Mr. Graves that he refused to sell! The paintings were very expensive. Just the original painting’s framing alone shows how chic and special it was. The subject is a bird in its cage with a clock in the corner, In shades of silver, green, black and gold. There is a name on the painting, along side Mr. Graves signature we believe to be the title of the painting, “Orsi” It is such an extraordinary painting! Please check out the pictures to see the amazing color and details of this work.
O. E. L. Graves (1897 - 1971)
Graves was an American artist and painter/sculptor based in Palm Springs, California during Hollywood's golden years. His client list included many of the rich and famous of his era, from movie stars (Clark Gable, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Janet Gaynor) to business magnates (Raymond Loewys, George R. Hearst Sr.) to shady criminal kingpins. His own personal life was just as full of high intrigue and secrecy as the famous clients he cultivated. As a result, his need to maintain a relatively low profile in his private life has relegated him to near obscurity in death as an artist.
Graves experimented constantly with new media and techniques for expressing his art. His works include delicate watercolors, fine detailed portraits, impressionistic oils, sculptures in metal, and some techniques of his own invention. Graves claims to have invented "sculpted oil painting", where multiple layers of thick oil paint are placed on masonite and then cut away to create the image. His sculpted oil paintings were displayed in some of the trendiest galleries and art museums, including the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, which purchased some of his sculpted paintings after they had been shown there. Winthrop Rockefeller...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Metal
Abstract Mid Century on Canvas
Located in Redding, CT
Abstract Mid Century on Canvas. This custom frame has been painted white since being photographed. Nice bright colors make up this abstract modern composit...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
$910 Sale Price
62% Off
Jacob Semiatin Abstract Painting
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Jacob Semiatan abstract watercolor painting. We have many more original paintings from this artist so please view our other listings. This painting is unframed but we can have it fra...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Painting by Jordi Casacuberta Codinach, Oil on Canvas, circa 1940
Located in Barcelona, ES
Painting by Jordi Casacuberta Codinach, circa 1940. Oil on canvas. Handsigned. In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a beautiful patina...
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1940s Spanish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Oversized Mid Century Modern Abstract Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting C1968
Located in Big Flats, NY
Oversized Mid Century Modern Abstract Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting of Reading Woman Signed by Sharie Jones C1968
Measures - 48"H x 36.5"W x 1"D
An oversized mid-century mod...
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20th Century Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century Dark-Blue Abstract Interior, French Painting by Daniel Clesse
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A dark-blue, black abstract interior with chairs and window surround, oil on wood in canvas on a blue frame by Daniel Clesse, painted in France, signed and dated circa in 1970.
Dani...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Vintage Framed and Signed Painting of Wolves in the Woods.
Located in Seattle, WA
Vintage Painting on Canvas, Signed in the Lower Corner as Pictured. Textured Paint.,Particularly on the Wolves. Complimented Well with the ...
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1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Mid Century Still Life Painting Marion Knudsen
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Stunning mid century still life depicting bottles and jars. Great colors in a complimenting thin walnut frame. Artist signed.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
1976 Hazel DeVorss Oil on Canvas Painting Sailboat Regatta Art
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Hazel DeVorss Sailboat Regatta Art Painting 1976
Oil on Canvas
20 x 16 x .63
Original vintage unrestored
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1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Russell Ram, Reclining Male Portrait, 1960s-1970s Drawing
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Vintage original ink on paper drawing by a listed artist Russell Ram features a portrait of a reclining shirtless man with long hair and mustache.
The portrait is signed in pen by...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
Painting by Peter Keil, C 1969, Acrylic on Board, Signed, No Frame, Germany, Art
By Peter Keil
Located in New York, NY
Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...
Category
1960s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Vintage Bjorn Wiindblad Decorative Plate 1001 Nights Lute Player Plate
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful collectible plate from the famous Danish artist Bjorn Wiinblad (Bjørn Wiinblad). The plate was designed for Rosenthal, Germany and is deco...
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1970s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
$148 Sale Price
26% Off
Mid-century Native Archer & Eagle Oil Velvet in Carved Frame by Ernesto Sanchez
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This striking mid-century velvet painting depicts a Native American warrior archer and the American Bald Eagle spirit depicted in the Southwest Desert...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Velvet, Wood, Paint
$341 Sale Price
35% Off
Charles Levier (French, 1920-2003) Oil On Canvas Fleurs à La Fenêtre
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Oil on canvas depicting a bouquet in a white vase on a blue covered table near the open window. The open window revealing bright light and a scrolled railing.
Presented in a gilt car...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Large and Vibrant Collage on Board by Jean Varda
By Jean Varda
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Here is a lively and whimsical collage on board by the San Francisco Bay Artist, Jean Varda. Varda is known for combining figurative, surrealist and abstract influences to make colla...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
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