1950s Wall Decorations

SUPERB ! MID-CENTURY MODERN ABSTRACT HANDCRAFTED TILE MOSAIC DIMENSIONS: Approx. 26" by 14" Dated 1953 This magnificent mosaic wall art work is...

Original US version of this Garden Of Evil film poster. Numbered on lower right hand corner, 54/268. Some minor ware as seen on last picture. Garden of Evil (1954) is a Western film, directed by Henry Hathaway, about three somewhat disreputable 19th century soldiers of fortune, played by Gary Cooper as an ex-lawman, Richard Widmark as a gambler, and Cameron Mitchell as a bounty hunter, who are randomly hired by a woman, portrayed by Susan Hayward...

A beautiful oil on canvas painting by Harriet Rosendale, ca' 1950's, depicting a farmhouse in abstracted, impressionist style. Harriet Rosendale was a well-known and well-listed Ccon...

Elie Grekoff printed Cotton and Wool Tapestry and signed, figured zodiac symbol LIBRA. Made in France, circa 1950 Mid-Century Modern Era.

brass wall deco blackened Motive is wildly horses solid Brass

A large painting by Thurman Nicholson.

X-Large Mid-Century Modern walnut & brass crucifix, 1950s Germany. Super elegant, very puristic and imposing.

Original vintage British Railways travel poster for Sunny Worthing on the south coast of England featuring a great design depicting a music conductor ri...

Original Italian film poster for the 1957 Science fiction film The Incredible Shrinking Man. This poster would have been used outside the cinema in a display case at the time of the ...

Original US lobby card number 6 for the American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett. The film stars William Holden, Gl...

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Lenin is the banner of Communism! / ????? ????? ??????????! - featuring an image of Lenin in front of red flags with his name in different...

Original vintage poster for France - Joie de la table Joie de Vivre! / Joy of the table Joy of Life! - featuring colourful artwork depicting food and drink on an outdoor cafe table...

This is an original panel from a marvellous piece of architecture build for the 1958 World Expo that was held in Brussel Belgium from 2004 to 2006 a renovation of this landmark started and all the exterior aluminum panels where replaced This panel has been rescued and turned into an artwork by 'Fred & Francine' in 2005 The 58 World Expo was an important event after world war II and all world countries...

Original vintage travel poster for the Middle East / Proche Orient issued by Air France featuring a colourful illustration by the French artist Jean Even (1910-1986) depicting a person in white clothing leading camels along the desert sand with a Mosque and minarets in front of the pink, yellow and blue shaded sky in the background, a plane flying over the water with a sailing boat visible along the coast and ancient ruins framing the scenic view in the foreground, the Air France text...

Mid-20th century double sided English Fairground Sign We are proud to offer a single double-sided hand painted mid-20th century English fairground sign. We currently have a rare coll...

Original Italian film poster for Alfred Hitchcock's ‘The Wrong Man’, 1956. This poster was created by Luigi Martinati (1893-1984) for the film's first I...

Original vintage motor sport advertising poster published by Bret-Oil in celebration of the 1953 Motorcycling Champions win by G. Monneret, P. Monneret, Camus and Lefevre using Bret Oil and by the Oliver, Collot, Schaad and Godey using its super lubricating additive Bretocyl Graphite. Dynamic sketch artwork...

Original vintage military propaganda poster - Jeunes Choisissez L'Arme Blindee / Young People Choose The Armoured Weapon (Division) - featuring two soldiers standing next to the gun turret of a tank with one smiling and waving to the viewer and the other holding the top of the 1st Armored Division emblem, the French flag on the side and a silhouette of a horse rearing up on its hinds legs and whinnying in the background. The 1st Armored Division (1re Division Blindee / 1re DB) was formed during World War Two in 1943; the unit's emblem depicts the cross of Saint Louis and an M4 Sherman tank used by the Free French Armored...

Original vintage Africa travel poster issued by the Information and Documentation Centre of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi in Brussels with the logo and text in French and Germa...

A wardrobe by Carl Auböck, Vienna, Austria, manufactured in midcentury, circa 1950. It is made of a beech wood frame in an aged and very warm tone. There are six patinated brass hook...

This vintage signed one of kind cubist watercolor is now custom framed. The signature is not legible but shown in the photos. It has been newly custom framed as of 2 months ago. The ...

Mid-Century Modern "Face" wall art sculpture pair by the Westwood Chadwick studio. Each sculpture features a hand-sculpted abstract face with brass inlay fixed to a curved sheet of s...

Original vintage recruitment poster - Air Force Pilot ... Your Career / Pilote a la Force Aerienne ... ta carrière! Great design featuring a ...

Original Italian posters for the 1956 science fiction film Earth Versus the Flying Saucers. This wonderful poster is by the renowned Italian poster artist Anselmo Ballester...

Colorful Pop Art Pedestrian Crossing sign on glass. Found vintage art at it's best! Front has 4 small rubber elements and back has rubber edging. Final ...

Original Japanese movie poster. This design was created only for this first release Japanese poster. It is exceptionally rare and is the only exa...

Stunning watercolor "Bouquet of Peonies" executed by Madeleine Renaud in the 1950s,the author demonstrates great skill in the use of colors, the various shades of blue purple and gre...

Circa 1950's framed pinball game playing field top. From an old light up, stand up coin operated pinball game. Great graphics with playful beach scene. Works great in multiple settin...

Original vintage travel advertising poster for The Empress A Canadian Pacific Hotel Victoria B.C. In Canada's Evergreen Playground featuring colourful artwork by the Canadian artist Peter Maxwell Ewart (1918-2001) showing a view of the historic Empress Hotel...

Original Italian film poster for White Heat, 1949. This film was directed by Raoul Walsh, and stars James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. Cagney w...

Watercolor A view of St. Paul's Cathedral in London- Sergio Manfredi (1932-?) Italian painter, Signed and dated "S. Manfredi 1958" lower left and inscribed "London St. Paul's Cathedr...

"Nude Figure at Blue Beach" lithograph by Earl Moran, beautifully framed with a white mat and original Mi-century era wood frame. This original print captures Moran's signature elega...

Original vintage Travel By Train British Railways poster - Devon Third largest county of England famous for its cream and cider its varied natural scenery and lovely resorts - featur...

Original vintage poster advertising travel to the Orient / Asia - Fly There By BOAC. Colourful image of people waving from a traditional Hong Kong s...

Colorful block print of a red and green shelled turtle on a green background. Titled "Turtle," numbered "Second 60 60, signed "Whitey Pollock", and dated "50." Framed dimensions: ...

Françoise Gilot original lithograph 'Untilted Face'. From the poetry book "Pages d'Amour" by André Verdet, editions Raison d'être, 1951, printed by M...

Original vintage music poster advertising a Jazz At Chelsea performance by Mike Daniels Delta Jazzmen featuring Doreen Beatty with an Interval Ban...

1950s Pepe Mendoza Chinesesculpture brass and Malachite Mexico Measures: 13.88 tall x 13.5 width x .38 Unrestored original vintage condition See im...

Framed lithograph by Swedish artist Fritz Axel From (1925 - 2008). Signed & numbered.

Vintage pull-down anatomical human chart, print of a painting for Dr. Neues & Co Kempen, Germany. The chart is part of the series: Biologisch-hygienisches Unterichtswerk des Deutsche...

Stunning oil painting of remarkable size and truly decorative,the painting captures the serene atmosphere of an unspoiled countryside.A river gently crosses the landscape ,an ancient...

Original US film poster for the 1958 Exploitation film Young and Wild. This film was directed by William Witney and starred Gene Evans and Scott Marlowe. It is one of those cases w...

Original US film poster from the 1951 film Pickup. Hugo Haas (1901-1968) was an acknowledged master of bad girl films. He was born in Czechoslovakia, wher...

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...

Very colorful painting of a water landscape with small sailing boats and trees in the background. The painting is not signed. The painting stands out because of its great use of colo...

Vintage photo gravure by the photographer Horst, circa 1950. Wood frame with passepartout and high quality glass. The frame on the photos is just an example, it will be framed wit...

Original vintage motorsport poster celebrating the Mercedes-Benz victory at the XVIII Internat. ADAC Eifelrennen 1955 der Sportwagen (300 SL...

Airplane Hangar painting in oil on canvas, framed. Vintage Mid-Century Modern aviation art. No further information available at this time. 42 x 30 .5 H x 1 D, Art 34.75 x 23 1/8 H O...

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...

1950’s Grape Tree Educational Poster 1950’s Grape Tree Educational Poster. 20th century Czechoslovakian educational chart. A rare and vintage wall chart from the Czech Republic illu...

Original vintage art exhibition poster - Rin Galerie Chardin - held in Paris from 18 to 31 December 1959, featuring a colourful abstract paintin...

This extraordinarily rare and important painting, for the cover of the December, 1952 issue of "American Manhood" magazine, depicts a fallen scuba diver, p...

A beautiful mid century modern nude by photographerBruno Bernard aka Bruno of Hollywood. His work is very collectible and hard to find these original prints while he was still alive ...

Original vintage travel poster - Gateway to the Middle East and the Holy Land Beirut Lebanon by Clipper Pan American World Airways World's Most Experien...

Original vintage World War Two movie poster - A Two Cities Film They Were Not Divided The British film of every man who served - about the real life experiences of the Welsh Guards t...

Made in Czechoslovakia Made of Resin Re-polished Original Condition

Original Japanese film poster for The Tales of Hoffmann 1951. This film was directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and stars Moira Shearerand Robert Rounseville. This po...

From an important 25 plus year collection of Male Physique and Beefcake photography, image # 7 of handsome male model Bill Gregory. Printed in the 1960s ...