Mid-20th Century Mixed Media

A mother of pearl, pen and ink and golden paint mixed media composition, depicting a bird of prey on a tree branch. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt-effect slip and in a wooden frame, a...

Matt acrylic-painted wood relief Éditions Denise René - no. X “Exceptionally also signed on the front on 4 VIII 73 in Gordes”. Presented at the exhibition “Vasarely - Le partage des ...

Medium: Mixed Media on Whatman Drawing Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Titled and marked "P4447" on Saturday Evening Post label verso. "The Refugee" by Bud Hutton and illustrated by Robert Fawcett...

Martin Eder was a Swedish drawing teacher, artist and ceramicist. Martin was born on the island of Gotland and spent a lot of time there, he also lived in Sala. Martin was a curious ...

A unique pair of vintage herbarium / botanical displays collected and created by S. Lindwald in June 1946 in Sweden. These botanical specimen are preserved behind glass in a new cust...

Mid-Century Ibibio wood carving of a Great Hornbill or (Kalao) from Nigeria. (The carving is shown in the first photo on a bamboo stand which is available if required.) The Great Ho...

EDWARD HAGEDORN (AMERICAN 1902 – 1982) SURREAL LANDSCAPE 1931 mixed media on paper, Graphite, ink and watercolor. Unsigned. Dtaed 2/26/31, in ink lower left margin. Image 13 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches. On a large sheet 20 x 25 inches. Provenance: Hagedorn estate, Around the mid 1980's The Hagedorn estate was dispersed in Berkeley by a local dealer. This drawing was part of a group of Hagedorn works on paper that I acquired from that dispersal. Much of the balance was later acquired the Struart Denenberg Fine Art. Denenberg published a very fine book on the artist's work. EDWARD HAGEDORN: CALIFORNIA MODERNIST, RESTLESSNESS AND RESTRAINT Hardcover – January 1, 2009 Subsequently Hagedorn's works on paper have been acquired by many museums and some accompanying exhibitions. ALL OF THE COMMENTS BELOW ARE FROM THE FOLLOWING EXHIBITION EDWARD HAGEDORN (1902-1982) American Modernist A New Traveling Exhibition “VOLCANOS, WRECKS, RIOTS, & NUDES”, EDWARD HAGEDORN (1902-1982) premiere at the Danforth Museum. Framingham, MA, in March 2016. The exhibition includes 75 works of art in various mediums and is accompanied by the first monograph devoted to the artist’s work with essays by leading curators, critics, and art historians. Edward Hagedorn was a true Modernist who created a trove of powerful works on paper--drawings, watercolors, oils, and original graphics that reveal the hand of a master draftsman and the mind of an astute political observer. He rejected the general trend in early 20th century California of local landscapes and coastal views, becoming virtually the single voice of Expressionism. He conveyed the darkness and upheaval that gripped the country in the depression years between the two World Wars, 1925- 1935, more forcefully than any of his contemporaries, influenced by German art of the time, engaging in modernist styles of Expressionism and Surrealism. Hagedorn’s skeletons are ferocious yet somehow endearing; printed in deep black ink on off-white paper, they march across Lilliputian landscapes of grim disorder and destruction. Comets and volcanoes explode in fauvist colors, their other-worldly fluorescent temperas framed in black, while nude female figures, executed in exquisitely refined pen and ink, or graphite line drawings, are as economical in their means as Matisse, and can be compared with the neo-classical drawings of Picasso. Among his most lyrical works of the 1920s is a series of rhythmically abstracted watercolor and ink views of Golden Gate Park, evoking the sensual demi-geometries of Balthus, Derain , and early Mondrian. American Modernist Edward Hagedorn (1902-1982) was born in San Francisco of German descent; his mother (née Kafka) died in childbirth, and he was legally adopted and raised by his grandmother and aunt. After attendance at the San Francisco School of Fine Arts in the early 1920s, by age 22 he had a studio in the famed "100" block of Montgomery Street ("the Monkey Block,") then a haven for bohemians. In 1926, a year of tremendous importance in California artists' embrace of modern art, the Oakland Art Gallery, with the guidance and inspiration of their European representative Emmy (Galka) Scheyer, was the first museum in the United States to show the art of the "Blue Four," among the leading artists of International Modernism--Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Alexei Jawlensky...

George Dannatt (1915-2009) was an outstanding and inspirational figure in the story of the later St Ives School. He represented a rare breed of cultural polymath: musician, critic, p...

Peter Passuntino BDSM 1960s Ink, ink wash & chalk on paper 12.25"x10" unframed unsigned Peter Passuntino b. 1936 Peter Passuntino, was born in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 18, Passuntino was selected to be in a group show at the Carnegie Institute, and at 19 he was selected for a one-man show at the Artist Guild in Chicago. From 1954 to 1958 he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, upon receiving a Fulbright Fellowship in Painting, Passuntino spent time in Paris, from 1963 to 1965. While in Paris he studied art at the Istitut de Arts et Archeologie and exhibited in a solo exhibition entitled “Bad Manners, A Happening at the American Arts Center” (1963). During his time at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Passuntino was an organizer of the Exhibition Momentum Group, and he served as the group’s chairman in 1958. The Exhibition Momentum Group was successful in expanding the Chicago-Midwest art community and in bringing emerging and established artists from the East Coast to Chicago as panelists and jurors of the exhibitions. In 1969, The Rhino Horn Group was founded in New York City by a group of artists bound together by their dedication to figurative art and a collective notion that artistic practice should have both a critical and a social function. They critiqued the art-as-business ideology that absorbed fine arts into consumer culture in the United States during the 1960s. The seven founding members were Peter Passuntino (b. 1936), Benny Andrews (1930-2006), Jay Milder (b. 1934), Peter Dean (1934-1993), Ken Bowman (1937-2014), Michael Fauerbach (1942-2011), and Nicholas Sperakis (b. 1943). Between 1969 and 1978, active members also included Bill Barrell (b. 1932), Leonel Góngora (1932-1999), Isser Aronovici (1932-1994), June Leaf...

Dennis Hopper, (American, 1936-2010) Mixed media sculpture "Outmolding Older Concepts (Wilhold Up the Mirror)", 1961, photo and assemblage, Ace gallery and Easy Rider Production labels verso 27"h x 40"w x 5"d. There is broken mirror glued into the wooden collage box with the ceramic head that is attached to the front. I assume that is how it was made. Provenance: Estate of Pentti Kouri, NYC; Ace Gallery, Los Angeles; Exhibited MOCA, Los Angeles, 2010 From a 1997 interview with Hopper where he references this piece "Right now it's very intense. I had a show that travelled Germany, about 15 different museums. Sunday we go to Denmark; I'm showing the early assemblage I did in 1961 which was the signal for conceptual art. I'm just two days there, then I'm going to Venice to meet Julian Schnabel - Count Volpe's given us a place to paint in Giudecca. Then I'm going to Documenta in Germany to hang another show, then I go back to LA on the 21st and start a film on the 23rd." Notes/Literature: Dr. Pentti Kouri(1949-2009) was a Finnish economist and venture capitalist with partner George Soros. He built his prestigious art collection with the goal of opening a private art foundation focused on his interests in Minimalism, Arte Povera, Conceptual and Text-based art. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Dia Art Foundation, and on the boards of Tate, London and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In addition, a portion of his collection forms the core of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland Hopper made his film debut alongside James Dean in 1955's Rebel Without a Cause. Both lost souls from dysfunctional households, they gravitated to each other, smoked dope and took joy rides. When Dean died, Hopper saw himself as the natural inheritor of his rebellious mantle and, revelling in his nickname of "Dennis the Menace", gave it to Hollywood with both barrels; so they dropped him. Dennis didn't make another Hollywood movie for seven years. Frustrated by the deliberate stifling of his film career, Dennis turned to art and photography for creative stimulus, beginning with abstract subjects such as landscapes. His cutting-edge conceptual art became established round the world, with exhibitions in major cities. At home in the dining room stood one particularly interesting work, a white plastic box, eight feet long, that had an aluminium shaft sticking out of it, and two very large balls. It was called The Perpetual Erection Machine. Before Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst, there was Dennis. In 1961, Hopper took part in an international photography competition in Australia with a contribution of five abstract photos, which he called Pieces. He won first place. Soon after, Hopper married Hayward, daughter of the film producer Leland Hayward, whose credits include The Sound of Music and South Pacific. The wedding party of Hopper and Hayward was held in August at the apartment of actress Jane Fonda, a childhood friend of Hayward, who introduced Hopper to her younger brother Peter Fonda. Their daughter Marin was born in 1961, and they moved to Bel Air, California. Soon afterward the famous Bel Air fire destroyed their home, including approximately three-hundred Abstract Expressionist works and hundreds of pages of poetry that Hopper had begun in the mid-1950s. Hopper and his actor friends Dean Stockwell and Russ Tamblyn were close to many artists in California, especially assemblage artists Edward Kienholz...

Sonia Gechtoff Flag Icon, 1963 Pastel, graphite and collage Frame included: elegantly framed in hand made wood frame with UV plexiglass Evocative mixed media mid century modern work...

(After) Pablo Picasso The Lady (Maquette), ca. 1967 Mixed Media Sculpture edition Cor-ten Steel This maquette is based upon the original Chicago Picasso-a monumental sculpture by Pablo Picasso in Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture, dedicated on August 15, 1967, in Daley Plaza in the Chicago Loop...

Composizione, 1963 is an interesting original drawing (mixed media: pencil, pastel, China ink, watercolor) by the Informal Italian artist, Gaston...

Joan Miro Spanish, 1893-1983 Affiche pour l'Exposition Miro-Artigas, 1963 Lithograph on Rives paper 33" x 22 1/4" W/frame 33 ¾ by 23 in. Pencil signed lower right from an edition of 174/200. Joan Miró Ferra was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona Spain, the son of a goldsmith and watchmaker.  At the age of 14, he went to business school in Barcelona and also attended La Lonja's Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales in the same city.  Upon completing three years of art studies, and under pressure from his parents, he took a position as an accounting clerk. After suffering a nervous breakdown, he abandoned business and resumed his art studies, attending Galí's Escola d'Art in Barcelona from 1912 to 1915.  Miró's work before 1920 showed the latest artistic influences, including the bright colors of the Fauves* and the geometric forms of Cubism*. It was in Paris through the 1920s-1930s where, under the influence of Surrealist* poets and writers, Miró evolved his mature style.  His latest works drew on the Surrealist principles of memory, fantasy, and the irrational to create visual art.  Miró's works were also shaped by the flat, two-dimensionality of his native Catalan folk art, Spanish Romanesque...

French mid 20th century picture frame Internal measurement (to house painting or mirror): 13 x 18 inches Overal outer measurements: 21.5 x 26 inches Provenance: from a collection in Paris Condition: all old picture frames...

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate is made with oil paint and 3-dimensional wooden shapes on canvas. The warm metal grey paint is highly textured, while the ...

A mixed media work by Mary Corse. "Untitled" is a mixed media, acrylic and diamond dust on canvas in a palette of white, black, and red by American Post-war, female artist Mary Corse...

Shusaku Arakawa Still Life, from To and From Rrose Selavy, for Marcel Duchamp, 1967 Limited Edition Silkscreen on velincarton (thin board) paper 10 1/2 × 13 1/4 inches Limited Edition of 60 Hand signed, titled and dated on the front Unframed The entire portfolio, including the present work, is referenced in the Marcel Duchamp catalogue raisonne: Arturo Schwarz The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, Abrams, P.532, 344c Eager to share Marcel Duchamp with Japanese audiences, Shuzo Takiguchi - a Japanese-born poet, critic, and artist with ties to Surrealist circles, assembled an international portfolio of graphic works by various artists with strong ties to Duchamp, to accompany the deluxe version of his monograph, "To and From Rrose Sélavy". The present work was created for this portfolio by one of Marcel Duchamp's friends, Shusaku Arakawa. It is signed, dated and titled on the front - and can be exhibited both vertically and horizontally - (see photos). The present work, along with others in the portfolio, was published in Japan and is rarely found stateside. Shusaku Arakawa (荒川 修作 Arakawa Shūsaku, July 6, 1936 – May 18, 2010) who spoke of himself as an “eternal outsider” and “abstractionist of the distant future,” first studied mathematics and medicine at the University of Tokyo, and art at the Musashino Art University. He was a member of Tokyo’s Neo-Dadaism Organizers, a precursor to The Neo-Dada movement. Arakawa’s early works were first displayed in the infamous Yomiuri Independent Exhibition, a watershed event for postwar Japanese avant-garde art. Arakawa arrived in New York in 1961 with fourteen dollars in his pocket and a telephone number for Marcel Duchamp, whom he phoned from the airport and over time formed a close friendship. He started using diagrams within his paintings as philosophical propositions. Jean-Francois Lyotard has said of Arakawa’s work that it “makes us think through the eyes,” and Hans-Georg Gadamer has described it as transforming “the usual constancies of orientation into a strange, enticing game—a game of continually thinking out.” Quoting Paul Celan...

Desmond Mclean (1929-2015). Untitled, ca. 1960 Mixed media onpaper. Sheet measuring 12.25 x 16.5 inches. Unframed. Born: Ireland Studied: Heatherly School of Art, London; Am...

Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Abstract Figural Composition, Mixed Media with Collage Elements, circa 1965, apparently unsigned, wood frame. Image: 9" H x 10.5; frame: 10" H x 1...

Abstract Surrealist Photo collage with painting. Mixed Media with or about Amos Keinan the Israeli Playwright and journalist. Yigal Tumarkin (also Igael Tumarkin) (born 1933) is an ...

Robert Lepper (1906-1991) . Cubist composition, 1931. Cut copper, brass and steel sheeting tacked to masonite panel. Panel measures 14.5 x 24 inches. Total framed measurement 20 x 29...

Fritz Bultman (1919-1985) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, sculptor, and collagist and a member of the New York School of artists. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and moved to Germany to join the Bauhaus at the age of 16. There, he was acquainted with Maria Hofmann, the wife of Hans Hofmann, which initiated a move to New York to study under his guidance. Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously organized abstract compositions, use of sculpture, and the adoption of collage as a core practice. In 1950, Fritz Bultman and 27 other distinguished artists signed a letter protesting the conservative nature of the work selected for a forthcoming national exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The signees of this historic letter were identified as, the “Irascibles,” resulting in the majority achieving international acclaim as Abstract Expressionist artists including Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko, among others. Throughout his life Fritz Bultman received several awards including Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships and was a founding member of the Long Point...

Mixed media on canvas realized by Valeriano Ciai (1928-2013) in 1960s. Hand signed lower right. Includes a contemporary wooden frame 57x68 cm- Very good condition.

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Rockefeller Center, 1962 Acrylic and sand on scintilla Signed and dated lower left 25 x 20 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a ...

Desmond Mclean (1929-2015). Untitled, ca.1960 Mixed media on paper. Sheet measuring 12 x 18 inches. Unframed. Born: Ireland Studied: Heatherly School of Art, London; America...

This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1960, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued element...

MILTON GLASER Untitled Abstract Landscape, 1965 Monotype with Mixed Media 11 × 13 inches Signed and dated 1965 on the lower right recto Unique Frame included: held in original vinta...

This substantial mid-century mosaic panel depicts a procession of Navajo-style Yei figures—often referred to as Yei Dancers or Rainbow Guardians—executed in mixed media including cer...

This superb assemblage abstract landscape is by artist Peter Field. Created circa 1955 it is made of wood on board and hung as a portrait. The lower three quarters are vertical panel...

Edward Winter (American, 1908-1976) Helen of Troy, 1938 Enamel Signed and dated lower right 43 x 18 inches 44.5 x 19.5 inches, framed Exhibited: Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show 19...

This superb abstract assemblage is by artist Peter Field. Created circa 1955 it is a square, hung as a portrait. In the middle is an oval panel of bare wood on a plain background wit...

Richard Anuszkiewicz Metallic Water, 1964 Painting with Liquitex on canvas. (1964 Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition and J.L. Hudson Gallery) Signed boldly and dated 1964 on the ver...

Cityscape (Untitled), c. 1950s, mixed media on board, signed lower left, 13 1/2 x 18 inches, presented in its original frame Jean (Yanko) Varda was a Greek-born multi-media artist ...

Ray Johnson Venice Signed lower right Collage 6 x 4 1/2 inches Once described as New York’s “most famous unknown artist,” Ray Johnson was a renowned maker of meticulous collages an...

This framed 15.5" x 13.25" mixed media female portrait by artist Jeffrey Kronsnoble features the black and white profile of a women with a circular ...

An abstract expressionist glazed pottery plaque by British-Japanese artist Takashi Suzuki. There is minimal information about the artist, and unfortunately, there is a more contempo...

Mixed media on canvas applied on wooden panel. Realized in the late 1960s. Very good condition.

French mid 20th century Montparnasse style picture frame Wood and plaster Internal measurement (to house painting or mirror): 18 x 36 inches Overal outer measurements: 26 x 44 inches Provenance: from a collection in Paris Condition: all old picture frames...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Eye of the Desert, 1965 Collage, graphite and gouache on paper Signed and dated lower right 16 x 12 inches 25 x 21 inches, framed A mid-century figural abstract painting. Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...

Crucifixion is an artwork on white cardboard realized after Italian Artist Mario Sironi (1885-1961) in 1961. Phototype print. Signed on the low corner. Good conditions.  Printed ...

Stanley Boxer Bathers, 1967 Mixed Media watercolor & ink wash drawing Hand signed by the artist on lower right hand corner on the front 8 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches Unframed This is a uniqu...

Knight and Girl is an original painting realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s. Painting in tempera, watercolor, and China ink on paper. Included a Passepartout: 41 x 51 cm. ...

Important painting by the great Spanish artist Josep Guinovart. Signed and inscribed in the back with is a label from an exhibition at Fiamma Vigo's Galleria Numero, one of the most...

Born in 1918 in Budapest, Hungary, Engel began his professional career in animation as a color designer at the Walt Disney studio. Although his credits include work on such classics as Disney’s Bambi and Fantasia and UPA’s Gerald McBoing-Boing, he is best known as a mentor to literally hundreds of students. Engel was also one of the original members of United Productions of America (UPA), where, during the ’50s, he worked on classics such as Mr. Magoo, Gerald McBoing-Boing and Madeline. According to his biographer, Dr. Janeann Dill, Engel has created more than 33 personal films and received five Golden Eagle awards, an Annie Award, a Winsor McCay Award, the Fritz Award, a Jean Vigo Award, and the Norman McLaren...

Fernand Léger (1881-1955) - Head and Leaf Lithograph from 1939. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shi...

Babe Rainbow By Peter Blake 1968 Medium: Mixed Media Paper Size: 26 x 17.5 inches ( 66 x 44 cm ) Image Size: 26 x 17.5 inches ( 66 x 44 cm ) Edition Size: Unknown

Patrick Hughes (British, b.1939) House Bricks Collage and oil on board Inscribed with title and dated ‘1966’ (on the reverse) 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm.) Patrick Hughes is a British ...

Couple is an original drawing in mixed media on ivory paper realized in 1950 ca. by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. In very good conditions, except for some ripping and foxin...

This stunning modernist abstract enamel plaque composition is dated circa 1960. The brutalist design has contrasting red, orange, black, and white colors. There is no visible artist ...

Myril Adler Untitled c.1960s Intaglio etching collage, ink on paper 3.75"x1.75" site unframed Signed in ink lower right Myril Adler, was born on September 22, 1920 in Vitebsk, Russi...

This French marquetry picture, circa 1930-40, offers a stunning blend of architectural beauty and serene simplicity, showcasing the remarkable craftsmanship that defines the Art Deco...

Amphitrite Irene Rice Pereira, American (1902-1971) 1967 Pastel, acrylic on rice paper mounted on paper, signed and dated in marker Size: 36.5 x 25 in. (92.71 x 63.5 cm)

Lovers is an original drawing in mixed media on ivory paper realized in 1940 ca. by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. In very good conditions, except for some folding and very ...

Tom Holland Untitled (Truck in Hills), 1965 (Mid Century Modern Art) Tempera, Wood with PVC finish. Hand signed, dated and titled on the back Framed with Charles Cowles Gallery labe...

Portrait of a Lady by Wladyslaw Szary, circa 1960’s See label reverse for bio details Oil painting on canvas with applied mixed media Canvas is 64cm x 44cm Original frame Good condi...

Important watercolor and colored pencil on woven paper study composed of three vignettes done by Jean Helion. Signed with initial H top left and dated 1953. Small crease lower left b...

Daniel Louradour "Carnival in Venice" after the 15th century opera Dimensions 26.5" wide x 19.5" high The lightly distressed frame measures 36" wi...

Nude is an  artwork on white cardboard realized after Italian Artist Mario Sironi (1885-1961) in 1913. Phototype print. Signed on the low corner. Good conditions.  Printed on the...

Arturo Souto Feijoo (1901-1964) City Walls w/ Figures Original Mixed Media c.1950 Original pastel, watercolor and charcoal on paper. Housed in a simple f...