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Period: 1940s
Venus on the Water
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-2738a Oil on artist board
Displayed in a vintage gilt wood frame
Image size 11x15"
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$279 Sale Price
38% Off
Vintage American Modernist Framed Abstract Figural Composition Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract figural oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 25 by 19inches overall. Handsomely framed in...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage American School Western Seascape Fauvist Modern Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school fauvist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, read...
Category
Fauvist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Metropolitan Abstraction" Signed Mid Century Cubist Architectural Abstraction
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract cubist street scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 31 by 42 inches overall, and 25 by 36 painting alone. In excellent original con...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Modernist Large New York Cityscape Framed Street Scene Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a late 19th century fluted cove giltwood molding. E...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Sunset In Columbia Modernist Street Scene Framed WPA Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 26 by 32 inches overall and 24 by 30 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Landscape, large mid-century green painting, COBRA art movement
Located in Beachwood, OH
Erik Ortvad (Danish, 1917 - 2008)
Abstract Landscape, 1946
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
32 X 37.5 inches
35 x 40.5 inches, framed
Born in 1917 in Copenhagen, Erik Ortvad was a surrealist painter and a founding member of the COBRA art...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Coastal Sunset Beach Scene Pointillist Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderfully painted sunset coastal beach scene. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 20"H by 24"L.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Danish Modernist Abstract Signed
Framed Cubist Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Danish modernist abstract cubist oil painting by Eugène Sala (1899 - 1987). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 19 by 13 inches overall. In excellent original conditi...
Category
Cubist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
“Untitled, 1946” New Hope Modernist Small Abstract Bucks County Lambertville NJ
By Louis Stone
Located in Yardley, PA
“Untitled, 1946” by Louis K. Stone (1902-1984).
A strong and charming example of mid-century American modernism by one of the most important artists working in New Hope, PA. This wa...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Period New York Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive and amazing mid 1900s abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Framed Large Abstract Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract oil painting by Martin Rosenthal (1899 - 1974). Oil on board. Measuring 28 by 42 inches overall and 26 by 40 painting alone. Oil on board. Signed. In exc...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Horse Carousel Animal Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive early American modernist painting. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Signed Antique American Modernist Watermelon Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist watermelon still life pastel painting. Pastel on paper. Signed. Framed. Measuring 18 by 22 inches overall and 16 by 20 painting alone.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape Monogrammed American Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
"Tempole" Seymour Franks, Bright Red and Yellow, Abstract Mid-Century Painting
Located in New York, NY
Seymour Franks
Tempole, 1948
Signed lower right; signed, dated, titled on verso
Oil on canvas
35 x 42 inches
American painter and designer, Seymour Franks, was born in New York Ci...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American School Modernist Figural Interior Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 23 by 29 inches overall. Handsomely framed in white wood mol...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1947 Abstract Biomorphic Painting by Leo Cahn
Located in New York, NY
Leo Cahn
Untitled, 1947
Oil on board
35 3/4 x 23 3/8 in.
Framed: 42 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 2 in.
Signed and dated lower left
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Plant-like
By James Brooks
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Brooks (1906-1992). Plantlike, c.1945. Oil on canvas measures 18 x 24 inches; 24 x 30 inches in a painted wood frame of the period. Signed "J. David Brooks" lower right, Signed...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Interior Scene Framed Abstract Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American modernist interior scene by Anthony Toney (1913 - 2004) . Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring 26 by 32 overall and 18 by 24 painting alone.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Exhibited American Abstract Expressionist Modern Mid Century Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school abstract expressionist oil painting by Ray Prohaska (1901 - 1981). Oil on board. Very nice period frame. Signed. Exhibited at Mortimer Levitt Gallery. Im...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Impressionist Landscape Giltwood Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 20 by 24 inches overall, and 16 by 20 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Personal Equation" Jimmy Ernst, Abstract Surrealism, Black, Red, Blue, White
By Jimmy Ernst
Located in New York, NY
Jimmy Ernst
Personal Equation, 1950
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
41 x 39 1/2 inches
Provenance:
Laurel Gallery, New York
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
Collection ...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$28,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Huge Rare Vintage American School Cubist Abstract Pop Art Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage signed large abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
Cubist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Nicely Framed Vintage American Modernist Surreal Abstract Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 21 by 25 inches overall, and 16 by 20 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. Handsomel...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Houses Architecture Precisionist NY Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Modernist Hamptons New York Sandy Path Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 18H x 24L.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Framed Flower Still Life interior Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Flower Still Life Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist flower still life oil painting by Samuel Brecher (1897 - 1982). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 28 by 30 inches overall and 22 by 24 inches painti...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Framed Landscape Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 14 by 21 inches overall, and 9 by 16 painting alone.. In excellent original co...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Vintage Framed New York School Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 18L x 24H.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Charles Ragland Bunnell “Quitting Time” 1941 Black and Blue Abstract Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This original vintage painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), titled Quitting Time from his Black and Blue Series (1941), exemplifies the artist’s signature Abstract Structu...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
Antique American School Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school abstract expressionist painting. Oil on board. Signed. In excellent original condition. Nicely framed in a period wood molding. Excellent condition, read...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Abstract Original Painting - Blue Calligraphy on Crimson Water
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Abstract Original Painting - Blue Calligraphy on Crimson Water in Oil and Tempera on Paper
Wonderful Bay Area abstract composition by San Francisco's artist Honora Berg ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Tempera
Antique American Modernist Sunset Seascape Harbor Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful early American modernist sunset seascape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Measuring 22 by 24 overall and image size, 20 by 18 inches.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Cubist Still Life Cat Portrait Framed
Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Important cubist still life oil painting by Douglas Warner Gorsline (1913 - 1985). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Cubist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Signed Mid Century Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Watercolor, and pastel on paper. Framed. Signed. Image size, 6.5H by 10L
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Period Cubist Abstract Signed Framed Rare Artist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare early American modernist cubist abstract by Anita F. Plumb. Framed. Pastel and gouache on paper. Signed. Image size, 20H by 26L.
Category
Cubist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ceri Richards - Lyre Bird (Design for cover of Poetry London), 1943 mixed media
Located in New York, NY
Ceri Richards
Lyre Bird (Design for the cover of Poetry London), 1943
Ink, gouache and pastel on paper
Bears original Jonathan Clark
Co. label on the back of the frame
Unique
F...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Gouache, Mixed Media
Mexican Modernist Oil Painting - Double Sided Abstract Figures and Buildings
Located in Soquel, CA
Mexican Modernist Oil Painting - Double Sided Abstract Figures and Buildings
Dynamic abstract pieces by Ernesto Butterlin, aka Linares, (Mexican, German b. 1917 d. 1964.) The front ...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Italian Abstract Work on Paper Color Field Non-Objective European Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
Italian Modern Abstract Work on Paper Color Field Non-Objective European Mid-Century - "Gonage"
Dorazio completed "Gonage" in 1949 when just after the artist had been awarded a stipend by the French government and admission to the Academy Beaux Arts. There he met George Braque who became great friends but also an influence on Dorazio, of which "Gonage" is a living testament.
"Gonage" actual size of the drawing measures 12 x 9 1/2 inches. It is signed on the lower right. The work is affixed to a 19 x 15 inch board which includes the artist's signature and date. There is a torn table on the lower left entitling the piece "Gonage".
Provenance follows this piece as a gift in 1950 to the artist-colleague Luigi Lucioni, who then gifted it in 1955 to his friend, the uncle of the current owner who has owned the work since 1988.
Bio
Born in Italy, Piero Dorazio studied architecture in Rome. At the same time his first abstract works were executed. In 1947 he received a scholarship from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he contacted Modern artists, who lived in Paris. He founded the galleries "Age d'Or" in Florence and Rome to represent avant-garde arts in Italy.
During a one year stay in the USA he got acquainted with leading artists of Abstract Expressionism such as Marc Rothko...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Antique American Modernist Cubist Ballet Dancers Framed Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely executed modernist ballet scene. Pastel and gouache on paper. Handsomely framed. Image size, 12H by 16L.
Category
Cubist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Impressionist Coastal Seascape Wide Gold Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely executed early 1900s American impressionist coastal seacape painting. Oil on canvas. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period giltwood molding. Excel...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Notre Dame Cathedral and Ile Saint Louis Oil on Canvas Painting by Paul Lambert
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique oil painting on canvas signed by Paul Lambert (1910–1970), a renowned French artist celebrated for his evocative portrayals of Parisian landscapes.
This rare piece exemplifi...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Important Regionalist WPA Modern Framed And Signed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist landscape oil painting by Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf Martyl (1917/18 - 2013). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 28 by 32 inches overall and 20 by 24 painting alone.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Signed Cubist Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist abstract expressionist painting. Oil on board. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 16L x 20H. Signed.
Category
Cubist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Road Less Traveled Hawaii Surrealist Mid Century Figurative Abstract Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Road Less Traveled Hawaii Surrealist Mid Century Figurative Abstract Landscape
Symbolistic and romantic Surrealist 1940s figurative abstract landscape with a figure journeying down a path in an idyllic landscape by Marguerite Louis Blasingame circa 1940-45. Signed Blasingame lower right corner; from a collection of her work. Unframed. Condition: Excellent; professionally cleaned and UV varnished. Image, 30"H x 20"W.
Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Three Angels - Mid Century Hawaiian Symbolist Figurative Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic Hawaiian nocturnal figurative of whispy angel figures with mountains and bridge by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Antique American School Abstract Cubist Flower Still Life Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very well painted period cubist still life. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage American Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Cloud Study Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modern abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Unsigned. Image size, 48L x 36H. Unframed.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage American Impressionist Framed Landscape Forest Interior Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Excellent ready to hang condition.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interesting Tropical Modernist Palm Tree Abstract Vintage Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract tropical oil painting. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Female Artist Abstract Expressionist Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist abstract painting by Elsie Orfuss (Born 1913). Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Nicely framed. Image size, 36L x 48H
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,580 Sale Price
20% Off
"Cubist Landscape" Albert Heckman, American Modernist, Fractured Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Albert Heckman
Cubist Landscape
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
21 3/4 x 30 inches
Albert Heckman was born in Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to tr...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Fauvist Barn Rural Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas board. Framed. Measuring: 21 by 27 inches overall, and 18 by 24 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. Ha...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Transendental Abstraction by William Schwartz Titled Impressions of the West #7
Located in Chicago, IL
A Transendental Abstraction by famed Chicago Modernist, William S. Schwartz titled "Impressions of the West #7". Anecdotally, Schwartz's notable "Impressions of the West" series wer...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Framed Signed Exhibited Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Exhibited at the Butler Art Institute.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Interior Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Sparse Modern Expressionist Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Image size, 18L x 24H.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school abstract expressionist painting. Oil on board. Signed. In excellent original condition. Nicely framed in a period wood molding. Excellent condition, read...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
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