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Period: 1950s
1950
s French Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Blue
Green Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed
size: 10 x 8 inches
condition: very good and ready to be ...
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$160 Sale Price
40% Off
Colorful Mid Century Modern Abstract Painting by M Hamilton Morton, dated 1957
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is a very colorful and energetic painting by American architect and artist M. Hamilton Morton. It is nicely signed and dated 1957. Mr Morton was born in Washington DC in 1934 a...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Landscape Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 4 by 5 inches overall, and 3.5 by 4.5 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Provençal Landscape
Located in London, GB
'Provençal Landscape', oil on canvas, by Anna Costa (circa 1950s). This is an exceptional landscape painted by the artist in vibrant colours in an Impressio...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,267 Sale Price
30% Off
Vintage Signed American Modernist New England Framed Coastal Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 19 by 23 inches overall, and 17 by 21 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. H...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Modern Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Lively abstract painting with primary tones of yellows, reds and greens with accents of blue and black on white background, 1952. Signed lower right.
Original artwork on paper dis...
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage American Impressionist Framed New England Farm Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 inches overall, 16 x 20 inches image size.
Vintage American impressionist landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Landscape Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 4 by 5 inches overall, and 3 by 4.75 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. H...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Giltwood Framed Mid Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, re...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Impressive American Abstract Expressionist Modern Interior Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed and titled verso, "Bertoia Chair". Handsomely framed in a period molding. Excellent ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Abstract Expressionist Framed Modernist MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 24 by 31 inches overall, and 18 by 26 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Nicely fram...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Consort
, Modernist Equestrian Gouache, AIC, WPA artist, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966); additionally titled verso 'Consort' and dated 1954 with inscription, 'by the one and only buk, made for Ruth'....
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache, Illustration Board
"Untitled" Edward Zutrau, Mid Century, Modernist, Abstract Composition, Green
Located in New York, NY
Edward Zutrau
Untitled, 1956
Signed and dated on the reverse
Oil on linen
40 x 82 inches
Edward Zutrau (1922–1993) was an American painter whose career spanned from the 1940s throu...
Category
American Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Monumental NYC Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract expressionist oil painting. No signature found.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Vintage American Modernist Abstract Naturescape Lake View Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 26 by 30 inches overall, and 22 by 25 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. Handsomel...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Framed Abstract Expressionist Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful early American modernist abstract expressionist oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
The Orchestra
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Orchestra, 1950, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, 21 1/2 x 25 3/4 inches, labeled verso “Brown University, Trustee, The Walter Feldman Trust for Artwork” titled verso,...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Landscape Framed New England FallOil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Charming and well painted rural New England modernist landcape by Vern Henry Smith (1927 - 2007. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Art Deco Formula Two Grand Prix Car Racing Modernist MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very rare and well painted Formula Two racing painting. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Nicely framed.
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Signed Exhibited Abstract Expressionist Original Framed Oil Painting
By Adele Becker
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Pear Still Life Framed Original Fine Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American modernist still life oil painting. Housed in a great antique giltwood frame. Oil on board.
Category
Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Ervin B. Nussbaum (1914 - 1996). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Dated 1950.
Artist Bio:
Ervin B. Nussbaum was born in Co...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American School Abstract Expressionist Large Neutral Tone Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,871 Sale Price
25% Off
Large Scale Antique American Abstract Expressionist Signed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Signed Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 19L x 13H.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
Bird Abstraction
— Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stephen Harty, Untitled (Bird Abstraction), gouache, 1953. Signed and dated lower left. A fine, meticulously rendered, mid-century, modernist gouache painting, with fresh colors on 1...
Category
American Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Vintage American Modernist Outsider Pop Art Abstract Large Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Tropical Ocean Cove Hawaiian Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted American impressionist tropical beach landscape. Oil on board. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period wood molding. Excellent condition, re...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Multicolor Abstract Cubist Oil Painting with Monogram Signature MJ
Located in Atlanta, GA
This striking abstract Cubist oil on board, signed with the monogram "M.J." in the lower right corner, is the work of a 20th-century German artist. The composition is bold and archit...
Category
Cubist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Cubist Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century cubist abstract. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Cubist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$980 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Mid-Century Abstract Geometric Painting in Green and Black
Located in Beachwood, OH
Leonard Lieb (American, 1912-1977)
Abstract in Green and Black, c. 1950
Oil on masonite
Signed lower center
48 x 24 inches
Leonard Lieb was a Pittsburgh painter of genre scenes who ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Mayan Fragments" Vintage Exhibited American Modernist Abstract Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract painting. Watercolor on paper. Framed. Gallery label verso. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Multicolor Geometric Cubist Gouache and Watercolor Painting by André Morin
Located in Atlanta, GA
This outstanding post-cubist and multicolor geometric composition, gouache, and watercolor painting was designed by French artist André Morin (20th Century).
Geometric art is the use...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Antique American School Signed Cubist Modern Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed modernist flower still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16L x 30H.
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 28 by 32 inches overall, and 20 by 24 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large American Modernist Abstract Architectural Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 34 by 48 inches overall, and 28 by 42 painting alone. In excellent original condition. H...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Houses and Church on the French Countryside (quaint village scene)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A rare color lithograph by late French artist, Éliane Thiollier. Edition of 275, certificate of authentication is provided. Minor acid staining from the old mat.
Éliane Thiollier s...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Large Signed Cubist Abstract Framed Colorful Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Still Life Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Measuring: 16 by 22 inches overall. In excellent original condition. Excellent condition, ready to hang a...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Highrise)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Highrise), 1954, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 20 x 20 inches, presented in its original frame
Karl Benjamin was a California-based artist who is best known...
Category
Hard-Edge 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
abstract 3, 1954 - Oil on canvas, 92x65 cm.
By François Jousselin
Located in Nice, FR
Abstract oil painting on canvas by the french painter François Jousselin. Not framed. Signed and dated 1954
François Jousselin, né à Laval le 27 octobre 1926 ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique French Modernist Paris School Fall Forest Signed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French modern painting of a fall forest. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed. Image size, 15.5L x 9.75H. Housed in a period giltwood f...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
American Vintage Cubic Green Village Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6042 Vintage Cubic green landscape signed Jacobs
Modern strip artist Frame
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$375 Sale Price
50% Off
Man Playing a Banjo
, American Mid-Century Cubist-Derived Figural Oil, Fifties
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Paula Melcher' (American, 20th century) and dated 1956.
Category
Cubist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
San Francisco Bay Area Seascape with Ships in Oil on Cardboard
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
San Francisco Bay Area Seascape with Ships in Oil on Cardboard
Seascape with large ships by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). The ocean is shown in...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Reclining Nude
, Fauve Figural, SFAA, Carmel, LACMA, Louvre, Paris
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) circa 1955, and with Di Gesu estate stamp verso.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art C...
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Mid Century Abstracted Figurative -- Downtown Couple Art Exhibit
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant mid century modern abstracted figurative in orange, red and black by Bay Area artist Paul Sheppard. Dated 1959 and signed "Sheppard." Presented i...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Untitled”
By John Little
Located in Southampton, NY
Early, original oil on canvas painting by the well known American abstract expressionist artist, John Little. Signed and dated lower right, 1958.
Signed and dated verso. Rose Fried...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$14,000
The Sea, Large Mid-Century Abstract Painting, Cleveland School Artist
By Clarence Van Duzer
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Van Duzer (American, 1920-2009)
The Sea, c. 1950
Asphaltum, encaustic and silver leaf on masonite
Signed upper left
48.5 x 48 inches
In the annals of Cleveland art history,...
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver
"Untitled, 59-A12" Stephen Pace, Vibrant Yellow and Red, Intense Color Abstract
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
Stephen Pace
Untitled, 59-A12, 1959
Signed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
29 x 24 inches
Born in Charleston, Missouri, Stephen Pace grew up in Indiana, where his parents operat...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Vintage American School Framed Modernist Fauvist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Black And White Abstract - Oil And Gouache On Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Black And White Abstract - Oil And Gouache On Paper
Black and white abstract painting by Felix Ruvolo (American, 1912-1992). Grey takes over the center of the paper with strokes of ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Watercolor, Gouache
Charles Levier Midcentury Oil Painting of French Canal Scene, Signed c. 1955
Located in Miami, FL
CHARLES LEVIER – UNTITLED [PONT AU-DESSUS DU CANAL]
Oil on Canvas ⚜ Signed Lower Right ⚜ Custom Conservation Frame
A STYLIZED MIDCENTURY CITYSCAPE WITH CUBIST RHYTHM AND MODERN ELEG...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Other Medium
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Landscape Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 4 by 5 inches overall, and 3.5 by 4.5 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Framed Modern Abstract Expressionist NYC Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Signed Framed Exhibited Cubist Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school signed modernist cubist still life oil painting and collage. Oil and mixed media on board. Signed. Framed. I...
Category
Cubist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Antique French Avante Garde Abstract Expressionist Surreal Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and finely painted French modernist abstract painting by Jacques Doucet (1924 - 1994) . Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Artist Bio:
Jacques Doucet's work is inextricably bo...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$75,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Josef Albers, Echoed (Homage to the Square), 1954
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
1954
Oil on Masonite
60 x 60 cm
Unique
Signed and dated, lower right
Provenance:
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.
Galerie Denise René, Paris.
Edward Totah Gallery, London.
Acquired f...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
View of San Francisco Bay
, Bay Area Abstraction, Jack London, Modernist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'J.e.t.' for Jessie E. Thomason (American, 20th Century) and dated 1956. Exhibited: Jack London Art Festival, 1956.
Displayed in the original and period, paint...
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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