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Period: 1950s
Vintage American Modernist Framed Abstract Expressionist Beach Scene Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage abstract beach scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, ready to han...
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Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1950s Original Geometric Abstract Oil Painting, Vertical
Horizontal Art
Located in Denver, CO
This vibrant and dynamic original abstract oil painting by Paul Kauvar Smith (1893–1977) showcases the artist’s bold use of color and modernist technique. Executed in oil on board, t...
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Abstract Geometric 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Dynamic
Colorful, Abstract Expressionist Painting, Dated 1957 by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic & colorful, Abstract Expressionist Painting in Reds, Blues & Yellows by Artist Harold Haydon, Dated 1957. Framed in a dark, wood cube frame. Image size: 12" x 16". Fra...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Henriette “Yetti” Stolz 1956 Abstract Oil – Mid-Century Modernist Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This exceptional 1956 abstract oil on canvas by Serbian-American artist Henriette “Yetti” Stolz (b. 1935) embodies the refined simplicity and emotional depth of mid-century modern art. Painted in a harmonious palette of brown, white, black, and gray, the work blends abstract and figurative elements with confident brushwork and balanced composition. Stolz’s modernist sensibility reflects her deep engagement with postwar abstraction and the evolving art movements of the 1950s.
Signed by the artist in the lower right corner, the piece is beautifully presented in its original vintage frame (overall dimensions: 42 ¾ x 16 ¾ inches; image: 42 ¼ x 16 ¼ inches). Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Henriette “Yetti” Stolz. The painting is in good condition—please contact us for a detailed condition report.
Born in Serbia and later based in Denver, Colorado, Stolz studied at Colorado College under influential modernists including Mary...
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Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue and Orange Abstract Expressionist
By Sandro von Lorsch
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Expressionist Abstract Composition With Orange and Blue Colors
Canvas size 24"x32" gold leaf frame 27"x35", signed lower right corner.
Sandro von Lorsch German painter born 1921-19...
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Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Pacific Northwest Rain Forest, Earthtone Abstract Landscape
By Hilda Davidson Kaster
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century modern mixed media abstracted Northern California landscape by Hilda Davidson Kaster (American, 1912-2008), circa 1950. The artist uses layers of mixed media earth tones and natural textures such as leaves and bark to create the aesthetic of the deep forest of Sebastopol, California. Signed lower left corner, on verso with exhibition and gallery labels. Unframed: Image 18"H x 24"W.
Hilda Davidson Kaster was born in Oakland, California in 1912 to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. She went to New York in the early 1930s to study art. At the Traphagen School of Design, she was a student of Moses Soyer and William Gropper, who were founders of the Ashcan School. Later in the 1930s she worked as a commercial artist and designer for I. Miller Shoes...
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Abstract Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Vineyard Fishing Boat"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed and Dated Lower Right
Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984)
He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in Chicago as a youth, he took classes at the ...
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Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Antique American Modernist Wild Horses Western Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted modernist landscape by Robert Noel Blair (1912 - 2002). Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed Image size, 22 by 30 inches. In excellent original condition. ...
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Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled
By Richard Pousette-Dart
Located in Miami, FL
Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist.
Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance.
Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form." His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this painting Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist. He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color. The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black. Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows: blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
$1,150,000
"No. 4" Seymour Franks, Mid-Century Abstract Modernist Lilac, Blue Composition
Located in New York, NY
Seymour Franks
No. 4, 1952
Signed upper left
Dated on verso
Oil on canvas
American painter and designer, Seymour Franks, was born in New York City in 1916.
Seymour Franks contracte...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original, highly textured oil on canvas painting by Jacques Gandon. Signed lower right and dated 1953. The painting has the visual appearance of a woven fabric abstract. Can be hung horizontally or vertically. Condition is very good, no issues. Original artist pine strip frame. Frame has wear consistent with its age. Overall framed measurements are 24.5 by 37 inches. Vintage Jonathan Adler...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,240 Sale Price
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Abstract Expressionist Bay Area Hills Landscape
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist painting of Bay Area Hills by Honora Berg Berkeley
San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionist landscape by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). A brilliant e...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Gouache
Deux Visages en Rouge et Bleu, Surrealist Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Deux Visages en Rouge et Bleu, Year: circa 1950, Medium: Oil on Canvas, unsigned, Size: 8.75 x 6.5 in. (22.23 x 16.51 cm), Frame Size: 15.25 x 13 inches, Description: From the c...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist New England Maine Coastal Seascape Beach Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting of coastal New England. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,820 Sale Price
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" PATCH WORK " LATE 1950s ABSTRACT STUDENT OF HANS HOFFMAN MID CENTURY MODERN
By Jennie Haddad
Located in San Antonio, TX
Jennie Haddad
(1906-1996)
Dallas Artist
Image Size: 40.5 x 26
Frame Size: 49 x 34.5
Medium: Mixed Media on paper.
"Patch Work"
Biography
Signed and Estate Stamp
Jennie Haddad (1906-1...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Mid-20th Century abstract geometric oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
Untitled, c. 1950
Oil on paper
Signed lower right
12.5 x 19 inc...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Trees in Bloom Along the River Landscape in oil on Heavy Cardstock
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Trees in Bloom Along the River Landscape in Oil on Heavy Cardstock
Bold oil landscape by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Trees with pink and white blooms line the bank of a river. The river is shown in streaks of pink, green, and yellow, reflecting the surrounding landscape. At the far edge of the river, bright green mountains sharply rise from the bank.
Acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Stamp from the Larry Miller Fine Art on verso.
Unframed.
Board size: 14.75"H x 22"W
Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon...
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Abstract Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Green Burst
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Kyle Morris
Green Burst, 1958
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right; signed, titled, dated verso.
48...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$75,000
"Abstraction" Mid-20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Modernist
Located in New York, NY
"Abstraction" Mid-20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Modernist
James Daugherty (1887 – 1974)
"Abstraction"
58 ¼ x 41 ¾ inches
Signed and dated 1957 lower left
Oil on...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Abstract in Coral and Jade
, Large Mid-century American Biomorphic Abstraction
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, mid-century American Abstract oil comprising biomorphic and dimensional forms in shades of coral, jade and straw, shown gathered around a central, rectangular element ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dorothy Dehner, Mid Century Modern signed abstract sculptural drawing, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Dorothy Dehner
Untitled Mid Century Modern abstract sculptural drawing, 1955
Marker and graphite on paper
Signed and dated by Dorothy Dehner in black felt tip pen on the front
Frame ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Graphite
Blue and Green Summer Abstract
By Carl Holty
Located in New York, NY
A fresh and intriguing composition that keeps you looking at it. The composition is composed of summer greens, whites, blues and lavenders and also conveys figures and movement. Ho...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Framed Modernist Nocturnal Cityscape Urban Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16L x 11.5H.
Category
Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
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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. Image size, 41.5L x 31.5H.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
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Vintage Female Modernist Abstract Nature Painting Albright Knox Provenance
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting by Jane Lapey. Oil on canvas. Exhibition label verso. Framed. Image size, 28L x 22H.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
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Antique American School Large Great Color Abstract Modernist Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Unsgned. Image size 36L x 60H.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
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Vintage European Impressionist Seascape Coastal Mediterranean Sea Town Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage European impressionist coastal town oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition...
Category
Realist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Mountain Stream Modernist Landscape
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Mountain Stream Modernist Landscape by Honora Berg
This mid century modernist landscape painting by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) depicts a vibrant mountain stream, ...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Laid Paper
Vintage 1957 Modernist Boat Dock Signed Precisionist Large Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist harbor view. Oil on board, circa 1957.
Signed. Displayed in a period frame. Image size, 24"L x 20"H.
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Expressionist Painting (Mid-century Modern action composition)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Untitled Abstract Expressionist painting, 1957
Oil on canvas measuring 18 x 30 inches.
Signed with monogram and dated lower right.
Two repair patches on back on painting.
Artist...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid Century Cubist Nocturnal Moody Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
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Antique American School Original Large Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 25L x 47H.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
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Vintage American School Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist framed oil painting. Oil on board. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 13L x 12H.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
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1959 Nyc Artist Gj Rogers Surrealist Original Vintage Painting Blue and Green
Located in Arp, TX
GJ Rogers
Surreal Octopus
1959
Oil on Canvas
36"x24.5"
Signed and dated in paint lower right
George Jay Rogers was born in Yonkers, New York on June 9, 1926. During the Great Depression George's mother being a single mother and falling on hard times sent George to a home for boys in New York City. George remained there and later attended The School of Industrial Arts in New York City.
Shortly after his 18th birthday George enlisted in the Army. He was sent to Germany where he drove a light truck as a message center courier. He was given an honorable discharge and moved back to New York City. Under the GI Bill he enrolled in the Art Students League of NYC in 1948. Here George studied under noted artists Robert Brackman, Morris Kantor, Louis Bouche, Harry Sternberg and Robert Beverly Hale to name a few. He was a student at the League from 1948-1956. In order to support his desire to paint, George worked as a message courier in NYC.
In the late 1950s George painted...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charles Ragland Bunnell Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting, circa 1950
Located in Denver, CO
Untitled (Sacred Family) is a striking mid-century modern abstract oil painting by American Abstract Expressionist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968). Painted circa 1950, this origi...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
Oil with paper collage on found card stock board, with vintage reproduction on reverse, 1956. Signed by the artist and dated in oil, lower right.
Stella (1936-2024) made this work ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$185,000
Vintage Monumental Pop Art Architectural Cityscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century abstract cityscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,140 Sale Price
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Antique American Framed Original East Hampton Beach Marsh Signed Pastel Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist pastel painting. Pastel on paper. Framed. Signed.
Category
Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$556 Sale Price
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Antique American School Female Artist Abstract Expressionist Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist abstract painting by Elsie Orfuss (Born 1913). Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Nicely framed.
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled" Taro Yamamoto, New York School, Gestural, Thick Impasto Composition
Located in New York, NY
Taro Yamamoto
Untitled, 1954
Signed lower right; signed and dated on the reverse
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Taro Yamamoto was involved in the Abstract Expressionist movement in N...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Nicely Framed "Spanish Garden" Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting by Mildred Murphy Dillon (Born 1907). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed, Measuring: 26 by 30 inches overall, and 18 by 22 painting alone...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Signed Architectural Modern Medieval Revival Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique English modernist landscape oil painting by Phillip Castle (Born 1943). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge Antique American School Abstract Expressionist Original NYC Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framing is available.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,356 Sale Price
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1959 Geometric Abstraction by Francis Almeida Luzzatto
Located in New York, NY
Francis Almeida Luzzatto (American, 1935-1999)
Untitled, 1959
Oil on canvas
40 x 48 1/2 in.
Signed and dated lower right: Luzzatto 59
Partial label verso: The Art Rental Gallery, Wa...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape Framed Oil Painting
By Adele Becker
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Adele Becker. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,200 Sale Price
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Antique Polish American Impressionist Flower Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Polish American impressionist flower still life oil painting by Edward Lis (1915 - 2011). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 15H x 17L.
Category
Impressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Idol 2 - Scottish 1959 Abstract Expressionist art oil painting
By William Gear
Located in Hagley, England
This superb Abstract Expressionist Scottish oil painting is by noted artist William Gear. It was painted in 1959 and is entitled Red Idol 2. This abstract com...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$16,445 Sale Price
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Cosmic Connection
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing a modernist acrylic painting by Robert Blair in which the artist has utilized a comb to create designs within the painting.
Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003)...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
"Composizione astratta" Gialla e verde olio su cartone 1950 ca cm. 52 x 32
By Dora Maar
Located in Torino, IT
Dora Maar è lo pseudonimo di Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Parigi 1907 - 1997).
Avvolta nell'ombra monumentale di Picasso, è stata a lungo - e riduttivamente - conosciuta come la su...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Surreal Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on paper. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$521 Sale Price
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Bruno Munari (1907-1998) - Oil on wood panel - 1951
By Bruno Munari
Located in Varese, IT
Oil on wood panel, 1951.
Unique work, titled and hand-signed in felt pencil by artist on the verso.
Work size: 30 x 30 cm
Framed size: 58 x 58 cm
Very good conditions, with deep bri...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel
American Modernist Black Woman Artist New Orleans Family Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist southern school painting. A family portrait on a New Orleans porch. Beautiful detail in the wrought iron. Brilliant color palette here. Signed verso. ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
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Untitled
By John Opper
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, signed and dated verso.
62.25 x 56.25 in.
64 x 58 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a natural cherry wood floater.
Provenance
Washburn Gallery, New York
Behnke Doherty Gallery, Washington Depot, CT
Born in 1908 in Chicago, John Opper moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1916. In high school, he began studying art and attending classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
After graduation, he enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art (now Cleveland Institute of Art), only to withdraw after a year and move to Chicago, where he took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. He eventually returned to Cleveland, enrolling at Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve), receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1931. The Depression has taken hold during this period, so Opper found work by teaching metalworking and sketching classes at the Karamu Settlement House, the oldest African American theater in the United States.
In 1933, Opper traveled to Gloucester, Massachusetts, eventually connecting with the artist Hans Hofmann, who was teaching at the school run by Ernest Thurn. Hofmann encouraged Opper to work “in a more modern vein and start finding what it’s all about.” Heeding this advice, Opper relocated to New York, co-founding a mail-order club of American and British prints for dissemination to schools and museums.
By the mid-1930s, he joined the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Easel Division, and also began attending the 57th Street school that Hans Hofmann had established after leaving the Art Students League. Looking back at his time at the school, Opper felt that beyond Hofmann’s teaching, most advantageous was his contact with fellow artists, including Byron Browne, Rosalind Bengelsdorf, and George McNeil. At the time, he also met Giorgio Cavallon and the sculptor Wilfrid Zogbaum.
In 1936, Opper became a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, along with Balcomb and Gertrude Greene. The organization was formed to provide an opportunity for artists to show abstract works at a time when such opportunities were scarce. This led to his first solo show in 1937 at the Artists’ Gallery in New York.
During his summer in Gloucester in 1933, Opper came to know Milton Avery. Painting in Avery’s informal studio in New York City the following winter, he became acquainted with Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko. Opper participated in a couple of shows during the 1930s of the American Artists Congress Against War and Fascism, whose president was Stuart Davis. About the same period, Opper joined the Artists’ Union and served as the business manager of its publication, Art Front.
During World War II, Opper worked for a ship design company creating drawings for piping systems used in PT boats...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$25,000
Antique American Modernist Nassau Bahamas Original Mixed Media Portrait Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist mixed media abstract portrait. Framed. Mixed media original collage. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, r...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Abstract Composition in Pink and Black in Acrylic on Cardboard
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Composition in Pink and Black in Acrylic on Cardboard
Dynamic abstract in black and pink by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). This piece is composed of multiple layers, with bright, bold colors at the bottom, building to black on top. Pink, magenta, yellow, and orange shine through a net of black.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Estate stamp on verso "Estate of Honora Berg - Miller Fine Art"
Numbered "246" on verso
Unframed.
Art size: 21.25"H x 14"W
Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell — David Park's aunt — suggested a move to California in 1951 to study under Park. She exhibited at the 25th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961.
Provenance, Estate of Honora Berg - David Carlson Gallery, Larry Miller...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Acrylic
Antique American School Female Artist Abstract Expressionist Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist abstract painting by Elsie Orfuss (Born 1913). Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Nicely framed.
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Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Cubist Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century cubist abstract still life. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Great color.
Category
Cubist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$980 Sale Price
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"Untitled, " 1950s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
Thisoil painting on masonite board, "Untitled," by Modernist Stanley Bate was created circa 1950, part of his earlier body of work. The dark, heavy line work combined with bright col...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Modernist Nassau Bahamas Original Mixed Media Portrait Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist mixed media abstract portrait. Framed. Mixed media original collage. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, r...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Composition in Oil Pastel on Cardboard
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Composition in Oil Pastel on Cardboard
San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist composition by Ho...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Cardboard
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In the 1960s and '70s, the hypnotic creations of Op artists went mainstream and influenced the look of pop culture.
Dorothy Hood’s Boundless Abstractions Are Back with a Fierceness
Works from the impressive oeuvre of the largely unknown Texas native are now on view at Houston's McClain Gallery.
French Artist Marie Raymond Was So Much More Than Yves Klein’s Mom
Seminal works from the mid-20th-century painter's lyrical abstract oeuvre are now on view at Paris's Diane de Polignac Gallery.
For Oliver Lee Jackson, Painting Is a Fierce and Sacred Matter
The artist and activist is the subject of a new show at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art.