1950s Figurative Paintings

Medium: 1958 Medium: Gouache on Tempera on Board Dimensions: 17.00" x 15.50" Signature: Signed and Inscribed Lower Right This illustration was published as the dust jacket for the h...

Story illustration for "The Well-Meaning Kidnapper" by Logan Carrol, published in The Saturday Evening Post, February 3, 1951, page 24. The full caption reads: "'Don't you know kidn...

EMILIO GRAU SALA Spanish, 1911 - 1975 TROUVILLE, SEPTEMBRE 1953 signed Grau Sala (lower left) signed again, located & dated "Grau Sala, Trouville, Septembre 1953" on the reverse oil...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right

Signature: Signed Lower Right Medium: Gouache on Board

The work is in excellent condition and meticulously rendered in a photo-realistic style. It showcases the artist's high-level sense of design. Newsweek could hire any artist in the...

Signature: Signed Lower Left Framed 31.00" x 23.00" American Weekly magazine cover, October 31, 1954

Signed Lower Left This illustration was published as the paperback cover for Tragic Ground by Erskine Caldwell, Signet, 1958.

MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ MOMPÓ Spanish, 1927 - 1992 CASA DE LECHERA signed "H. Mompó" (upper left) & inscribed "Rotterdam 55" (upper right) with inscrip...

Date: 1951 Medium: Acrylic on Board Dimensions: 24.00" x 36.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left

Date: circa 1950 Medium: Gouache on Board Dimensions: 27.75" x 19.75" Signature: Signed "T. Kuck" Lower Right "Gina Lollobrigida." Portrait of the I...

OFF TO SCHOOL Oil on canvas Size: 32 x 25.5 cm (including frame) A lovely and endearing miniature oil on canvas depicting a scene of a pedestrian walkway on a fine summer’s day. A ...

Signed and dated lower left 'Hassan Soliman 1957'

A nice impressionist oil on masonite city scene with a young crowd in Rome, Italy, probably the Fontana del Prigione, illegibly signed lower right, title inscribed on verso “Trastev...

Crockwell is as good as Rockwell. Many would agree with that statement including the editors of the Saturday Evening Post in which both artists were frequent contributors. In fact, ...

Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Right

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right This illustration was the paperback cover of Dark Streets of Paris (Lucifer's Dream) by Jean Louis Curt...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right This illustration dates circa 1950.

Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Unsigned Contact for exact dimensions.

Looking Into a Neighborhood , Dear Paul This is an intriguingly charming work by an overlooked and brilliant mid-century female artist - illustrator, and educator. Lorraine Fox. ...

Signature: Signed Lower Left, "Hughes" Medium: Oil on Masonite Framed 24.50" x 26.50" Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, June 8, 1957. The Post described, “...

Date: 1955 Medium: Acrylic on Board Dimensions: 24.00" x 36.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left

Date: Late 1950s Medium: Gouache on Board Dimensions: 16.25" x 17.50" Signature: Unsigned Coricidin Cold Tablet Advertisement, Schering Corporation Advertisement

Francois Gall ( 1912-1987) François Gall was a Hungarian-born French painter best known for his Impressionistic style. Primarily focused on the figure, his brushy oil paintings are largely inspired by the Impressionist masters, Edgar Degas in particular. Gall often painted women engrossed in traditionally feminine activities—ballet, fixing their hair, sewing—rendered in loose, expressive marks and bright pastel colors. In addition to his figurative work, the artist also captured the French landscape, most notably the beach. In A Day at the Beach (c. 1948), loosely sketches bathers frolic under striped umbrellas in a picturesque rendering of French summer vacation. Born in 1912 in Transylvania, Romania, Gall received his formal training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Workshop Coromaldi in Rome, Italy. He would later settle in Paris in 1936, where he befriended prominent artists of the day—including Pablo Picasso—and became a naturalized French citizen in 1942. As his work grew in esteem, Gall was granted the Francis Smith...

Kate Nicholson 1929-2019 Cornish Bunch, 1955 oil on canvas laid on board 27.9 x 22.9 cm 11 x 9 in signed, titled and dated verso

Yvonne Canu (born 1930) is a French artist renowned for her abstract and geometric painting, often focusing on the interaction between color, form, and light. She emerged in the mid-...

Signed lower right and dated 1954. Bio: FASANELLA, RALPH (1914-97) was a self-taught painter who created large, colorful and intricate paintings of working-class culture and American politics from 1945 until his death in 1997. Fasanella had an artistic vision born of a working life. A child of Italian immigrants, he spent his youth delivering ice with his father and enduring the harsh regimen of a Catholic reform school. During the Great Depression, Fasanella worked in garment factories and as a truck driver. From his mother—a literate, sensitive, and progressive woman, Fasanella acquired a social conscience. Through her influence he became active in antifascist and trade union causes. Fasanella's political beliefs were radicalized by the Depression. His antifascist zeal led him to volunteer for duty in the International Brigades fighting fascism in Spain, where he served in 1937-1938. Upon his return to New York City Fasanella became an organizer for various unions, particularly the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, with whom he achieved some major organizing successes. In 1945, disillusioned by the labor movement and plagued by a painful sensation in his fingers, Fasanella started to draw. He left organizing and began to paint full time. He painted obsessively, capturing the vibrant moods of the city and the tumult of American politics. For a brief time he received some critical notice for his work, and had shows of his work in galleries as well as union halls. Fasanella included in his paintings a profusion of brightly colored details, showed interiors and exteriors simultaneously, and combined past and future. He populated his paintings with likenesses of family and friends. In 1950 Fasanella married Eva Lazorek, a schoolteacher who supported the couple through over two decades of artistic obscurity and blacklisting by the FBI. In the 1950s Fasanella retreated from political content in his works out of fear of reprisals. With the emergence of the New Left in the 1960s, however, his works became large, sharply focused political essays using images from the popular media. In 1972 Fasanella was featured in "New York" magazine and in an illustrated coffee-table book, "Fasanella's City". His large-scale, intricate paintings of urban life and American politics were then introduced to art critics and the public. In the late 1970s Fasanella spent two years in Lawrence, researching the 1912 Bread and...

CELSO LAGAR Spanish, 1891 - 1966 THE CLOWN signed and dated "Lagar 52" (lower right) gouache on cardboard 10-5/8 x 8 inches (27 x 20.5 cm.) PROVENANCE Private French Collector Cel...

Still Life is an original Oil on Canvas realized by Felice Carena in 1952. Hand signed and dated. Very good condition. Felice Carena Turin 1879 - Venice 1966 He studies with Giaco...

Lucca Landscape is an original oil on canvas applied on plywood, realized by Antonio Donghi in 1952. Hand signed lower right "Antonio Donghi 52". Provenance: Don Chisciotte...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Dimensions: 23 7/8" x 20.00" Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 21, 1958

Presenting an original oil on canvas by American artist Jan Stussy(1921-1990) Jan Stussy was a prolific artist and educator heading the art department at UCAL for more than thirty y...

Born in New York in 1924, Sam Amato became a key painter in the Southern California (Los Angeles) figurative school of painting of the 1960's and '70's, best known for his diverse su...

Man at the Cafe is an original Oil on Plywood realized by Ottone Rosai in 1956. Certificate on photograph by Prof. Luigi Cavallo. Includes a modern wooden frame. Very good conditions.

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Saturday Evening Post Cover, July 21, 1956 This Falter cover was owned by Sarah Johansen, daughter of John Falter. She is the you...

Still Life Painting realized by Ottone Rosai in 1950 ca. Oil on Canvas, very good conditions includes its coeval wooden frame. On rear: Label "Raccolta Giraldi Livorno-Firenze". Auth...

Presenting an exceptional oil painting by Polish/American artist Alexander Rosenfeld 1905-1995. The Garden, is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated 1950, with an image dimension of 38 x 29.5 inches, just arrived from an outstanding West Coast collection, the painting is in excellent original condition, beautifully framed. Please contact our West Hollywood gallery...

Cecil C. Bell "The Blind Peanut Vendor" 1958 Oil on Panel Signed; Titled & Dated Verso Panel Size: approx. 14 x 18 inches Framed Size: approx 21.25 x 25.25 inches Cecil Bell was b...

Artist: Martin Barooshian, American (1929 - ) Title: Creatures of Prometheus Year: 1957 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled and dated Size: 31 x 41 in. (78.74 x 104.14 cm) Frame Si...

Oil on canvas Signed and dated, l.r. This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at University of California, Berkeley. After moving to New York City in the early 1950s, he became friends with Fairfield Porter and Frank O’Hara...

Noted German Expressionist artist Fritz Schwaderer(1901-1974), , was classically schooled in fine art in Germany in the early-mid 1920as. ...

Artist: Reginald Wilson, American (1909 - 1993) Title: Girl with Cock Year: circa 1950 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 60.96 cm) Frame: 33.5 x 28 inch...

Presenting a wonderful example from the late `1950's period of American artist Ron Blumberg(1908-2002.) "Guitar Serenade", is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1959, with an image...

The Hypnotist is a rare painting from the, “Psychological Series”�, of American artist Ron Blumberg which was executed from 1948-1952. The Hypnotist, is original oil on canvas, signe...

Presenting an outstanding, theatrical oil painting by American artist Ron Blumberg. American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at ...

American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member ...

Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe. His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute. "Jazz Band...

Presenting an original oil on panel by American artist Robert McIntosh, c.1958. "Modern Femme", is an original oil on panel, signed,c.1958, ...

Presenting an original cubist oil on canvas by Y.W.Lee. "Repose" is na original oil onc anvas, signed, c.1955, offered in good original condition, residing in a thin silver frame.

American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member ...

We are proud to present the following suite of just discovered, mixed media paintings, c.1957, by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010) Robert McIntosh was extremely prolific...

American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member of the Art Students League. "An imal Act", is a rare original oil painting on panel, c.1957; a period when the artist was utilizing strictly pallet knife on panel. This technique gave works of this period a true post impressionist feeling. This painting is from Ron Blumberg's, "Historical California...

American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member of the Art Students League. "The Guitarist...

American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member ...

Presenting an original oil on panel by American artist E. Ross Vistot. This painting was discovered within the personal collection of a prominent American artist; a gift from one ...

Presenting an original mixed media, oil and collage on panel by American artist Robert McIntosh, c.1958. A suite of 30 x 20 inches mixed media torso's has just been discovered and have now arrived at our West Hollywood gallery.