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Period: Mid-20th Century
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...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Parisian Street Scene Arc de Triomphe" Post-Impressionist Oil Paint on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
In this piece, the artist depicts his subject in an abstract and impressionistic way, capturing the Arc de Triomphe busy street scene from the 20th Century with much life. The artist...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Pastel of Beachgoers with Sailboat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Pastel of Beachgoers with Sailboat by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Medium: Pastel on unframed paper Size: 12.5 inches (heig...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Pastel

Miniature Vintage Oil Painting of Crummock Water in the English Lake District
Located in Preston, GB
Miniature Vintage Oil Painting of Crummock Water in the English Lake District by British Artist, C Scott Art measures 8.5 x 6 inches Frame measures 12 x 9.5 inches This atmospheric...
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English School Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Portrait of Woman - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s. Original oil on plywood. Beautiful and representative artwork of a female...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Woodstock Landscape" Albert Heckman, American Modernist, Atmospheric Valley
Located in New York, NY
Albert Heckman Woodstock Landscape Oil on board 10 x 8 inches Albert Heckman was born in Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Hawaiian Female Dancer 1968
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3842 Figurative oil painting on artist board of a Hawaiin dancer
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Busy Paris Street Scene Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Paris" Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

1960 s French Portrait Elderly Man with Pen - Caricature
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Character Portrait French school, Mid 20th Century Gouache paint on unframed paper inscribed verso stamped to the reverse Superbly decorative 1960's French portrait painting...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

"Fishing Schooners and Sailboats at a dock" Original Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Fishing Schooners and Sailboats at a dock, "Fischerschoner und Segelboote an einem Dock" by Rudolph Guba (German/American, 1884-1950) Impasto work which depicts several sailing ves...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Edna Hibel Mother and Child Original Oil Painting on Silk
Located in San Francisco, CA
Edna Hibel: 1917-2015. Well listed important American artist. Mostly associated with Florida and Massachusetts. There is a Hibel Museum in Florida. Some called her the latter 20th ce...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Wrestlers - American Mid-Century Scene Painting. Americana Oil Painting.
Located in Marco Island, FL
The Wrestlers by Clyde Singer is an excellent Mid-Century painting of a popular Aschan subject. The artist George Bellows (1882-1925) was a precursor of Singer's who often depicted ...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Huge 20th Century French Signed Oil Fishing Boats in South of France Harbour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/School: G. Lefevre, French School (20th Century), signed Title: Fishing Ports Moored In A Southern Port, wonderful blue sea and sky colours with rising mountain beyond and gr...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Au Cafe
By Francois Chabrier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
FRANCOIS CHABRIER “”AU CAFE" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED FRANCE, C.1960 32.5 X 39.5 INCHES Framed 41 x 48 inches. François Chabrier Born 1916 François Chabrier was born in 1916 in Bel...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Au Cafe
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Jardin des Tuileries, Paris
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Albert Genta (French, 1901-1989) Title: "Jardin des Tuileries, Paris" Year: Circa 1950 Medium: Oil on panel Panel size size: 10.85 x 1...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

LARGE OIL PAINTING by ANTHONY BRANDRETT (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY PIECE
Located in Ferndown, GB
LARGE FINE 20th Century Piece Maritime Battle Scene British oil painting in a Gold Gilt Frame FINE RARE MARTINE PAINTING ORIGINAL 20th Century OLD MASTER STYLE OIL PAINTING GOLD GILT FRAME By Similar $10,000 Premier Collection NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF OLD HISTORY Good condition for age , (see pictures) Description Born in 1940 Anthony Brandrett...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Place de la Republique - Le Soir - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist oil on canvas landscape circa 1950 by sought after French painter Edouard Cortes. The work depicts an evening scene of the Place de la Republique square in Paris France. The ground, bare trees and buildings are covered in a dusting of white snow. The street lights are glowing and the Monument a la Republique is visible in the distance. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 19"x24" Unframed: 13"x18" Provenance: International Galleries - Chicago c. 1950 This work is included in the Catalogue Raisonne of the painters work "Edouard Cortes (1882-1969) : The Complete Works" Ref: EC001317 A photo certificate of authenticity accompanies the painting Edouard Leon Cortes, the son of the painter Antonio Cortès, was sent to the front during World War I to sketch enemy positions. In civilian life, his base was in Lagny in the former studio of Cavallo-Peduzzi. Although he travelled extensively in France. Notably in Normandy, Brittany, the Champagne region and Savoy painting...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Nude - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Not signed. Antonio Feltrinell...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Paint, Oil

Female Bather (Nude Women)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Ann Brockman (1895–1943) was an American artist who achieved success as a figurative painter following a successful career as an illustrator. Born in California, she spent her childhood in the American Far West and, upon marrying the artist William C. McNulty, relocated to Manhattan at the age of 18 in 1914. She took classes at the Art Students League where her teachers included two realist artists of the Ashcan School, George Luks and John Sloan. Her career as an illustrator began in 1919 with cover art for four issues of a fiction monthly called Live Stories. She continued providing cover art and illustrations for popular magazines and books until 1930 when she transitioned from illustrator to professional artist. From that year until her death in 1943, she took part regularly in group and solo exhibitions, receiving a growing amount of critical recognition and praise. In 1939 she told an interviewer that making money as an illustrator was so easy that it "almost spoiled [her] chances of ever being an artist."[1] In reviewing a solo exhibition of her work in 1939, the artist and critic A.Z Kruse wrote: "She paints and composes with a thorough understanding of form and without the slightest hesitancy about anatomical structure. Add to this a magnificent sense of proportion, and impeccable feeling for color and an unmistakable knowledge of what it takes to balance the elements of good pictorial composition and you have a typical Ann Brockman canvas."[2] Early life and training Brockman was born in Northern California in 1895 and spent much of her youth in nearby Oregon, Washington, and Utah.[1][3] She met the artist William C. McNulty in Seattle where he was employed as an editorial cartoonist. They married in March 1914 and promptly moved to Manhattan where he worked as a freelance illustrator.[4][5] At the time of their marriage, Brockman was 18 years old.[6] Over the next few years, her career generally followed that path that her husband had previously taken. His art training had been at the Art Students League beginning in 1908; she began her training there after moving to New York in 1914.[1] After an early career as an editorial cartoonist, he freelanced as a magazine and book illustrator beginning in 1914; she began her career as a magazine and book illustrator in 1919.[7] He embarked on a teaching career in the early 1930s and not long after, she began giving art instruction.[8][9] While they both adhered to the realist tradition in art, their usual subjects were different. His prominently depicted urban cityscapes in the social realist whereas hers generally focused on rural landscapes. He was best known for his etchings and she for her oils and watercolors.[8][10] Brockman returned to the Art Students League in 1926 to take individual instruction for a month at a time from George Luks and John Sloan.[1] Despite their help, one critic said McNulty's "sympathetic encouragement and guidance" was more important to her development as a professional artist.[11] Career in art In the course of her career as illustrator, Brockman would sometimes paint portraits of celebrities before drawing them, as for example in 1923 when she painted the French actress Andrée Lafayette who had traveled to New York to play title role in a film called Trilby.[12] She would also sometimes accept commissions to make portrait paintings and in 1929 painted two Scottish terriers on one such commission.[13] During this time, she also produced landscapes. In 1924 she displayed a New England village street scene painting in the Second Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings in the J. Wanamaker Gallery of Modern Decorative Art.[14] Available sources show no further exhibitions until in 1930 a critic for the Boston Globe described one of her portraits as "well done" in a review of a Rockport Art Association exhibition held that summer.[15] Between 1931 and her death in 1943, Brockman participated in over thirty group exhibitions and five solos.[note 1] Her paintings appeared in shows of the artists' associations to which she belonged, including the Rockport Art Association, Salons of America, Society of Independent Artists, and National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[17][19]Between 1932 and 1935, her paintings appeared frequently in New York's Macbeth Gallery.[20][23][25][27] She won an award for a painting she showed at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1940.[41] In 1942, the Whitney Museum bought one of the paintings she showed in its Biennial of that year.[10] Critical praise for her work steadily increased during the decade that ended with her untimely death in 1943. In 1932, her painting called "The Camera Man" was called "a clever piece of illustration."[21] Three years later, a painting called "Small Town" gave a critic "the impression of freshness, honesty, and skill".[29] In 1938, a critic described her "Folly Cove" as "masterful" and said "Pigeon Hill Picnic" was "sustained by excellence of execution".[48] At that time, Howard Devree of the New York Times saw "evidence of gathering powers" in her work and wrote "she imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Three years later, a Times critic reported Brockman had "set herself a new high" in the watercolors she presented,[52] and another critic said the gallery where she was showing had not "for some time" shown "so outstanding a solo exhibitor as Ann Brockman."[2] Shortly before her death, a critic for Art News maintained that she was "one of America's most talented women painters".[46] After she had died, a critic said Brockman's paintings "displayed real power", adding that she was "highly rated among the nation's professional artists" and was known to give "aid and encouragement, always with a smile," both artists and to her students.[10] in reviewing the memorial exhibition at the Kraushaar Galleries held in 1945, reviewers wrote about the strength and vibrancy of her personality, the quality of her painting ("every bit as good, possibly better than people had thought"),[53] called her "one of the best of our twentieth century women painters", and credited "her sense of the vividness of life" as a contributor to "the unusual breadth that is so characteristic of her work.[11] One noted that her work was "widely recognized throughout the country" and could be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.[54] Writing in the Times, Devree wrote, "even those who had followed the steady growth of this artist for more than a decade, each successive show being at once an evidence of new achievement and an augury of still better work to come, may well be surprised at the combined impact of the selected paintings in the present showing,"[55] and writing in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, A.Z Kruse said she had made "extraorginary accomplishments", painted with "inordinate distinction" showing a "lyrical majesty," and possessed "a keen esthetic sense which did not deviate from truth."[54] Artistic style (1) Ann Brockman, undated drawing, black chalk on paper, 18 x 22 inches (2) Ann Brockman, High School Picnic, about 1935, oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 44 1/4 inches (3) Ann Brockman, untitled landscape, about 1943, watercolor and pencil on paper, 15 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches (4) Ann Brockman, North Coast, undated watercolor, 21 1/2 x 30 inches (5) Ann Brockman, On the Beach, 1942, watercolor on paper, 16 1/2 x 20 inches (6) Ann Brockman, Lot's Wife, 1942, oil on canvas, 46 x 35 inches (7) Ann Brockman, New York Harbor, 1934, watercolor on paper, 13 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches (8) Ann Brockman, Youth, 1942, oil on board, 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches Brockman was a figurative painter whose main subjects were rural landscapes and small-town and coastal scenes. She worked in oils and watercolors, becoming better known for the latter late in her career. Most of her paintings were relatively small. Although she made figure pieces infrequently, the nudes and circus and Biblical scenes she painted were seen to be among her best works. In 1938, Howard Devree wrote: "Her gray-day marines and coast scenes are familiar to gallery goers and are favorites with her fellow artists. Her figure pieces have attained a sculptural quality without losing warmth or taking on stiffness. One spirited circus incident of equestriennes about to enter the big tent compares not unfavorably with many of the similar pictures by a long line of painters who have been fascinated by the theme. She imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Similarly, a critic for Art Digest wrote that year: "Fluently and virilely painted, [her] canvases suggest a close affinity between nature and humans. The artist takes her subjects out in the open where they may picnic or bathe with space and air about them. A fast tempo is felt in the compositions of restless horses and nimble entertainers busily alert for the coming performance. Miss Brockman is also interested in portraying frightened groups of people, hurrying to safety or standing half-clad in the lowering storm light."[56] Her palette ranged from vivid colors in bright sunlight to somber ones in the overcast skies of stormy weather. Of the former, one critic spoke of the rich colors and "sun-drenched rocks" of her coastal scenes and another of her "summery landscapes of coves and picnics."[11][50] Of the latter, Howard Devree said she "painted so many moody Maine coast vignettes of lowering skies and uneasy seas that artists have been heard to refer to an effect as 'an Ann Brockman day'".[57] Brockman's handling of Biblical subjects can be seen in the oil called "Lot's Wife", shown above, Image No. 6. Her watercolor called "On the Beach" and her oil portrait called "Youth" may both indicate the "sculptural quality" that Devree said was typical of her figure pieces (Image No. 8, above). An example of Brockman's bright palette in a typical summer theme is the oil painting called "High School Picnic" shown above, Image No. 2. Next to it is a painting, an untitled landscape of about 1943 whose medium, watercolor on paper, shows off the sunny palette she often used (Image No. 3). Among the darkest of her works was an untitled 1942 drawing she made in black chalk (shown above, Image No. 1). In a book called Drawings by American Artists (1947), the artist and art editor Norman Kent noted that this study influenced her painting through its use of "forms" that were "elastic" and suggested "color". He said its "massing of dark and light" created "a definite mood" that was "impressionistic" and had "the strength of a man's work".[58] Brockman's undated watercolor called "North Coast" (shown above, Image No. 4) is an example of the paintings to which Kent referred. Illustrator (9) Ann Brockman, cover, March 12, 1917, Every Week magazine (10) Illustration of an article, "The Taking of a Salient" by Henry Russell...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Landscape from Nordingrå, 1935 by Ultramarine Johansson
Located in Stockholm, SE
Carl Johansson, also known as "Ultramarin Johansson," was a Swedish artist born in 1863 and known for his distinctive blue-toned paintings. His work often depicted landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes, capturing the beauty and essence of Sweden's natural landscapes. We are proud to offer one of his late works from 1935 for sale. This painting depicts a beautiful landscape from Nordingrå, a small village situated on the High coast of Sweden. The beauty of Nordingrå has captured many artists in the 19th-century, inspiring many famous painters, including Helmer Osslund...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Paul Collomb, Paris, Eiffel Tower, Invalides, The Beautiful View, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Paul Collomb (1921-2010), France, 1960s. The beautiful view. Measurements : with frame: 54.5x41.2 cm - 21.5x16.2 inches, without frame: 46x33 cm - 18.1x13 inches, fo...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Brunette Lady With Red Lipstick in Blue Mid Century French Painting Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984) Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Size : 22 x 18 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: The painting is in overal...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Castellar Village Street Scene Provence Watercolour French Post Impressionist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Castellar Village Street Scene Provence Watercolour French Post Impressionist Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed Size (H x W):...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Provence Hillside Village Landscape Watercolor French Post Impressionist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Provence Hillside Village Landscape Watercolor French Post Impressionist Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed Size (H x W): 4.75...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Fishing in the Yorkshire Dales British Impressionist Oil Painting 20th C
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Lewis Creighton ( British 1918-1996) signed oil on board, unframed board : 20 x 24 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: very good condition Lewis Creighton was born in ...
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English School Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Pastel Landscape with Cows Grazing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Pastel Landscape with Cows Grazing by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Medium: Pastel on unframed paper Size: 6.25 inches (heig...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Pastel

1950s French Interior Scene Lady Seated at Chair Fauvist Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Lady in the Interior Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Old Woman - Painting by Francesco Settimj - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on wooden table realized by Francesco Settimj in the 1930s. Painted on both sides, recto and verso. Good condition.
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century Carmel-by-the Sea Cypress on the Bluff Coastal Plein Air Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Carmel Cypress Plein Air Landscape in Oil Pastel by Genevieve Rogers Two wind-sculpted Monterey cypress trees cling to rugged coastal bluff...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Board, Cardboard

THE THREE GRACES
Located in Portland, ME
Barrer, Gertrude (American, 1921-19920. THE THREE GRACES. Oil on panel. Signed "Barrer," lower left. Not dated. 27 1/2 X 20 1/2 inches, framed to 29 x...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Post Impressionist Sunset in Paris, La Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre
Located in Cotignac, FR
Paris street scene, view to Sacre Coeur, mid century oil on canvas. The painting is signed bottom right (as yet undeciphered). This captivating painting effortlessly captures the ch...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hotel Night Lobby. Large Mid-Century American Oil Painting.
Located in Marco Island, FL
A long and quiet night in the hotel lobby is depicted by Clyde Singer in this moody and still painting. Entitled Hotel Night Lobby (1947), Singer paints a moment of solitude during ...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Fine 20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Girl in Red Trousers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Girl in the Red Trousers by Laure Noetzin-Azam (French 1929-2024) pupil of André LHOTE signed upper left corner oil on canvas, framed framed: 26 x 21 inches canvas: 25.5 x 20 inc...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Lady Feeding The Birds In Gloomy Winter Park French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Feeding The Birds by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 13 high by 15.75 inches wide condition: ...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

20th century Impressionist City scene of Paris from the Seine
Located in Woodbury, CT
M. Verani Paris Scene, circa 1950–60 Oil on canvas Signed lower left This charming mid-century oil painting by Italian artist M. Verani captures a vibrant scene from Paris, rendere...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Framed Impressionist Venice Sunset Cityscape Gondola Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist sunset landscape oil painting by Louis Saphier (1875/77 - 1954). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 30 by 43 inches overall, and 24 by 36 pai...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Oil Painting - Afternoon Lesson
Located in Bristol, GB
AFTERNOON LESSON Oil on canvas Size: 82 x 70 cm (including frame) A outstanding mid-century modernist abstract figurative composition in oil, painted onto canvas by Swedish painter ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nuns And Doves, The Family, Avant-garde Woman Artist Marcel Duchamp s daughter
Located in Norwich, GB
In 1910, having separated from her first husband, the artist model Jeanne Chastagnier Serré had a relationship with the surrealist Marcel Duchamp: you know, the one of the porcelain ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Fiberboard

Travel to the Orient Figurative Nautical Scene 1940 s
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3494 Oil on canvas figurative traveling to orient. Set in a silvered wood frame
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Kachina Eagle Dancer" - 1939 Hopi Serigraph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Kachina Eagle Dancer" - 1939 Serigraph Serigraph of a Kachina Eagle Dancer by Hopi Pueblo artist Kyrate Tuvahoema (Native American, 1914-1942). The Kachina Eagle Dancer wears a vib...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Early 1900 s French Impressionist Oil Sketch Quiet Venetian Backwater Canal
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Venice by Etienne Auguste Krier ( French, 1875 - 1953) oil on board, framed framed: 10.5 x 7.5 inches board: 8 x 6 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: very good ...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

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,...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Silver

Animated Street in French Quarter, New Orleans
By Homer Costello
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Animated Street in French Quarter, New Orleans 1954, is a palette knife oil painting on wood panel by noted Louisiana artist Homer Costello...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

20th Century Portrait of Woman Head Shoulders Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

French Mod Surrealist Commedia dell arte Circus Scene Oil Painting J.P. Serrier
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Pierre Serrier (French, 1934-1989) Oil on canvas painting depicting four figures Hand signed lower right. Measures (frame) 26.5" x 30" wide, and (sight) 18.25." x 22.25" wide. Jean Pierre Serrier (1934 – 1989) was a French painter known for surrealism and absurdist art. Jean-Pierre Serrier was born in Montparnasse, Paris and attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. the son of Louis and Solange Serrier. His father fought in World War II and became a prisoner of war. In 1940, as a six-year-old, he and his mother fled Paris for Corrèze in southwest France. Childhood memories of close escapes from German bombardments would later influence his absurdist philosophy of life. Passionate about drawing, in 1951 he applied and was admitted to the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art in Paris. He shared an attic apartment in the 16th arrondissement with fellow student Jean-Baptiste Valadié. For income, he decorated shop windows. A trip to Spain provided motifs for early works. His student work might be characterized as art naïf (Naive art). While still a student, he sold a ceramic artwork to the poet and publisher Pierre Seghers, who would later commission drawings from him. He frequented jazz clubs in Saint-Germain des Près, and while listening to Sidney Bechet at the Vieux Colombier, he met his wife, Yvette.One of the last French Surrealist and follower of Nietzsche. His art conveyed the message to all of mankind that we are only human. The other Surrealist to center his art in philosophy was Rene Magritte whose paintings reflect his understanding of Sigmund Freud. He had his first exhibition in 1955, before being sent to Algeria to complete his military service. After graduating in 1955, he was drafted for military service, spent time in Germany and Morocco, and was sent to the front lines of the Algerian War. In 1959 he exhibited works at two Parisian galleries and at Juan-les-Pins on the Côte d'Azur. From 1961, he exhibited annually at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1962, the City of Paris purchased his painting Un dimanche In 1961, Serrier made his first visit to the United States to exhibit at a New York gallery. In 1975 and 1979, he had successful exhibitions in New Orleans, and his work was included in art and news magazines, including Time and Newsweek. Beginning in the 1950s, his works included stylized portraits similar in some ways to the "big eyes" art of Margaret Keane, though it is uncertain that either artist influenced the other. Keane painted children, and so did Serrier, sometimes from life, but Serrier’s models are usually somewhat older, though uniformly slender and with androgynous features. A gallery owner introduced Serrier to American collectors Edgar Garbisch and his wife, Bernice Chrysler (daughter of Chrysler founder Walter P. Chrysler), who had a particular interest in naïve art; they commissioned a series of portraits from Serrier. At the same time, he met Reine Ausset in Paris, who in 1961 invited him to New York to take part in an exhibition at Galerie Norval on 57th Street. The show also included work by Moïse Kisling, and the exhibition program explicitly linked the two artists, saying that Serrier, who considered Moise Kisling "the Master," had found his own technique, but "the same vision joins the grand Kisling to the young Serrier: plenitude of shapes, sureness of palette, precision in outlines." In the 1960s he began painting slender, young, androgynous figures in groups, set in sparse landscapes with suggestions of the surreal and sometimes wearing costumes of the Commedia dell'arte. In some of these paintings the eyes of the figures are completely black, a motif that would continue in his later work. In 1965, he exhibited at Forest and Reed Gallery in London. Also in 1965, he discovered the small town of Martel, and with his old roommate Jean-Baptiste Valadié purchased a house that they opened as the gallery La Licorne (The Unicorn) in 1967. Responding to the political upheavals of May 1968 in France, and following the advice of Geneva gallery owner Roger Ferrero, Serrier's work became increasingly complex, idiosyncratic, and surreal. Imagery included the Tower of Babel, bodies suspended in space, and crowds of people all dressed alike, with identical features and entirely black eyes. Mannequins, playing cards, nudes, and levitating orbs also figured in the work. In a nod to Magritte, his men sometimes wear bowler hats. Another influence may have been the works of the Franco-Belgian surrealist Gaston Bogaert (1918-2008). Serrier's first major exhibit of these works, in Geneva in 1971, was titled Le Réalisme Fantastique. (Magic Realism) In 1972, he was made a member of the Société du Salon d'Automne, under whose auspices he was invited by the Polish government to exhibit in Warsaw in 1973, as part of a cultural exchange across the Iron Curtain. In 1976, he served on the jury of the Salon d'Automne. In 1975, New Orleans gallery owner Kurt E. Schon brought his work to several cities in the United States. A copiously illustrated monograph in English, Surrealism and the Absurd: Jean Pierre Serrier, was published in 1977. Author Thomas M. Bayer wrote: Serrier's world is one where—to use Friedrich Nietzche's term—the "human herd animal" is being confronted with the overwhelming task of coping with the world, his solitude, and at times, his resignation in the face of its monstrous size and duration. It is a world where the characterless, "blind" man faces the institutions, rules and symbols that made him into the being he now is…But Serrier does not lose himself in this world he portrays. He never forgets the old French tradition, the "black" humor, à la Molière. This classical humor at times is more felt than seen, in a manner that can be terribly funny, because it is horrifying, laughable, poignant and always true. Serrier told a friend, "In each of my paintings there's a message of hope amid the crowd of stereotypical figures. It could be an escaping dirigible, or a nymphet who flees like a deer under the red and blue trees of paradise...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Seascape and Figural Original oil painting on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Seascape and Figural Original oil painting on Linen 1956 Solitary figure on wharf by California artist Robert Watson, painted 1956 (1923 - 2004)The following, is from To...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Vintage French Figurative Oil Painting "A Family Man s Fantasy"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5150 French oversized Surreal oil on canvas A Man's Fantasy Framed
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"The Child Star" Mid Century Portrait of a Boy with Brown Eyes Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Child Star" Mid Century Portrait of a Boy with Brown Eyes Oil on Canvas Stately portrait of a boy by William Robert Shulgold (Russian-American, 1897-1989). The subject is looki...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

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 ...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Oil, Watercolor, Gouache

Mid Century Impressionist Painting Portrait of a Green Eyed Brunette Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984) Medium: signed and dated 47' oil on board, unframed Size : 14 x 10.5 inches Double sided Provenance: private collection, France ...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of WW11 British Army Officer Soldier Antique English Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Army Officer *see notes below by Kathleen Emily Temple-Bird (British 1879 - 1962) oil painting on canvas , unframed canvas: 24 x 18 inches condition: very good, minor surface scu...
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English School Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Figure in Orange and Green- Mid Century Abstract Geometric Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
Figure in Orange and Green- Mid Century Abstract Geometric Composition Abstract oil painting of a figure in a geometric setting by Bay Area artist Helen Konkoff (American, 1912-1988...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Le Bateau Rouge a Alger - Post Impressionist Seascape Oil by Albert Marquet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on board seascape by French fauvist painter Albert Marquet. The piece depicts a view of the Mediterranean sea from the city of Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. In the...
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Fauvist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Nude Model - Oil Painting - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Model is an original modern artwork realied by Artist of the mid-20th Century. Mixed colored oil painting. Signature of the artist on the lower margin. Fair conditions due to...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Paris Montparnasse, the Bohemian life, the artist s model resting female nude
Located in Norwich, GB
this painting perfectly encapsulates the artistic Parisian Montparnasse bohemianism of the 1920s and 30s. We see a beautiful but certainly nonchalent woman seated on a day bed in the...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Mid Century French Expressionist Signed Oil Horse Racing Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Horse Race French expressionist artist, mid 20th century signed oil on artist paper, unframed artist paper: 20 x 25.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: ov...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

A Captivating Modern Seated Nude in a Studio Interior by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A captivating, Modern portrait painting of a female nude seated in a quiet studio interior by famed Chicago artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A sensitive, skilled portrait of ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Vibrant Cubist Portrait of a Musician with Guitar Mid 20th Century Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Portrait of a Musician Marcel Seignobos (1892-1972) signed oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 22 x 15 inches Provenance: private collection, Cote d'Azur, France Condition: very...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Waters of Leith Scottish Impressionist Signed Oil Painting 20th Century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Waters of Leith' (Scotland) by William B Dealtry (British 1915-2007): signed oil on board, framed framed: 10 x 14 inches board : 8 x 11 inches Inscribed verso with title Provenance:...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Mediterranean Painting of Lake Como in Italy by 20th Century American Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Mediterranean Painting of Lake Como in Italy by 20th Century American Artist, J W Wagner Art measures 28 x 20 inches Frame measures 33 x 25 inches Professionally cleaned and re-framed in a high quality shabby chic off-white moulding Early 20th Century Vintage Original Painting...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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