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Period: 1950s
Violin Practice, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 24.00" x 18.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 5, 1955.
The Post ...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
It Looked Bigger in the Brochure - Original Magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The illustration features a car salesman trying to talk a man into buying a very small red car whose license plate reads "Pikkolo"
This piece was featured as the cover illustration of both HÖRZU and Panorama in 1959.
Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
1951 Monhegan, Maine MUSHROOMS painting by Morris Shulman ex. Rehn Gallery
Located in Exton, PA
Wild period abstract expressionist painting by Morris Shulman. The painting is egg tempera on Masonite measuring 32" x 22". Signed M Shulman and dated '51 at the lower right. Titled...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Barbara Rohde (American, XX), Abstract Composition in Orange, Oil on Canvas, 1959-60, signed lower left, partial Art Students League of New York label to verso, wood frame. Image: 36...
Category
Post-War 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cover of Newsweek, Kruschev, Russia March 16th 1959
By Robert Engle
Located in Miami, FL
Cover of Newsweek, Kruschev, March 16th 1959
Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.),
Gouache on board
12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Signed Lower left
Powerful study of Russian ...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
To shed. Oil on cardboard. 21, 3 x 26, 8 cm
Located in Riga, LV
To shed. Oil on canvas. 21,3x26,8 cm
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$455 Sale Price
20% Off
Along the fence. Plywood, oil, 14x14 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Along the fence. Plywood, oil, 14x14 cm
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Plywood
$455 Sale Price
20% Off
Barnyard Scene
By Paul Rabut
Located in Fort Washington, PA
White Bread Advertisement
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Benjamin Franklin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Size: 42.00" x 37.00"
PRICE ON REQUEST-
This image was used in magazine advertisements and promotion...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"At the Port. Ship."
Located in Astoria, NY
Eric Rebane (Russian, 1922-1999), "At the Port. Ship.", Oil on Canvas, circa 1950, unsigned, with a Certificate of Authenticity from the International Art Fund to verso, giltwood fra...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Year of the Tempest
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original pulp paperback cover for The Year of the Tempest by Peter Matthiessen, published by Bantam, New York, 1957 (Bantam #A1578). This was the first paperback edition of the novel...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait. On a yellow background 1950
s, oil on cardboard, 49.5x35 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. On a yellow background
1950's, oil on cardboard, 49,5x35 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not ...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Djeuner Champtre
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marcel Dyf
French, 1899-1985
Djeuner Champtre
Oil on canvas
23 ½ by 28 ¾ in. W/frame 31 ½ by 36 ¾ in.
Signed lower left
Marcel Dyf (Marcel Dreyfus) was born in Paris on October 7,...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bold Color French Modernist Painting 1958 Signed Aldo Abstract Still Life
Located in Surfside, FL
Mid century modern art with inscription in french verso. It was traded with another artist.
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Gouache
The Head and the Heart, American Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Board
Dimensions: 10.25" x 12.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
The Head and the Heart, American Magazine story illustration, September 1951
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache, Board
Artist self-portrait
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Elisabeth DUJARRIC de LA RIVIÈRE
(Jouy-en-Josas 1930 – Excideuil 2005)
Artist's self-portrait
Oil on canvas
H. 171 cm; L. 70 cm
Signed on the back
Provenance: Private collection, Périgord
Born in the heart of the Bièvre valley, a few kilometers from Versailles...
Category
Cubist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Gods of Voodoo
By Harold McCauley
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Signature: Unsigned
Dimensions: Sight Size 18.00" x 24.00;" Framed 28.50" x 35.50"
Cover for Fate Magazine - August 1953
The original cover painting by H.W. McCauley used for the August 1953 cover of Fate (True Stories of the Strange and Unknown), illustrating "The Gods of Voodoo" by North Hildabrand. In this offering a dancing pin...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Part-Time Wife, paperback cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed lower right by Artist
This illustration was published as the paperback cover of Part-Time Wife by Gerald Foster (1953).
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Backwoods Hussy, Paperback Cover
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 22.25" x 16.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This classic Nappi painting was first published as the cover for Backwoods Hussy by Hallam Whitney (PBO, Original books...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Winter. Horse is Tired
By Aleksey Mihaylovich Starostin
Located in Houston, TX
Starostin, A.M. (1924 -1987) was a Russian artist from Moscow. In 1963, due to his recognized talent, he became a member of the Union of Painters of USSR. In 1950-1960 Starostin mast...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,800 Sale Price
43% Off
Harvesting, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right and dated 1950.
Edward J. Burns’ Harvesting, Cedar Rapids, Iowa captures the essence of rural American labor with striking realism and heartfelt reverence. Painte...
Category
Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
When Couples Meet, Ballantine Beer advertisement, 1953
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Center Right: John Clymer
Ballantine Beer advertisement, 1953
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Squares - Color Field Painting - like Mondrian
Located in Miami, FL
Squares is a bridge between Mondrian and the Hard-edge abstraction movement. Clearly, this is a very early work because the artist has not yet found his mature style. The flat squares of uneven proportion, are in a formal but off-axis vertical /horizontal grid structure. Perhaps it's the artists take on a "drunk Mondrian" where the squares stumble to align themselves. Each square shape is different in shape and color and with visible brushstrokes and light impasto. Look carefully at the gray squares. They all have a slightly different hue. The squares are all unique individuals and not a repetition To Goodnough this was his departure from his influencer.
Squares show the influence of his teachers including Hans Hofman...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Innocent Summer Fun Children Running at the Beach
Located in Miami, FL
The innocence of youth is personified in this charming painting, which depicts an older sister and younger brother running on the beach amidst crashing waves. The boy looks at the vi...
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Elegant woman portrait with scarf
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$13,766 Sale Price
20% Off
Town Square in Ecouen - Russian Ukrainian
Located in London, GB
This is an original Oil painting by Joseph Pressmane.
The work is hand signed and dated by the artist at the lower left part.
It was painted in 1957-58 in France.
The painting is furthermore titled verso.
Condition: Very good condition. Unexamined out of the frame.
Note: This lot will be shipped from Israel.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painter
s family. Oil on cardboard, 50x79, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Painter's family (Ed. Kalnins). Oil on cardboard, 50x79,5 cm
Category
Cubist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$2,373 Sale Price
20% Off
Memoirs Of Casanova, Paperback Cover
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover for The Memoirs of Casanova (Bantam books #FB-415, 1957): A New Edition of the French Translation by Lowell Blair
Memoirs of Casanova, Paperback Cover, 1957
Tom Lovell ha...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"I thought you didn
t go anywhere..." - Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The illustration shows a woman sitting in a chair next to a man lying on a sofa. The scene of the couple's living room is shown from above
Published as an illustration for Steve McN...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Cosi Fan Tutte Fleurdelise (original gouache on paper)
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique, one of a kind original gouache on paper from Harper's Bazar series. Hand signed lower front by Erte; titled with studio catalog number on verso. Sheet size 15 x 10.5 inch...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$2,962 Sale Price
25% Off
Kleine Metamorphose
Located in Wien, 9
Anton Krejcar (1923–1993) war ein österreichischer Maler, Graphiker und Mosaikkünstler, der in Wien geboren und gestorben ist. Er studierte von 1945 bis 1952 an der Akademie der bild...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Ink, Color Pencil
Daugava river. 1950, oil on cardboard, 46x37 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Daugava river. 1950, oil on cardboard, 46x37 cm
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J. Bine an...
Category
Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$835 Sale Price
20% Off
Futurist Vision - Mid-Century New York Skyline - Industrial Progress
Located in Miami, FL
Rarely do you come across a work of art that is vastly different than just about anything you see. This work is undeniably brilliant and a sheer pleasure to behold. Alexander Leydenfrost...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Graphite, Charcoal
Horses, Chicken, Ducks, Rooster and Pigs Children
s Book - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Cover illustration for mid-century children's book publisher Merril Publishers. Signed lower right. Unframed. Retta Scott or Retta Worcester was (February 23, 1916 – August 26, 1990) was an pioneering Female Illustrator / American artist. She was the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Scott worked on storyboards to develop scenes of Bambi, his mother, and the film’s hunting dogs, on which she spent weeks to develop them into “vicious, snarling, really mean beasts.” Male artists in the company were stunned who initially assumed that only a man could create drawings with such intensity and technical skill. Her sketches caught the eye of Disney, so when the film went into production, she was assigned to animate scenes of hunting dogs chasing Faline. She worked under the film's supervising director, David D. Hand,and was tutored by Disney animator Eric Larson. This was a significant coup for the young woman, since at the 1930s-era Disney studio, women were considered only for routine tasks: "Ink and paint art was a laborious part of the animation process, and was solely the domain of women..." Her promotion to animator was in part thanks to the success of herself and other women such as Bianca Majolie, Sylvia Holland, and Mary Blair as storyboard artists. Even after receiving a promotion to animator, she and her animations continued being under appreciated in the industry. Though the most recognized Walt Disney female artist is Mary Blair, it is Retta Scott who opened up the doors for women in the animation industry. She became the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator. By the spring of 1941, Scott was also considered a "specialist in animal sketches."
Scott helped produce Fantasia and Dumbo, as well as an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows that was later cancelled. She also made an appearance in The Reluctant Dragon...
Category
Feminist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Dressing Table, 20th Century British Oil
Located in London, GB
Charles McCall
1907 - 1989
The Dressing Table
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1951
Image size: 30 x 25 inches
Gilt frame
Charles McCall was born in Edinb...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Clifford Ellis Sheep Charcoal Drawing Modern British Art Mid Century Modern
Located in London, GB
From a series of paintings and drawings by Clifford Ellis and his wife Rosemary. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it clic...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Spectators Overflow, Collier
s Magazine Illustration
By Henry Clarence Pitz
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Spectators Overflowed onto the Senate Floor as Webster (left) Answered South Carolina's Ailing John C. Calhoun (right center, in court), Collier's Weekly November 25, magazine story illustration, 1955
Medium: Pen, Ink Wash, and Sepia on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Henry Clarence Pitz was an outstanding performer in several fields, including illustrating for magazines and books, teaching and lecturing, writing on art...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
Caught! Young Girl uses Doctors Bag to Patch Up her Doll - Alexander Sharpe Ross
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross is an artist of consummate skill and wit. This painting captures a young girl in a doctor's office without permission. A p...
Category
Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Triple Deity, 20th Century Egg Tempera
Located in London, GB
Francis Plummer
1930 - 2019
The Triple Deity
Egg Tempera on board, signed lower left
Image size: 24 x 20 inches
Gilt Framed
Plummer specialised in th...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Noir Crime Drama Shooting - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
By Thornton Utz
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post Illustrator Thornton Utz captures the peak moment of action in this Noir Crime Drama, Shooting illustration on an interior page in the famed magazine in 1958 —...
Category
American Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Frozen Laundry, Original Cover Illustration for The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The present work was illustrated on the cover of the March 8, 1952 edition of the Saturday Evening Post.
The Post writes, "When Stevan Dohanos was a little boy he was sometimes gran...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
House of Deceit, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.75" x 14.25"
Signature: Unsigned
This illustration was published as the cover for House of Deceit by Rae Loomis, Ace S-124, 1955.
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Fortune Teller by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
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The Fortune Teller by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₄ inches)
Signed and d...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nancy Huntly Trinity College Bridge Cambridge oil on canvas mid century
Located in London, GB
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Nancy Weir Huntly (1890-1963)
Trinity College Bridge Cambridge
Oil on canvas; framed in an antique-white-finished frame with gilt slip.
Signed ‘Huntly’
50x61cm
Born in India, in Nusserabad, Huntly studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in Dusseldorf. She lived in Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire, with her daughter, Faith Sheppard...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Geometric Abstract Oil
Collage Painting - Le Club 55
Located in Bristol, GB
LE CLUB 55
Size: 33 x 24 cm
Oil on canvas
Le Club 55 is a legendary and glamorous beach club in the south of France, and we can infer that the setting of the ...
Category
Modern 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Golden Egg, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1953
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 24.00" x 16.50"
This illustration was published as the paperback cover of The Golden Egg...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"As the summer wore on..." - Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The illustration features an older woman shooting a water gun into a little boy's face as two other little boys lay in the grass beside them.
Story illustration for "Adios, Miss Em" by J.H. Giles, published in McCalls, February 1958
The full caption reads: "As the summer wore on, she became accustomed to all their whimsical pretend games and learned to take part in them."
Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Stadium Party - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Stadium Party depicts at wholesome all-american tail gate party from the 1950's. Stadium Party
Circa 1950's
16 x 22
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower left , Condition is excellent, Work i...
Category
Realist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chinoiserie 3 Dragon Boat Flotilla
Located in Bristol, CT
Vibrant chinoiserie 3 dragon boat flotilla richly hand-painted in vibrant gouache colours
1950s
Art Sz: 14 3/4"H x 14 3/4"W
Frame Sz: 25 1/2"H x 25 1/2"W
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Lighthouse Keeper, Brant Point
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left ‘Stevan Dohanos’
Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Laid Down on Masonite
The present work was published as the cover illustration of the June 26th, 1954...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Board
The King
s Mistress
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
This illustration was published as the cover of The King's Mistress by Jean Plaidy, 1952.
Framed under glass to an overall size of 24.2...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid Century Framed Oil Painting, Abstract Coastal Landscape - Icy Winter
Located in Bristol, GB
Icy Winter
Size: 44 x 52 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A beautifully ethereal mid century modernist winter landscape scene, painted in oil onto canvas.
This semi abstract land...
Category
Abstract 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Storm Composition #3
Located in Miami, FL
An early example of Abstract Expressionism executed in 1955 during the movement's heyday and it's period of peak inventiveness. However, this work is still rooted in representation. The dark area the runs along the base of the picture is the ground and to the left, right and center there are black structures that represent trees. The work is very tactile and is composed of globs of paint that grow out from the surface and form a thick impasto. Rich vibrant saturated blues, reds and oranges create optical drama. The work look better in person. frame: 29 x 39 1/2 inches , Provenance: Kennedy Galleries
The Currier Gallery of Art...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flowers - Russian Art Judaica
By Mane Katz
Located in London, GB
This painting is hand signed in oil by the artist "Mane-Katz" in the lower right corner.
It was probably painted in the 1950's.
Provenance: Christie's, London, 3rd December 1999, lo...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape in Winter
Located in Miami, FL
At a time when Abstract Expressionism was raging, realist painterJohn Atherton nods his head to the movement with a semi-abstract work. Meticulously rendered and carefully thought o...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
“He pulled Francie through the crowd” Frantic Frontier illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Frantic Frontier” by Mosser Mauger for The American Magazine, published February 1956, pages 32-33.
The “Frantic Frontier” story, promoted with the tagline "...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Rajah of Sarawak - Mid-Century Mens Magazine - Pulp Adventure Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Male illustration Illustration - Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, KCB (29 April 1803[1] – 11 June 1868), was a British adventurer whose exploits in the Malay Archipelago...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Jerusalem by Ludwig Blum, landscape painting, figurative art
By Ludwig Blum
Located in London, GB
Jerusalem by Ludwig Blum
Oil on canvas
18 x 28.7 inches / 45.7 x 73cm
Signed
Painted circa 1955
Category
Naturalistic 1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Bullet for My Love, Paperback Cover
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 23.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This is the paperback cover for A Bullet For My Love by Octav...
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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