Mid-20th Century Paintings

Ornate Still Life of Classical Flowers by Frank Lonsdale, British early 20th century signed oil on board, unframed dated 1936 or 8 board : 28 x 25 inches Provenance: private collecti...

A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Te Pencke. Pencke was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His work is...

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...

Edwin B. Kelley Jr. (American). Monterey Bay Cyprus tree Landscape. Oil on panel measuring 12 x 16 inches. Unframed. Signed lower left.

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...

WILLIAM BAZIOTES Untitled Abstract Expressionist Mid Century Modern ink drawing with Estate COA, ca. 1955 Ink Drawing on Paper Signed lower right recto. Accompanied by letter of aut...

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Paul Briscoe, (British), signed & dated 1953 oil painting on board, unframed size: 40 x 30 inches condition: overall very good and presentable. provenance: from a private collection in England we can help arrange a suitable frame if buyers wish, prior to shipping. A magnificent large scale portrait of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Portraits of Her Majesty in private collections are exceedingly rare and adding to the importance of this work is the fact it was painted in the year of her Coronation, 1953. Her Majesty requires no introduction from us, but here is a quick reminder of the basic facts: Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms. Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth). Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, making Elizabeth the heir presumptive. She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince of Greece and Denmark...

Wonderful moody French landscape of country house and farm in Yonne by Ronald Greg (British/Canadian, b. 1929), 1969. Signed and dated lower right and on verso. Presented in vintage ...

The Fast Road to London Charming English Coaching Scene watched by the passing Hunt by Richard Simm (British, bn. 1926) signed oil on canvas with board backing, framed framed: 22 x 2...

A very interesting 1960's French oil on canvas portrait of a black man wearing a hat. The work is superbly painted and in very good original condition. Indistinctly signed lower righ...

The Artists Studio by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed on front and back oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 22 x 18 inches Colors: Red colors, brown, blue, white and o...

Le Marche by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018) signed verso oil on board, unframed board : 15 x 18 inches inscribed verso Provenance: the artists estate, France Conditio...

Antique American school abstract expressionist painting. Oil on board. Signed. In excellent original condition. Nicely framed in a period wood molding. Excellent condition, read...

L.W.Fraser English, mid 20th century The Scottish Terrier Original pastel drawing signed on artist paper Framed: 20.5 x 14 inches Glass covering Provenance: private collection, UK ...

Antique American abstract oil painting by Martin Rosenthal (1899 - 1974). Oil on board. Measuring 28 by 42 inches overall and 26 by 40 painting alone. Oil on board. Signed. In exc...

Really impressive early American modernist painting. Oil on board. Framed.

Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 30 x 40 Frame Size: 39 x 49 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dated 1957 "Bluebonnet Creek" Texas Hill Country Biography Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist who painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. Born in 1910 in Bastrop, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as landscape painter, Robert Wood. Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets". Salinas served in the military from 1943 to 1945. Although he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, he was allowed to live at home. At the fort, Colonel Telesphor Gottchalk assigned him to paint murals for the officer's lounge and various other projects, and Salinas continued to be able to paint during his entire conscripted period. Even before he achieved notoriety among galleries, dealers, and museums, Salinas was widely followed and appreciated by many Texans, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may be considered responsible for launching Salinas popularity beyond the boundaries of Texas. In 1973, Texas capital, Austin, honored Salinas for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas closer together with his paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas. From the years of the Great Depression through President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society of the 1960s, Texan Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) remained one of the Lone Star State's most popular artists. Today, his works remain popular with Texas collectors and those who love landscapes of the beautiful "Hill Country" that lies in the center of the state. One of the first Mexican American painters to become widely recognized for his art, Salinas was a favorite of President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as well as of Sam Rayburn, the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Texas Governor John Connelly. In fact, President Johnson was so enamored with his Salinas paintings that the artist will forever be associated with America's first Texas-born President. Works by Porfirio Salinas are in a number of museum collections, grace the halls of the Texas State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Austin, and are included in virtually every major private collection of Early Texas Art. Porfirio Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near the small town of Bastrop, Texas, about thirty miles from Austin. His father, Porfirio G. Salinas (1881-1967), and his mother, Clara G. Chavez, struggled to make a hardscrabble living as tenant farmers, but eventually were forced to give up farming. The family moved to San Antonio, where Salinas' father was able to get a job working as a laborer for the railroad, but the scenic area around Bastrop, with its pine trees and the wide expanse of the Rio Grande River, would forever remain a touchstone for the artist. For the rest of his life, Salinas and his brothers went back frequently to visit their grandmother in her little farmhouse. When in Bastrop, Porfirio painted on the banks of the Rio Grande or in the groves of pine trees. The Salinas family was close-knit and Porfirio was the middle child of five children, so he had an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother and sister. His mother was a native of Mexico, so throughout his childhood the family made the long drive to Mexico to visit Clara Salinas' family. As a child growing up in the bi-lingual section of San Antonio, Salinas drew and painted incessantly and by the time he was ten, he was already producing work that was mature enough to sell to his schoolteachers. Many years later in an article in the New York Times he was described as a "boy whose textbooks were seldom opened and whose sketchbook was never closed." Instead of studying, the young artist spent his spare time watching artists paint in and around San Antonio. As an aspiring painter, Salinas was fortunate to grow up in the historic city, which had the most active art scene in Texas. It was his exposure to older, professional painters that encouraged the precocious young painter to leave school early in order to help his family and pursue a career as a professional artist, despite his father's inability to see art as a career with any future for his son. When Salinas was about fifteen he came to know the artist Robert W. Wood (1889-1979). He met Wood while he was employed in an art supply store and he soon began to work as an assistant to the English-born painter, who had moved from Portland to San Antonio in 1924. Although the diminutive Englishman was already an established professional artist, he did not have a great deal of formal art training and so he was then studying with the academically trained Spanish painter Jose Arpa (1858-1952) in order to augment his knowledge and give his work a more polished look. Salinas was an eager young man, and while working in Wood's downtown San Antonio studio he learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the English artist. He began to accompany Wood and Arpa to the hills outside San Antonio, where they painted small Plein-air studies of fields of blue lupin - the state flower, the famous "Bluebonnets" of Texas - in the springtime and scenes of the gnarled Red Oaks as they changed color in the fall. He was soon assisting Wood in the tedious work of painting the tiny blue flowers that collectors wanted to see in the landscapes they purchased of central Texas. According to a 1972 newspaper story, "Legend has it that one day in the 1920s artist Robert Wood decided he could not bear to paint another bluebonnet in one of his landscapes. He hired young Porfirio Salinas to paint them in for him at five dollars a painting." Whether this story is accurate or apocryphal isn't clear, but the ambitious and independent young Salinas wasn't destined to be anyone's assistant for very long. The formative event of Porfirio Salinas' teenage years was the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, a Roaring-Twenties dream of the eccentric oilman Edgar B. Davis (1873-1951). These competitive shows of paintings of wildflowers and Texas life were mounted in San Antonio from 1927 to 1929. Held at the newly opened Witte Museum each spring, the exhibition featured large cash prizes donated by the philanthropic Davis, which were an inducement for artists to travel from all over the United States to paint in the Hill Country of Texas. The "Davis Competitions," as they were known, helped to cement San Antonio's reputation as an art center, a legacy that remains with the "River City" today. The shows generated a great deal of excitement in the area, helping to make celebrities of the some of the artists who had already settled there and encouraging others to make San Antonio their home. Over the three years that the wildflower competitions were held, more than 300 paintings were exhibited, and many thousands of viewers saw the paintings at the Witte Museum and on tours throughout the state and in New York. Each year Davis would generously purchase the winning paintings and then donate them to the San Antonio Art League. Young Porfirio Salinas would have been able to not only watch his two mentors - Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa - paint the works that they entered in the Davis Competitions, he would have been able to see Arpa take several of the major prizes, receiving the judge's accolades for "Verbena," "Cactus Flower" and "Picking Cotton," works that are still on view at the San Antonio Art League Museum today. Unfortunately, Davis eventually put his donations to work in other charitable endeavors, bringing to an end the wildflower events, but only after they inspired Salinas and other young painters and had helped to make wildflower paintings the most sought-after subject for traditionalist Texas collectors. In 1930, when he was only twenty, Salinas hung out a shingle and began to paint professionally, augmenting the sales of his easel paintings with what little business he could garner by painting signs for local concerns. It was a struggle for the young artist to make a living, as the effects of the Great Depression were settling in. His early works are very similar to those of Robert Wood's, both in subject matter and treatment. Salinas did small paintings of Bluebonnets for the tourists who visited San Antonio to see the famous Alamo as well as paintings of the Texas missions...

Vintage Landscape oil painting of a woman feeding chickens. Post-impressionist mid-century oil on wood framed farmyard painting by French artist, R...

Fantastic estate find, Hillside in Galilee by Arieh Allweil. A beautiful expressionist painting by an exceptional artist. Oil on board, signed lower right, 15" x 11" painting, 20" x ...

Sam Gilliam Untitled Abstract Expressionist mixed media painting on paper, Ex-Museum of Modern Art Collection, 1968 Watercolor and Aluminum Paint on Fiberglass Paper. (Framed with Mu...

Lucien Neuquelman, French (1909 - 1988) - Spring Walk, Year: 1938, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated lower right, Size: 13 x 9.5 in. (33.02 x 24.13 cm), Frame Size: 20.5 x ...

Nicely painted mid century impressionist oil painting by Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011). Oil on board. Housed in a nice giltwood impressionist frame. Signed.

Mid-century oil on canvas of a summer scene on the Côte d'Azur. The work is signed but the artist unknown. This artwork is a vibrant and eclectic composition that captures the essen...

Vintage American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 15 by 18 inches overall, and 11 by 14 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Handso...

Bouquet of Roses by Harry Freckleton (English, 1890 - 1979) signed oil on board, framed : 25 x 21 inches board : 20 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection, Derbyshire, England C...

From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedman Opper Black Floor c. 1940-1950's Gouache on Paper 15" x 18" Unframed *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing time between 3-5 weeks. From the estate of Ruth Friedmann Opper & Jerry Opper. Ruth was the daughter of Bauhaus artist, Gustav Friedmann. San Francisco Abstract Expression A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complacency. Abstract Expressionism resulted from a broad collective impulse rather than the inspiration of a small band of New York artists. Documenting the interchanges between the East and West Coasts, she cites areas of mutual influence and shows the impact of San Francisco on the New York School, including artists such as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. San Francisco's Beat poets...

A important American Impressionist painting by Isabella Howland (1895-1974), "Ocho Rios", Jamaica, 1940. Howland was active in both Boston & New York, this impressionistic painting d...

'Boats on a Pond', oil on canvas, by Charles Kvapil (circa 1930s). This tranquil artwork depicts people fishing from their small boats. The motionless pond is surrounded by lush foliage with some homes as backdrop. The painting is spattered with light. With hardly any air moving in the scene, the still water plays...

Antique American modernist signed abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.

Mediterranean: Pointe du Mourillon in Toulon, c. 1935 Oil on canvas Signed on the right On canvas 46 x 55 cm (c. 18 x 22 in) Interesting canvas depicting Pointe du Mourillon in Tou...

This stunning Modernist Untitled Color Field Oil Painting in Earth Tones signed Herbert MacDonald originates from the United States, Circa 1968. Features a rectangular composition in...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.

The Old Village English School, circa 1931 signed oil on board, framed dated 1931 framed: 15 x 12.5 inches board: 12.5 x 10 inches Provenance: private collection, England Condition: ...

Artist: Charles Cobelle, French (1902 - 1994) Title: Monument Year: circa 1960 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm) Frame: 28.75 x 33 inches

Mid century still life of bronze chrysanthemums with yellow draping backing. This piece is rendered in warm tones, as if flooded by later afternoon summe...

Meyer LAZAR (1923-1995) Israel : Sunset on the Lake of Galilee, 1968 Original oil on canvas Signed lower right Titled on the back On canvas 55 x 46 cm (c. 22 x 18in) Excellent cond...

Beach Landscape by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) stamped verso oil painting on board, unframed board: 18 x 25.5 inches Colors: Blue colors, yellow, beige, red, white and brown Very good condition Provenance: from the artists estate, France Josine Vignon (1922-2022) was a French artist living on the Rue Beautreillis in the Marais district of Paris. She painted with a beautiful style, largely influenced by the Impressionist and Post Impressionist techniques, but adding her own distinctive style and technique to each painting. Vignon's works carry tremendous energy and enthusiasm, often painted with very thick impasto oil...

Antique American school modernist watermelon still life pastel painting. Pastel on paper. Signed. Framed. Measuring 18 by 22 inches overall and 16 by 20 painting alone.

Unknown and unsigned painting of a bright beach scene with bold colors and 1980's inspired shapes. Image Size: 47.5 x 35.5 inches Frame Size: 50 x 3...

Mural Study for "History of Water" American Scene Modernism Social Realism WPA Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) "Water Story" (Study for The History of Water) Tempera and o...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Ervin B. Nussbaum (1914 - 1996). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Dated 1950. Artist Bio: Ervin B. Nussbaum was born in Co...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on thick board unframed: 8 x 8 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we have fo...

Antique American school signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 19L x 13H.

Still Life of Flowers by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed on front and back inscribed verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 21.5 x 18 inches Colors: Red colors, blu...

Claude Benard (1926-2016, French), signed Portrait of a Fashionable Young Lady oil painting on canvas, unframed, signed upper corner painting: 32 x 24 inches provenance: the artists ...

Antique American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

PASSING MOMENTS Size: 51 x 59.5 cm (including frame) Oil on board A mid-century painting that captures a fleeting atmospheric street scene, executed in oil onto board. The composit...

Sunset by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 28.5 x 36 inches very good condition provenance: the artists estate, Paris Josine Vignon ...

Incredible early American modernist still life oil painting. Housed in a great antique giltwood frame. Oil on board.

Mid 20th Century sgraffito work on plaster by Jean Pierre de Cayeux. The work is signed and dated on the skirt of the card player, bottom right, and on the stretcher of the chair, bo...

A Vibrant, Colorful 1950s Mid-Century Modern Harbor Scene of Martha's Vineyard by Famed Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A busy harbor scene of docks and boat houses,...

A beautiful large mid 20th century oil on canvas depicting a moonlit coastal seascape by Arnold Beardsley. The work is signed lower right and presented in a gold frame with swept co...

Signed oil on canvas board figures in cityscape circa 1940 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Cortes. The work depicts an autumnal scene of the the Arc de Triomphe,...

Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 63 x 72 x 5 cm

An exceptional impressionistic depiction of an afternoon at the Waterfront Cafe in Paris by Jules René Hervé. This piece takes place on a summer day with busy activities of figures l...

Very impressive signed 1967 abstract landscape. Appears to be an abstract coastal scene. Framed.

Modern Abstract Year: 1960-1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right Size: Abstract oil on canvas by Lee Reynolds was a popular artist in the 1960s known for oversized, color...

Still Life by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed on front and back inscribed verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 21.5 x 18 inches Colors: Red colors, brown , yellow...

'Corsican Chestnut Trees', oil on canvas, by Charles Kvapil (1933). The artist, Kvapil, has many artworks which depict scenes in nature such as this one....

A captivating 1944 oil on board, still-life painting of the artist's studio by Harold Haydon. The painting is framed in a dark brown, painted wood frame. Artwork size: 10" x 13 1...