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Period: 1950s
Portrait of a Young Woman - Mid 20th Century French Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful signed and dated 1957 French oil on canvas portrait of a young woman wearing a red dress,
Artist: French School, mid 20th century
Title: Portrait of a Young Woman
Medium...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Coat - Mid-Century Figurative American Painting. Woman in New York City.
Located in Marco Island, FL
American life is captured in this Clyde Singer painting, Red Coat, where he depicts a woman walking down the street towards her destination in 1956. An accomplished American Scene pa...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vertumnus, Oil Painting by William Skilling, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Skilling, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Title: Vertumnus
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 42 in. x 36 in. (106...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s Martini Cocktail Party Art Kitschy Music Drinking Dancing
Located in Miami, FL
Today's highly touted ultra-contemporary fine art market has crashed. Why? The artist's lack of talent, concepts, and basic technical skills was overrated and, in some cases, acutely...
Category
American Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
In The Bride
s Shop, Lord
Taylor - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right
Printer's and designer's marks in margins
"Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom."
Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Harlequin and his dog", 20th Century oil on cardbard by Ismael de la Serna
Located in Madrid, ES
ISMAEL GONZÁLEZ DE LA SERNA
Spanish, 1898 - 1968
HARLEQUIN AND HIS DOG
Signed and dated I. de la Serna, 1955
Oil on cardboard
42 X 27-1/2 i...
Category
Symbolist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Spanish grape picker oil on canvas painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Lafuente - Grape harvester - Oil on canvas
Spanish school signed "Lafuente".
Oil measures 61x50 cm.
Frameless.
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This painting is as much about the artist's brilliant painting skills and technique as it is about the subject matter. Sundblom's quick bravura brush strokes seem abstract on close i...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chinese woman portrait with two fennec foxes
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
French School, circa 1950
Portrait of a Chinese Woman with Two Fennec Foxes
Oil on cardboard
H. 60 cm; W. 50 cm
Circa 1950
This painting depicts a young woman with a calm face and t...
Category
French School 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Untitled
Located in Westmount, QC
Berthe Des Clayes 1877-1968 Canadian
Untitled
Pastel on paper
10 x 12 in
signed
framed
For our US customers:
1) The artwork is shipped from Montreal, Canada;
2) Please note that t...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Treachery in Trieste, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1954
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 24.75" x 15.5"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This illustration was published as the paperback cover of Treachery in Trieste by Charl...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Arnolt Bristol - Blue Sports Car Mid-Century Good Life - Playboy Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
The punchline on many of these 1950s cartoons fades, but the visuals more than hold up - they shine.
The sleek, graphic style of painting with flat, broad areas of color shows that ...
Category
American Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Ice Cream Picnic by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Ice Cream Picnic by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on board
101 x 76 cm (39 ¾ x 29 ⅞ inches)
Signed and dated lower left Orovida 1953
Provenance
Richard Pissarro, gifted by the ar...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Portrait Oil Painting - Paul
Located in Bristol, GB
PAUL
Size: 58.5 x 53 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A striking and expressive mid-century portrait painting, executed in oil onto canvas.
The composition depicts a male figure ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950
s French Modernist/ Cubist Painting, Bearded Man Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache painting on board, unframed
size: 13.5 x 9.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enj...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$123 Sale Price
40% Off
"Figure de Notier" framed, signed oil on canvas painting by artist Max Papart
By Max Papart
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Figure de Notier" oil on canvas painting of a human figure by Max Papart. Signed Max Papart on front. Signed and titled "Max Papart Figure de Notier" on back. Additional markings o...
Category
Abstract 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Boy, Titled "Boy", Original Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Boy, Titled "Boy", Original Impressionist Oil Painting
By the British artist, JM Green, Mid 20th Century
Signed and titled 'Boy' verso
Oil painting on board, unfr...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman with Pitcher oil on canvas painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Woman with Pitcher
Artist: Antoni Valls Bordoy (1909–1994)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 35 x 27 cm (13.8 x 10.6 in)
Support: Canvas with Casa Teixidor (Barcelona) sta...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$500 Sale Price
30% Off
Obelisk - Muslim Woman Hijab, Mid-Century Architectural Forms - Brazilian Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Brazilian/ American Artist William Schock paints a portrait of a Muslim woman in a Hijab gazing directly at the viewer. She is set against an obelisk and an arch in a well-balanced c...
Category
Color-Field 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Children
s Coloring Book Cover Art - Merrill Company - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Children's Coloring Book Cover Art - Merrill Company - Female Illustrator
Board 20 x 14.75, Publisher's Stamp lr recto, publication instruction recto verso
Betty Anne Gartrell inscr...
Category
Feminist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board, Pencil
Red Women - like Gertrude Abercrombie - Surrealist Women Artists
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Somewhat like Gertrude Abercrombie but the work is better painted, conceived, and designed - Magazine Illustration. Most likely for: Good Housek...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Market Seller in Nice
French Vintage Gouache Painting
Located in London, GB
'The Market Seller in Nice', gouache on paper, by Alfred Salvignol (circa 1950s). The role of women as support to their families has been both very important and highly undervalued b...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$626 Sale Price
30% Off
Sailors in the Port of Nice
Located in London, GB
'Sailors in the Port of Nice', mixed media - gouache, pastel and oil on paper, by Alfred Salvignol (circa 1950s). The Port of Nice is one of the key hubs of Nice and, in fact, of the entire French Riviera, standing out as one of the main harbours for the boats which sail across the Mediterranean Sea. It accommodates both the ships operated by ferry companies and the private yachts of visitors who come to Nice by sea. The artist here depicts a group of crusty sailors watching...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil, Gouache
$495 Sale Price
60% Off
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Dark Haired Exotic Vailed Woman Portrait"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5183 Vintage painting of a vailed dark haired exotic woman
Set in a modernist gilt frame
Image size 19.5x15.5"
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Framed Oil Painting - The Children
Located in Bristol, GB
THE CHILDREN
Size: 36.5 x 66 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A richly textured and endearing mid century modernist style figurative portrait, painted in oil onto board.
Rendered ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Sybyl in Red - British Post Impressionist 1950
s art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This interesting British Post Impressionist portrait oil painting is by noted female artist Pauline Glass. The Sitter is Sybyl, details verso. Painted circa 1950 it is a head and sho...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Classic 1950s Husband and Wife and Gagged Parrot, Esquire Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Works by this female artist are scarce and rarely come to market.
Juliette Kida Renault (as JKR) Esquire Magazine Illustration Original Art (Hearst, ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
Sombre Gentlemen, Mid 20th C. Male Portrait, Original Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sombre Gentlemen, Male Portrait, Original Impressionist Oil Painting
British School, Mid 20th Century
Oil painting on board, unframed
Board size: 18 x 24 inches
Incredibly stylish p...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
School of Paris, Barbara, Oil on Canvas, 1950s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
This captivating 1950s oil on canvas portrait, possibly depicting the French singer Barbara, exudes an air of mystery and existential reflection. While the identity of the subject re...
Category
Neo-Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tales of the Arabian Nights with Flying Carpet - Random House Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Miami, FL
Gustaf Tenggren- Attributed This masterfully designed and graphic interpretation of the Arabian Nights saga features a monumental figural profile while small figures float above on a magic carpet. Gustaf Tenggren (American 1896-1970) Attributed - We are not certain if Tenggren did this work. There is stylistic evidence to support Tenggren. It's the brilliance factor of how he assembles all the elements of the work and composes it into a cogent and readable form. This says Tenggen. As a former New York advertising agency art director, I have seen artists work in different styles. Usually this is not the case but great artist can do it. Their styles can change but the brilliance remains.
Untitled
Untitled
1957
Gouache on illustration board - Unframed
Not signed
9 x 7.25 live - 10.5 x 9.5 board
Original book illustration...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Vintage Modernist Surreal "Metamorphosis" Still Life Exhibited Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist surreal interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 27 by 30 inches overall. Hands...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thumbkin Children
s Nursery Rhyme Hans Christian Andersen
Located in Miami, FL
English Illustrator Barbara C. Freeman depicts Thumbkin resting on the edge of the petals of a White Water-Lily. She's taking in the scenery as a yellow butterfly takes flight. It w...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Board, Pencil
Love Story Couple in Romantic Bliss Illustration - Mid Century
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
A handsome man and a beautiful woman are depicted in a rapturous pose. Their bodies are intertwined with each other and with the surrounding floral elements. This masterfully render...
Category
Romantic 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
$14,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Sexy French Cabaret Dancers - Folies Bergere Pulp Paperback Book Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Campy and sexy illustration of two French chorus girls for the mid-century Avon paperback Les Girls.
Story of the Folies Bergere Unsigned and unframed.
George Ziel...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Board
Portrait of a Man by Swedish Artist Martin Eder, 1954, Gouache on Masonite
By Martin Eder
Located in Stockholm, SE
Martin Eder was a Swedish drawing teacher, artist and ceramicist. Martin was born on the island of Gotland and spent a lot of time there, he also lived in Sala. Martin was a curious ...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Gouache
Surrealist Portrait - Original OIl Paint on paper, SIGNED
By Simon Hantaï
Located in Paris, IDF
Simon HANTAI
Surrealist Portrait, 1950
Original OIl Paint on paper
Signed and dated in the upper right corner
On paper 34 x 24 cm (c. 14 x 10 in)
Created for the artist exhibition a...
Category
Abstract 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Man Down and Out on His Luck
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5106 Down and out oil on board by Westhayer 1957
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vicente Cristellys, Oil on canvas "Gina Lollobrigida", Late 1950s
By Vicente Cristellys
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Vicente CRISTELLYS (1898-1970), School of Paris, late 1950s. "Lolo", portrait of Gina Lollobrigida in Notre-Dame de Paris (film).
Arriving in Paris during the 1920s, Vicente Cristellys settled in Montparnasse like many of his colleagues from the Ecole de Paris. He paints characters and scenes largely inspired by his native Spain. It was after a bohemian period that he began to illustrate cinema posters and he managed to settle in the Parisian cinematographic milieu. For example, he will sign posters for The Big Sleep, The Man in The iron mask...
Category
Neo-Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950
s French Modernist / Cubist Painting, Male Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French, mid-20th century)
Original watercolour/ gouache painting on paper, mounted on board, unframed
Size: 13 x 10 inches
Condition: very good and...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$157 Sale Price
40% Off
Below Deck
By Tom Lovell
Located in Miami, FL
Charles Martignette
Heritage Auctions, This is a Wonderfully rendered work with high level of detail and color saturation. Norman Rockwellesqu...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of Young Girl Gouache Painting by Max Moreau, circa 1950
By Max Moreau
Located in Atlanta, GA
1950s Portrait in Gouache by Belgian Artist Max Moreau (1902–1992)
A beautifully executed mid-century portrait depicting a young girl with gentle features and a serene expression, ev...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Woman in Horror and Terror at Gunpoint
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right.
Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.'
Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint
Category
American Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Crystal City - Pushed Color Greens and Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
This is most likely a self-portrait. We see the artist in a reflection holding a small 1950s camera while his wife in the foreground holds a large bran...
Category
Fauvist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Banana Plantation Guadeloupe II
Located in London, GB
'The Banana Plantation Guadeloupe II', oil on canvas, by Robert Humblot (1959). The second in a series of artworks completed in 1959 when the artist vis...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,410 Sale Price
30% Off
Portrait of Mythological Figure
Located in Miami, FL
Works on Paper, watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper
Robert L. B. Tobin Foundation San Antonio, Texas
initialed in cartouche bottom center
Category
Surrealist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mid Century Native American Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century Native American portrait by B. Shepard (American, 20th Century). Signed "B. Shepard" lower middle. Unframed. Currently on a mat, ...
Category
American Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Woman praying oil on canvas painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Frame size 70x61 cm.
José Muntané Balaguer (1889 - 1963)
Immerse yourself in the spiritual beauty of "Woman Praying," a sublime work by the acclaimed Spanish artist José Muntané Balaguer. This oil on canvas captures the serenity and introspection of faith, showcasing a masterful use of light and shadow reminiscent of great masters such as Joaquín Sorolla, Ignacio Zuloaga, and even the emotional restraint of Diego Velázquez in his most intimate portraits.
The painting depicts the purity of a devotional moment, where the female figure seems to transcend the canvas, inviting the viewer to reflect on spirituality and human connection. The meticulous attention to detail and subtlety in expressions place Muntané Balaguer in the tradition of artists who immortalized scenes of everyday life with unique sensitivity, much like Julio Romero de Torres...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$894 Sale Price
42% Off
Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Tie
French School (1956)
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Tie', gouache and ink on art paper, French School (1956). Step into the world of mid-20th century European art with a striking portrait that capture...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
$578 Sale Price
30% Off
Sexy Blond Falls from Window - Noir Pulp Art
By Harry Barton
Located in Miami, FL
There is plenty of B-movie-like pulp illustration art out there to consider. This work, however, is fundamentally different. The main point about the Harry Barton...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Surreal Illustration - Glamorous Blond at the Piano
By Jon Whitcomb
Located in Miami, FL
Today's newly minted fine art stars are from the mid-century surrealism school and include Gertrude Abercrombie, Remedios Varo, and Leonora Carrington, who were mostly unknown five y...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Mixed Media
Vintage American Modernist Artist Studio Fauvist Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American fauvist interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 29 by 25 inches overall, and 20 by 24 painting alone. Handsomely framed in wide modern wood m...
Category
Fauvist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Guinovart. Thoughtful Man Black and White. drawing on cardboard
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Guinovart. Thoughtful man. black and white. drawing on cardboard
Josep Guinovart i Bertran (Barcelona 1927-2007) was a painter, draftsman and engraver from Catalonia, Spain.
After ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Vintage Artist’s Self Portrait Oil Painting - Urban vs Rural Social Commentary
Located in Baltimore, MD
Baltimore-born Thaddeus Haduch was mainly known as a landscape artist. He was born to Polish immigrant parents in East Baltimore in 1905. It seems that he lived his entire life in a...
Category
American Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Portrait of a Man”
Located in Southampton, NY
Powerful oil on board original painting of a portrait of a man’s head by the American National Academy artist John R. Grabach. Signed lower left, “John R.Grabach N.A.” Signed verso ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$2,720 Sale Price
20% Off
Woman in Aqua
, De Young, Oakland Museum, LACMA, CWS, AWS, San Francisco
By Jade Fon Woo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jade Fon' for Jade Fon Woo (American, 1911-1983) and painted circa 1955.
A charming and character-filled study of a young woman, shown brimming with life and h...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Augustus John
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Augustus Edwin John O.M. R.A. 1878-1961, was a Welsh born painter, draughtsman and etcher. He was the most important artist of his generation, his sister Gwen John was also an accom...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman with Scarf - Christo 1955 Oil on Cardboard
Located in Sofia, BG
49.5 x 35 cm
Artwork unsigned - Christo 1955
Provenance
Private collection, Bulgaria
This artwork hasn't been exposed for 70 years.
This portrait artwork had been awarded with the ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Dama con estola - Óleo sobre tabla
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado por el artista en la parte inferior
Estado de conservación bueno
La obra se presenta enmarcada (leves faltas en la enmarcación)
Medidas obra: 62 cm altura x 51 cm ancho.
...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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