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Gloom - Original Pencil Drawing by S. Goldberg - 1940
By Simon Goldberg
Located in Roma, IT
. The artwork represents a portrait of a man with a sense of deep sadness and concern in his face
Category

1940s Contemporary Vintage Sadness

Materials

Pencil

Modern Colored Pencil Drawing Portrait by Gillian Lefkowitz
Located in Pasadena, CA
good decorator, I am sad she does not paint anymore!
Category

Late 20th Century American Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Wood, Paper

Pair of Black Model 5615 Rigitulle Sconces by J. Biny for Lita - France 1950s
Located in New York, NY
exhibits regularly at the Salon des artistes décorateurs (SAD) or at Salon des arts ménagers (SAM). In
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1950s Vintage Sadness

Materials

Steel

Comedy And Tragedy Face Sterling Silver Brooches Pair
Located in Miami Beach, FL
smiling face represents happiness, laughter and comedy. The smaller face represents tragedy, sadness, and
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20th Century Mexican Vintage Sadness

Materials

Sterling Silver

Men - Pair of Original Monotype Woodcuts - Mid 1900
Located in Roma, IT
dimension: 43.5x 28 cm. The artworks are strongly represented as the expressionistic style of art, sadness
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Woodcut

Portrait - Original Etching by Pierre Guastalla - 20th Century
By Pierre Guastalla
Located in Roma, IT
preservation is very good. The artwork represents the portrait of a woman with deep sadness in her face
Category

20th Century Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Etching

Marc Chagall - The Bible - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
incapacitated with grief. His sadness at the loss of his wife would haunt Chagall for years to come, as
Category

1950s Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Bible - Boaz wakes up and sees Ruth - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
incapacitated with grief. His sadness at the loss of his wife would haunt Chagall for years to come, as
Category

1960s Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Lithograph

The Profile - Pencil on Ivory Paper - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
of a man with sadness in his look delicately depicted through confident and precise pencil strokes
Category

1950s Vintage Sadness

Materials

Pencil

Terry O Neill - Audrey Hepburn With Dove - signed limited edition later print.
By Terry O Neill
Located in London, GB
sign many prints in advance and so, since his sad passing, these prints are now extremely rare. THE
Category

1960s Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

The Happy Couple, Mid Century Surrealist Fantasy Landscape by Ohio artist
By Mary Spain
Located in Beachwood, OH
these figures to express her feelings of pain and sadness. While her deeply personal vocabulary and
Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Oil

Mountainous Landscape, Mexico
Located in Fairlawn, OH
particularly impressed with his female nudes, which are generally have an introspective quality but not sad or
Category

1960s Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Monotype

Jean-Claude Duboys, Pair of A1 Armchairs, France, 1980
By Jean-Claude Duboys
Located in Catonvielle, FR
. International Furniture Fair, Milan, 1982. Salon SAD, society of the decorating artists, Paris 1983
Category

1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Maple

Gruen 10k Gold Filled Art Deco Watch
By Gruen
Located in Long Beach, CA
innovative and offered great service to their customers. It is sad that they could not, like so many other
Category

1940s American Art Deco Vintage Sadness

Materials

Gold-filled

SOUMBA occasional table by Mathieu Matégot
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in PARIS, FR
Artistes Décorateurs (SAD), between 1952 and 1958, he regularly exhibited at the Salon des Arts Ménagers
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1950s French Vintage Sadness

Materials

Metal

Course de Chevaux a Longchamp (Horses Race in Longchamp)
By Gabriel Dauchot
Located in San Francisco, CA
Dauchot's work "a sad countryside populated by pitiful beings, halfway between drama and derision, a
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Oil

Andy Warhol Fiorucci 1986 Press Release
By Andy Warhol
Located in NEW YORK, NY
products, vintage clothing, music and home décor. Here, following the sad news of Fiorucci's death at the
Category

1980s Pop Art Vintage Sadness

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Erte Romain De Tirtoff "The Hunting" Bronze Sculpture
By Erté
Located in North Bergen, NJ
Hunting is infused with the sadness that Erte associates with autumn. This has also been interpreted in
Category

Late 20th Century Art Deco Vintage Sadness

Bronze "Daphne" Sculpture on Marble Base by Thomas McKnight
By Thomas McKnight
Located in San Diego, CA
sadness of time passing.” Born in 1941 in Lawrence, KS, McKnight received his formal training at Wesleyan
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Late 20th Century American Vintage Sadness

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Terry O Neill - Dean Martin Backstage - signed limited edition
By Terry O Neill
Located in London, GB
. *Note that Terry did not sign many prints in advance and so, since his sad passing, these prints are now
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1970s Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

C Print, Color

Woman with her Husband in the Garden by Stella Steyn, 1929 circa
By Stella Steyn
Located in Kingsclere, GB
, accompanying himself, he sang some melancholy Irish songs in a low, sad, voice. I said "You must miss Ireland
Category

20th Century Vintage Sadness

Materials

Lithograph

Modernist Portrait of a Woman
By Margaret Keane
Located in Milford, NH
sad eyes, reflecting her time with her husband, but after the divorce, her style brightened
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Space And Space" - 1988 Offset Lithograph on Paper
By Susumu ENDO
Located in Soquel, CA
; Yugoslavia Gallery of Contemp. Art in Novi Sad; Yugoslavia Bharat Bhavan, Roopankar Art Mus;, India Ukraina
Category

1980s Impressionist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Paper, Ink, Lithograph

MAD #508 "John Boo-Hoo Boehner The Weeper of the House
By Richard Williams
Located in Fort Washington, PA
House'" Illustration Original Art (EC/Warners, 2011). The comically sad expression on Richard Williams
Category

20th Century Other Art Style Vintage Sadness

Materials

Board, Canvas, Oil

Cathedral in Venice, large 20th century oil painting, Italian-American artist
By Louis Bosa
Located in Beachwood, OH
expressionistic, and border on caricature. "People are so funny at times they are sad," he said: The people in his
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Oil

Enlévement de Chloé, from Daphnis and Chloé
By Marc Chagall
Located in Palo Alto, CA
this sad but glorifying couple. Chagall became engrossed in the rich literature of late antiquity
Category

1960s Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Lithograph

Moschino Cheap Chic 1990s Smile and Frown Face Vest Green with Stripe Back
By Moschino
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage Moschino Cheap & Chic 1990s green vest featuring a happy face on one side and a sad face on
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1990s Italian Vintage Sadness

Large Drawing of Boy by French Armenian Modernist Jean Jansem Ecole De Paris Art
By Jean Jansem
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian) 1920-2013 Young Boy (sad young man) Hand signed lower left
Category

1960s Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Paper, Ink

Still Life with Jugs, Oil on Canvas by Stella Steyn, 1951
Located in Kingsclere, GB
over his hands, accompanying himself, he sang some melancholy Irish songs in a low, sad, voice. I said
Category

20th Century Vintage Sadness

Materials

Canvas

Pair of genre portrait paintings by Italian artist Giovanni Bragolin
Located in London, GB
extreme poverty; each boy cries with sadness at his condition, dressed in tattered clothes and with a
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20th Century Vintage Sadness

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Simon Charlie 9 Foot "Pole of Wealth" TOTEM
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d Alene, ID
marks on the bear are identical to this totem. Also, the happy and sad faces are almost identical
Category

Mid-20th Century American Native American Vintage Sadness

Materials

Wood

Les Femmes d Alger - L Héritage De Delacroix (after) Pablo Picasso, 1964
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
connected with a sad event. His friend and rival in the art world Henri Matisse died in 1954. One of the his
Category

1960s Vintage Sadness

Materials

Lithograph

Rabbi in Study
By Avraham Goldberg
Located in Surfside, FL
sadness. This is a Jewish painter at his entity, his topics and his spirituality. During his lifetime
Category

20th Century Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Oil, Board

Sulamith: Love Songs Sulamith Wulfing Vintage Wall Plates Bradex
Located in Bastogne, BE
, anxiety for loved ones, for the soul falling into the shadow of darkness, the sacrament, sadness, and
Category

1990s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Porcelain

Terry O Neill - Backyard Beatles - hand signed limited edition Oversize
By Terry O Neill
Located in London, GB
his sad passing, these prints are now extremely rare. Ships from London. Framing options also
Category

1960s Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Original French Mid Century Post-Impressionist Oil Pink Flowers in Blue Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
the sadness of the suburbs, melancholy portraits, and several medals for the Monnaie de Paris. The
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1980s Post-Impressionist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Oil

Large Platter by Birger Kaipiainen for Rörstrand in Limited Edition 294/500
By Birger Kaipiainen, Rörstrand
Located in Stockholm, SE
manifested as sadness and longing in his early works. They are dominated by ethereal, fairy-tale-like
Category

1960s Finnish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Porcelain, Stoneware

Cyclist - Original Etching by Giuseppe Viviani - 1955
By Giuseppe Viviani
Located in Roma, IT
engraver. His figures are characterized by stylized silhouettes, big and sad eyes and bright colors. Image
Category

1950s Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Etching

Late 20th Century Abstract Oil on Canvas " Flowers ".
Located in Cotignac, FR
the Titovs were often placed in psychiatric clinics, particularly the Kaschenk clinic of sad repute
Category

1970s Abstract Vintage Sadness

Materials

Canvas, Oil

THE PUPPET SHOW ..Roy Petley contemporary British
By Roy Petley
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
ruin,” he tells me. “I felt very sad about its state. I walked around it; it was all open and broken
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20th Century Impressionist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Oil

THE BALLON SELLER
By Roy Petley
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
ruin,” he tells me. “I felt very sad about its state. I walked around it; it was all open and broken
Category

20th Century Impressionist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Oil

Susan Tibbles Life Sized Art Assemblage “Master Lock” Framed Sculpture Distresse
By Susan Tibbles
Located in Topeka, KS
happy… when she isn’t feeling sad. SHE can do anything placed in front of her… if she can get out of bed
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1980s American Bohemian Vintage Sadness

Materials

Metal

Pigalle - Vintage Offset Poster after H. de Toulouse-Lautrec - Late 20th Century
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Roma, IT
entertainment industry and was often commissioned to advertise famous performers. Between sadness and
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Vintage Sadness

Materials

Paper, Offset

Clown et Enfant (Clown and Child) From the suite Cirque (Circus)
By Georges Rouault
Located in San Francisco, CA
between brilliant, scintillating things intended to amuse and this infinitely sad life." In 1894 he was
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Aquatint

"Courtisane aux Yeux Baisses" from the suite "Les Fleurs du Mal""
By Georges Rouault
Located in San Francisco, CA
things intended to amuse and this infinitely sad life." In 1894 he was awarded the first prize at the
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Aquatint

Prizma VI (Geometric Abstraction)
By Marko Spalatin
Located in Kansas City, MO
, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; the Museum of Modern Art, Novi Sad
Category

1990s Abstract Geometric Vintage Sadness

Materials

Screen

Quantum VII (Abstract Geometric Composition)
By Marko Spalatin
Located in Kansas City, MO
Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; the Museum of Modern Art, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia; the Museum of
Category

1980s Modern Vintage Sadness

Materials

Screen

Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor Painting, Drawing California Artist
By Gary Hansmann
Located in Surfside, FL
"The Sadness of Mr. lapin After the Artist Left" Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in
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1980s Surrealist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Paper, India Ink, Watercolor

Two Boys (one standing, the other seated and drawing)
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
feelings of pain and sadness. While her deeply personal vocabulary and symbolism might be lost to the
Category

1970s Contemporary Vintage Sadness

Materials

Color Pencil

Dominique Two-Tiered Table
By Dominique
Located in Philadelphia, PA
review of their SAD exhibit, the critic wrote: "The room and the bed which are reproduced here are in
Category

1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sadness

Materials

Rosewood

Sidewalk Along the Park - Landscape in Oil on Canvas
By Gholam Yunessi
Located in Soquel, CA
strive to incorporate those human qualities of life that give it character: happiness, sadness, joy
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Vintage Sadness

Materials

Canvas, Oil

River Seine Paris Tug Boats Moored 1960’s French Post Impressionist Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
the sadness of the suburbs, melancholy portraits, and several medals for the Monnaie de Paris. The
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Oil

Judaica Polish Israeli Folk Art Biblical Modernist Oil Painting
By Pinchas Shaar
Located in Surfside, FL
humor and sadness. But unlike the German Expressionists, Pinchas Shaar does not paint the "horror". The
Category

1960s Folk Art Vintage Sadness

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century French Post-Impressionist Painting, Sunrise Through Window
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
the sadness of the suburbs, melancholy portraits, and several medals for the Monnaie de Paris. The
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Gouache

Mid Century French Post-Impressionist Painting, Grey Skies Through Window
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
the sadness of the suburbs, melancholy portraits, and several medals for the Monnaie de Paris. The
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Gouache

Mid Century French Painting, The Atlantis Monaco Yacht classic harbour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
the sadness of the suburbs, melancholy portraits, and several medals for the Monnaie de Paris. The
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Sadness

Materials

Gouache

Dominique Pair of "Mustache" Club Chairs
By Dominique
Located in Philadelphia, PA
for an entire hotel in Havana. In 1924, in an Art et Decoration review of their SAD exhibit, the
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Vintage Sadness

Materials

Sycamore

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Vintage Sadness For Sale on 1stDibs

You are likely to find exactly the vintage sadness you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. You can easily find an example made in the Post-Impressionist style, while we also have 101 Post-Impressionist versions to choose from as well. Making the right choice when shopping for a vintage sadness may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 20th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 20th Century. When looking for the right vintage sadness for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of gray, brown, beige and blue. There have been many interesting vintage sadness examples over the years, but those made by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, William Weintraub, Simon Natan Karczmar and Peter Emanuel Goldman are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Artworks like these — often created in paint, oil paint and lithograph — can elevate any room of your home.

How Much is a Vintage Sadness?

The price for a vintage sadness in our collection starts at $61 and tops out at $365,000 with the average selling for $1,576.