Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
MID-CENTURY MODERN STYLE
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the mid-20th century
- Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
- A heyday of innovation in postwar America
- Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
- A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
- Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
- Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
- Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
- Promotion of functionality
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Charles and Ray Eames
- Eero Saarinen
- Milo Baughman
- Florence Knoll
- Harry Bertoia
- Isamu Noguchi
- George Nelson
- Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
- Eames lounge chair
- Nelson daybed
- Florence Knoll sofa
- Egg chair
- Womb chair
- Noguchi coffee table
- Barcelona chair
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
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Original Carol Summers "Basholi" Original Abstract Woodcut Print Signed, Framed
Located in Sheridan, CO
Basholi by Carol Summers (1925-2016)
(Basholi - a town in JAMU and KASHMIR - INDIA )
MEDIUM: Woodcut
Mixed Media on Paper Abstract Composition
DATE: 1980
DIMENSIONS: 25.25 x 37.625 i...
Category
1980s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Jane Freilicher — Untitled from Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
By Jane Freilicher
Located in Dronten, NL
This work by celebrated American painter Jane Freilicher (1924–2014) represents the poetic sensibility and painterly refinement that defined her career. Closely associated with the N...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
Modernist Still Life Painting by Bill Condon
Located in Denton, TX
Highly textured mixed media impressionist still life on board with giltwood frame.
Bill Condon was a native Houstonian, a practicing architect a...
Category
20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Lithograph by Josef Albers from Formulation and Articulation
By Josef Albers
Located in Atlanta, GA
Josef Albers abstract lithograph from Formulation and Articulation, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, and Ives Sillman Inc., New Haven, circa 1972. It has been framed in a...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Vintage Lee Reynolds Abstract Painting
By Lee Reynolds
Located in Medina, OH
Large Mid-Century Modern Lee Reynolds abstract painting with a polished aluminum frame. Intricate color palette with the combination of metallic silver, turquoise, rust, gold and co...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract Lithographs by Josef Albers from Formulation and Articulation
By Josef Albers
Located in Atlanta, GA
Josef Albers abstract lithographs from Formulation and Articulation, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, and Ives Sillman Inc., New Haven, circa 1972. These works are from P...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Black and White Lithograph by Josef Albers from Formulation and Articulation
By Josef Albers
Located in Atlanta, GA
Josef Albers abstract lithograph from formulation and articulation, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, and Ives Sillman Inc., New Haven, circa 1972. This work is from portf...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
1960 Abstract Painting and Paper Collage by Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1960, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini.
The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued element...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$2,652 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of large French 1950’s acrylic abstract panels gold leaf
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Pair of large French 1950’s acrylic and resin abstract panels gold leaf circa 1950.
Screens are made from browns, oranges, yellows and greens with gold leaf in places.
They have be...
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Monochrome Screenprint on Green Background - Carmelo Cappello - Italy - 1964
Located in Milano, IT
This fine monochrome silkscreen print, made in 1964 by Carmelo Cappello, is a representative example of the artist's abstract research. The teal background, traversed by dynamic whit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Marblehead
by Nicolas Makelberge, 32 x 33 in
Located in PRAHA 7, CZ
Nicolas Makelberge (b.1976) is a Swedish artist renowned for his evocative artworks, reminiscent to the forces at play in the sky and the sea - his constant sources of inspiration.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swedish Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Paint
Original Oil on Paper Painting by Alexander Gore, Dated 2012 and Certified
Located in Miami, FL
A stunning original oil on paper painting by Alexander Gore. The piece is dated 2012, painted in high relief. The artist works of art have been displayed around the world and to this...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Giltwood
$2,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Magnus Engstrom Signed Swedish California Artist Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting
By Magnus Engstrom 1
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful and quite colorful oil on canvas painting by Swedish-American California artist Magnus Engstrom (1936- ).
The painting features a futurist cityscape and is done in the neo-cubist abstract expressionist artistic painting style that Engstrom embraced.
The painting is signed and dated (1970) by Engstrom.
Would be a great addition to any Mid-Century Modern or California art painting collection...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Walter Wohlschlegel Signed Abstract Modern Art Oil Painting, Germany circa 1960s
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
A wonderful informal abstract modernist oil painting signed by German artist Walter Wohlschlegel (1907-1999). Painted on hardboard, Wohlschlegel is painting on the rough textured sur...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood
Original Bernard Damiano Mid-Century Painting
Located in Miami, FL
Original expressionist painting by Bernardo Damiano (also known as Bernard Damiano).
He was an Italian expressionist painter and sculptor born on January 10, 1926 in Coni
(Piemonte), Italy and died in Nice, France on June 24, 2000. His classical art formation was at the Academia Albertina in Turino, Italy.
His works are numerous and well-known. It is precisely during the 1970s that Bernard Damiano's painting is said to have moved away from a relationship with Jean Dubuffet, the Art brut or the Cobra movement, in "a nervous touch and a triturated paste" to draw his style from the rest of Expressionism. This proposal is however stated with reserve: like the Spanish Eduardo Pisano...
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint
$703 Sale Price
26% Off
Large Grey Green Abstract Oil on Canvas by Beverley Downie 1978 Original Frame
Located in Melbourne, AU
A very large framed oil on canvas by extensively exhibited Australian artist, Beverley Downie.
Downie's keen interest in opera has always influenced ...
Category
1970s Australian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
$2,504 Sale Price
44% Off
Monochrome Screenprint on Red Background - Carmelo Cappello - Italy - 1963u2028
Located in Milano, IT
This fine monochrome silkscreen print, made in 1963 by Carmelo Cappello, is a representative example of the artist's abstract research. The deep red background, traversed by dynamic ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Selection of Paintings by Miriam Kubach
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of paintings by Miriam Kubach, American, circa 1950s. They are framed in vintage gilt frames. They are priced at $550 each.
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
$550 / item
Gerard Eppele Midcentury Original Drawing "Eppreuve d
Artist"
Located in Miami, FL
Titled “l’Homme Sur Un Pied”
This contemporary drawing by listed French artist, Gérard Eppelé whose abstract metaphysical forms of humans is a very i...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$1,050 Sale Price
25% Off
Vibrant Pair of Contemporary Pop Art Woodblock Prints – Signed
Framed
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Add a bold, modern statement to your collection with this striking pair of original woodblock prints, featuring an expressive, hand-drawn portrait in vibrant hues of tangerine orange...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Gouache in gold frame by Robert Jacobsen
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Gouache on 'Taiwan paper' in canvas in a gold frame. Signed by Robert Jacobsen.
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
"Chimes" by Harris Strong Mid-Century Modern Framed Signed Abstract Collage
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
"Chimes" by Harris Strong is a mixed media collage wall art in original frame with matting. Minimal color palette and strong color contrasts strengthen this rare, monumental piece w...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Brass, Metal
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Oil on Rice Paper Painting by French Artist Fandre
Located in Miami, FL
A vibrant mid-century modern abstract oil painting by French artist Fandre. The artwork showcases a dynamic composition of colorful shapes on unique rice paper, signed by the artist ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Paint
$950 Sale Price
20% Off
French Color Lithograph on Arches paper by FRANCIS de LASSUS SAINT-GENIES
Located in Miami, FL
Intriguing color lithograph on Arches paper by Francis de Lassus Saint-Genies (1925 Val André - 2018)
printed by G. Monnet & G. Petrie Editeurs, Paris, France.
This French color a...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
Artist Richard Anuszkiewicz Inward Eye #10 Op-Art Silkscreen Print, 1970, Signed
Located in St. Louis, MO
Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930-2020) Inward Eye #10 from the Inward Eye Series, 1970. Pronounced it ah-noo-SHKEV-ich. Silkscreen 25 19/20 × 19 3/4 inches
Edition of 100, #56/100. Acid f...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Vintage Joan Miro Lithograph from 1968 Mid Century Modern Fine Art
By Joan Miró
Located in Rochester, NY
Joan Miro color plate lithograph from 1968, approximately 20 x 24"
Professionally framed, includes certificate on frame back.
Category
1960s Spanish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
1962 Italy Abstract Pastel Painting and Paper Collage by Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1962, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini.
The artwork is a pastel painting on paper of old newspaper. This artwork can be cons...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$1,705 Sale Price
42% Off
Rare Parisian MCM French Tapestry “Le Fou du Roy” by Henri Gineste, Ori. Catalog
Located in Miami, FL
Rare Parisian Mid-Century French Tapestry “Le Fou du Roy” by Henri Gineste, with Original Exhibition Catalog,
Henri Gineste “Le Fou du Roy” Mid-Century M...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Nylon
Framed and Signed Lithograph by Sam Briss
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Exceptional vintage signed and framed lithograph by Sam Briss. Features a surreal depiction of a nude woman with birds.
Category
1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Paper
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Palette Knife Abstract Painting Framed
Signed
Located in San Diego, CA
Nicely done great colors on this abstract palette framed painting , circa 1980's .
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Aluminum
Hans Burkhardt Signed Swiss California Original Midcentury Abstract Painting
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, highly engaging large original abstract female nude pastel painting/drawing by Swiss/ American/ Californian painter-artist Hans Burkhardt.
This work, titled "Seated Female" is hand-signed and dated (1958) by the artist.
An original, one-of-a-kind, and unusually large work by Burkhardt. Would be the crown jewel to any collection of his work or a stunning stand-alone art accent piece in about any setting. His earlier abstract female forms are becoming rare and harder to find.
Hans Burkhardt was born in 1904 in Basel, Switzerland. At the age of 20, he immigrated to New York to work with his father. From 1925 to 1928 he attended the Cooper Union School of the Arts, where he befriended mentor Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning—sharing Gorky's studio from 1928 to 1937. In 1937 he moved to Los Angeles, California.
Burkhardt held his first solo exhibition in 1939 at Stendahl Gallery in Los Angeles. In 1945 he had a highly acclaimed solo exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum. Burkhardt spent most of the 1950s working in Mexico. Art critics of the time considered him a "great Mexican master” alongside Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo admired his work. He returned to Los Angeles in the 1960s to create some of the most powerful examples of Abstract Expressionism of the time. During this time he also became well known for his richly drawn pastel abstractions of the human figure of which this original work certainly qualifies.
He died in Los Angeles in 1994.
Burkhardt's solo shows include:
1939: Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, March 27 – April 17
1945: Hans Burkhardt, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1951: Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas; Comara Gallery, Los Angeles
1953: Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1957: Pasadena Art Museum, California: Ten Year Retrospective, June 14 – July 14;
1961-62: Thirty Year Retrospective (traveled to Santa Barbara Museum of Art, April 11 – May 7, 1961, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, January 9 – February 4, 1962, Legion of Honor (museum), San Francisco, June 10 – July 9, 1962)
1968: San Diego Museum of Art: Vietnam Paintings...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint, Paper
Pascal Cucaro, 1915-2003 Boy Wearing Hat Painting
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Mid-Century Modern oil on board painting portrait of a boy wearing a hat by artist Pascal Cucaro (American 1915-2003). The painting features vivid shades of blue, green, and citron. ...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Linen, Giltwood, Masonite
Fabulous Contemporary Painting by Arnold Weber, circa 1970
By Arnold Weber
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fabulous modern abstract by enormously talented Arnold Weber (1931-2010). Tremendous mood and energy. Expert use of vibrant color that will bring a smile to your face. This Killer ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas
Frank Martin Signed Limited Edition British Woodcut Print "Maened", 1969
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful image by British artist or printmaker Frank Martin titled "Maened". The image is of dancer Olga Tshechowa and was later used for the poster of...
Category
1960s English Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
David Wojnarowicz Danceteria 1983 (announcement)
Located in Brooklyn, NY
David Wojnarowicz 3 Teens Kill 4, Danceteria NYC 1983:
Rare historic invitation published on the occasion of an early 1980s performance by David Wojnarowicz’s, 3 Teens Kill 4 at Dan...
Category
1980s North American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$460 Sale Price
20% Off
Archipelago IV
by Nicolas Makelberge, 14 x 16 in
Located in PRAHA 7, CZ
Nicolas Makelberge (b.1976) is a Swedish artist renowned for his evocative artworks, reminiscent to the forces at play in the sky and the sea - his constant sources of inspiration.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Selection of Modernist Art Lithographs or Serigraphs
By (after) Henri Matisse, (after) Alexander Calder, Victor Vasarely, Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of modernist art serigraphs or lithographs, circa 1950s-1970s.
They are:
1) Victor Vasarely color lithograph, circa 1960s. It has been recently reframed in a clean lined bl...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Mid-Century Modern Brutalist Abstract Metal Wall Sculpture after Curtis Jere
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A vintage wall sculpture created by a Philadelphia artist in 1950s. It features copper panel construction with a silver lacquer finish. Very goo...
Category
1950s North American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Copper
Jean-Bapiste Rigail French Midcentury Modern Art Featuring Musicians
Located in Miami, FL
Multidisciplinary artist Jean Bapiste Rigail best known for his mixed media works, he incorporates myriad techniques and materials to create his expressive, unique compositions. This...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
$900 Sale Price
59% Off
Geometry Study
by M. Vondrak, 1971
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
'Geometry Study' by M. Vondrak, 1971
Signed lower right M. Vondrak, and dated '71
Presenting 'Geometry Study' signed by the artist M. Vondrak, painted in the year 1971. This cap...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood
$3,800 Sale Price
20% Off
1950s Reach Stroehmann Sunbeam Bread Store Display Sign Rare Vintage Advertising
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A very rare advertising campaign tin tacker sign. 'Reach for Stroehmann's Sunbeam Bread.' A single sided tin (SST) embossed sign. Marked Q.B.A. Coop I...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
1957 Fred Hocks Oil on Canvas Abstract Painting
By Fred Hocks
Located in San Diego, CA
Excellent example of a large oil on canvas abstraction by Fred Hocks from 1957. This painting was included in the 1976 retrospective at the Fine Arts Gallery in San Diego which later became the San Diego Museum of Art.
No painter embodies San Diego’s early avant-garde more than Fred (Ferdinand) Hocks, a German-born painter who began visiting San Diego in the late 1920s after studies at the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco and the Art Students League in New York. Fellow painter Dan Dickey credited Hocks in 1947 with “opening up pathways for future, more enlightened generations (of artists),” and predicted that Fred Hocks would be “esteemed a master.”
During the post-war years Hocks was assistant director of the San Diego School of Arts and Crafts, a private art school in La Jolla, and was instrumental in keeping affordable artist’s studios in Spanish Village. Along with modern architect Lloyd Ruocco, Fred Hocks co-founded the dynamic Allied Artists Council with Belle Baranceanu, Everett Gee Jackson, Dan Dickey and John Olsen.
The well-travelled Hocks exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Paris, Mallorca and Guadalajara, had several one-person shows at the Art Center La Jolla/La Jolla Museum of Art and at the Fine Arts Gallery (SDMA). The San Diego Museum of Art held a major retrospective of his painting in 1976, just a few years before his death. He brought a continental element to the local art scene and is described in Bruce Kamerling’s 100 Years of Art in San Diego as “one of the most adventurous local artists…an intelligent and articulate defender of modern tendencies in art.” Local arts and architecture writer James Britton called Fred Hocks “the dean of the San Diego moderns...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Robyn Denny (1930-2014) British UNTITLED II
IV Frame Prints - Waddington Suite
By Robyn Denny
Located in St. Louis, MO
British Artist Robyn Denny (1930-2014), pair of framed geometric abstract silkscreen prints from the Waddington Suite 1968-1969, Untitled II & IV, originally sold by the famed Greenb...
Category
1960s English Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Framed Oil on Board
Located in Houston, TX
Mid-Century Modern abstract framed oil on board.
Stunning Mid-Century Modern abstract framed oil on board signed by artist. Signature is under rese...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint
Selection of Black and White Lithographs by Kandinsky Chillida Ubac Raynaud
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Mid-Century Modern Abstract Lithographs, recently professionally framed in vintage gilt wood frames under UV resistant glass. They are priced at $575 each or $2000 for all four works.
From left to right, as seen in the first photo, they are:
1) Abstract lithograph by Raoul Ubac, from the limited edition portfolio Le Derriere Miroir...
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Original Contemporary Figurative Painting by Bernard Damiano
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful expressionist painting of a nude woman, original signed on bottom right by the artist Bernardo Damiano (also known as Bernard Damiano).
He was an Italian Expressionist painter and sculptor born on January 10, 1926 in Coni (Piemont) and died in Nice, France on June 24, 2000. His classical art formation was at the Academia Albertina in Turino, Italy.
His works are numerous and well-known. It is precisely during the 1970s that Bernard Damiano's painting is said to have moved away from a relationship with Jean Dubuffet, the Art brut or the Cobra movement, in "a nervous touch and a triturated paste" to draw his style from the rest of Expressionism. This proposal is however stated with reserve: like the Spanish Eduardo Pisano...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint, Paper
$840 Sale Price
20% Off
Hand-Painted Pop American Art in Transition 1955-62 Book December 15 1992
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62 Paperback Book.
December 15, 1992 by Donna De Salvo Paul Schimmel.
From Publishers Weekly
Ferguson of the Museum of Con...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
Tom Phillips, 11 Elements of Violence, Screenprint, Edition 17/50, Signed
By Tom Phillips
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
Tom Philips, 11 Elements of Violence, 1977, signed and numbered in pencil, 17/50, screenprint. Unframed.
CREATOR Tom Philips 1937-2022.
DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1977.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
Pair of Lithographs by Josef Albers from Formulation and Articulation
By Josef Albers
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of Josef Albers lithographs from Formulation and Articulation, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, and Ives Sillman Inc., New Ha...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Vintage Diamond 1970s Slopes Mirror
By Neal Small
Located in Denton, TX
Square vintage 1970s slopes mirror attributed to Neal Small. All original.
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Mirror, Wood
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
1960 Italy Abstract Painting and Paper Collage by Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1960, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini.
The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other paper glued e...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
Tom Phillips, Art on the Road, Screenprint, Limited Edition 33/50, Signed, 1976
By Tom Phillips
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
Tom Philips, Art on the Road, 1976, signed and numbered in pencil, 33/50, screenprint. Unframed.
CREATOR Tom Philips 1937-2022.
DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1976
MATERI...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
Mid-Century Mixed Media Art, signed, 1960-1980
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mixed media art on wove paper
Signed lower right WW, artist unknown.
Unframed.
Good condition, wear consistent with age and use. Missing small piece right bottom corner. Small piec...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
Tom Phillips, Six Pieces Opus X, Screenprint, Limited Editions, Signed, 1968
By Tom Phillips
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
Two prints are available. Price per piece. Editions: 136/150 and 150/150.
Tom Philips, Six Pieces Opus X, 1968, signed and numbered in pencil, screenprint. Unframed.
C...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$1,260 Sale Price / item
30% Off
Mid-Century Modern Abstract "Arau Potter" Painting by Xavier Gonzalez, 1969
By Xavier Gonzalez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid-Century Modern abstract "Arau Potter" painting by Xavier Gonzalez, 1969
Signed and titled bya artist. Measures: Painting: 28.5"x 36".
Provenance: From the personal collectio...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint
Tom Phillips, Linoleum, Screenprint, Limited Edition 33/50, Signed, 1976
By Tom Phillips
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
Tom Philips, Art on the Road, 1976, signed and numbered in pencil, 33/50, screenprint. Unframed.
CREATOR Tom Philips 1937-2022.
DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1976
MATERI...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
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Paper
Tom Phillips, O Orpheus Singt, Etching, Limited Edition 49/125, Signed 1977
By Tom Phillips
Located in San Francisco, CA
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Tom Phillips, O Orpheus Singt, Etching, Limited Edition 49/125, Signed 1977, Unframed.
CREATOR Tom Philips 1937-2022.
DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1977.
MATERIALS AND T...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
Julian Trevelyan, Gravesend, 51/75, Signed, Etching, British Art, 1969
Located in San Francisco, CA
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Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988) Gravesend, 1969.
Edition of 75
Signed, Titled and numbered 51/75 in pencil.
Unframed.
CREATOR Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988), United Kingdom. ...
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Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$1,595 Sale Price
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Mesmerizing Modern Abstract by Arnold Weber, Dated April 1972
By Arnold Weber
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fabulous modern abstract by wonderfully talented Arnold Weber (1931-2010). Tremendous mood, energy and range of color. This Killer piece succinctly captures the feeling of the earl...
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1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Selection of Alexander Calder Lithographs
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Alexander Calder color lithographs, circa 1960s. They have been recently framed in clean lined black lacquered wood gallery frames...
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1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
$850 / item
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