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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Porcelain Hand Painted Plates by Well-Known Artist Limited Edition
Located in Miami, FL
Hand painted and signed porcelain plates by Maynard about the Theme ‘’Histories of Masks’’.
Manufactured by Charles Fields Haviland.
Each piece...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Porcelain
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...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
Hand Painted Porcelain Plate Midcentury Limited Edition.
Located in Miami, FL
Hand painted porcelain plates signed and numbered by well knowned Artists
Manufactured by Charles Fields Haviland.
Each work of Art sign...
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Porcelain
Selection of Modernist Ceramic Tile Plaques
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Modernist Ceramic Tile Plaques, circa 1960s.
They are, from top to bottom:
1) Abstract Tile Plaque with Beautiful Volcanic Glaze, b...
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1960s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Ceramic
Modern Painting Depicting Liberty Titled "Krach" by Nico Rush
Located in Miami, FL
A mid-century painting on canvas signed N. Rush, dated 1963.
The title of this work is "Krach" as written on the back of the canvas. Translated from the French language means noise....
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint
$975 Sale Price
35% Off
Julian Trevelyan, Gravesend, 51/75, Signed, Etching, British Art, 1969
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
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
27% Off
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
Materials
Paper
Tom Phillips, O Orpheus Singt, Etching, Limited Edition 49/125, Signed 1977
By Tom Phillips
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
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
Midcentury Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Houston, TX
Midcentury abstract oil painting on canvas.
Colorful Mid-Century Modern abstract impasto oil painting on canvas. This stunning square ...
Category
1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Italian Set of Three Contemporary Large Mask
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bologna Artist sculpture the set of three mask. This are mid century original mask from Italy.We can sell them individually upon request .
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Fiberglass
$5,500 / set
Otto Herter Signed Abstract Modern Art Oil Painting Germany, 1993
By Otto Herter
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
Wonderful vintage colorful (colorful) abstract modernist oil painting on canvas signed with the monogram 'O.H.' by Otto Herter (1924-2000) painted in 1993.
Otto Herter was born i...
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Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Jo Patch Contemporary Oil Painting Titled "Riviere Rouge" or Red River
By Jo Patch
Located in Miami, FL
Very colorful and decorative surrealist oil on board painting by Jo Patch.
Signed on the back of the board.
Titled "Riviere Rouge" or Red River.
Measures: 31 3/4" wide x 23 3/4" ...
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20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint
$1,500 Sale Price
21% Off
Original Abstract Composition by C. Azuelos, Imaginary Window
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful abstract composition example of the artist’s work, original color painting on paper by C. Azuelos.
Wonderfully decorative original with so much movement to be interrupted...
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$695 Sale Price
26% Off
Oil on Canvas Abstract Cubism Painting in the Manner of Jacques Villon
By Jacques Villon
Located in Miami, FL
A striking and boldly colorful cubist abstract painting executed in the manner of Jacques Villon, signed and dated lower right "M. Jardet." T...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Giltwood, Canvas
$3,675 Sale Price
25% Off
Original 20th Century Figurative Painting by French Artist Roudneff, Dated 1963
Located in Miami, FL
Stunning Mid-Century Modern oil on canvas, abstract composition by French artist, Roudneff, dated 1963.
Beautiful and very interesting work.
Monsieur Roudneff, created numerous mo...
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
$825 Sale Price
62% Off
Nude Women Drawing in Silver Frame
Located in Miami, FL
Nice decorative, mid-20th century original drawing.
The work is signed Kirsch.
Measures: 23 3/4" W x 23 1/2" H x 1" D
Biography of the Artist unidentified.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$475 Sale Price
20% Off
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...
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1980s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Selection of Alexander Calder Lithographs
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Alexander Calder color lithographs, France, circa 1960s. We purchased a group of these color lithographs from the estate of a couple that lived in France from 1951-1983. These are most likely from the limited edition folio “Derriere Le Miroir”, published by the legendary Galerie Maeght. Please see our other 1stdibs listings for more Alexander Calder and Joan Miro lithographs from...
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1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Cosmics
Hard Edge Painting by Marion S. Siciliano
Located in Dallas, TX
An acrylic painting on a shaped circular canvas. "It's solid, intelligent, sometimes playful," and manages to "convey great pleasure in the doing."
Signed, titled, and dated verso ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
1960 Abstract Painting and Paper Collage Ermete 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 paper collage.
In eff...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$2,657 Sale Price
20% Off
1967 Italy Abstract Painting and Mixed Media Collage by Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1967, 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
Resin, Paper
1962 Italy Abstract 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 and a collage with a newspaper sheet on the surface...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
Midcentury Work of Art Hand Painted Porcelain Plate Limited Edition by Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Hand painted porcelain work of art by Contemporary Artist painter, signed by DECARIS, Limited Edition.
Manufactured by Charles Fields Haviland....
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Porcelain
1960 Italy Abstract Painting on Canvas and Mix Media 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 mix media collage with resin and paper glued element...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Resin
$2,192 Sale Price
38% Off
1954 Italy Abstract Painting Venice Biennial Special Artwork by Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1954, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini.
The title of this artwork is "La Raticosa" it is an oil on paper and it was exhibite...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$4,271 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 glued element...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$2,183 Sale Price
34% Off
Selection of Large-Scale Abstract Paintings
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of large-scale abstract paintings, artist unknown, probably American, circa 1960s. They have been framed in clean lined white lacquered gallery frames under UV resistant gl...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paint, Paper
$1,600 / item
Original Abstract Painting "Cascades or Waterfalls" by C. Azuelos on Rice Paper
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful original abstract painting perceived as "Cascades or Waterfalls", created by C. Azuelos using oil on rice paper.
This artwork is professionally framed.
Measures: 24 1/...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
1966 Italy Abstract Painting and Paper Collage by Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 196, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini.
The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued elements...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$2,458 Sale Price
30% Off
Original 20th Century Abstract Painting by Rene Ravaute
By Rene Revaute
Located in Miami, FL
Stunning Mid-Century Modern oil on fibre board, abstract composition by listed French artist, Rene Revaute.
Very interesting work, the outer edges give the impression that there are...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
$1,200 Sale Price
50% Off
Vintage Impressionist Painting Children on Horseback by Brooks Woollcott Powell
Located in Topeka, KS
Incredible impressionist style painting on hardboard of children on horseback signed Brooks Woollcott (now Powell). It is in good original condition with its original black painted wood frame. We have stabilized the frame and added a new coat of paint, circa 1940-1960s.
This original impressionistic painting has the most extraordinary color pallet from pink to coral, turquoise to blue, green to chartreuse, and bright yellow with touches of black. It depicts two children, seemingly a girl and boy, on horseback. It is done in the style of Chagall with a little Picasso and Matisse thrown in. It also has a feel of Margaret Keane and her Big Eyes paintings...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Masonite
1960 Italy Abstract Painting 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, signed by the artist to the right.
Ermete Lancini was b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
$3,217 Sale Price
39% Off
1965 Italy Abstract Painting and Paper Collage by Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1965, 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
$1,898 Sale Price
42% Off
Trumpet Man
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Man playing trumpet after a night of celebration.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Plywood
$1,250
Peter Keil Oil On Canvas,
The Clown
Painting
By Peter Keil
Located in Bradenton, FL
Oil on canvas painting was painted by German/American artist Peter Keil (born 1942). Original expressionist portrait of "The Clown." The painting is signed and dated on the reverse (...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas
Green Olds 442 Muscle Car Original Americana Watercolor
Located in Rio Vista, CA
The magnificent 1972 Oldsmobile 442 convertible green muscle car. Striking Americana painting to commemorate the last Olds 442 American muscle car era in a ...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
$840 Sale Price
40% Off
Original Bernard Damiano Mid-Century Painting Nudes
By Bernard Damiano
Located in Miami, FL
Original expressionist painting by Bernardo 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...
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint, Paper
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Louise Nevelson Serigraph Collage, Signed and Numbered 147/150, Archival Frame
Located in Kansas City, MO
Louise Nevelson (American, 1899-1988)
Untitled, 1980
Original five screen serigraph collage
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.
147 of an edition of 150.
See details in...
Category
1980s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Aluminum
Rupprecht Geiger, Germany
Located in Winnipeg, MB
A vibrant and minimal abstract colorfield screen print from the portfolio "Go Back, Go On, Go". This piece features a unique custom framing job done with a textured double mat and c...
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Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
James Rosenquist Etching " Other Great Cities" AP
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
James Rosenquist " Other Great Cities"
1978, etching, signed in pencil, from the numbered edition of 29/78
image 17 ¾ x 35 ¾”, full margins
Abstract Art , Pop Art
Frame: 46"x3...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Paint, Paper
John W. Mills(1933-2023) Plaster Maquette Sculpture After William Blake Memorial
By John Mills
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A plaster maquette modelled after the William Blake Memorial by the acclaimed British sculptor, John W. Mills.
Its abstract nature showcases the sculptor’s crafting process, as we a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Plaster
Gouache Contemporary Portrait Painting of a Woman Helen Wagner Malta 1930s
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
An early contemporary still-life Gouache portrait painting of a woman. On paper, this piece depicts a seated woman reclining in a pigmented blue chair. Her hair is short and dark and she wears a red dress. This sketch was created by Helen Wagner Malta and is signed at the bottom right in black ink "Helen Wagner" before her marriage. Her later works are signed "Helen Wagner Malta".
Helen Wagner Malta was born in 1912 and worked in New York City in the 1930s teaching at the Harlem Art...
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1930s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint, Paper
Joeseph Burlini Wall Sculpture of Ravi Shankar on Sitar
Located in Kansas City, MO
Rare 1970s Joseph Burlini metal wire abstract wall hanging sculpture with the image of sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. If you are a fan of the Shankar family ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Large Lee Reynolds Style Mid-Century Modern Cityscape Skyline Painting
By Lee Reynolds
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Rendered in compelling impasto, this expansive cityscape painting summons the grandeur of the skyline in rich earth tones tempered by washes of green—a modernist meditation on urban ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint, Canvas
Selection of Modern Art or Gallery Wall
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Modern Art or Gallery Wall, circa 1960s.
From left to right they are:
1) Watercolor of male nude on blue paper, circa 1960s. It h...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
$450 / item
Abstract Painting by Miriam Kubach
Located in Atlanta, GA
Abstract painting by Miriam Kubach, American, circa 1960s. It is executed on paper and has been professionally framed under UV resistant glass in a clean lined black lacquer gallery ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Frederick J. Nelson, American (Missouri), 20th c. "Advice to a Raven"
Located in Dallas, TX
Fredrick Nelson is a painter who focuses primarily on abstraction, with the theme of nature as well as the idea that art relies on the personal experiences of the artists relationshi...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Midcentury Abstract Painting by Arnold Taraborrelli
By Arnold Taraborrelli
Located in Atlanta, GA
Midcentury abstract painting by Arnold Taraborrelli, American, circa 1959. It is entitled "Break-Away" and is executed in gouache on artist board and retains it's original frame. Tar...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paint
$850 Sale Price
39% Off
Large Scale Joan Miro Screenprints in Vibrant Colors
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Joan Miro Color Screenprints, French, circa 1960s. They are priced at $650 each or $1500 for all three. They have recently been professionally framed in clean lined blac...
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
JORGE FICK Acrylic Painting - Motel Suitcase 6120
By Jorge Fick
Located in Hawthorne, CA
An original Jorge Fick painting, colored pencil on paper, entitled Motel Suitcase 6120, circa 1971 signed by the artist. Born in 1932 and passing in 2004 in the vibrant artistic community of Santa Fe, New Mexico, this artist was a prominent figure in the world of high color abstraction. His unique approach to abstract expressionism was deeply influenced by the teachings and mentorship of renowned artists Franz Kline, Jack Tworkov, Phillip Guston, and Joseph Fiore...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Dimensional Perspective by Lewis Trimble
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
Dynamic all-over abstraction constructed using alternative painting methods. The paintings are constructed using art conservation techniques and alternative processes to laying down ...
Category
2010s American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sonia Delauney Style Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
Large Scale Abstract Painting, in the style of Sonia Delaunay, actual artist unknown, American, circa 1990s. This painting packs a lot of colorful graphic punch and measures an impre...
Category
1990s American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Wood
Joan Miró Lithographs
By Joan Miró
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Joan Miro color lithographs, France, circa 1960s. Only the lithograph in the center is available. The lithographs on the right and left have been sold. We purchased a gr...
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
$650 / item
Selection of Modern Artwork or Gallery Wall
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Modern Artwork, circa 1920s-1960s. Perfect to start or add to your gallery wall. All are priced at $375 each.
They are:
Top row, left to right,
1) Paul Cezanne etching entitled "Portrait of Painter Guillauman with William Hanging" measures 10.5" H x 8.5" W.
2) Portrait of a big eyed...
Category
1920s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Masonite, Paper
$375 / item
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
Rudolf Wolf Stainless Steel Artwork Holland 1972 / 8
By Rudolf Wolf
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Large abstract modern shaped stainless steel wall artwork designed by Rudolf Wolf and manufactured in his own atelier in 1972. This wall panel is made of white laminated board and ha...
Category
1970s Dutch Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Stainless Steel
Joan Miró Lithographs
By Joan Miró
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Joan Miro color lithographs, France, circa 1960s. The lithograph on the left in the first photo has been sold. The other two are available. We purchased a group of these...
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
$650 / item
Josef Albers Signed Abstract Screenprint "Ascension"
By Josef Albers
Located in Atlanta, GA
Original signed abstract screenprint, entitled "Ascension", by Josef Albers for the limited edition "Washburn College Bible", 1979. Albers created this work as a frontispiece for Vol...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
“Impala” by Ronnie Rysz, 2014 Surreal Drawing Ink Graphite Spray Paint
Located in West Palm Beach, US
Title
“Impala” by Ronnie Rysz, 2014 — Surreal Mixed-Media Drawing with Dual-Head Composition
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Description
A powerful and surreal mixed-media work by contemporary American artist...
Category
2010s American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
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
Mid-century Modern contemporary art for sale on 1stDibs.
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Chinese Lunch Boxes
Chinese Opera Doll
Chinese Paint Brush Art
Chinese Pillow Headrest
Chinese Silver Cocktail Shakers
Chinese Stacking Box
Chinese Stone Foo Dogs
Chinese Tapered Cabinet
Chippendale Tall Chest
Chippendale Twin
Chiurazzi Bronze