Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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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Style: Mid-Century Modern
"Seated Male Nude, " Gorgeous Figural Painting by Roberto Lupetti, 1950s
By Roberto Lupetti
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Subdued in palette but gorgeous in subtle detail, this painting of a seated male nude from behind captures the sensuality and beauty of the human figure. The painter, Roberto Lupetti...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Selection of Modernist Art
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of modernist art, circa 1950s. From left to right, they are:
1) SOLD Modernist nudes painting by Lillian Lent, American, circa 1950s. It is executed on board in it's original frame. It measures 14.5" H x 16.5" W. Lillian Lent lived and worked in the Woodstock Artist colony in New York. She attended the Tyler School of Fine Art in Philadelphia. In 1959, she was awarded first prize for one of her paintings from the Albany Museum. Among some of the galleries to exhibit her work were the Albright Gallery, the Norlyst Gallery, and The Creative Gallery.
2) Amedeo Modigliani lithograph...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
1975 Hard Edge Square Oil Painting on Canvas, in the Manner of Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Oil on canvas painting signed on verso "B. Raab 5/75"
After the famed "Homage to the Square" by Josef Albers
Measures 30-1/4" X 30-1/4" square. Original aluminum frame.
Colors are b...
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1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Aluminum
Lee Reynolds Burr
By Lee Reynolds
Located in Hanover, MA
1960s oil on canvas abstract painting signed 'Reynolds'. This large scale artwork features a bright white ground with vivid yellow, orange, red and pink textured palette knife detail. See the obituary for Lee Reynolds Burr...
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1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Aluminum
$1,200
Acrylic Painting of Birds by Stephen Kaye
By Stephen Kaye
Located in New York, NY
Charming decorative large scale acrylic painting by noted Canadian artist Stephen Kaye. The paints depicts stylized birds in branches, on an abstract textured paint surface. Signed l...
Category
Late 20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Abstract Painting by Mexican Artist Leonardo Nierman
Located in San Mateo, CA
Oil on board abstract painting by Leonardo Nierman (1932-2023). The painting is titled on the back City Abstracture (Compostion #28). There are remnants of an exhibition label. The s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paint
Vintage Minimalist Pop Acrylic Painting, Signed Manuella 70
Located in Doraville, GA
A painting in the Minimalist style painted by Manuella in 1970. The painting is very much three dimensional and consists of a fiberglass form on a wooden stretcher, the fiber glass i...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Fiberglass
$1,200 Sale Price
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Charles Levier (Fr. 1920-2003) Signed Watercolor
Ink On Paper
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Watercolor
ink depicting a woman in a purple dress with her eyes shaded in blue with a crowd in the background in orange, pink and yellow tones.
Presented in a silvertone metal...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Metal
Large Abstract Expressionist Painting Signed Moses Dated 1975
Located in Peabody, MA
A dynamic and large scale abstract expressionist canvas signed Moses, dated 1975.
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Vintage Signed Lee Reynolds Studio Textured Abstract Painting
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage Lee Reynolds, Vanguard Studios original signed textured abstract oil painting.
Large Lee Reynolds abstract oil painting by Vanguard Studios.
Gorgeous large-scale Lee Reynolds abstract painting, Mid-Century Modern.
A vintage abstract painting composed of angled brush strokes in white, beige, blue, orange hues in varying intensities.
The piece is signed Lee Reynolds in the lower right corner and is a production of his well known Vanguard Studios.
Measures: Height: 48 inches; width: 60 inches.
Circa 1960s.
Lee Reynolds
Lee Reynolds Burr (1936–2017) opened his Vanguard Studios in Beverly Hills, California, in 1964 to make oil paintings an attainable decoration for any American household. With seascapes, nautical scenes, still lifes, bullfights, cowboys, pastoral views, hot-air balloons, horse races and abstractions, there was a Vanguard Studios creation to match any taste and interior.
Born in Los Angeles, Burr studied art at the University of Southern California. After graduating and a stint in the U.S. Army, he worked in a local studio as a painter before becoming a home decor entrepreneur with financial support from his mother.
Only a fraction of the alleged hundreds of thousands of oil paintings produced by Vanguard were actually painted by Burr, even though they were signed “Lee Reynolds,” “Lee Burr...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$1,584 Sale Price
20% Off
Alfred Birdsey Vintage Bermuda Bayscape Painting
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Transporting mid century acrylic painting on board of a bermuda bayscape with houses, boats, and a lone figure, executed in a loose modernist style. Signed Birdsey in the lower right...
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Mid-20th Century Bermudian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Original Oil on Board Seascape Painting by Alfred DuPont
Located in San Diego, CA
Original oil on board seascape painting by listed artist Alfred DuPont, circa 1970s. This beautiful painting is in very good condition and measures 37.5"x 29.5" overall; the painting itself is 26.5" x 18". It is presented in a wood frame with a cream colored linen mat and signed by the artist in the lower left. Gorgeous realistic piece! #4221
Alfred Dupont was a muralist, illustrator and painter who made his home in southern California.
Dupont was born in East Orange, New Jersey. While still a teenager he ran away from home ending up in San Francisco, California. He studied art at the California School of Fine Arts, the University of California and the California College of Arts and Crafts.
Alfred Dupont painted murals on the ceiling of Hearst Castle (active at Hearst Castle in 1933 where he designed the story of the Old Testament on the ceiling of the celestial suite and made the drawings for ornamental ironwork and the blue and gold mosaic tiles around the swimming pool) and for the Golden Gate Exposition of 1939 he painted murals in the mining building.
While in the Navy during World War II he worked as an illustrator and painted portraits of Admirals Nimitz...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood
20th Century Light-Blue, White French Modern Abstract Painting by Daniel Clesse
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A light-blue, white French modern abstract painting, stacked books, oil on wood by Daniel Clesse, painted in France, signed and dated in 1991.
Daniel Clesse was a French painter bor...
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Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Avshalom Okashi Abstract Composition Oil on Canvas Dated 1961
By Avshalom Okashi
Located in Hudson, NY
Okashi was born in Israel and studied painting while working as a Shepard in Galilee.
His early work was figurative and his later work featured bold abstracts, which established hi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Israeli Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
$4,350 Sale Price
25% Off
Mid Century Recycled Artwork by André Pailler France 1970
Located in Antwerp, BE
Mid Century recycled artwork by Andre Pailler. France ca. 1970. Mixed media, black and blue grey paint. Recycled items, plexiglass, wood.
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood
$683 Sale Price
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20th Century Dark-Green, Purple French Modern Abstract Painting by Daniel Clesse
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A dark-green, purple vintage Mid-Century Modern French abstract oil on wood painting, painted by Daniel Clesse in good condition. Signed on the lower right. Wear consistent with age ...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood
Luigi Targa, Blue Flowers, Padua, Italy 1970s, Oil on Canvas, Framed
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
"Blue Flowers", Luigi Targa, Italy 1970s, Oil on Canvas, Framed
Luigi Targa (1948-2014), an azure-colored artist, associated with Italy's "Nuova Scuola Romana" (New Roman School), c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Ltd SALE XXL Italo Valenti Mid Century Cubist Abstract Sailboat Oil Painting
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Black Friday Sale
XL Italo Valenti Mid Century Modern Abstract Mixed Media Sailboat Oil Painting on Canvas, Signed and Framed
Magnificent Moder...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Paper
Luigi Targa, Venetian lagoon in the heavenly glare, Italy, 1970s, Oil, Framed
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
"The Venetian lagoon in the heavenly glare", Luigi Targa, Italy 1970s, Oil on Canvas, Framed
Luigi Targa (1948-2014), an azure-colored artist, associated with Italy's "Nuova Scuola ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Vintage Modernist Painting of a Musician by Lucile Leighton
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Mid century modernist acrylic painting on board of a musician with a musical contraption executed with bold colors and brush strokes. Signed Lucile Leighton in the lower left and pre...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paint
Vintage Landscape Painting
Located in Duxbury, MA
Landscape oil painting. Framed.
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Large Mad Men Style Framed Portrait Painting of a Man on Canvas, Signed, 1960s
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A very large framed portrait painting of a man in a giltwood frame. The subject in this piece depicts a man who reminds us of Don Draper from ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wire
David Prentice (UK, 1936-2014) Massive Oil And Acrylic On Canvas, Modernist Flor
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A very Large and Striking Floral Acrylic on Canvas by British Artist David Prentice. Signed and dated '80 on verso. A modernist landscape with patterned...
Category
1980s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mid-Century Colorful Oil Painting on Board Signed Artwork
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Oil on Board Signed 1966 titled "The Snowstorm", illegible signature. The back of the painting is signed with the artists name, dated 1966.
Vivid colors depicting a rainbow of colors...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Important 1944 Surrealist Oil on Canvas by Erle Loran
By Erle Loran
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Fresh to the market, this painting was purchased directly from Erle Loran (1905-1999) in his Berkeley Hills home in the mid-1990s. Loran's surrealist work from the mid-1940s is highl...
Category
1940s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Charles Levier (France, 1920-2003) Watercolor
Ink Three Women
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Watercolor and ink depicting three women standing in the corner of a room next to a large window with a full view of prostitutes in the street below.
Presented in a nickel frame, mat...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Metal
Mid Century Floral Still Life of Sunflowers signed Prince Betzky 1946
Located in San Francisco, CA
An exceptionally well painted still life of sunflowers, signed Prince Brezky and date 1946.
Oil on canvas in original frame with gilt detail and orange velvet liner.
A beautiful pain...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Abstract Modern Nude Oil Painting on Canvas, Zoute
1940
Located in Rochester, NY
Abstract modernist oil painting on canvas female nude ( his wife Thelma ) signed lower left corner Zoute '40. A great example of his earliest work. Zoute' - born Leon Salter 1903-197...
Category
1940s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Jouault André-gustave Oil Painting Landscape
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Beautiful painting, oil on canvas, of a park-like landscape. The painting has a somewhat impressionistic touch and a lively color palette. The painting is signed bottom right 'Andre Jouault'. The painting is framed in a beautiful gold-coloured frame.
André-Gustave JOUAULT, France, 1904-1987, was a painter, known for his frescoes of the chapel of the oratory...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Pine, Paint
Niberg Abbey (Am. 1920-1990) Oil On Canvas The Refugees, Brooklyn, NY
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Impressionist artist who was noted for New York scenes.
This is an oil on canvas depicting downtrodden figures, refugees, according to the title, in various poses in front of the Bro...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Large Original Mid Century Modern Abstract Painting
Located in Lutz, FL
Original Mid Century Modern Acrylic Painting on stretched canvas in a brass trimmed wood frame. From Tampa artist Roberta Hardy, Titled Still L...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint, Canvas
Painting by Peter Keil, Mid-Century Modern Art, Painted in Paris, 1959, On Paper
By Peter Keil
Located in New York, NY
Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also an artistically talented woman, took her son and struggled her way to West Berlin...
Category
1950s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
20th Century French Abstract Vintage Oil Painting of a Window by Daniel Clesse
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A light-blue, white vintage Mid-Century modern French abstract oil on wood painting of a window painted by Daniel Clesse in good condition. Signed on the lower right. Wear consistent...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Oil on Canvas by Frank Walcutt
Located in Skokie, IL
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Oil on Canvas by Frank Walcutt
At first glance, this abstract oil painting on canvas is a delight to the eye. Frank Walcutt'...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Wood, Paint
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
1960
s Framed Abstract Expressionist Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful 1960's acrylic on canvas. Attractive and airy abstract expressionist style that is reminiscent of the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Clyfford Still and Perle Fine. Confidentl...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood
Mid Century Modern Painting by Par Lindblad Swedish Artist (1907-1981)
By Par Lindblad
Located in Ventura, CA
Mid Century Painting by Par Lindblad Swedish Artist (1907-1981)
Pär Lindblad (1907-1981) was a prominent Swedish artist celebrated for his abstract compositions. Lindblad's arti...
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20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
French landscape painting by René Genis green “The alley of the cypresses”
By René Genis
Located in Valladolid, ES
One of a kind and very beautiful work by René Genis, a French painter known for his serene and poetic style, depicts a sown field from an unusual perspective, cut by a foreground of...
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
$2,206 Sale Price
28% Off
Large Mid Century Portrait of a Girl on Board
Located in Redding, CT
Mid century portrait of a young girl on board in red, blue and yellow tones, custom frame, 1960-70's vibe.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Large Vintage Signed Abstract Oil Painting by Pierre Alexandre Graziani 1958
Located in London, GB
A Rare Pierre Alexandre Graziani (French, 1932–2020) 'La Colère des Hespérides' 1958
Oil on unframed canvas - Signed and dated lower right “Graziani ’58”
Dimensions:
Height: 100 c...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Carabelle Richardson Female Figure Pastel
Located in Queens, NY
American 1940s pastel on brown paper of a standing female figure with extended arms in a brown painted frame (signed: H CARABELLE RICHARDSON) (rip in top right)
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Henri Valachman "L
instant Fragile" Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Henri VALACHMAN (1925-2020) "L'instant fragile" oil on canvas.
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mid-20th Century Still Life Painting
By Seely
Located in San Francisco, CA
Still life painting in carved and giltwood frame. Signed Donald Seely, 1966.
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Masonite
Vintage Abstract Mid Century Modern Lee Reynolds insp Oil Butterfly Painting
By Lee Reynolds
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Highly stylized, mid century modern, original signed and framed, oil painting, on canvas, of a colorful, pop art, abstract butterfly.
This image is very similar to the works of Lee...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Cityscape Painting by Jordi Mir:
Battery Park, NY
Located in Barcelona, ES
Immerse yourself in the dynamic energy of the city with this striking artwork by Jordi Mir, entitled "Battery Park, NY." Crafted around 2005, this captivating piece captures the bust...
Category
Early 2000s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
$1,869 Sale Price
30% Off
Vintage Oil on Board Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Seattle, WA
Antique Style Painting Featuring Two People walking Through a Forest Landscape. Splitting and Wear Consistent with Age. French Style Gold Colore...
Category
1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood
King
Dukes of Savoy Mural (16
x 6
) by Peter Ostuni
By Peter Ostuni
Located in Hanover, MA
Astonishingly beautiful and monumental mural spanning eleven individual panels (each just under 18 inches wide) which when assembled are 16 feet long by 6 feet high. The panels are reverse paint and applique on sheets of Plexiglass and were painted by Peter Ostuni (American, 1908-1992) in 1951 for the lobby bar of the Savoy-Plaza Hotel at Fifth Avenue between 58th and 59th Street, New York City under design firm Tom Lee...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass
$33,000 / set
Surrealistic Vintage Painting by Erwin Stolz, 1953, Czech Republic
By Erwin Stolz
Located in Vienna, AT
Multicolored surrealistic painting by Erwin Stolz (1896-1987) Gieshuebel Sauerbrunn (Kyselka), Czech Republic, 1953.
Color on paper carton, stamped.
Good condition with minor signs ...
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1950s Czech Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
"FANTASY" Oil on Canvas by Thomas Hart Benton
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in New York, NY
"FANTASY" by Thomas Hart Benton. Oil on canvas laid on wood with a gorgeous gold gilded frame. Price upon request.
Category
1940s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
WPA styled Cubist Industrial Oil Painting by Joan Hedman
By WPA
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A cubist industrial WPA styled oil painting depicting a storage tank compound in the 1930's-40's. Good layering of colors and textures having it original patina worn wood frame signed by the artist in paint to the corner by Joan Hedman...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Parisian Cityscape, Signed and Framed Oil on Canvas by Serge Belloni
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Parisian cityscape, signed and framed oil on canvas by Serge Belloni, ‘57
This painting has all the quintessential features of Belloni’s renowned Parisi...
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
20th Century Dark-Blue French Abstract Still Life Painting by Daniel Clesse
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A 20th century dark-blue abstract still life by Daniel Clesse, painted in Montpellier, France in 1976.
Daniel Clesse was a French painter born in 1932, in Paris, France and passed a...
Category
Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
1965 Abstract Art Midcentury Modernist Boat Oil Painting
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Mid Century Abstract Art Oil Painting Boat -1960s
Dimensions: 9.25"w x 12"h x .5"d
Oil on Board. Signed Trigg.
Backside inscription ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Modernist Fishes Oil on Canvas 1970s
Located in Meer, VAN
Modernist Fishes Oil on Canvas, Europe, 1970s.
Beautiful modernist painting of fishes - semi abstract. Very colorful and elegant. Fits in various interior styles.
Comes in a good ...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Impressionist Flower Still Life Painting New Hope School.
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Impressionist Flower Still Life Painting New Hope School.
Beautiful Poppy flower still life painting in oil on masonite. It is a representation of the Pennsylvania Impressionist Mov...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Giltwood, Masonite
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Hans Burkhardt Signed Swiss California Original Midcentury Nude Figures Painting
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, highly engaging large original abstract pastel painting / drawing of three nude female figures by Swiss / American / Californian painter-artist Hans Burkhardt.
This work is hand pencil signed and dated (1967) by the artist.
An original, one-of-a-kind relatively large work by Burkhardt. Would be a great addition to any collection of his work or a stunning stand-alone art accent piece in about any setting. His original female/ women nude works 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...
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1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
Fauvist Abstract Oil Painting by Lokensgard in Original Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fauvist or Post-impressionist landscape painting featuring an unknown European city with heavy oil painted impasto technique. This painting is wildly dynamic with buildings, houses, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Mid Century Modern Abstract Painting by Ulf Trotzig (1925-2013)
By Ulf Trotzig
Located in Ventura, CA
Mid Century Modern Abstract Painting by Ulf Trotzig (1925-2013)
Ulf Trotzig (1925-2013), was a masterful Swedish painter renowned for his contributions to abstract art. Trotzig's ...
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1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Pair of Italian Mid-Century Modern Reverse Glass Paintings of Royalty
Located in Stamford, CT
A pair of unusual and very intriguing large scale reverse glass paintings of a noble man and woman. She with her long neck and limbs, dressed in an elegant gown metallic copper gown...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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Glass
Mid Century Painting " The Life Of Bugs " by Rita Wasserman
By Associated Artists
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A painting titled " The Life of Bugs " by female Cincinnati artist Rita Wasserman who is now 91 known for her different styles of art , sculpture , painting and construction . The p...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wire
Nude Oil on Board Portrait by Christian Aabye Tage of a Sitting Woman
Located in Søborg, DK
Beautiful nude study of a sitting woman.
Oil on board by the Danish artist Christian Aabye Tage.
Signed but not dated.
In great vintage condition with signs of age related wear...
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1950s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Plywood
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
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