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Period: Mid-20th Century
Portrait of a Stylish 1960's Lady, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Stylish Lady
French School, Mid 20th Century
Oil painting on canvas, framed
Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner
Frame size: 26.5 x 22 inches
Stylish ex...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Henri-Georges Bréard, Self-Portrait, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early to mid-20th-century self-portrait by Henri-Georges Bréard (1873-c.1939) depicts the artist deep in thought. He’s holding a pipe.
Henri-Georges Bréard was an accomplished ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
English mid century oil painting Portrait of cute Corgi dog
Located in Woodbury, CT
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a cute Corgi.
Paintings of this breed are very rare and very collected.
Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Marternity
Located in Geneva, CH
Artist born in Vienna, Austria in 1887.
Died in 1970 in Geneva.
Work on canvas
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady - Large South Eastern European Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful mid 20th century Southeastern European oil on canvas portrait of a lady wearing a white headdress.
This intriguing work is expertly painted with thick impasto paintwork which has been built up across the surface.
Indistinctly signed lower right and presented in a reverse profile frame.
We think that this work was painted by an artist working in Southeastern Europe, most likely Greece or Macedonia.
Artist: Southeastern European School...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940's Fashion Illustration - Posed Lady In Vibrant Pink Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil.
The s...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Reading a love letter oil on canvas painting woman portrait
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Antoni Vidal Rolland (1889-1970) - Reading a love letter - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 55x46 cm.
Frame measures 76x67 cm.
Disciple of José Ruiz Blasco in...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
woman in white oil on canvas painting portrait
By Ignasi Mundó
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ignasi Mundó Marcet (1918-2012) - woman in white - Oil on canvas
Canvas measures 73x60 cm.
Frame size 76x63 cm.
MUNDO Ignasi
Ignasi Mundó trained at the School of La Lonja, with Joa...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
William Gropper (1898 - 1977)
Unemployed
20 x 16 inches
Oil on canvas, 1937
Signed lower right
Provenance: E...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"My Name is Freddie" - Portrait of Black Woman with Headscarf
By Lucille H. Olpin
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful, painterly portrait of a young black woman with colorful headscarf and sarong by Lucille H. Olpin (Ethel Lucille Harman Olpin), (American, 1909-1990). Signed "Olpin" lowe...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century: Wartime Figures
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: A Wartime Study of Figures Relaxing in Springtime
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
Unsigned
watercolour, graphite and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet: 12.25 x 9...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Watercolor
Peter Robert Keil Gold Framed Painting on Canvas Signed and Dated with COA
Located in Hudson, NY
Peter Keil's textured painting on canvas. Signed and dated 1997. This one is stunning in person. Background paint is textured on the canvas. Amazing gilt frame with a textured fabric...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Virgin Mary and child Jesus oil on board painting Christ
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Lloveras Feliu (1922-2014) - Virgin Mary and child Jesus - Oil on panel
Oil measurements 60x49 cm.
Frame measurements 68x57 cm.
Josep Lloveras y ...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1940's Fashion Illustration - Lady In White Dress With Draped Orange Head Scarf
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil.
The sketch is original, vintage and me...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Early 20th Century Young Girl With Pink Bow Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful portrait of a young girl by listed aritst artist Helen Mae Enoch Gleiforst (American,1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" lower left. Unframed.
Image, 20"H x 16"W.
Gleiforst wa...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Hayley Lever's CARICATURES--4 original portraits
By Hayley Lever
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Hayley Lever was an Australian born artist who lived much of his life, as well as died, in Mt.Vernon, New York.
His work as a painter, etcher, lecturer and art teacher strongly embra...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Art Deco Portrait with Elegant Model and Swans. Dated 1931.
Located in Firenze, IT
1931 English Painting: Art Deco Portrait with Elegant Model and Swans in the Background.
The portrait is signed and dated (19)31., the signature is only partially readable.
Techni...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Carnivale in Venice' by Dietz Edzard (Bremen 1893 – 1963 Paris)
By Dietz Edzard
Located in Bruges, BE
Dietz Edzard
Bremen 1893 – 1963 Paris
German Painter
'Carnivale in Venice'
Signature: signed lower right ‘D Edzard’ c. 1958-1960
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: image size 35 x 2...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"DAVE PARK"
Located in New York, US
Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"MICK JAGGER"
Located in New York, US
Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Silk, Cardboard
"ROMAN PASSES"
Located in New York, US
Bob Stanley (b. 1932 - d. 1997 New York, United States), an American painter renowned for his gritty depictions on canvas, which ingeniously incorporated photographs. His artistic jo...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Fine Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
by Jean Dulac (1902-1968) *see below
signed
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 16 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, Lyon, France (the artists home ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
by Jean Dulac (1902-1968) *see below
signed
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 16 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, Lyon, France (the artists home ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1940's French Oil Painting Portrait of Man Smoking Cigarette Self Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Self Portrait of the Artist
by Jean Dulac (1902-1968) *see below
dated verso and titled
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 13.75 x 10.5 inches
canvas: 13 x 9.75 inches
provenance...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 1940's French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Artists Model
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
by Jean Dulac (1902-1968) *see below
signed
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 26 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection, Lyon, France (the artists home c...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Superb 1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait Stylish Blonde Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
by Jean Dulac (1902-1968) *see below
signed
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 21.75 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, Lyon, France (the artists ho...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Post Impressionist Oil Painting Two Girls, Sisters William Meyerowitz WPA Art
Located in Surfside, FL
William Meyerowitz (American, 1887 - 1981)
Oil painting on canvas
Two Girls
Hand signed lower right
29.25 x 25.25 Frame. 22 x 18 canvas.
(It does not have the gold outer frame)
Pr...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Black Man - Mid 20th Century French Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A very interesting 1960's French oil on canvas portrait of a black man wearing a hat. The work is superbly painted and in very good original condition. Indistinctly signed lower righ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Editor and Typist - Mid Century Women's Magazine Illustration Naive art
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox was a pioneering female Illustrator/artist who championed a unique style immediately identified as hers. This work, in two parts, was most likely for a newsstand woman's...
Category
Outsider Art Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Young Girl With Green Eyes - Oil on Canvas Hand Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Baptiste Valadié
Young girl with green eyes, 1960
original oil on canvas
Signed and dated bottom right
On canvas size 65 x 46 cm (c. 21 x 13 in)
Very good condition
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950's French Signed Oil Portrait of a Nude Lady Soft Lighting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century, indistinctly signed lower corner
Title: Portrait of a Nude Lady
Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 18 x 21.75...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Aljean Stewart Hunt, Portait of a Distinguished Woman, Blonde, Fur Coat
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Erling Roberts (American, 1902 - 1974)
Signed: Erling Roberts 1939 (Left, Center)
" Aljean Stewart Hunt ", 1939
Oil on Canvas
40" x 28"
Housed in its original 3" Period Frame
O...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Portrait Oil Painting - Mellowing
Located in Bristol, GB
MELLOWING
Oil on Board
Size: 40.5 x 49 cm (including frame)
A wonderfully expressive and brilliantly executed figurative portrait composition, painted in oil onto board.
Against a...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Glass
French Impressionist Laid Back Lady Portrait Pencil Sketch Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Female Portrait
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
black pastel drawing on artist paper, unframed
measures: 10 high by 8 inches wide
co...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of a Girl with a Doll, Chicago Artist, American Portraiture
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Paul Trebilcock (American, 1902 - 1981)
Signed: Paul Trebilcock (Lower, Right)
" BB " , circa 1950s
Oil on Canvas
30" x 25"
Housed in a 2 3/4" Carved Period Frame
Overall Size:...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady Arranging Flowers - British 1940's art oil painting
By Sir Gerald Festus Kelly
Located in London, GB
This superb British portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of Festus Kelly. Painted circa 1940 it is a half length portrait of an elegant lady in a light blue dress, pearls an...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pond of the Tuileries Garden in Paris
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
HERVE Jules René (1887-1981)
Pond of the Tuileries Garden in Paris
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 46 X 55 cm
Dim frame : 67 X 76 cm
HERVE J...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Scribbler in Autumn" Modernist, Figures in Landscape, Abstract elements
Located in New York, NY
Helen West Heller
Scribbler in Autumn, 1952
Monogrammed and dated lower left; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
Oil on board
47 x 38 inches
After growing up close to nature a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Poster design - Bugatti - Romantic Figurative Oil by Mariano Alonso Perez
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figurative oil on canvas by Spanish romantic painter Mariano Alfonso Perez. The piece is a post design for the launch of the Bugatti Aerolithe...
Category
Romantic Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Painting on Canvas 'Paloma' Signed and Dated with COA
Located in Hudson, NY
Peter Keil's gold framed painting on canvas. Signed and dated 1997. This one is stunning in person. Amazing and decorative gold frame compliments ...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Mini Swedish Figurative Portrait Painting - Whispers
Located in Bristol, GB
WHISPERS
Mixed Media on Board
Size: 30 x 37 cm (including frame)
A wonderfully expressive and brilliantly executed figurative composition in mixed media (oil, watercolour gouache), painted onto board.
Two women in black headscarves are the focus of the scene, with very captivating expressions. The woman on the right appears to look almost shocked, with her mouth ajar and her eyes widened. The woman on the left stares directly at us, her emotion less identifiable. The scene is intriguing, making us question what these women have heard or what has happened. Their faces have been painted with brilliant detail, capturing the shadows on their faces as well as the aged skin of the woman on the right. These two women are set against a blue-ish green backdrop, making their faces stand out even more from within their black head scarves...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Watercolor, Gouache
French Impressionist Female Portrait Blue Pencil Sketch Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Female Portrait
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed
measures: 8 high by 10 inches wide
conditio...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
"Portrait of Truman Capote" by John MacWhinnie
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John MacWhinnie, American (1946 - )
Title: Portrait of Truman Capote
Year: 1968
Medium: Mixed Media on Board (Oil and Pencil), signed and dated l.r.
Size: 23.5 x 18 inches
Fr...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Mixed Media, Board, Pencil
Antique American Impressionist Opera Scene Signed Elegant Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted American impressionist oil painting by Richard W. Baldwin (1920 - 2012). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude woman oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil measures 33x41 cm.
Frame 50x58 cm.
Catalan painter trained in Olot and the Llotja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Lluis Muntané. Through his travels he completes his training.
He was in Paris for a year studying Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gaugin. The following year in Holland he studied Franz...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sam Uhrdin, The Twilight View
By Sam Uhrdin
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This beautiful mid-20th-century oil painting by Swedish artist Sam Uhrdin (1886-1964) depicts a woman playing the guitar in a gently lit room at twilight.
Bathed in a warm radiance ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Harlequin
By Richard Mandin
Located in London, GB
'The Harlequin', oil on board, by Richard Mandin (1952). Harlequin's traditional diamond patterned costume, bicorn hat, and the wooden sword that denoted his buffoonery have appealed...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Guinovart. Thoughtful Man Black and White. drawing on cardboard
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Guinovart. Thoughtful man. black and white. drawing on cardboard
Josep Guinovart i Bertran (Barcelona 1927-2007) was a painter, draftsman and engraver from Catalonia, Spain.
After ...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Nude Portrait Framed Oil Painting - Female Form
Located in Bristol, GB
FEMALE FORM
Size: 75 x 56 cm 29.5 x 22.04 inches (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A brilliantly executed mid-century modernist nude study, painted in oil onto canvas.
In this compo...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist Posed Elegant Lady In V Neck Shirt Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Posed Lady
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed
measures: 10 high by 8.25 inches wide
condition:...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Lovely American Post Impressionist Oil Painting - A Young Girl Pouring Tea, 1956
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is not your typical child’s portrait. Young Ellen Warfield is steadily pouring tea or coffee in a proper manner that certainly conforms to societal expectations of the 1950’s.
...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl with Flowerpot, Expressionist Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Girl with Flowerpot" is a portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 40" x 36" oil on board portrait is painted in a vibrant color palette. The...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
La Baloneuse Framed Signed Painting
By Emile Wegelin
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Emile Wegelin: Capturing the Essence of Nature.
Painting on Hardboard
Size-Width Size-Height: 32'' x 25''
Signed in Ink
Emile Wegelin (1875-1962) devoted his life to paintin...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait of a Bride - British 1934 Romantic art female portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This beautiful British 1930's portrait oil painting is by noted artist Frank Owen Salisbury or Frank O'Salisbury as he is also known. Painted in 1934, the composition is a half lengt...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude at the Window Overlooking Sacré-Coeur
Located in London, GB
'Nude at the Window Overlooking Sacré-Coeur', oil on paper mounted on canvas, by Louis Latapie (circa 1930s). Although later in Latapie's career he embraced cubism and abstraction, t...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Canvas
Woman in profile oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquin Angulo Garcia (1905-1985) - Woman in profile - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930s Oil on Canvas Portrait of the Artist's Son
Located in Cotignac, FR
1930s Oil on canvas portrait by S Cousin. The painting is signed bottom right and the subject 'Henri Cousin' titled on the back of the canvas.
An engaging ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Self Portrait
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Self Portrait, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, 14 ¼ x 12 1/4 inches, signed lower left, presented in a newer frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Daniel Celentano was an American Scene painter who is well known for depictions of his Italian neighborhood in East Harlem. The son of Italian immigrants, Celentano was born into a large family. As a child, he suffered from polio which impacted the use of his right leg. During this time of struggle and with the support of his parents, Celentano began to focus on art. Once recovered, he began to study painting at the age of twelve with Thomas Hart Benton. In 1918 Celentano won the first of several scholarships to study art at Charles Hawthorne's Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, the New York School of Fine and Applied Art in Greenwich Village, and the National Academy of Design.
During the Great Depression, Celentano worked as an artist for Federal public works projects, receiving a commission in 1938 from the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture for a mural entitled The Country Store and Post Office for the post office in Vidalia, Georgia. He also painted murals for two high schools, Andrew Jackson (1940) and St. Albans (1941), both in Queens, and a large mural called Children in Constructive Recreation and Cultural Activity in Public School 150 in Long Island City, as well as assisting William C...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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