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Period: 1950s
The Gardener - Mid 20th Century Modern British Figurative Landscape Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1950's Modern British oil on canvas depicting a gardener with a ramshackle shed. The work is very similar in style and execution to the paintings of Cedric Morris from ...
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Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

" Orange Nude "Oil cm. 25 x 60 1952
Located in Torino, IT
Italy,Italian Painter,Women,Nude,Orange,Red ,1952 Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989) From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical a...
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Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Modernist Mid century Swedish tram and figure scene in Fauvist colors
Located in Woodbury, CT
Acquiring a mid-20th-century Fauvist painting by Wilhelm Henning is an opportunity to own a piece of art that captures the vibrant spirit and expressive color palette of the Fauvist ...
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Fauvist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

'Flamenco Dancer', Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, Carmel, California, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Di Gesu Estate (American, 1914-1988) stamp verso and painted circa 1955. Framed dimensions: 18 x 1 x 13 inches Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache, Oil

Antoni Costa 16 Woman. original figurative academician drawing painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
woman. original figurative academician drawing painting.. frame Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965 It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD....
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Academic 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Goyesque scene original oil on canvas painting
By Manuel Monedero
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Unframed Manuel Monedero (n. Seville in 1925 - m. Carboneras (Aracena, Huelva) in 2002) is a Spanish painter. His first exhibition dates from 1961 at the Dickson Gallery in Washin...
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Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dressing
By Miriam Tindall Smith
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Smith studied at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia under Edward Warwick. In 1935 she was asked by the Art Institute of Chicago to loan her painting, "Repose" to the forty...
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American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Gathering
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe. His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academiJirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe. His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute. es on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute. The Gathering...
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"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...
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Artist's Address - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil by Dorothy King - London
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Artist's Address - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil by Dorothy King - London Dorothy King was born and lived in London in 1907. She studied at the Hornsey School of Art under JC M...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nature morte aux poires et lampe à pétrole
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Gaston Sebire (1920-2001) Nature morte aux poires et lampe à pétrole Oil on canvas Size : 65 x 81 cm Signed lower right Provenance : Private Collection, France Very good condition. O...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sam Uhrdin, The Twilight View
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 ...
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Guinovart. 21 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 ...
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Abstract 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Self Portrait
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to...
Category

Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

At the kolkhoz club on a holiday. Cardboard, tempera, 42x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At the kolkhoz club on a holiday. Cardboard, tempera, 42x80 cm
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Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cardboard, Tempera

La Rochelle France mixed media painting urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Emilio Grau Sala (1911-1975) - La Rochelle - Mixed media Artwork 49x65 cm. Frame measures 69x85 cm. Son of cartoonist Juan Grau Miró, he was born in Barcelona in 1911. Although he a...
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Fauvist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Polish French Ecole de Paris Mid Century Modernist Oil Painting Clown Juggler
Located in Surfside, FL
Abram Abraham Krol was born January 22, 1919, in Pabianice (Lodz), Poland. Abram Krol went to France in 1938 to study civil engineering at the University of Caen. In 1939 at the be...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Femme se Coiffant
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Georges Dayez 1907-1991 Georges Dayez was born on July 29, 1907. His father Jules was a commercial printer. In 1909, the Dayez family moved to Vaires-sur-Marne. Dayez’s father fough...
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Cubist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967) Les Oliviers, oil on panel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967) Les Oliviers, A landscape with olive trees signed "EODV Guillonnet" lower right Oil on wood panel 38 x 46 cm Framed : 44 x 52 cm Provena...
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Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

French Impressionist mid century cafe scene of two women seated in a Cafe
Located in Woodbury, CT
Francois Gall, Hungarian by birth, became an impressionist painter in the pure French tradition after he moved to Paris in 1936. He was born in Kolozsvar in the former  region of  Tr...
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Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Untitled abstract expressionist mid-century painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 Untitled, c. 1950 oil on masonite 8 x 10 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Au Port de Bordeaux
Located in Los Angeles, CA
BORIS CHEMETOV "AU PORT DE BORDEAUX" OIL ON CANVAN, SIGNED FRANCE, C.1950 26 X 32 INCHES FRAMED 33.5 X 39 INCHES ______________________________________________________ Boris C...
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Cubist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lovely 1950s Park Painting
Located in Larchmont, NY
Untitled, 1951 Oil on canvas 19 7/8 x 24 in. Framed: 28 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. Signed and dated lower left
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American Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting -- San Francisco Shore Birds
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting of San Francisco Bay Shorebirds at Surf's Edge 1950's abstract expressionist painting of shorebirds at water's edge by San Francisco arti...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Rice Paper, Watercolor

Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
RICHARD ANDRES American, 1927–2013 Untitled, c. 1950 oil on canvas signed lower left 10 x 7 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Clevelan...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Anemone Pool Abstraction
Located in Lawrence, NY
Casein on paper Like many of his compatriots of the time, Shulman transitioned from representation to abstraction in the post-WWII period as he studied with Hans Hoffman. Yet, his wo...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Casein

Mid Century Modern Impasto Oil Painting - Venice St. Mark's Basilica at Sunset
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Impasto Oil Painting -- Venice at Sunset with St. Mark's Basilica Wonderful and evocative modern painting of Venice with gondolas and St. Marks Basilica by postw...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen, Stretcher Bars

Anemone Pool Abstraction
Located in Lawrence, NY
Casein on paper Like many of his compatriots of the time, Shulman transitioned from representation to abstraction in the post-WWII period as he studied with Hans Hoffman. Yet, his wo...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Casein

Untitled (Elevated Platform)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our current exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Untitled (Elevated Platform), 1950, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 30 x...
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American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Avon River - Christ Church, New Zealand" - Mid Century Figurative Landscape
By Leon Worley
Located in Soquel, CA
"Avon River", a beautiful mid century figurative landscape of Christ Church, New Zealand by Leon Worley (American, 1909-2003). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Leon Worley" lower...
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American Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard, Canvas

“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas provocative figurative painting by the American artist Martin Rosenthal. Mid century modern. Signed lower right. Circa 1955. Condition is very good. Present...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Untitled #2”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas provocative figurative painting by the American artist Martin Rosenthal. Mid century modern. Signed lower right. Circa 1955. Condition is very good. Present...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vicente Cristellys, Oil on canvas "Gina Lollobrigida", Late 1950s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Vicente CRISTELLYS (1898-1970), School of Paris, late 1950s. "Lolo", portrait of Gina Lollobrigida in Notre-Dame de Paris (film). Arriving in Paris during the 1920s, Vicente Cristellys settled in Montparnasse like many of his colleagues from the Ecole de Paris. He paints characters and scenes largely inspired by his native Spain. It was after a bohemian period that he began to illustrate cinema posters and he managed to settle in the Parisian cinematographic milieu. For example, he will sign posters for The Big Sleep, The Man in The iron mask...
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Neo-Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Madeleine, Paris Street Scene
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century oil on canvas painting of a Paris street scene with the columns of La Madeleine in the distance, signed Deuvray bottom left. The canvas is on its original stretcher ...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media Figures signed and dated 1951
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
An early American Abstract Mixed media / Ink on woven paper of four abstract figures . American abstract artist Lester Epstein (1919 -1963 ) signed and dated 1951 . Professionally ...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

Freight Dock
By John Rockwell
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Freight Dock" is an original oil on canvas by noted American artist John Rockwell, 1902-1960 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist, and also signe...
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Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Joni" - Mid Century Modern Portrait of a Girl in Yellow Dress in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Joni" - Portrait of a Girl in a Yellow Dress in Oil on Canvas Skillful portrait of a young girl by Morris Zirlin (American, 1913-1990). A young girl with wide brown eyes poses for ...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Landscape with characters spanish original oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquim Marsillach i Codony (1905-1986) - Landscape with characters Oil on canvas Oil measures 46x55 cm. Frame measures 69x78 cm. Marsillach Codony, Joaquim. Olot (Gerona), 22.V.190...
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Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

" on vacation" Oil cm. 36 x 29 , 1959
Located in Torino, IT
Painter, vacation, summer, impressionism, picnic, 1950s Russia,Green
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Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Listed Signed Female Vintage Modernist Paris Cafe Street Scene
Located in Buffalo, NY
Listed female vintage modernist Paris cafe street scene by Elise Shaw. Oil on board. Framed.
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American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Gouache

"Zapotecan" Marion Greenwood, Indigenous Mexican Figurative Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Marion Greenwood Zapotecan, 1956 Signed and dated Watercolor on paper 12 1/4 x 9 5/8 inches Provenance: Milch Galleries, New York Marion Greenwood, a painter and printmaker, was bo...
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

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 Feliu, was a painter and sculp...
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Fauvist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

School of Paris, Sleeping Woman, Nude, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Fortunato Pirazzini (1907-2003), School of Paris, ca.1950. "Sleeping woman, Nude". Measurements : with frame : 56x71 cm - 22x28 inches without frame : 46x61 cm - 18....
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Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'The Artist as a Young Man' by Hal Frater - Ashcan School Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Hal Frater's "The Artist as a Young Man" is a striking oil on canvas that captures the essence of the artist himself, rendered in a raw, emotive style. The palette is earthy, with na...
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Ashcan School 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Seascape and Figural Original oil painting on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Seascape Original oil painting on Linen 1956 Solitary figure on wharf by California artist Robert Watson, painted 1956 (1923 - 2004)The following, is from Tony Watson, son of the ar...
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Portrait of Boy and Guitar Original oil by Angeli - Italy circa 1960
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Boy and Guitar Original oil by Angeli - Italy circa 1960 Classical portrait of a young boy ad his guitar by Angeli, an unknown Italian painter (Italy, 20th Century). Roc...
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1950s Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Bunch of Roses, Oil on Paper
By Gustave Lino
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on paper mounted on cardboard by Gustave Lino (1893-1961), France, 1950s. Bunch of Roses. Measurements : with frame: 73.5x58.6 cm - 28.9x23.1 inches without frame: 61x46 cm - 24...
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Realist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil, Cardboard

Soleil de Novembre - Impressionist Riverscape Oil by Alexandre Jacob
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on board landscape circa 1950 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts a view of a marsh water mill. The yellow glow of the low Nov...
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Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

School of Paris, Barbara, Oil on Canvas, 1950s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas dating from the 50s whose subject strangely resembles Barbara, the French singer. If it is really her, I am unable to confirm that she played the guitar, or that it is ...
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Neo-Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Quai des bouquinistes- Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil - Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in cityscape oil on original canvas circa 1950 by French impressionist painter Jules Rene Herve. The piece depicts a view of a bookseller's stall beside the River Seine in Paris, France, with blossom trees overhead. Signature: Signed lower left & again verso Dimensions: Framed: 21"x24" Unframed: 13"x16" Provenance: The Dominion Gallery - Montreal - Canada Jules Rene Hervé began his formal art studies in an evening school in Langres, France. Hervé was trained at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’arts decoratifs of Paris, and studied with Fernand Cormon and Jules Adler...
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Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

People Lawn Bowling in Central Park New York City 1950 oil/canvas NYC blue green
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Aaron Berkman (1900 - 1991) “Bowling in Central Park” New York Oil on canvas 10 x 14 inches Signed and titled verso: Aaron Berkman 1950 Provenance: Private collection, USA Aaron Ber...
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American Modern 1950s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life - 1950s - Pio Semeghini - Painting - Contemporary
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated by the artist lower right. Includes a beautiful contemporary wooden gilded frame. In excellent conditions. References: - Catalogo della mostra di Pio Semeghini...
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood

Surreal Children Fantasy Oil Painting 1956
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3981 Children's fantasy figurative oil painting set in a hand painted oak frame Image size 15.5x19.25"
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Portrait of Wife
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Beautiful impressionistic portrait of Soviet master, Aleksei Belykh's, wife. Belykh was a Russian artist from Sverdlovsk. This painting is signed and dated and in great condition. ...
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Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Mill in the marsh, Original Oil on Canvas, Signed, French Expressionist
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame Claude Grosperrin's artwork is a vivid exploration of texture and abstraction, capturing the essence of a rustic landscape with a palpable sense of ene...
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Expressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Montmartre Paris Impressionist Oil Landscape 1950's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3253a Oil on canvas od the streets of Paris set in a vintage wood frame Image size 9.5x8"
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Harvest - Dutch Farm Scene, Original Oil Painting On Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
The Harvest - Dutch Farm Scene, Original Oil Painting On Canvas Original oil painting depicting Dutch farm workers in a vibrant gold colored field by Dutch artist Von Hassler (Nethe...
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Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Still life with Shell
Located in Pasadena, CA
Constantin Font, born January 11, 1890 in Auch (Gers) and died in 1954 in Paris, is a French artist, painter of genre, nudes, landscapes, orientalist, sculptor and engraver. Outstand...
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Impressionist 1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

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