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Period: Mid-20th Century
"A View of Notre-Dame" Post-Impressionist Oil Painting Parisian Street Scene
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist Andre Franchet. He was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His work is...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman and Child
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Woman and Child
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
24 by 30 in. W/frame 32 by 38 in.
John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters.
At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions.
A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century.
John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934).
Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.)
During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution.
John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career.
This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Fall of Icarus
Located in London, GB
Gouache on paper, signed (lower left) and titled (lower right), 68cm x 88cm, (88cm x 108cm framed). The work is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass.
A realist pain...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Landscape with Houses - Painting by Gino Marzani - mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with houses is a modern artwork realized by Gino Marzani in the mid-20th century.
Mixed colored oil painting
Hand signed by the artist on the back.
Includes frame
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
WPA "New Americana" Exceptional Antique 1941 WPA Exhibited Carnegie Painting
Located in Exton, PA
Monumental, important WPA painting by Percy Albee. The painting is oil canvass measuring 36" x 48". Titled verso "New Americana", this WPA painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Inst...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century Mannerist Large Scale Oil on Canvas, Boats in the Port
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century Mannerist view of boats in a harbour scene by E Tiedemann. The painting is signed and dated bottom left. Presented in very fine wood, gesso and silver leaf frame.
A...
Category
Mannerist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Makaula" the Seer - Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic and surreal landscape with a Makaula or seer and a woman seeking to know her future by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her h...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
French Impressionist South of France Landscape with hill top Village
Located in Woodbury, CT
Josine Vignon (1922-2022) was a French artist living on the Rue Beautreillis in the Marais district of Paris. She painted with a beautiful style, largely influenced by the Impression...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art - The Dream & the Dreamers
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic and surreal landscape with three women in a mystical garden setting walking toward a plaque "The dream and the dreamer are one" by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 190...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
"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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Paysage du Nord de la France " Bretagne, Oil cm. 100 x 50 Offer Free Shipping
Located in Torino, IT
Sailboat,Sea,France,Port,Boat ,Landscape ,Britain , Atlantic Ocean,
Blu , Grey .
Label on the back Galleria Pirra Torino
This work is more than 50 year...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Basking in the Sun - Mid Century Modern Multicolor Female Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Multi-colored figurative oil painting of a woman in bikini bathing in the California sun by listed California artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). The colorful background is...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Queen , 1947, by French Transgender Artist JM Poulain
Located in Paris, FR
By French famous Transgender artist, Michel Marie Poulain (Born Paris December 5, 1906. Died 1991) this rare oil on canvas it represents the Queen and he...
Category
Feminist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930's French Impressionist Painting Young Girl by Boat Coastal Estuary Harbour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Coastal Harbor
by Y. Blanchon, French 1930's Impressionist
oil painting on board, unframed
painting: 15 x 17.5 inches
provenance: from a large private collection of this artists...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century 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 ...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949)
This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintings.
This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase.
Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes.
Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine.
In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi.
Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Watercolor
Capitola, California, 1950s Framed California Seascape Marine Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Capitola (California) is an oil on board painting by Jon Blanchette (1908-1987) circa 1955. Marine seascape painting with crashing waves and buildings along the coast painted in shad...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Rubenesque nude woman . full figure Nude Regionalism - "Hilda Nellis"
Located in Miami, FL
Plump or fleshy and voluptuous nude... you can describe it as you see it. Signed, titled and dated lower left: John Steuart Curry / 1934 "Hilda Nellis",
John Steuart Curry is best ...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Le Marché Aux Fleurs - Place de la Madeleine" Post-Impressionist Parisian Scene
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist Andre Franchet. He was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His work is...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Clown with Flute”
By Senen Ubiña
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting by the Spanish born artist Senen Ubina of a young clown with a flute. Signed lower right by the artist and dated 1956. Partial paper label with artist...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Geometric Abstract Figurative Oil Painting - Geometric Duo
Located in Bristol, GB
GEOMETRIC DUO
Size: 41 x 33 cm
Oil on Canvas
An outstanding geometric abstract figurative composition that explores the interplay between form, colour, and perspective, executed in...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
2000 Contemporary Semi-Abstract Figurative Oil Painting - Comfort
Located in Bristol, GB
COMFORT
Size: 63 x 72 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An emotive figurative composition capturing an intimate moment between two figures seated side by side on a bench, executed ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Figurative Interior Oil Painting - Lady in Yellow
Located in Bristol, GB
LADY IN YELLOW
Size: 56 x 46 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A quirky and well-executed mid-century modernist portrait composition, painted in oil onto board.
In this painting we...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
L’Art Naïf, Mid Century Modern, The Streets of Paris. Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
1960s oil on board painting of a Paris street scene by Nicola Ortis Poucette. The painting is signed bottom right. Presented in modern white gloss frame.
A charming French mid centu...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Figurative Oil Painting, Fabian Lundqvist - Ladies at Dawn
Located in Bristol, GB
LADIES AT DAWN
Size: 62 x 54 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A brilliant mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas by the established Swedish artist Fabian ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The cliffs of Marqueyssac and Castelnaud in Dordogne
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Hans SEILER
(Neuchâtel 1907 – 1986)
The cliffs of Marqueyssac and Castelnaud, seen from La Roque Gageac
Oil on canvas
H. 40 cm; L. 83 cm
Signed lower right, dated 1973
Provenance : ...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coney Island Fire Eaters American Scene Modernism WPA Social Realism Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
Coney Island Fire Eaters American Scene Modernism WPA Social Realism Mid-Century
Frederick "Fritz" Frey Rockwell (1917-1977)
Coney Island Fire Eaters
25 x 30 inches
Oil on Canvas
Si...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Central Park Nocturne" Impressionist Oil Painting Figures in Central Park NYC
Located in New York, NY
A stunning jewel and pertinent example of Berthelsen's charming New York City scenes. Here we find a Central Park pathway at night and the Manhattan buildings depicted in the far bac...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Amandiers en fleurs - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Marcel Dyf
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1960 by sought after French post impressionist painter Marcel Dyf. The work depicts a view of farmland with almond trees in bloom.
Signature:
Si...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hudson River School Landscape with a portrait of a Boy and Dog Original Pastel
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a young boy and his dog in oil pastel on paper on linen by Maurice B. Rosenbaum (American, 1868-1942)
An American portrait painter form New York. Notable paintings includ...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pastel, Linen, Stretcher Bars
"Winter Evening at the Grand Army Plaza" Impressionist 5th Ave NYC Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
A stunning jewel and pertinent example of Berthelsen's charming New York City scenes. Here we find an evening winter scene with The Pulitzer Fountain at Grand Army Plaza covered in s...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huakai Hui - Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art
Located in Soquel, CA
Hawaiian Symbolism Figurative & Landscape Oil painting of Huakai Hui (Journey Together)
Symbolic and surreal landscape of a female and male figure ascending stairway flanked by to...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
“The Potato Peelers”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a man and a woman intently peeling potatoes at a table. No visible signature. Old gallery label in German verso that is dated 1934 Condition is go...
Category
Academic Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Porch, Pop Architechtural Painting by George Mueller 1967
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Porch" is a colorful, original painting on board by New York Pop Artist George Mueller (1929-2021), signed and dated from 1967. The work measures 24 x 32 inches.
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Large view f Treignac in Corrèze - France
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Robert DESSALES-QUENTIN
(Brantôme 1885 - 1958)
Large view of Treignac - Corrèze
Oil on wood
H. 82.5 cm; L. 123 cm
Signed lower right
Provenance: Private collection, Périgueux
Rober...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century French Post Impressionist Oil on Canvas Man Working in Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Working in the Fields
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed and stamped verso
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 21 x 26 inches
very good condition
provenance: from the a...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Pocket Is A Place
Located in Manchester, GB
A Pocket Is A Place
By Hannah Knox
Oil on linen
50 x 60cm
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Mid Century Modern Abstracted Figurative - Man's Morning
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Oil Painting of Man's Morning by Cynthia Bissell
Wonderfully evocative mid century figurative of male awaking to day by artist Cynthia Bissell (American, 1924 - 2000), 1961...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Rochs on the sea at Ploumanac'h in Côtes d'Armor Brittany - France
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Léon Pierre FÉLIX
(Périgueux 1869 - 1940)
The coast at Ploumanac'h - Bretagne
Oil on canvas
H. 46 cm; L. 55 cm
Signed lower left, dated 1901
Provenance: Private collection, Burgundy...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Danish landscape with heather
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Hugo PETERSEN
(1876 – 1962)
Danish landscape with heather
Oil on canvas
H. 71 cm; L. 110 cm
Signed lower right
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jeune Fille à l'Accordéon by ISMAEL DE LA SERNA - Spanish artist, cubist art
Located in London, GB
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Jeune Fille à l'Accordéon by ISMAEL DE LA SERNA (1898-1968)
Oil on masonite
88.9 x 115.6 cm (35 x 45 ¹/₂ i...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Southern Black Country Girl Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5057 Vintage American portrait of a southern country gil
Set in a painted wood frame under glass
Image size 13x10.5"
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Under the Rain - Oil paint by Eliano Fantuzzi - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Under the rain is a contemporary artwork realized by Eliano Fantuzzi.
Mixed colored oil painting.
Hand signed on the lower margin and on the back.
Includes frame.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Soft Plaid
Located in Manchester, GB
Soft Plaid
By Hannah Knox
Oil on linen
75 x 90cm
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, 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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nature Morte Iv (Barn Owl)
Located in Manchester, GB
Nature Morte Iv (Barn Owl)
By Liam Spencer
Oil on board
15 x 20cm
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French Impressionist Mother and Child Figurative Landscape Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-2858 A mother and child,figurative impressionistic style palette oil on canvas applied on board.Displayed in a wood frame.Artist unknown.Image size 10.5 H x 13.5 W
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Solemn Morris Dancer
By Yosl Bergner
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 5 3/4 x 7 inches (14.5 x 17.75 cm)
As can be seen in this painting, Surrealism served as a source of inspiration for Bergner, though he did not consider himself a surrealist but a lover of stories, and indeed narrative elements appear frequently in his work. He uses the “displacement” element, as the Surrealists did, and that is detaching the figures, objects or landscapes from the logical context and into a poetical-magical climate.
Nissim Aloni noted in 1983 He paints as though to install stabilizers against the turbulence of the dream, and perhaps these stabilizers serve him in time as a touchstone'.
The Artist
Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1920 and grew up in Warsaw, Poland.
With rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization was formed in the United States in July 1935, to search for a potential Jewish homeland. Soon afterwards a pastoral firm in Australia offered the League about 16,500 square kilometres (6,400 sq mi) in the Kimberleys, stretching from the north of Western Australia into the Northern Territory. As history showed, the plans went nowhere. But for a time, the Australian idea was at least worth considering. Bergner's father, Melech Ravitch, became involved in a serious investigation of the Kimberley Plan.
In this way the Bergner family moved to Australia. Yosl emigrated to Australia in 1937 and studied in the National Gallery School in Melbourne. During World War II he served for four and a half years in the Australian Army, and later continued his studies at the Art School.
In Melbourne from 1937–48, Bergner befriended many of the local artists who now epitomize modern Australian art: Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Brushes, Turps & Rubber Bands
Located in Manchester, GB
Brushes, Turps & Rubber Bands
By Adam Ralston Roi
Oil on board
28 x 18cm
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Red Lumberjack Shirt
Located in Manchester, GB
Red Lumberjack Shirt
By Hannah Knox
Oil on linen
75 x 90cm
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, 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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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The Window Opens Like an Orange
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Distemper, oil and canvas collage on canvas
30 x 25cm
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Located in Manchester, GB
Brushes, Paint & Linseed Oil
By Adam Ralston Roi
Oil on board
28 x 18cm
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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Located in Manchester, GB
Daffodils (February)
By Alice Macdonald
Distemper, oil and canvas collage on canvas
36 x 31cm
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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Located in Manchester, GB
Turps, Brushes & Paint
By Adam Ralston Roi
Oil on board
41 x 30cm
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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Located in Manchester, GB
Feeding Time
By Adam Ralston Roi
Oil on board
50 x 76cm
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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